Sebastian Polmans

Sebastian Polmans (* 1982 in Mönchengladbach , Neuwerk-Mitte ) is a German author , illustrator and musician .

Life

Polmans grew up in the German-Dutch border area on the Lower Rhine and completed humanities and musicological studies at universities in Siegen , Hildesheim and Rome . He published literary texts in manuscripts , Style and the family tunes, 13 Magazin and Am Erker, among others . He was co-editor of the literary magazine BELLA triste . In 2011 his debut Junge was published by Suhrkamp Verlag .

Prizes and awards

• 2010 Nettetal Literature Prize
• 2010 open mike audience award
• 2011 Literature Prize from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
• 2011 scholarship from the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2011 finalist at the MDR Literature Prize Leipzig
• 2011 work grant from the state of Lower Saxony
• 2012 Bayern 2 - Wortspiele Prize
• 2013 Kranichsteiner Literature Prize
• 2014 Moers Literature Prize
• 2015 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann scholarship
• 2015 BUND-Distel, price for nature, environmental and animal protection
• 2016 Postpoetry
• 2017 Nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize
• 2018 work grant from the Kunststiftung NRW

Publications

novel

• Boy. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42246-5 .

Children's and young people's book

• The tulip invites you to smell it. Poems and illustration. Bübül Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-946807-36-0 .

stories

• On the tongue. in: manuscripts. Journal for Literature, No. 187, Eds. Alfred Kolleritsch and Günter Waldorf, Graz 2010.
• Cardboard boxes. in: Kartographie der Nacht, Ed. Lars Claßen, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46299-7 .
• Mountains. in: As always unexpected. New Christmas Stories , Ed. Susanne Gretter, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46378-9 .
• About Pina and why love can heal everything. in: Dreizehn - Kulturmagazin , eds. Johannes Boehme, Rafael Haymann, Ege Tufan, Berlin 2014.

Poems

• New Years Eve . in: manuscripts. Journal for Literature , No. 193, Eds. Alfred Kolleritsch and Günter Waldorf , Graz 2011.
• It was disappearing . in: Yearbook of Poetry 2011 , edited by Christoph Buchwald and Kathrin Schmidt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04507-2 .
• Our tattoo. Radius Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-87173-980-4 .

music

• Summsemann: da (Jakarta Records / Groove Attack 2007)

Web links

• Portrait of Sebastian Polmans on ze.tt
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sebastian Polmans at perlentaucher.de
• Review in the NZZ
• Literature by and about Sebastian Polmans in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian Polmans: About Pina and why love can heal everything. Dreizehn – Kulturmagazin, accessed on October 7, 2015 .