Sonja vom Brocke

Sonja vom Brocke (* 1980 in Hagen ) is a German poet .

Life

Sonja vom Brocke studied philosophy , German and English in Cologne , Hamburg and Paris and completed her studies with a thesis in philosophy of language. Today she lives in Berlin . Her poems have been published in the magazines Language in the Technical Age , Edit , Loud Nobody , Lichtungen , Meise and Randnummer , among others . She also worked with visual artists, for example with Christina Kramer on the exhibition "thoughts fall / ins Fell". Her volume of poetry "Venice singt" was included in the list of poetry recommendations 2015, which was compiled by the German Academy for Language and Poetry together with other institutions.

Single track

Without animals. Heckler and Koch, Berlin 2010.
Venice sings. Poems. kookbooks, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937445-69-4
Fertilizer child. Poem. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2018, ISBN 978-3-946685-14-2

Publications in anthologies and art publications

A little light . In: A Cold Open. Exhibition catalog Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg 2011.
with Christina Kramer: thoughts fall / into the fur. Artist book. 2011
Christoph Wenzel , Adrian Kasnitz (Ed.): Westphalia, nothing else? An anthology, [SIC] -Literaturverlag / parasitenpresse, Aachen 2012, ISBN 978-398135872-8 .
Max Czollek , Michael Fehr , Robert Prosser (Eds.): Lyrik von Jetzt 3 / Babelsprech. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1739-0 .
Martin Jankowski , Birger Hoyer (ed.): Night bus to Mitte - Berlin poems of today. Publishing house for Berlin and Brandenburg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-55-8 .
Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene. kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3937445-80-9 .

2015 Working grant for literature from the Kunststiftung NRW
2015 Prize for Literature from the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work (GWK)
2016 working grant from the Berlin Senate
2016 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
2017 Fellowship of Literature from the Insel Hombroich Foundation

personal data
SURNAME	Brocke, Sonja vom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany