Melanie Katz

Melanie Katz (* in Hanover ) is a German - Swiss author, poet and doctor of sociology . She publishes scientific work under the name Melanie Grütter. She lives and works in Zurich .

Life

Melanie Katz studied social psychology and German literature at the Leibniz University in Hanover and did her doctorate on gender as a category of knowledge at the University of Basel . She taught at the Zurich University of the Arts , among others .

In addition to teaching and working on her own publications, she initiates and supports innovative literature and poetry projects. She is the initiator of the lyrical project "The Lonely Burial" in Zurich, Basel , Winterthur and Lucerne and the "Poetry Consultation". She wrote for "Literature for what happens" at the BuchBasel, among others . Together with Donat Blum and Katrin Bach she curates "VIRAL - the online literature festival".

She is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland (AdS) and the collective Index - Word and Effect .

Your work has been funded several times, e.g. B. by the Swiss National Science Foundation , the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Culture Fund of the Canton of Zurich.

Works

Her works include a monograph and academic articles, a volume of poetry , short stories as well as essays and reports for the radio. She presented her volume of poetry Silent Syntax at the Literaturhaus Zürich and at the Solothurn Literature Days . He was reviewed by Viceversa Literature, among others .

Standalone publications

• Silent Syntax (poems), hochroth Verlag , Berlin a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-96101-012-7
• "Discarded Women". Gender as a category of knowledge before the criminal court (monograph), Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-4058-8

Radio contributions

• En el mundo de las plantas estoy un hummingbird. Indigenous knowledge in the discourse on plant medicine in the Amazon. Radiofeature, SRF 2 Kultur, Passage, 2020
• 101 year. Literary feature about poetry and music as a resistance to war and destruction. SRF 2 Culture, 2019
• Witnessing Gender. From the grammar of testimony , essay and discourse, Deutschlandfunk , 2017
• broca.lux wedding salòn , audio piece in 6 episodes, SO21 Kunstradio, 2014

Anthologies, journals / magazines (selection)

• For a gleaner / pour une glaneuse. In: Cinema Lyrikanthologie , Elif Verlag , Nettetal 2019, ISBN 978-3-946989-19-6
• Attic mail. Correspondence with Simone Scharbert , In: poetin No. 25, Literaturmagazin, Carolin Callies (Ed.), Poetenladen , Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-940691-94-1
• Scarring I and II. In: Bankruptcy Book 49. Home. Konkursbuchverlag , Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88769-249-0
• Experts and expert knowledge in criminal justice from the early modern era to the modern age , Alexander Kästner, Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (eds.), Meine Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 9783941305007

Web links

• Official website of Melanie Katz
• Profile of the author at hochroth Verlag
• The lonely burial website
• Website for the "Poetry Consultation Hour"
• Profile of the author at Fixpoetry
• Profile of the author at Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile of Melanie Grütter at Transcript Verlag. Retrieved April 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ German National Library: Melanie Grütter in the DNB catalog. Retrieved April 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Monika Bettschen: A last greeting for lonely people. In: Surprise - street magazine. January 27, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
4. ^ S. Batthyany, A. Bornhauser, K. Bracher, D. Streiff Corti, A. Kaminsky: “So suddenly we need us. Somehow strange »- 39 voices from the care industry. NZZ on Sunday, March 28, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 . 
5. ^ "Literature for what happens". In: BuchBasel Literature Festival. November 12, 2016, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Martina Läubli: Here you can experience literature online. NZZ on Sunday, March 27, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 . 
7. ^ Authors in Switzerland (AdS). 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Index - Word and Effect. 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
9. ↑ poetry sofa with Melanie Katz and Sascha Garzetti. February 17, 2019, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Silent Syntax at the 40th Solothurn Literature Days. May 12, 2018, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
11. ^ Beat Mazenauer: Melanie Katz: Silent Syntax. In: Poems from the spring. August 6, 2018, accessed April 7, 2020 . 
12. ↑ En el mundo de las plantas estoy un hummingbird. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Kultur / Passage, March 20, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 . 
13. ↑ 101 year - art as resistance to war and destruction. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Kultur / Passage, February 15, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2020 . 
14. ^ Witnessing Gender. From the grammar of testimony. Deutschlandfunk, September 24, 2017, accessed April 6, 2020 .