Stan Lafleur

Stan Lafleur, 2006 at a reading in Cologne

Stan Lafleur (also stan lafleur ; actually Thomas Mittler ; born February 16, 1968 in Karlsruhe ) is a German author and spoken word performer . He lives as a freelance writer and journalist in Cologne .

Life

Lafleur studied German , media studies , English , Romance studies and African studies at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Cologne (without an academic degree). From the beginning of the 1990s he appeared in both cities as an author, literary organizer (e.g. Sprechecke in Kölner Stadtgarten , since 1997) and publisher (including the magazine elektropansen , 1994 to 1998). Lafleur organized numerous conventional and extraordinary literary events in Düsseldorf (1992 to 1994) and Cologne (1994 to today)

In August 2001, together with the Cologne writers Achim Wagner and Enno Stahl, he founded the Rheinische Brigade , a free association of Rhenish authors, which set itself the goal of "reviving the author in the classical role as a politically and socially active subject".

Lafleur's texts have appeared in numerous German and international newspapers, magazines, anthologies (including Der Große Conrady ) and internet publications as well as in the context of exhibitions (e.g. lyric installations) and in several individual volumes. He is a member of the Internet literature project Forum der 13 and, since April 2005, has worked on the interdisciplinary real-time research project of the Cologne musician Matthias Mainz .

Awards

• 2001: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant from the city of Cologne
• 2002: Nahbell Prize from the Institute for Ganz & GarNix, Berlin
• 2002: Literature Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for poetry
• 2003: Second prize for German-language poetry from Féile Filíochta , Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland
• 2004: Sylt Quelle grant, Rantum
• 2009: Working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW
• 2012: Istanbul grant from Kunststiftung NRW
• 2013: Istanbul grant from the city of Cologne

Works (selection)

• golden moments . Poems. Cologne: parasite press , 2000.
• palmalyrene . Poems. Hanover: edition roadhouse, 2002.
• Let us all look fully into the area . Poems. Hanover: edition roadhouse, 2003.
• as editor (together with Adrian Kasnitz ): Beer & Beats. Soccer poems. Cologne: parasite press, 2003.
• new home . Poems. Cologne: KRASH Neue Edition, 2004. ISBN 3-937846-01-8 .
• as pong still on ping . Poems. Cologne: parasite press, 2005.
• A couple of bars . Stories. Berlin: SuKuLTuR, 2006 (“ Beautiful Reading ” series, No. 56). ISBN 978-3-937737-64-5 .
• the world on foot. Soccer poems with half-time break. Berlin: Koall, 2006. ISBN 3-938436-03-4 .
• The laugh of the chickens (together with Helena Becker). Poems. Cologne: parasite press, 2011.

literature

• The Cologne Authors' Lexicon , second volume, Emons, 2002.
• Theo Breuer : Krash New Edition from Stahl-Verlag . In: Theo Breuer, From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 , Edition YE , Sistig / Eifel 2005, pp. 244–248.

Web links

Commons : Stan Lafleur  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Stan Lafleur in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• rheinsein working journal of the author along the banks and through Rhenish history
• stan lafleur in the 90s