Ralph Gruneberger

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Ralph Grüneberger (born February 16, 1951 in Leipzig ) is a German writer .

Life

After completing a milling apprenticeship and various commercial activities, Ralph Grüneberger studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig (1978–1982). from 1990 to 1991 he completed a special course there. Grüneberger took part in numerous poetry festivals (Corfu, Paris, Struga). Since 1978 Ralph Grüneberger has published song texts, poetry, prose, essays, monographs, literary criticism, audio books and texts for children.

Since 1975 he initiated and organized several series of literary events: u. a. "Poetenladen" (1975–1977), "Dreieck: Prosa. Poetry. Music ”(1984–1992),“ Leipzig Summer Night of Poetry ”(1997–2006),“ Sächsischer Literaturfrühling ”(1998, 1999, 2001–2006), the“ 1. Paternoster reading of the world ”(2002–2005),“ Lehmanns Lyriknacht ”(2008 and 2009),“ Days of Poetry in Saxony ”(Leipzig, 2010, Erzgebirge, 2012, Zwickau 2015) and in cooperation with the Association for Funding of the Leipzig City Library e. V. the project “20 Years - 20 Books” (2010). Since 2013 he has headed the new series ZWIE SPRACHE, in which “two voices, two spellings, two temperaments” usually meet and give each other public attention.

Grüneberger publishes in literary magazines, on the radio and in anthologies. In addition, he is co-editor of poetry collections and curator of the exhibition “gegen den Strom. Writers and the Prague Spring in Leipzig ”. In 2003, together with Gerhard Pötzsch , he wrote the feature “The Saxon Sea” produced by MDR and RBB and, in 2007, worked with Gerhard Pötzsch on the documentary “In that persistent summer…” in addition to the exhibition theme , which was devoted to reading the reservoir in Leipzig .

Many of his poems have been translated into several languages. I.a. the editions of the Amsterdam and America poems were each published in two languages. Grüneberger's poems and lyrics set to music a. a. Reiner Bredemeyer , Walter Thomas Heyn and Maciej Żółtowski. Numerous artist books were created in close collaboration with the visual artists Sighard Gille, Bettina Haller, Karl-Georg Hirsch, Katrin Kunert and Solomon Wija.

Grüneberger has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2000 . Ralph Grüneberger has been the first chairman of the Society for Contemporary Poetry since 1996 . In this position, he has also been the editor of the magazine and poetry anthology Poesiealbum new since 2007 .

Awards and grants (selection)

  • 1986: Debut award from the GDR Writers' Association
  • 1994: Scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony, Künstlerhof Schreyahn
  • 1997: Scholarship for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf from the Free State of Saxony
  • 1997: VCCA scholarship with support from the Federal Foreign Office (USA)
  • 1998. Amsterdam Scholarship from the Netherlands-Germany Cultural Foundation
  • 1997: VCCA scholarship with support from the Goethe-Institut Washington (USA)
  • 2000: Studio International grant from the Höfgen memorial forge
  • 2001: Scholarship at VCCA with support from Sweet Briar College (USA)
  • 2002: Amsterdam Scholarship from the Netherlands-Germany Cultural Foundation
  • 2005: Studio International scholarship from the Höfgen memorial forge
  • 2006: Irseer Pegasus Literature Prize (2nd Prize)
  • 2006: Grant from the State of Lower Saxony, Künstlerhof Schreyahn
  • 2006: Menantes Prize for Erotic Poetry
  • 2012: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen
  • 2017: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony VerArtis Pécs, Hungary

Works

  • Poetry album 198. Poems. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1984.
  • Breakfast standing up . Hall [u. a.] 1986.
  • City. Surname. Country. Hall [u. a.] 1989.
  • 3 × Leipzig. City guide . Cologne 1990.
  • The cracks in the love of residents . Pfaffenweiler Press, Pfaffenweiler 1993.
  • Same road, another country . Magdeburg 1996.
  • Read book 27 . Poems. Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 1997.
  • Spring winter . Berlin 1998.
  • The mystery is: you are and you are not . Berlin 1999.
  • Prose miniatures in: Gerhard Weber, Die Menschen im Dorf Erlln, Kaditzsch 2000.
  • Blooming landscape . Dresden 2001.
  • No man's light . Leipzig 2001.
  • Essay in: Gerhard Weber, Colditzer Family Portraits , Kaditzsch 2002.
  • Beyond the goal . Leipzig 2002.
  • Manure pile driving. On men's tattoos . Leipzig 2003.
  • The portraitist Norbert Wagenbrett . Monograph. Leipzig 2004.
  • The carousel sleeps too . Children's book (with Sylvia Graupner). Leipzig 2005.
  • The sun is over Nimbschen (with Gerhard Weber). Leipzig 2005.
  • Leipzig - Poetic Views . Photo / text book (with Sigrid Schmidt). Beucha 2006.
  • Police blood. Men's stories , Leipzig 2006.
  • In't Vondelpark op Koninginnedag . Leipzig 2007.
  • Heinz Müller - seeing things over and over again . Monograph. Leipzig 2008.
  • Blickwechsel - TramGeschichten . Leipzig 2009.
  • Miracles very close by , text / audio book, Leipzig 2010 (together with Wolfgang Rischer).
  • The painter and the girl . Fairy tale. Audio book. Leipzig 2011.
  • I've seen the beauty. Love poems in 4 languages . Leipzig 2011.
  • Colorful bankruptcy. News from the provinces. Poems 1986-2010 . Bucha near Jena 2011.
  • Love freedom man & woman. A reader. Stories, poems, essays on art and literature . Graphic: Sighard Gille . Edited by Manfred Jendryschik . Hall / Sa. 2012.
  • Gert Poetzschig. To have the view . Monograph, Halle / Sa. 2013.
  • The rest of a second. Artist stories . Bucha near Jena 2015.
  • With Mick Jagger in Plagwitz. Leipzig poems . Leipzig 2015.
  • The season has started. New poems with illustrations by Karl Oppermann and an afterword by Norbert Schaffeld . Oschersleben 2016.
  • Bees over Brooklyn. Texts on America 1997 - 2016 . Audiobook: Leipzig 2016.
  • Bees over Brooklyn. LyrikHeft No. 20, Sonnenberg-Presse, Chemnitz 2016.
  • Leipzig song book (with Walter Thomas Heyn ) . With CDs. Leipzig 2017.
  • Autumn year . Novel. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3839224-83-0 .
  • Leipzig stories. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2020. ISBN 978-3-8392-2608-7

Release

  • Dismantlers. Biographies of the Leipzig Autumn (with Bernd Lindner). Bielefeld 1992.
  • He almost strangled the plane so that I would stay (with Norbert Weiss). Dresden 1999.
  • Writing weather (with Sylvia Gösel and Christel Hartinger). Leipzig 2002.
  • New poetry album , anthological literary magazine, since 2007.

Film and radio

Web links

Secondary literature

  • Ralph Gruneberger. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 343 ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 ( Google book)
  • in: Karen Leeder : Breaking Boundaries: A New Generation of Poets in the Gdr (Oxford Modern Languages ​​& Literature Monographs), Oxford 1996
  • in: Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig
  • in: Author Lexicon PEN Center Germany
  • in: Literature Lexicon Walther Killy

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.poetenladen.de/news/092.html
personal data
SURNAME Grüneberger, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig