Matthias Göritz

Matthias Göritz (born September 11, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German poet , novelist and translator.

After studying philosophy and literature, he lived for a long time in Moscow , Paris , Chicago and New York . In 2001 his first volume of poetry, Loops, was published . In the following years he was the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards. From 2000 to 2002 he was visiting professor in the Department of German Language and Literature at Bard College, New York State . In 2002 he received a residency grant from the Literary Colloquium Berlin and in 2004 a grant from the Goethe Institute in Rabat , Morocco. In 2003 he was a visiting author on the University of Iowa's International Writing Program . In the summer of 2006 he received a residency grant from the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles . In 2007 he was Writer-in-Residence at the German House of New York University . In 2008 he was a “Homines Urbani” scholarship holder at Villa Decius in Kraków , from 2008 to 2009 he was again visiting professor in the department for German language and literature at Bard College, 2010 guest author at the Goethe-Institut Warsaw as part of the “Promised City” project, 2011 scholarship holder in the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in Wendland , 2014 in the Villa Concordia in Bamberg , 2015/2016 in the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul.

Together with Uda Strätling, he received a grant from the German Translation Fund for the translation of Nicholson Baker's novel “The Anthologist” .

His play Liebe Frau Krauss premiered in Frankfurt am Main in 2008.

Today Göritz lives in St. Louis and Offenbach . Together with the writer Silke Scheuermann , he appears at readings and organizes workshops for young authors. In addition, he has been teaching at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel for many years .

Appreciations

• 1994 and 2000 Literature Prize of the City of Hamburg
• 2005 Mara Cassens Prize
• 2006 Bayern 2 - Wortspiele Prize
• 2006 “The Second Book” grant from the Lower Saxony Foundation
• 2008 main prize in the Haiku Warszawa competition
• 2011 Robert Gernhardt Prize
• 2014 William H. Gass Fellow, Comparative Literature Department, Washington University in St. Louis .

Works

• Loops. Poems. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-85420-576-7 .
• The short dream of Jakob Voss. Novel. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0609-0 .
• Pools. Poems. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8270-0662-2 .
• Tools. Poems. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1080-3 .
• In the hospital. Narrative. With photos by Ramune Pigagaite. Edition faust 1. B3-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-938783-72-6 .
• Dreamers and sinners. Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65282-0 .
• with Uwe Dierksen: Irres Licht. Radio play. SWR 2014.
• Parker . Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-406-70063-7

Editor:

• together with Joachim Bitter: Rude trip. Chicago-Hamburg. The literary expedition. German and English. Ed. 406, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-9803433-8-3 .

Translations:

• Aleš Šteger : Book of Things . Poems from the Slovenian by Urška P. Černe and Matthias Göritz. With an afterword by Matthias Göritz. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006.
• Nicholson Baker : The Anthologist. Novel. Translated from the English by Matthias Göritz and Uda Strätling. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59843-2 .
• Aleš Šteger: Book of the Body. Poems. From the Slovenian and with an afterword by Matthias Göritz. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-445-3 .
• John Ashbery : Flussbild / Flow chart. Poem, bilingual. Translated from the American by Matthias Göritz and Uda Strätling. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-939557-29-6 .
• Aleš Šteger: Archive of Dead Souls. Novel. Translated from the Slovenian by Matthias Göritz. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-89561-446-0 .
• Aleš Šteger: Log of the Present. Tumbling. Translated from the Slovenian by Matthias Göritz. With a foreword by Péter Nádas . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7099-7233-5 .
• Aleš Šteger: Above the sky, under the earth . Poems. Translated from the Slovenian by Matthias Göritz. Hanser, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26264-5 .
• Aleš Šteger: Log of the Present. Set out. Translated from the Slovenian by Matthias Göritz. With a foreword by Alberto Manguel . Haymon, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-70997-234-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Göritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthias Göritz on perlentaucher.de
• Poems on lyrikline.org (text and audio)
• Audio samples of Görlitz 'poems on literaturport.de
• Short biography Matthias Göritz , Nordkolleg Rendsburg (PDF)
• Matthias Göritz , author of the Beck-Verlag
• Denis Scheck recommends Matthias Göritz: “Dreamers and sinners” , page of the ARD media library
• NDR Book of the Month: "Parker"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Villa Aurora Grant Recipients: Matthias Göritz
2. ↑ German Translator Fund / Funded Translations ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ bundesakademie.de
4. ^ Matthias Goeritz, Graduate Student , Washington University in St. Louis website (accessed May 29, 2018).
5. ↑ Sense kills. John Ashbery's long poem “Flussbild” leaves all questions open , a review by Matthias Friedrich