Ralf Thenior

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Ralf Thenior (born June 4, 1945 in Bad Kudowa , Silesia ) is a German writer and member of the PEN Center Germany .

Live and act

Ralf Thenior grew up in Hamburg . He completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk , then trained as a translator at the interpreting institute of Saarbrücken University . After being on the second-chance education his high school had made, studied it at the University of Hamburg German language and sociology . He traveled extensively in North and Central America and in 1977 was one of the organizers of the 1st Federal German Poetry Festival in Hamburg. 1985/86 he held a poetics lectureship at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz .

He began in the 1970s as a writer of everyday poetry, who distanced himself from the tendency towards the " new subjectivity " at the time and wanted to contribute to language criticism by using everyday language in his poems . Thenior's early narrative prose makes use of fantastic elements and has experimental features. He has also been the author of successful books for children and young people since the 1990s .

Thenior is a member of the Association of German Writers and the NRW Literature Council . He lives as a freelance writer in Dortmund .

Thenior was married to Jutta Richter and they have one daughter.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Columbus' egg . Reinbek near Hamburg 1975 (together with Etienne Bruneel)
  • We'll read you something! . Hamburg 1976 (together with Steve B. Peinemann and Robert Wohlleben)
  • Sad hurras . Munich 1977
  • Talking machine Pechmarie . Stuttgart 1979
  • Good morning, Robert . Hamburg 1981
  • The evening star, where he went . Stuttgart 1982
  • Radio Hagenbeck . Hamburg 1984
  • Too late . Hamburg 1984
  • The night botanists . Hamburg 1986
  • Yeah, just make a plan . Munich 1988
  • Westerwinkler dog grass . Bielefeld 1989
  • Dragon with a toothache in the wind . Dülmen-Hiddingsel u. a. 1990
  • Don't know about Wasserwinkel or Das Schloßgespenst goes out into the world . Ravensburg 1991
  • The laughter of the stars . Hamburg 1992
  • Castle ghost in distress or don't know about Wasserwinkel's new adventure . Ravensburg 1992
  • The flies of the Beelzebub . Ravensburg 1993
  • Castle ghosts and spider-eaters or don't know and Frieda's adventures on the journey to Rummelburg . Ravensburg 1993
  • Top hat and lion mask . Hamburg 1993
  • Step on the gas, Kniffke! . Ravensburg 1995
  • The night of the sprayer . Ravensburg 1995
  • Simple things . Paderborn 1995
  • Miranda and the new teddy . Ravensburg 1996 (with Gabie Hilgert)
  • Miranda and the thing with Hansi . Ravensburg 1997 (with Gabie Hilgert)
  • Pale face . Ravensburg 1998
  • The Bulgarian feeling . Heidelberg 1998
  • Gripper . Ravensburg 1998
  • Schröder, you stupid dog! . Ravensburg 1998
  • A mouse in school . Ravensburg 1999 (together with Silke Voigt)
  • Snow White, watch out! . Ravensburg 1999 (together with Hans-Jürgen Feldhaus)
  • Osnabrück Poetics . Osnabrück 2000
  • Sparrow Rabatz . Ravensburg 2000 (together with Christine Georg)
  • Demon mirror . Düsseldorf 2003
  • Broken dreams . Ravensburg 2003
  • Poetryreading in the Lower East side . 1977

Editing

  • All the best, dude . 1978
  • With mixed feelings . (Together with Jan Hans and Uwe Herms.) Munich 1978
  • If you want to explore the universe, it is easy to get lost . Gladbeck 2001

Translations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography , website at ralf-thenior.de
personal data
SURNAME Thenior, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and member of the PEN Center Germany
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kudowa , Silesia