Michael Helming

Michael Helming

Michael Helming (born September 30, 1972 in Bremerhaven ) is a German writer and dramaturge .

Life

He has lived in Ravensburg since 1993 and in his literary work combines themes and motifs from subculture with those from traditional fantasy . He mainly publishes short stories, poetry and plays. The focus of his texts is again and again the skepticism towards any kind of information and the "knowing person". The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges , on whom Helming has also published an essay, is likely to serve as a model for various stories .

He not only works for the stage and film, but also in public spaces. In 2006, for example, a text suggested by Andreas Knitz for the monument to the gray buses was created .

Michael Helming is co-editor of various beat and slam anthologies and has participated in the German International Poetry Slam (GIPS) several times . He has received several literary prizes, such as the Ravensburger Literature Prize .

His texts appear in literary magazines such as Dopen , Besides , Macondo or Typist . Michael Helming has been part of the editorial team of the philosophy magazine Lichtwolf since 2009 , in which he has published regularly since 2006.

Publications (selection)

Short prose and essay:

• Deep Towers , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8316-1033-9
• Monstertour D'Amour , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-434-54520-4
• Tegobis Mechanik des Lachens , Düsseldorf, 2005, ISBN 3-933570-08-5
• Skyscraper , Bochum 2006, ISSN  1436-7378
• Traduttore / Traditore , Dortmund 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808278-9-8
• The Turing Test , Dresden 2008, ISSN  1865-9586
• "Timbre der Grenz", Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902106-15-5
• Isolated connections , Dresden 2013, ISSN 1438-9355
• Class struggle in the shoe store (via Svatopluk Turek) , Hage 2014, ISBN 978-3941921375
• You too are Haßloch , Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3902106230

Single title:

• Circular circles , Roman, Rottenburg 2000, ISBN 3-931627-96-9
• Auto (r) aggression , short texts, Rottenburg 2002, ISBN 3-935121-81-4
• Atomtextgelände , Erzählungen, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-937536-05-1
• The provisionally last version of the present , short texts, Hage, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941921-01-6
• "Corpses on the stairs", four author portraits, Hage, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941921-02-3
• Flying fish , Roman, Hage, 2017, ISBN 978-3941921672

Theater works:

• Die Schneestürmer , premiere: Theater ... und so fort , Munich, 2005
• Pauls Brut , UA: Theater… und so fort, Munich, 2005
• Love of my Life , UA: Theater Konstanz , 2007
• Traumhalden , WP: Theater Konstanz, 2008
• Querschläger , WP: Theater Konstanz, 2009

Web links

• official homepage
• Literature by and about Michael Helming in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Helming in the bibliography of German science fiction ( books , stories )