Silke Scheuermann

Silke Scheuermann presents her collection of poems "Sketch of the Grass" at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2014.

Silke Scheuermann (born June 15, 1973 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Silke Scheuermann studied theater and literature in Frankfurt am Main , Leipzig and Paris . She writes poetry and prose, which have been published in numerous anthologies (including The Great Conrady ) and literary magazines. Silke Scheuermann made her debut in 2001 with the poetry book Der Tag auf dem Möwen sang in two voices . In 2007 the novel The Hour Between Dog and Wolf was published , for which the author was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize. In 2007 she was invited to the Klagenfurt reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In 2009 she received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo . She regularly writes the Lyrischer Moment column for the literary magazine Volltext . The poet received the Hölty Prize for Poetry 2014, endowed with 20,000 euros, for her previous lyric work and above all for the poetry book Sketch vom Gras . It is the most highly endowed poetry award in the German-speaking area. In 2016 she was honored with the Bertolt Brecht and Robert Gernhardt Prize.

Silke Scheuermann lived in Frankfurt until 2008 and then moved to the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main .

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Single track

The day on which the seagulls sang in two voices , poems, Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-518-12239-6
The tenderest point in space , poems, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-41593-1
Rich girls , stories, Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-89561-370-8
It's winter overnight, Gedichte, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-89561-372-2
The hour between dog and wolf , Roman, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-89561-371-5
Emma James and the future of butterflies , children's book, Fischer paperback , Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-85387-8
Shanghai Performance , Roman (2011), Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-373-9
The houses of others , Roman, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-374-6
The day on which the seagulls sang in two voices , poems 2001-2008, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-375-3
Sketch from the grass , poems, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-376-0
And I asked the bird. Lyrische Momente , Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-377-7
What we lived on , Roman, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-89561-378-4 .