Michael Lentz
Michael Lentz (born May 15, 1964 in Düren ) is a German writer , sound poet , literary scholar and musician .
Life
Michael Lentz, son of Düren's senior city director Hubert Lentz , attended the Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren . After graduating from high school, he studied German , history and philosophy in Aachen , Munich and Siegen and received his doctorate in 1999 with a two-volume dissertation on sound poetry / music after 1945. A critical and documentary inventory . His literary debut, the poetry and prose volume For Awareness , appeared on September 29, 1985, on the occasion of a public reading in the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren. In 1998 he won the German Poetry Slam Championship. Lentz took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1998 and 2001 ; In 2001 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his text Muttersterben . Since 2004 he has been President of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig ; In 2005 he received the Prize of the Literature Houses . In May 2006 he was appointed professor to the chair for literary writing at the German Literature Institute Leipzig ( Leipzig University ), which he still holds today. Lentz was co-editor of the literary magazine Neue Rundschau . He became known to the general public primarily through his novel Pazifik Exil , which was on the longlist for the 2007 German Book Prize . Since 2014 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
Michael Lentz lives in Berlin and Leipzig.
honors and awards
- 1993 Literature grant from the City of Munich
- 1998 1st Prize Individual Competition National Poetry Slam
- 1999 Literature grant from the Berlin Senate (LCB)
- 1999 Bavarian Art Prize in the Literature section
- 1999 Scholarship from the German Literature Fund e. V.
- 2000 fellowship at Casa Baldi in Olevano near Rome
- 2001 Residence Scholarship Villa Aurora (Pacific Palisades, California)
- 2001 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 2002 Hans-Erich-Nossack-Förderpreis of the BDI
- 2003 Poetics professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 2005 Prize of the Literature Houses
- 2006 Liliencron lectureship in Kiel
- 2008 Poetics lectureship: young authors at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences
- 2012 Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
- 2012/13 Frankfurt poetics lectures
- 2013 Lecturer for world literature at the University of Cologne
- 2016 grant from the German Literature Fund e. V.
- 2019 Ernst Jandl Lecturer in Poetics (Vienna)
Publications
prose
- For your information (poetry and prose), (1985)
- Or (prose), (1998)
- Once upon a time ... (narration), (2001)
- Muttersterben (prose), (2001) (also as audio book)
- Declaration of Love (novel) , (2003) (also as audio book)
- Tell me - tell (book with CD), (2004)
- Pazifik Exil (novel), (2007) (also as audio book)
- Shadowy. A Requiem (novel), (2018)
Poetry
- New Anagrams (Poetry), (1998)
- Ends Well. Speech acts (book with CD), (2001)
- All things (lyric), (2003)
- Open balance wheel. 100 love poems (poetry), S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-043926-0 .
Radio plays
- 1995 agreement - 5 speech acts , BR.
- 2002 Muttersterben , BR (also as CD).
- 2003 Declaration of love (reading by the author), DHV.
- 2004 Tell me - Tell me , ORF (also as CD).
- 2005 Exit , with Michael Lentz, Konrad Kellen . BR radio play and media art 2005. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2006 see red , BR.
- 2007 Pacific Exile (author reading), Patmos.
- 2008 Clinic , with Michael Lentz, Sophia Siebert. Composition: Ernst Horn , Director: Michael Lentz. BR radio play and media art 2008, (also as CD). As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2010 The very exact memory , with Uli Winters , Sophia Siebert, Axel Kühn, Michael Lentz. Composition: Gunnar Geisse / Axel Kühn , realization: Michael Lentz. BR radio play and media art 2010. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2011 Radio Unrest , WDR.
- 2011 Ferdinand Kriwet : Rotor (director and speaker: Michael Lentz), BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2012 Uwe Dick : Sauwald prose , 12 radio plays (director: Michael Lentz), BR (also as CD with Uwe Dick, Marisa Burger and others Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich; 12 CD, 626 min.).
- 2013 Hiddensea , with Michael Lentz, Sophia Siebert, Valeri Scherstjanoi . Composition: Gunnar Geisse , Realization: Michael Lentz. BR radio play and media art 2013. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2014 Herta Müller : Time is a sharp circle (Realization: Michael Lentz; Spokesperson: Herta Müller, Michael Lentz), BR (also as CD).
- 2014 bigger minus bigger . Sound composition with collages by Herta Müller (directors: Michael Lentz, Josef Anton Riedl ; speakers: Michael Hirsch, Michael Lentz), BR (also as CD).
