Sebastian Unger (writer)

Sebastian Unger (born April 6, 1978 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Sebastian Unger studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , later cultural studies at the European University Viadrina and German as a foreign language . Since then he has published in anthologies and magazines. In 2011 he won the poetry award at the 19th Open Mike . In 2018, his volume of poetry, The Animals Don't Know Yet , was published, which was honored with the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize and the Frankfurt Poetry Prize. Unger teaches at Tongji University in Shanghai .

Awards

• 2011 Poetry Prize of the 19th Open Mike
• 2011 Parlandopark Poetry Prize
• 2014 Alfred Döblin grant from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• 2015 Berlin scholarship for literature
• 2019 Poetry Debut Prize Düsseldorf
• 2019 Frankfurt Poetry Prize

Publications

• The animals don't know yet , Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-537-1 .

Articles in anthologies and journals (selection)

• “Attitudes” in: Edit 26 (autumn 2001).
• "Attitudes (IV)" in: Christoph Buchwald and Lutz Seiler (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry 2003 , Verlag CH Beck 2002, ISBN 9783406486975 .
• "The unfastened tamer", in: Ostragehege 68, Volume IV (2012), ISSN 0947-1286.
• “On the go with Lenz” in: Bella triste 35 (2013).
• "Vogelbericht", in: Andreas Heidtmann (ed.), Poet no. 14 (2013), ISBN 978-3-940691-44-6 .
• "Borametz - the incurable vegetable lamb" in: Steffen Popp (ed.), Spitzen - Gedichte. Fanbook. Hall of Fame , Suhrkamp 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-12719-3 .
• Four poems, in: Steffen Richter and Andreas Rötzer (eds.), Third Nature I , Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-458-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Unger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Poems read by the author on lyrikline.org
• Reviews of The Animals Don't Know Yet :
  • Felix Schiller, Animal Plant Wisdom at: fixpoetry.com (November 20, 2018), accessed on May 11, 2019.
  • Tim Trzaskalik «... something like pointing rage» at: signaturen-magazin.de (November 22, 2018), accessed on May 11, 2019.
• Author entry at the publishing house Matthes & Seitz Berlin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book premiere “The animals don't know yet” at: lettretage.de (2018), accessed on May 11, 2019.
2. ↑ Ilke Rosenburg, Lyrische Grenzerlebnis per Fahrrad , Norddeutsche Rundschau (May 27, 2014), accessed on May 11, 2019.
3. ↑ Vanja Budde, texts of “terrifying professionalism” on: deutschlandfunkkultur.de (November 6, 2011), accessed on May 11, 2019.
4. ↑ Meret Jael Koch, Sebastian Unger receives Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize , in: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung (March 26, 2019).
5. ↑ Frankfurter Poetry Prize goes to Sebastian Unger : signaturen-magazin.de (2019), accessed on May 11, 2019.
6. ↑ Chinese-German campus of Tongji University, poetry reading on: cdh.tongji.edu.cn (2018), accessed on May 11, 2019.
7. ↑ Parlandopark Audience Award at: parlandopark.wordpress.com (April 19, 2011), accessed on May 11, 2019.
8. ↑ Akademie der Künste, Alfred Döblin Scholarships in Wewelsfleth 2014 at: adk.de (March 17, 2014), accessed on May 11, 2019.
9. ↑ Working grants for 16 Berlin writers at: buchmarkt.de (April 15, 2015), accessed on May 11, 2019.