Nora Gomringer

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Nora Gomringer on the blue sofa at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017
Nora Gomringer (Selfie, 2008)

Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (* 26. January 1980 in Neunkirchen / Saar ) is a Swiss - German poet , reciter and winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015. She lives in Bamberg , where since 2010 the International Artists' House Villa Concordia derives as Director .

Life

Location since 2010: Villa Concordia in Bamberg

Gomringer's parents are the Germanist Nortrud Gomringer and the Swiss poet and former professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy Eugen Gomringer . She is the couple's only daughter and sister of seven half-brothers.

Gomringer grew up in Wurlitz bei Hof . In 1996 she moved to Bamberg . She completed school in 1998 with the American high school diploma in Lititz, Pennsylvania , and in 2000 with the Abitur at the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium Bamberg . Gomringer then began studying English, German and art history at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg , which she graduated in 2006. She completed internships and work visits at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City (2001 and 2004) and at the archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , Los Angeles (2000).

In April 2010 Gomringer took over the management of the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg as director. In November 2020, Nora Gomringer will curate the forum: autoren at the Munich Literature Festival under the motto “2020 - On Life in the Future” .

Act

Poetry

After self-publishing a volume, Grupello Verlag Düsseldorf became aware of the debutante's work and published hyphenation in 2002 . The author has been supervised by Voland & Quist since 2006 . There are seven volumes of poetry and one volume of essays as well as numerous individual publications. Most recently, Morbus appeared with graphics by Reimar Limmer. In addition, Gomringer works in various forms with musicians and visual artists.

Musical stage partners were Günter Baby Sommer, Franz Tröger, Scratch Dee, Michael Stauffer , Wortart Ensemble, DJ Kermit and Philipp Scholz. With Fiva and Mia Pittroff, she won the German Poetry Slam Championships in Leipzig in 2005 in the team slam . Individual volumes of poetry have been translated into Swedish (translator: Cecilia Hansson ) and French (translator: Vincent Barras). Belarusian, English and Spanish transmissions were partly published in 2013. Individual texts and small cycles have been translated into Norwegian, Spanish, American English, Letzeburgisch, Dutch, Breton and Farsi.

Opera and audio projects

In 2013 the opera project Three Flying Minutes (music: Helga Pogatschar , production: Peter Schelling) premiered in Basel. Nora Gomringer wrote the libretto. Often small film and video projects accompany her work. Examples are her poetry volumes with audio CDs or the video installations for the Monster Poems published in 2013. In the fall of 2013, the three-part radio essay series Nora Gomringer sucht Fern was heard at the BR night studio.

Collaboration with part of speech ensemble

The a cappella formation Wortart Ensemble has been working with texts from the work of Nora Gomringer since around 2010 and uses them for settings and for the active organization of workshops with young singers and professional singers. The five singers have been working on stage with Nora Gomringer since 2011 and appearing with a full-length program. In 2012 the program “Nora Gomringer meets Wortart Ensemble” was invited to the 50th anniversary of the Goethe Institute in Toronto. After a US and Canada tour, a German tour followed and in 2013 an album of their own about this collaboration.

poetry slam

Between 2001 and 2006, Nora Gomringer actively shaped the poetry slam scene in Germany, including through the Bamberg Poetry Slam, which she founded in 2001 with Stefankai Spörlein and Keith Kennetz. The Poetry Slam had its permanent location in Bamberg in the Morph Club for several years and was supervised by the award-winning slammer and author Christian Ritter . The fact that Gomringer left the poetry slam scene almost entirely in 2006 gave the author the freedom to return to her lyrical roots, equipped with the experience tools of the spoken word scene , but now - as in her case - that written text before the lecture.

Winning the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

In 2015, Gomringer took part in the 39th competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with her text Recherche . She won the competition with her story for an author investigating the fatal fall of a boy aged thirteen from a skyscraper. Gomringer, who until this success had emerged almost exclusively as a poet, then toyed with the idea of ​​writing a novel, provided that her work as director of the Künstlerhaus allowed it.

Nora Gomringer has been a member of the Bachmann Prize jury since 2018.

Awards (selection)

Nora Gomringer held poetry professorships at the universities of Sheffield, Koblenz-Landau (together with Eugen Gomringer) and Kiel. Residency grants, reading tours and participation in international festivals have taken her to Novosibirsk, Toronto, the USA, New Delhi, Gothenburg, often to Switzerland, Buenos Aires, Beijing and Medellín .

Memberships

She is a member of the PEN Center in Germany , the Rotary Club, is a member of the foundation board of the Museum Buchheim and a member of the board of trustees of her alma mater.

Works

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As editor

literature

  • Kathrin B. Buchert: Poetry around Noon. Nora-E. Gomringer on poetry, language and life. In: Forsch und Lēr - newspaper of the Bamberger Germanistenclubs 14 (2001), pp. 7-10.
  • Denise Dumschat: "Ich bin." - On the problem of identity in the poetry of Nora-Eugenie Gomringer. In: Verbal Dreams. Contributions to contemporary German-language literature. Ed. V. Andrea Bartl. Augsburg 2005 (= German studies and contemporary literature, vol. 1), pp. 205–230.
  • Denise Dumschat: Review of: Nora-Eugenie Gomringer: Say something about the night. In: German books. Forum for literature. Authors' discussion - criticism - interpretation. 37 (2007), issue 1. pp. 35-40.
  • Kathrin Wimmer: Dangerous and endangered: The word. Nora-Eugenie Gomringer in conversation with Kathrin Wimmer about home, memory and the love affair with language. In: Transit Dreams. Contributions to contemporary German literature. Ed. V. Andrea Bartl. Augsburg 2009 (= German and Contemporary Literature, Vol. 4), pp. 407–425.
  • Anja Ohmer: Gomringer to the power of 2: Concrete poetry makes sound! In: orte - Swiss literary magazine. No. 167, May / June 2011, Say something for the night - or: the Gomringers are here , pp. 36–43.

Web links

Commons : Nora Gomringer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bachmann Prize for Nora Gomringer
  2. Winner text Klagenfurt 2015 Nora Gomringer: "Recherche" , FAZ, July 5, 2015
  3. ^ Text by Nora Gomringer (D / CH) . Full text. July 2, 2015. Accessed July 6, 2015.
  4. Report on tagesschau.de ( memento from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), July 5, 2015
  5. Helmut Glück , Walter Krämer, Eberhard Schöck (eds.): German Language Culture Prize 2011 - speeches and speeches . Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-942409-16-2 .
  6. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/bayerischer-verdienstorden-mehr-als-20-geehre-sind-aus-franken,RWwc4uN