- 2016 Dictations , with Michael Hirsch , Michael Lentz, Sophia Siebert. Composition: Gunnar Geisse , Realization: Michael Lentz. BR radio play and media art 2016. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
- 2019 radio play hell , with Gunnar Geisse, Michael Lentz, Sophia Siebert, Uli Winters. Composition: Gunnar Geisse, Realization: Michael Lentz. BR radio play and media art 2019. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
Plays
- Gotthelm or the myth of Claus. Premiere: Schauspiel Frankfurt (2007)
- So why are we here? Not a dream game. WP: Schauspiel Frankfurt (2009)
music
- Speech Files X / TREME , (2005) The Healthy People Dispatch (CD)
- Michael Lentz, Uli Winters : Back - phases, towers and cuts, an audio play , premiere: Donaueschinger Musiktage , (2007)
- Michael Lentz, Uli Winters : Boxgesang , WP : Musica Viva (Munich), (2008) (also as DVD)
- five people: Always Crisis Session , (2011) Double Moon Records (CD)
- Michael Lentz: Hotel zur Ewigen Lampe - operational processes. A speech sculpture , WP: Donaueschinger Musiktage , (2014)
- Lentz Geisse Wertmüller , (2019) Zweiausendeins (CD)
Literary studies
- Sound poetry / music after 1945 , a critical-documentary inventory, Edition Selene, Vienna [2000], Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-043936-9 (revised dissertation University of Siegen 1998, part 1: 592 pages and part: pp. 593-1237, under the title: Medial aspects of sound poetry and music after 1945 ).
- Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Textleben: About literature, what it is made of, what precedes it and what follows from it . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-043934-5 .
- Breathing order abyss. Frankfurt poetics lectures . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-043937-6 .
- How it is. Writing as dying with Samuel Beckett , in: Ines Barner, Günter Blamberger (ed.): Literator 2013: Michael Lentz . Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5822-3 .
Editions
- Bob Cobbing : VerbiVisiVoco. Selected Poems 1942-2001 (book with CD). Edited by Michael Lentz, (2003)
- Franz Mon : Free flight for trick questions. 103 alphabet poems and 26 uppercase collages (book with CD). Edited by Michael Lentz, (2004)
- Anthology : Yearbook of Poetry 2005 . Poems selected by Christoph Buchwald and Michael Lentz, (2004)
- Helga M. Novak : Where I am now . Poems selected by Michael Lentz, (2005)
- Oskar Pastior : through - and back . Poems selected by Michael Lentz, (2007)
- Rainer Maria Rilke : The big reading book . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2011)
- Anthology : In this country: poems from the years 1990-2010 . Edited by Michael Lentz and Michael Opitz, (2011)
- Franz Richard Behrens : Thank you very much. Field diary poems 1915/16 . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2012)
- Jesse Thoor : The work . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2013)
- Franz Mon : Refuge with flies. Reading book . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2013)
- Franz Mon : Language for life. Collected essays . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2016)
- Karl Valentin: The big reading book . Edited by Michael Lentz, (2019)
Editing
- New Rundschau: Prose Leipzig. Together with Hans Jürgen Balmes, Jörg Bong, Alexander Roesler, Oliver Vogel. Issue 1/2010. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010
- Neue Rundschau: Himmel radio play . Together with Hans Jürgen Balmes, Jörg Bong, Alexander Roesler, Oliver Vogel. Issue 3/2019. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from June 25, 2014
- ^ Aachener Nachrichten of February 13, 2012
- ^ BR radio play Pool - Lentz, Exit
- ^ BR radio play Pool - Lentz, clinic
- ^ BR radio play Pool - Lentz, The very precise memory
- ^ BR radio play Pool - Lentz, Hiddensea
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Lentz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Michael Lentz at Literaturport
- Michael Lentz's website
- Membership page on the homepage of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- Short biography and reviews of works by Michael Lentz at perlentaucher.de
- "Flight, movement and death in literature. Insights into texts by Samuel Beckett and Michael Lentz." Essay (Part I) by Norbert W. Schlinkert . In: eXperimenta 10/15. Pp. 11-13
- "Flight, movement and death in literature. Insights into texts by Samuel Beckett and Michael Lentz." Essay (Part II) by Norbert W. Schlinkert . In: eXperimenta 11/15. Pp. 64-66
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lentz, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, sound poet and musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Düren |