Sascha Kokot

Sascha Kokot at the final of the open mike 2012

Sascha Kokot (* 1982 in Osterburg ) is a German writer who has so far mainly emerged with poetry and is concerned with photography .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a computer scientist in Hamburg and a longer stay in Australia , Kokot began studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig in 2006 . Together with Jasmin Herold, he founded the house search reading series there in order to present texts by students of the German Literature Institute in Leipzig in the German-speaking region.

Kokot's writing attracted attention in many competitions and received several scholarships. In 2008 his screenplay debris was awarded a prize in the screenplay competition Sichtssache of the Robert Bosch Foundation , the Goethe Institute and OSTPOL eV and was then filmed by graduates of the International College Kiev .
He took part with poems in the finals of various competitions with public readings, including the Leonce and Lena Prize (2011, 2013), the Wartholz literature competition (2011, 2012) and the open mike of the Berlin literature workshop (2013). He was praised at the Munich Poetry Prize 2011 and won 2nd place at the Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2012.

Most recently he received the Georg Kaiser Award (2014) from the State of Saxony-Anhalt .

Kokot published his poems in various anthologies and magazines , including a. Akzente , Besides , BELLA triste , Fiction , Dulzinea , Edit , erostepost , No delicacies , Kolik , Krautgarten , Ostragehege , poetry album , um [loud] . His texts have been translated into Armenian, Bulgarian, English, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian.
In spring 2013 his debut volume Rodung was published by edition AZUR .

In addition to his literary work, Kokot is also committed to promoting reading and literature in Saxony-Anhalt with the help of the Friedrich Bödecker Circle and organizes school readings and writing workshops for this purpose .

Kokot lives as a freelance author and photographer in Leipzig .

Awards

• 2007: Sonneck grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Literature Council
• 2008: Prize of the script competition matter of opinion of the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Goethe Institute and the OSTPOL eV
• 2009: Literature grant from the Albert Koechlin Foundation in the Willisau city mill
• 2010: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony for young authors from the German Literature Institute in Leipzig
• 2012: Feldkircher Poetry Prize (2nd prize)
• 2014: Georg Kaiser Award
• 2016: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

Works

Standalone publications

• Furthermore , Edition AZUR , Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-942375-29-0
• Clearing , Edition AZUR , Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-942375-07-8

Anthologies (selection)

• draft magazine for literature No. 83 1/2017, KaMeRu Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-906082-03-5
• Christoph Buchwald , Ulrike Almut Sandig (ed.): Yearbook of Poetry 2017 , Schöffling & Co , Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3895616808
• Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3937445809
• Max Czollek , Michael Fehr , Robert Prosser (eds.): Lyrik von Jetzt 3: Babelsprech , Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3835317390
• Christoph Buchwald, Nora Gomringer (Ed.): Yearbook of Poetry 2015 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3421046123
• draft magazine for literature No. 76 4/2013, KaMeRu Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-906082-03-5
• Fritz Deppert , Christian Döring, Hanne F. Juritz (eds.): Fish in blue smoke literary March 18, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-95558-043-8
• Erika Kronabitter (Ed.): Lyrik der Gegenwart 24 Feldkircher Lyrikpreis 2012, Edition Art Science, St. Wolfgang 2012, ISBN 978-3902864123
• 20 OPEN MIKE International competition for young German-language prose and poetry, Allitera Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3869064697
• Jürgen Jankofsky , André Schinkel , Levon Ananyan (eds.): When the icy days were finally over , Apollon, Yerevan 2012, ISBN 978-9993054658
• Till Beckmann, Kathrin Butt (Hrsg.): Druckstellen Selected texts from the 2nd Ruhrgebiet literature competition, Klartext Verlag , Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3837507232
• Fritz Deppert , Christian Döring , Hanne F. Juritz (Eds.): Windklug wie Sand Literarischer March 17, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86099-714-7
• Andreas Heidtmann (Ed.): Poet no. 11 Literature magazine , Poetenladen Verlag , Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-940691-27-9
• Syndicate 2011 annual anthology of the students of the German Literature Institute Leipzig , Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3937799551
• Christoph Buchwald, Kathrin Schmidt (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry 2011 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3421045072
• Ulf Stolterfoht (Ed.): Roughbook 003 - Cowboylyrik , Engeler Verlag, Weil am Rhein 2009, ISBN 978-3938767733

Web links

• Literature by and about Sascha Kokot in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Sascha Kokot
• Author profile on the publisher's website
• Short biography, overview of works and excerpts from Sascha Kokot at fixpoetry
• Short biography and information on the work of Sascha Kokot at Literaturport

Reviews

• Dominik Dombrowski: Home where our absence lives. Fixpoetry, April 23, 2013, accessed August 21, 2014 . 
• Walter Fabian Schmid: You have to go where it hurts. Signatures Magazin, August 25, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leipzig Internet newspaper L-IZ.de: Bayreuth, Berlin, Barcelona: Literature students start their search warrant. February 22, 2008, accessed August 21, 2014 . 
2. ↑ OSTPOL: Debris. Ostpol e. V., accessed on August 21, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Elena Philipp: Sascha Kokot “Poems”. open mike - the blog, accessed August 21, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Circuli Ursula Kühn: The finale. Poetry Prize Munich, November 26, 2011, accessed on August 21, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Thorsten Bayer: Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2012: The youngsters are also convincing. Kultur - magazine for culture and society, November 26, 2012, accessed on August 21, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt: Georg-Kaiser-Förderpreis des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt 2014 goes to Sascha Kokot - press release no .: 089/2014. May 23, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2014 . 
7. ↑ dpa: Sascha Kokot is honored with the state literature prize. Freie Presse, May 23, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 .  | Christian Eger: Newspaper interview as part of the Georg Kaiser Sponsorship Prize. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 11, 2014, accessed on September 17, 2014 .  | André Schinkel : Behind the Gardens - Laudation for Sascha Kokot on the occasion of the award of the Georg Kaiser Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2014. fixpoetry , September 17, 2014, accessed on September 25, 2014 . 
8. ^ Verlag Edition Azur, Helge Pfannenschmidt: Sascha Kokot: clearing. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2014 . 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.  
9. ↑ HVHS Akademie Haus Sonneck - The Sonneck Scholarship. HVHS Akademie Haus Sonneck, accessed on August 21, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Guest list. (No longer available online.) Stadtmühle Willisau, archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2014 . 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.