Nancy Hünger

Nancy Hünger (born February 13, 1981 in Weimar ) is a German writer .

Career

Nancy Hünger studied fine art at the Bauhaus University Weimar . In the edition AZUR several books have been published by it, plus a CD with a selection of poems. She has received numerous scholarships, including a. from the Thuringian Ministry of Culture (2008) and a Hermann Lenz grant (2008), most recently a grant from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation (2010). Hünger is for bookmarks e. V. (Friends of the Association of German Writers, Regional Association of Thuringia) works in Jena and lives as a freelance writer in Erfurt . From July to December 2011 she was the town clerk of Jena and was supported by the Clara and Eduard Rosenthal scholarship. In 2012, Hünger was awarded the Lyrik grant from the Düren Art Funding Association ; In 2014 she received the audience award in the competition for the Menantes award for erotic literature in Wandersleben , as well as the advancement award of the Caroline Schlegel award in Jena. Thuringia's Minister of Culture Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff presented Hünger with the Thuringian Literature Scholarship Harald Gerlach on June 26, 2015 .

Awards

• 2008: Hermann Lenz grant and grant from the Thuringian Ministry of Culture
• 2010: Scholarship from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation
• 2011: City clerk of Jena and Clara and Eduard Rosenthal scholarship
• 2012: Lyrik grant from the Düren Art Funding Association
• 2013: Scholarship holder of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
• 2014: Audience award at the Menantes competition for erotic literature and advancement award of the Caroline Schlegel Prize
• 2015: Thuringian Literature Scholarship Harald Gerlach
• 2018: City clerk Tübingen

Works

Standalone publications

• Reality made of pale fibers. Poems. Jena: Edition Azur ( Glaux-Verlag ) 2006. ISBN 978-3-931743-93-2
• Hence the birds. Unstable texts. Dresden: Edition Azur (Glaux-Verlag) 2009. ISBN 978-3-9812804-8-7
• From an invented country. (Sound carrier) Dresden: Edition Azur (Glaux-Verlag) 2009. ISBN 978-3-9812804-0-1
• Stay away Prose. Dresden: Edition Azur 2012. ISBN 978-3-942375-06-1
• We are golden, we are made of blood. A family album. Dresden: Edition Azur 2014. ISBN 978-3-942375-14-6
• A little music to say goodbye would still be nice. Poems. Dresden: Edition Azur 2017. ISBN 978-3-942375-28-3
• 4 o'clock the dog comes. An unhappy speech. Dresden: Edition Azur 2020. ISBN 978-3-942375-43-6

Editions

• Thuringia in the light . Poems from fifty years. Edited with Ron Winkler . Wartburg Verlag , Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86160-399-3 .
• The poem & its double: a portrait of the contemporary poetry scene. Edited together with Helge Pfannenschmidt. Edition AZUR, Dresden, 2018, ISBN 978-3-942375-36-8 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• A big move. In: “ BELLA triste ” No. 26. pp. 48–55
• Ralph Grüneberger (ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry . New poetry album . Issues 1/2012, 1/2013
• The hour of shadows. On Wolfgang Hilbig and his story, Old Covering Shop . In: Hilbig's pictures, essays and essays , edited by Peter Braun and Stephan Pabst in collaboration with the book mark e. V., Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-8353-1328-6
• Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All of this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nancy Hünger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author on the website of her publisher
• Review of her debut volume "From Pale Fibers Reality" (FIXPOETRY.com)
• Review of "Therefore the birds" ( poetenladen )
• Lavinia Meier-Ewert: newspaper article on the career. Ostthüringer Zeitung, June 4, 2014, accessed on August 22, 2014 . 
• Norbert Hummelt : Nancy Hünger: "The farewell is done" . Frankfurt anthology . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2018, accessed on March 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information page of the Menantes Prize for Erotic Poetry. St. Petri-Kirche & Menantes-Literaturgedenkstätte Wandersleben eV, March 1, 2014, accessed on July 25, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Menantes Prize for Erotic Poetry awarded for the 5th time. PALMBAUM eV, June 14, 2014, accessed on July 25, 2014 . 
3. ^ Lioba Knipping: Jena Caroline Schlegel Prize for Corinthian letter to Paulus. TLZ.de, September 7, 2014, accessed on September 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ dpa-infocom GmbH: "Harald Gerlach" literature grant to Nancy Hünger. In: welt.de . May 27, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/kultur/detail/-/specific/Nancy-Huenger-erhaelt-Literatur-Stipendium-Schreiben-weil-die-Welt-fremd-bleib-936547845
6. ^ DIE WELT: Nancy Hünger becomes Tübingen's new town clerk . In: THE WORLD . November 17, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed November 17, 2017]).