Mirko Bonné
Mirko Bonné (born June 9, 1965 in Tegernsee ) is a German writer and translator .
life and work
Mirko Bonné moved with his parents from Upper Bavaria to Hamburg in 1975, where he attended the Hansa-Gymnasium and graduated from the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in Geesthacht in 1986, before doing civilian service in nursing and working as a bookseller, geriatric care assistant and taxi driver. Since the beginning of the nineties Bonné worked as a journalist and was also active as a poet, narrator and translator. He has been a freelance writer since 2013.
In his poems, shaped by John Keats , Georg Trakl and Günter Eich , lyrical forms are passed down in a variety of ways that describe Bonné's primary themes of landscape, liveliness and memory and question them conceptually. In his prose, Bonné repeatedly deals with the mechanisms of repression. Like the Ernest Shackleton ( Der eiskalte Himmel , 2006) and Albert Camus ( Wie wir disappears , 2009) portrayed in novels , every main character Bonné has to assure himself of his own origins - so does the illustrator Markus Lee in Nie mehr Nacht (2013) and the editor's clerk, Raimund Merz, who reluctantly clings to love in Lichter als der Tag (2017). What the protagonists Bonnés have in common is a sense of unreality that keeps them away from self-realization as well as from fellow human beings . Bonné's novels also get their poetic power and literary explosiveness from the fact that their characters do not surrender to their desperation, but rather rebel against resignation and disillusionment.
Mirko Bonné reflects on his approaches in essays, travel journals and literary reviews in the features section. Foreign trips have taken him to South America, Russia, China, the USA, Iran and the Antarctic. Authors assigned by him include Anderson , Dickinson , Keats , Cummings , Creeley , Yeats, and Ghérasim Luca . Poems, essays and articles on literature have been published in anthologies ( The Great Conrady , The Book of German Poems. From the Beginnings to the Present, etc.), literary magazines ( Bella triste, etc.) and newspapers ( FAZ, etc.). In 2014/2015 Bonné was writer-in-residence for the Weather Stations project and, together with authors from Melbourne, London, Dublin and Warsaw, examined literary representation and communication options for the consequences of climate change.
Mirko Bonné is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He lives in Hamburg.
Publications
Single track
- Roberta from Ampel . Game for four voices and one speaker. Radio play, Radio Bremen 1992.
- Langrenus . Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-930325-02-0 .
- Articulate creature . Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930325-13-6 .
- Young Fordt . Novel. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4960-2 .
- A slow fall . Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-6000-0 .
- Hibiscus code . Poems. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-6001-9 .
- The ice cold sky . Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-89561-401-7 .
- The Republic of the Silverfish . Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-402-6 .
- As we disappear . Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89561-403-3 .
- Excursion with the Cerberus . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-404-0 .
- The jay . Narrative. Literature Quickie, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942212-16-8 .
- Traklpark . Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-405-7 .
- As we disappear . Radio play based on motifs from the novel, NDR, Hamburg 2012.
- No more night . Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-406-4 .
- Tierra del Fuego . Stories. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-407-1 .
- The poetry of the earth is never dead. On the life and writing of John Keats . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88423-543-0 .
- My Fehmarn . Memories. Mare, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86648-210-4 .
- Lights than the day . Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-408-8 .
- The stubbornness . A fairy tale. Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7920-0251-3 .
- Eyelashes and ash . Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-409-5 .
Translations
- John Keats : Works and Letters . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1995.
- EE Cummings : 39 Alphabetically. Poems . Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2001.
- Terry McDonagh: Kiltimagh. Selected poems . Blueprint Books, Hamburg 2001.
- Ghérasim Luca: The body echo. Poems . Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2004.
- William Butler Yeats : Die Gedichte (with M. Beyer, G. Falkner, N. Hummelt (Eds.), C. Schuenke). Luchterhand, Munich 2005.
- Samuel Beckett : Six Poèmes / Six poems . Wolfenbüttel Translator Talks, Wolfenbüttel 2006.
- Robert Creeley : Everything it means forever. Poems . Jung and Jung, Salzburg and Vienna 2006.
