Monika Littau

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Monika Littau (* 8. June 1955 as Monika Spiekermann in Dorsten ) is a German writer .

Life

Monika Littau studied German , geography and musicology . She then worked for more than 20 years in research, education and literature funding, most recently at the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia. She has been working as a freelance writer since 2007. In the 1980s she was studying in Sri Lanka and South Africa . In 2017 she was a short-term poetics lecturer at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao. She lives as a freelance author in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area.

Monika Littau is the author of prose texts, poetry, children's books, plays, radio plays and non-fiction books.

She is a member of the Association of German Writers in ver.di (VS) and served on the state board for several years. The author conceived and leads the poetry project postpoetry.NRW, which has been taking place annually since 2010. Monika Littau has been chairwoman of the Society for Literature in NRW e. V.

Awards

  • In 1988 she received the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1992 a grant from the city of Witten's art and culture fund
  • 1999 a work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ,
  • 2002 with a class 6 winner in the competition "Encounter Eastern Europe" of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs NRW and
  • 2010 and 2012 residency grants at the "International Center for Writers and Translators in Rhodes" (IWTCR)
  • 2012–2013 grant from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
  • 2016 Prize for political poetry (loud nobody - polly), 2nd prize (together with Vinzenz Fengler)
  • 2016 grant from the Kunststiftung NRW
  • 2016 village clerk in Eisenbach
  • 2017 Prize for Political Poetry, 2nd Prize (together with Klára Hůrková and Maria Topali)

Works

  • Am Erker , Gedichte, Münster 1979 (together with Marianne Hoheisel).
  • Where you can see the world from below , Weißenburg 1983.
  • Cultural youth education between program and professionalism , Opladen 1986 (together with Stephan Kolfhaus and Wolfgang H. Swoboda.)
  • Trümmerfrauen , play (together with Gisela Koch), Dortmund 1987.
  • Always in the back Madame , radio play (together with Gisela Koch), WDR, May 9, 1988. Re-publication of the radio play in the documentary “The sun is no longer the same. Ruhr Area Radio Play 1960-1990 ", ed. from the Westphalia Literature Commission, 2017.
  • So much comes to mind at night ... , Dortmund 1989.
  • Working aid for senior citizenship , Dortmund 1990 (together with Gisela Koch).
  • Paula Jagemann , Feature (together with Gisela Koch), WDR Radio Dortmund 1991.
  • Pure couples and plagiarism , poetry and prose in four moons, Dortmund 1992.
  • Hunger for heaven, hell bread , story in thirty-four stations about the attempt to become lighter, Dortmund 2000.
  • Alphabetta in Alphabettanien , with illustrations by Christine Bozler, Vechta 2007.
  • Alphabetta in alphabettania . Game booklet, Vechta, 2007.
  • When the dew point is exceeded . Poems, Bochum 2011 (with a preface by Wolfgang Kubin)
  • Seeing and saying. The Buchela . A biography novel, Bochum 2012, 2nd edition 2015.
  • Fritzi finds , children's book with illustrations by Sybille Ender, Berlin 2013.
  • I am colorful , stories, Saarbrücken 2013.
  • about paintings , poems, with an afterword by Wolfgang Kubin, Düsseldorf 2016.
  • Not APO and not Mafia. Die Buchela says , live radio play by Monika Littau, world premiere on April 2, 2017, European Cultural Center Remagen.
  • Freedom for Amila . World tour Sri Lanka (children's book), Düren (Dix Verlag) 2017.
  • From the back of the moon . Chinese miniatures, Schiedlberg, Austria (Bacopa-Verlag) 2019.
  • The seeing Sintiza. Buchela - Pythia von Bonn , Zell / Mosel (Rhein-Mosel-Verlag) 2020.

In anthologies and literary journals (selection)

  • Versnetze_nine. German-language poetry of the present, ed. by Axel Kutsch, Weilerswist 2016 and in previous editions.
  • Prize for political poetry, 2015/2016, Berlin (edition bodoni) 2016.
  • Coal kings and Emscher children. The big book of the Ruhr area ballads, ed. by Werner von Welheim and Michael Hüter, Bottrop (Henselowsky-Boschmann) 2015.
  • Ralph Grüneberger (Ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry : New Poetry Album , Issue 01/2013, 1/2014, 2/2014.
  • Cedric Müller / WOLL Publisher: Poesie am Rothaarsteig, Schmallenberg 2013.
  • city-Country-River. 111 poets from North Rhine-Westphalia. Edited by Jürgen Nendza and Hajo Steinert (series of publications by the Kunststiftung NRW), Düsseldorf 2014
  • All's well in the Ruhr area - what your children love about you and what they don't. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag , Bottrop 2018, ISBN 978-3-942094-80-1

Editing

  • Literature & Everyday Life , Dortmund 1986.
  • Tungsten thorn. Memories. The writers from East and West Germany in the unification process . Edited by Volker W. Degener and Monika Littau on the occasion of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Society for Literature in North Rhine-Westphalia e. V., Münster 2013.
  • postpoetry.NRW - poetry messages from five years of the competition. A reader. Poems and Accesses , Düsseldorf (EDITION VIRGINES) 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Littau. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 640, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Blogspot
  3. ↑ postpoetrynrw.blogspot.de
  4. ↑ From the back of the moon. Bacopa-Verlag, August 12, 2019, accessed on August 17, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Littau, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiekermann, Monika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten