Orla Wolf

Reading with Orla Wolf in the Literaturhaus Berlin on December 5, 2017

Orla Wolf (born February 17, 1971 in Ratingen ) is a German writer , blogger , filmmaker and artist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Marienberg in Neuss, Orla Wolf studied modern German philology, German linguistics, philosophy , theater studies and media communication at the universities of Trier, Düsseldorf, Bonn and Bochum. She completed her studies with a master's thesis on androgyny and language utopia in Ingeborg Bachmann's work . In the following years, she worked as a lecturer, copywriter, PR consultant and lecturer.

Orla Wolf writes poetry , prose , plays and scripts. In addition to nine individual publications (as of August 2019) , her works have been published in various German and Austrian literary magazines (including TORSO, etcetera , miromente , Der Dreischneuß , Keine Delikatessen , Hammer + Veilchen , 500 Gramm, FLUCH´T`RAUM) and anthologies.

She has been writing the literature blog zuckerauge (ISSN 2569-9458) since 2014 . The blog contains (as of September 2019) around 1700 individual articles by the author.

Moreover, Orla Wolf as a writer, producer and director, three experimental short films realized ( deaths , transit , LastStatement ) and the script for the first episode of the TV mini-series We are all human written . The films were shown in the context of the exhibition strictly berlin - Art and Media from Berlin in the Galerie der Künste (Berlin), in the independent film portal Cinema Zero (NYC), in the Anthology Film Archives New York and on Amazon Prime UK & US shown.

Furthermore, numerous artistic works in the areas of photography, drawing, object art and text installation were created.

She is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS).

Orla Wolf lives in Berlin .

Works

Single track

• Migration in the Holocene (poetry & photographs). edition fza, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903104-11-2
• Temporary zone (poetry & photographs). Edition FZA, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-903104-07-5
• Among insects (short prose). Edition Hammer + Veilchen , Hamburg & Niederstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-921249-63-5
• Floating architectures (poetry & photographs). Edition FZA, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903104-006
• Protocol of a moth (poetry). Fixpoetry & Verlag im Proberaum 3, Klingenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941296-24-4

Contributions to anthologies

• Hammer + Veilchen - The Yearbook 2019, Edition Hammer + Veilchen, Hamburg & Niederstetten 2019, ISBN 978-3-948371-59-3
• Hammer + Veilchen - Das Jahrbuch 2018 , Edition Hammer + Veilchen, Hamburg & Niederstetten 2019, ISBN 978-3-921249-24-6
• Hammer + Veilchen - The Yearbook 2017 , Edition Hammer + Veilchen, Hamburg & Niederstetten 2018, ISBN 978-3-921249-46-8
• Free spaces . Edition FZA, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-903104-06-8
• Hammer + Veilchen - The Yearbook 2016 , Edition Hammer + Veilchen, Hamburg & Niederstetten 2017, ISBN 978-3-921249-45-1
• Hammer + Veilchen - The Yearbook 2015 , Edition Hammer + Veilchen, Hamburg & Niederstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-921249-44-4
• Bold cosmos . Short prose. Landbeck Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9428740-0-7

theatre

• gutted . Premiere: Theater unterm Dach, Berlin 2008, director: Ingrun Aran

Filmography

• 2020: We are all Human (TV mini-series)
• 2013: Last Statement (short film )
• 2008: TRANSIT ( short film )
• 2007: Types of Death ( short film )

Awards

• 2010: Writer-in-Residence, Ventspilshouse, International Writers 'and Translators' House, Latvia

Web links

• Orla Wolf Website of the author
• zuckerauge (Orla Wolf's literary blog )
• Orla Wolf at Literaturport
• Orla Wolf at fixpoetry
• Works by Orla Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Orla Wolf as an author in Der Dreischneuß , accessed on September 19, 2019
3. ↑ Home. Accessed August 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Reading in the Literaturhaus Berlin . ( verdi.de [accessed on September 26, 2018]).
5. ↑ Orla Wolf in the Hammer + Veilchen edition, accessed on June 30, 2018