- Rutger Kopland : Thanks be to the things. Selected poems 1966 - 2006 (with Hendrik Rost), Carl Hanser, Munich 2008.
- Emma Lew: nettle song. Poems . Yedermann, Munich 2008.
- Sherwood Anderson : Winesburg, Ohio . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-232-9 .
- Emily Dickinson : love poems . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-010747-8 .
- Grace Paley : Same day, later . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-237-4 .
- Robert Louis Stevenson : The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-011002-7 .
- Grace Paley: Sometimes come and sometimes go . Poems. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-238-1 .
- Henry James : Four encounters . Stories. Mare, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86648-271-5 .
- John Keats : Endymion. A poetic romance . Verlag Das Kultur Gedächtnis, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946990-25-3 .
- Georges Simenon : The Hatter's Phantoms (with Juliette Aubert), Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-311-13420-6 .
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Wind, Sand and Stars - Terre des hommes (with Klaus Völker), Karl Rauch Verlag, Düsseldorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-7920-0076-2 .
Editions
- Trakl and us. Fifty looks into an opal . Edited and provided with afterwords and a life table by Mirko Bonné and Tom Schulz. Preface: Hans Weichselbaum. Lyrik Kabinett Foundation, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-938776-36-0 .
- Accents. The animal . Published by Jo Lendle and Mirko Bonné, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25180-9 .
- Yearbook of Poetry 2019 . Published by Christoph Buchwald and Mirko Bonné, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-89561-682-2 .
- Christian Saalberg : In the third minute of the dawn. Selected poems . Edited by Mirko Bonné and Viola Rusche, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-89561-016-5 .
Publications in literary magazines
- Dark interpretation of the flight of birds . Essay. In: Bella triste , No. 24, 2009.
- The wounded heart . Essay. In: Quart , No. 18, 2011.
- The gaps in silence . Essay. In: Quart No. 27, 2016.
- Between us the burning sea . Essay. In: Quart No. 30, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7099-3422-7 .
Awards
- 2001: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize at the Poetry Competition Literary March
- 2002: Ernst Willner Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt
- 2004: Promotion Prize for the Berlin Art Prize
- 2007: New York scholarship from the German Literature Fund
- 2008: Prix Relay for The Ice Cold Sky ("Un ciel de glace")
- 2008: Award of the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry
- 2009: Nomination for the German Book Prize (longlist) for How we disappear
- 2010: Writer-in-Residence Rio de Janeiro
- 2010: Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz Prize for the complete work to date. From the reason: “With rare thoughtfulness and with an almost existentialist seriousness, Bonné's books deal with the great questions of human life such as loyalty and betrayal, self-design and failure. Bonné's high literary mastery is shown above all in the stylish lightness and clarity, through which his serious concerns are translated into touching texts. "
- 2012: Writer-in-Residence Shanghai
- 2013: Nomination for the German Book Prize (shortlist) with Nie mehr Nacht
- 2014/2015: Artist-in-Residence of the Climate Change and Literature Project Weather Stations
- 2014: Rainer Malkowski Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (together with Daniela Danz )
- 2017: Scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria at the International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia , Bamberg
- 2017: Nomination for the German Book Prize with lights as the day
- 2018: Resident guest of the Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Web links
- Web presence of Mirko Bonné
- Literature by and about Mirko Bonné in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Mirko Bonné at Literaturport
- Short biography and reviews of works by Mirko Bonné at perlentaucher.de
- Ongoing text publications by Mirko Bonné in the literature portal "Der goldene Fisch"
supporting documents
- ↑ Mirko Bonné on literaturport.de , accessed on June 9, 2016
- ↑ "Verdrängte Schuld" Review by Ursula March in Deutschlandradio Kultur from August 5, 2013, accessed August 6, 2013.
- ↑ The Wounded Heart , accessed October 10, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.quart.at/bibliothek/alle_lösungen/nr_27_16/die_ Zwischenraeume_im_schweigen
- ↑ "Weather Stations"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bonné, Mirko |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tegernsee |