Raphael Urweider

Raphael Urweider at the Hausacher Leselenz 2013

Raphael Urweider (born November 5, 1974 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer, director and musician.

Life

The son of the reformed pastor and writer Andreas Urweider grew up in Schattenhalb and attended school in Biel . After graduating from high school , he studied German and philosophy at the University of Friborg .

Urweider is a poet who also appears as a musician and rapper (for example with the hip-hop group L'Deep as Bidrmaa) and often makes use of a wide variety of language-playing techniques in his texts . He wrote two plays with Samuel Schwarz , which were premiered at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . From 2008 to 2010 he was co-director of the Schlachthaus Theater Bern .

In 2011 Urweider was invited to the Medellín International Poetry Festival . From 2012 to 2016 he was President of the AdS .

Raphael Urweider lives in Bern , is married and has two sons.

Single track

• Hello Mr. Gutenberg . Poems. Edition Thanhäuser, Ottensheim an der Donau 1999.
• Lights in Menlo Park . Poems. DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 2000.
• Leprechaun and the Art Piper . Ottensheim 2002.
• The opposite of meat . Poems. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2003.
• All of your names. Poems of addiction and longing: poems of love and profligacy . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2008.
• Poaching . Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2018.

Literary magazines

• folds . Poems. In: BELLA triste , 6, Hildesheim 2003.
• dialog from Kinshasa. To a poem by Steffen Popp . Essay. In: BELLA triste , 17th edition, special issue on contemporary German poetry. Hildesheim 2007.
• Anja Bayer and Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene . kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783937445809 .

translation

• Lavinia Greenlaw: Minsk. Poems in two languages. Poems. English German. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2006

Awards

• 1999: Leonce and Lena Prize
• 2000: Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 2000: Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2001: Bremen Literature Prize Promotion Prize
• 2001: Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2002: 3sat Prize Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 2003: New York scholarship from the German Literature Fund
• 2004: Clemens Brentano Prize
• 2009: Prize for a single work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation (CHF 10,000) for All Your Names
• 2014: Stay in the Berlin residence studio of the city of Thun
• 2018: Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry

literature

• Theo Breuer : From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 . Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 .

Web links

Commons : Raphael Urweider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Raphael Urweider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Raphael Urweider at Literaturport
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Entry about Raphael Urweider in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Short biography and reviews of works by Raphael Urweider at perlentaucher.de

Sources, individual references

1. ↑ www.schillerstiftung.ch ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Der Bund , March 16, 2009.