Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt (born December 30, 1962 in Neuss ) is a German poet , translator and cultural journalist.
life and work
After graduating from high school, Norbert Hummelt studied German and English at the University of Cologne until 1990 . He primarily writes poetry and essays that have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals. He also translates poetry from English and Danish. Hummelt initially wrote (like Marcel Beyer , with whom he worked for a long time), experimental poems in the successor of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling . In 1997, with his second volume of poetry, "Singtrieb", he turned more towards traditional forms and approached the concepts of Romanticism. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of the Cologne authors' workshop . He taught u. a. at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Norbert Hummelt has lived in Berlin since 2006 , previously in Cologne for many years.
Single track
- crisp codes , poems, Galrev, Berlin 1993.
- Singtrieb , Gedichte (with CD), Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 1997.
- Characters in the snow , poems, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2001.
- Wayside shrine , poems, Kunstverein Hasselbach 2003.
- Silent sources , poems, Luchterhand, Munich 2004.
- Dance of Death , poems, Luchterhand, Munich 2007.
- How poems are created - with Klaus Siblewski -, Luchterhand, Munich 2009.
- Pan's Hour , Poems, Luchterhand, Munich 2011.
- Purgatory , poems, Luchterhand, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87521-7 .
- The Atlas of Remembrance , NIMBUS, Wädenswil 2018 ISBN 978-3-03850-048-3
- Sonnengesang , Gedichte, Luchterhand, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-630-87630-6
Anthologies and literary journals (selection)
- Anthologies
- Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present, Düsseldorf 2008.
- Christoph Buchwald (Ed.): Yearbook of Poetry (regularly since 1990).
- Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze (irregularly since 1987).
- Literary magazines
Release
- William Butler Yeats , Die Gedichte , Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2005.
- Yearbook of Poetry 2006 (with Christoph Buchwald), S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005.
- Poetry edition 2000 (from 2005 to 2008).
- I've always said goodbye - Rolf Persch, poems , with a biographical essay by Sabine Schiffner , Sprungturm Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816990-8-1 .
transmission
- Inger Christensen , The Butterfly Valley. A requiem . In: Copybook No. 52, Essen 1999.
- TS Eliot , Four Quartets , Rigodon: Essen 2006.
- TS Eliot, Das öde Land , Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main 2008 ISBN 978-3-518-42022-5
Awards
- Sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 1995
- Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship of the City of Cologne 1996
- Mondseer Poetry Prize 1998
- Hermann Lenz scholarship 2000
- Fellow of the Hombroich rocket station in 2005
- Lower Rhine Literature Prize 2007
- Hölty Prize for Poetry from the state capital and Sparkasse Hannover 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Norbert Hummelt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lyrikline.org
- Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and personal questions from December 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Hummelt. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 438.
- ↑ Review of Purgatory. Poems. Dialogue with the past on Deutschlandfunk on November 9, 2016.
- ↑ Hölty Prize for Poetry goes to Norbert Hummelt. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 28, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummelt, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, translator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuss |