Oliver Mertins

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Oliver Mertins (born November 4, 1964 in Berlin ; † January 15, 2020 there ) was a German writer , poet and translator .

Mertins worked in various professions and traveled in Europe, Asia, the USA and the South Seas, witnessed the civil wars in Kashmir and Sri Lanka and the military dictatorship in Bangladesh . In 1987 he published the short story "Ein Weg zur Untzeit" and since then poetry, prose and essays mainly in the Berlin publishing house Druckhaus Galrev . He also worked as a lyric translator from Hungarian and Italian.

Mertins lived and worked in Berlin, in the early 2000s he lived in Portugal for a long time. He died after a long and serious illness.

Works

  • A way out of time. Narrative. Oberbaum, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926409-05-3 .
  • In the rough murmur of the streets. Mistral, Berlin 1988.
  • What came and what remained. Kulturbüro Berlin, Berlin 1992.
  • Incubus versus phoenix. Stories, essays, poetry. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-910161-55-3 .
  • Monachoi. Poems, fragments, stories, essays 1987 to 1996. With photographs by Bernd Markowsky. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-910161-65-0 .
  • Cyclical disruption. Poetic Arches, 1997, ISBN 3-928833-66-9 .
  • Adam on the lime tree. Record from the Ghannouchi Divan. Early lyric. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-933149-13-4 .
  • Sad girls and other finger games. Early short stories from the good old days. A picture book. With photographs by Bernd Markowsky and pencil sketches and pen drawings by Matthias Winde. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-933149-28-2 .

Translations:

  • Budapest scenes. Young Hungarian poetry. Edited by Gerhard Falkner and Orsolya Kalász . Dumont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4971-8 . ( The poets Buxhoeveden, Döring, Koziol and Mertins worked on German versions based on the translations by Orsolya Kalász, which followed different concerns. )
  • Guido Ceronetti : compassion and despair. Poems. Selected and transfer by Oliver Mertins and Nicola Cipani. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-933149-12-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died: On the death of Oliver Mertins and Work I from the estate. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ What Oliver tells (Oliver Mertins). Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mertins, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2020
Place of death Berlin