Ralf Burnicki

Ralf Burnicki (* 1962 in Bielefeld ) is a post-anarchist theorist and poet .

Life

Ralf Burnicki studied philosophy and history. In 1994 he founded the “Edition Blackbox” in Bielefeld and acts there as publisher. The focus of the publishing work is on literary and political texts from the libertarian milieu. Since 1998 he has been a juror for the “Jugend Writes” project in Bielefeld. In 1998 he was a co-founder of the nationwide network of anarchist authors "Fraktal". Burnicki publishes texts in the artist magazine “Labyrinth”, the anarcho-pacifist magazine “ Graswurzelrevolution ” and the free forum for literature and art “Kopfsalat”. He received his PhD in political philosophy in 2002.

Burnicki lives in Bielefeld and works there and in Bünde at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Bünde) . He is a member of the Association of German Writers and the FAU .

Awards

• 2002: Award for the "heir of Orwell" by the Society for Literature Berlin
• 2003: Winner of the competition of the "National Library of German-Language Poetry"
• 2004: Winner of the literary competition "Unterwelten" of the "Literatenohr eV"

Works

• Anarchy as direct democracy. Self-government, anti-statehood. An introduction to the subject of Anarchy Syndicate A, Moers 1998.

• Stadtschluchten: Poems Edition Blackbox, Bielefeld 2000.
• Reality tearing up like a failed snapshot: libertarian poetry , (with Michael Halfbrodt), Edition AV, Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3-9806407-6-0 .
• Anarchism and consensus. Against representation and majority principle: Structures of a non-hierarchical democracy Verlag Edition AV , Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• Overheating: City Poetry , with graphics by Barnd Gruschka, Edition AV, Frankfurt am Main 2003 ISBN 3-936049-26-2 .
• The street cleaners of Tehran: Poems (bilingual edition, translated into Persian by Maryam Sharif), Edition AV, Frankfurt am Main 2004
• Teeth whitening. Kaufhaus-Poetry , Edition AV, Lich 2007
• Long live it - anarchy! Anarcho-Poetry , with graphics by Findus, Edition AV, Lich 2014

literature

• Poetry for Anarchy . An interview with Michael Halfbrodt and Ralf Burnicki on the tenth birthday of the literature project Blackbox, in: Bernd Drücke (Ed.), Ja! Anarchism. Lived utopia in the 21st century . Interviews and discussions, Karin Kramer Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87956-307-1 (pp. 51–60)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralf Burnicki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ralf Burnicki on spechtart.de
• Ralf Burnicki in: NRW Literature on the Net
• "Spring" published in "Lettuce"