Nico Bleutge

Nico Bleutge (photo from 2012)

Nico Bleutge (born October 13, 1972 in Munich ) is a German writer .

life and work

Nico Bleutge grew up in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm . He wrote his first poems at the age of 15. From 1993 to 1998 he studied modern German literature , general rhetoric and philosophy in Tübingen . His poems have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. In 2006 he made his debut with the volume of poetry “clear contours”. Since 2001 he has been working as a freelance literary critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel and the Stuttgarter Zeitung, among others . In 2009, the ORF series “Literature as Radio Art” featured the play “water. stones ”. Bleutge is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . He lives in Berlin .

Single track

• clear contours. Poems. C. H. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-55067-3 .
• fall strip. Poems. C. H. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57687-4 .
• Water. Opera libretto (composition by Arnulf Herrmann ). WP: 2012.
• find fish hair. Max Marek ( paper cut ) and Nico Bleutge (text). Edition Sutstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-932731-20-4 .
• covered terrain. Poems. C. H. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64678-2 .
• the ships light up at night. Poems. C. H. Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70533-5 .
• The vibrations of thought. To Elke Erb . Ulrich Keicher publishing house, Warmbronn 2019.
• Follow the repetitions. Inger Christensen's alfabet / alphabet . Lyrik Kabinett Foundation published by Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-88423-633-8 .

Release

• Yearbook of Poetry 2018 (with Christoph Buchwald ). Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-681-5 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present. 2008.
• Thomas Wohlfahrt (Ed.): Mouth to Mouth. Contemporary German Poetry in Translation. 2004.
• Literary magazines: Accents that listen , sense and form , language in the technical age , manuscripts , BELLA triste , Lyrikvännen (Sweden), FA-art (Poland).

Awards and grants

• open mike der literaturWERKstatt Berlin (2001)
• Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize of the Literary March Darmstadt (2003)
• Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation (2004)
• Hermann Lenz Grant (2006)
• Kranichstein Literature Prize (2006)
• Literature Prize of the Liechtenstein PEN (2006)
• Anna Seghers Prize (2006)
• Residence grant at Villa Aurora (2008)
• Wilhelm Lehmann Prize (2011)
• Erich Fried Prize (2012)
• Scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy , Istanbul (2013/2014)
• Christian Wagner Prize (2014)
• Working grant from the Berlin Senate (2015)
• Casa Baldi scholarship from the German Academy Rome (2015)
• Eichendorff Literature Prize (2015)
• Alfred Kerr Prize (2016)
• Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis (2017) "for his lyric work, which has so far comprised four volumes"
• Scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (2018/19)

Web links

• Literature by and about Nico Bleutge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nico Bleutge in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nico Bleutge at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on the work of Nico Bleutge at Literaturport
• "Cooler temples, the clouds are heavy". Poem by Nico Bleutge in lyrik-log.org, July 25, 2004
• Poems by Nico Bleutge at lyrikline.org
• Nico Bleutge reads from “verdecktes gelände” and discusses his work with Marcel Beyer. Audio recording. In: lesungen.net. Literary Colloquium Berlin e. V., April 25, 2013, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 (audio files no longer available). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Moritz Aisslinger: The sound of shell limestone. Nico Bleutge writes poetry. He is considered one of the most important poets in Germany - but hardly anyone knows him. Often he spent days looking for the right word. He cannot live from it. Portrait of a person who has decided to go underground. In: The time . No. 11, March 7, 2019, pp. 11–13, here: p. 13 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 10, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Moritz Aisslinger: The sound of shell limestone. In: The time. No. 11, March 7, 2019, pp. 11–13, here: p. 12 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 10, 2019]).
3. ↑ In a quantitative study (over a period of two months) from 2018, Bleutge's reviews in Deutschlandfunk and SZ are cited as positive examples of the statements of one of three reviewers who mention literary translation achievements. This is an exception in the German-speaking literature business. Freyja Melsted, Felix Pütter: Translation criticism in German-language media. In: Tralalit. Platform for Translated Literature, June 18, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019.
4. ↑ Kulturakademie Tarabya: Scholarship holders 2014. Press release. In: goethe.de, Goethe-Institut , December 19, 2013, accessed on March 8, 2019.