Steffen Popp

Steffen Popp at the Leipzig Book Fair (2017)

Steffen Popp (born July 18, 1978 in Greifswald ) is a German writer .

life and work

Steffen Popp grew up in Dresden and attended a special science school there. He studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , later literary studies and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . His volumes of poetry such as Alpen , Kolonie Zur Sonne and Thicket with Speeches and Eyes received great critical acclaim; his novel, or the way there , has won several awards and has been nominated for the German Book Prize. He translated u. a. Poems by American poets Christian Hawkey andBen Lerner and Elizabeth Bishop . Poems by Steffen Popp appear regularly in the FAZ , have been translated into numerous languages ​​and represented in authoritative anthologies. His volume of poetry 118 was on the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair 2017 award .

In autumn 2018 Popp was accepted into the German Academy for Language and Poetry . Steffen Popp lives in Berlin .

Awards

• 2019: one-year scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
• 2017: Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
• 2015: Mondseer Poetry Prize
• 2015: Recognition award of the Zug translator scholarship
• 2015: Villa Massimo scholarship from the German Academy in Rome
• 2014: Peter Huchel Prize
• 2012: Casa Baldi scholarship from the German Academy in Rome
• 2011: Kelag Prize at the 35th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt
• 2011: Prize of the city of Münster for international poetry as translator by Ben Lerner
• 2011: Leonce and Lena Prize
• 2010: Sponsorship award for the Berlin Art Prize
• 2007: Rauris Literature Prize
• 2006: Nomination for the German Book Prize
• 2006: Sponsorship award for the Heimrad-Bäcker-Preis
• 2004: Kranichstein Literature Prize from the German Literature Fund
• 2003: Prize winner of the Graz Academy

Publications

Single track

• 118 . Poems, kookbooks , Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-937445-84-7
• Arm this equator, moon. On the poetry of César Vallejo . Lyrik-Kabinett Foundation Munich near Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-88423-528-7
• Thicket with speeches and eyes . Poems, kookbooks, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-937445-54-0
• Colony to the sun . Poems, kookbooks, Idstein 2008. ISBN 978-3-937445-35-9
• Ohrberg or the way there . Roman, ibid. 2006. ISBN 3-937445-17-X
• Like the Alps . Poems, ibid. 2004. ISBN 3-937445-03-X

Translations

• Elizabeth Bishop : Poems . Poems English-German, from the am. English by Steffen Popp, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-446-26014-6
• Ben Lerner : The Lichtenberg Figures . Poems English-German, from the am. English by Steffen Popp, luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5
• Christian Hawkey : Travel at goat speed . Poems English-German, from the am. English by Steffen Popp u. Uljana Wolf, kookbooks, Idstein 2008. ISBN 978-3-937445-30-4
• Poems by István Kemény , in: istván kemény: useful ruins . Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main & Weimar 2007. ISBN 978-3-936826-63-0

Editions

• SHARPEN. Poems. Fanbook. Hall of Fame . Anthology of contemporary German-language poetry. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-518-12719-3
• Texts + Criticism Volume 214: Elke Erb. Editing, proofreading and bibliography, edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-86916-571-4
• Joseph Beuys: Mysteries for Everyone. Smallest records . Selection and afterword, Library Suhrkamp Vol. 1492, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-22492-2
• Poetry and concept. Positions in contemporary poetry . With Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig, diaphanes , Zurich 2014. ISBN 978-3-03734-709-6
• Phlox helmet. To the worst tool theory . With Ann Cotten , Daniel Falb , Hendrik Jackson and Monika Rinck , Merve Verlag , Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-88396-292-4

Contributions to anthologies and magazines

• Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All of this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .
• Thinking about Uwe Greßmann . Dossier with contribution by Adolf Endler and poems by Uwe Greßmann , in: writing book No. 83, Cologne 2014.
• Train to the sources . Excerpt from a novel, in: BELLA triste No. 23, Hildesheim 2009.
• Thomas Geiger (Ed.), Laute Verse. Poems from the present . dtv, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-423-24692-7
• Poetry as a way of life . Essay, in: BELLA triste No. 18, Hildesheim 2007. [1]
• Jan Wagner , Björn Kuhligk (eds.), Poetry from now . DuMont Literaturverlag, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-8321-7852-X
• Conversations with Eckermann . Story, in: BELLA triste No. 6, Hildesheim 2003.
• Farewell to the shore . Story, in: Katja Lange-Müller (Ed.), Vom Fisch aufpuckt . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-462-03073-6

Web links

Commons : Steffen Popp  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Steffen Popp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Steffen Popp at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on the work of Steffen Popp at Literaturport
• Poems read by the author and in different languages on lyrikline.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de/de/Nominierungen/Belletristik/
2. ↑ Lehr und Popp are new members , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on November 16, 2018.
3. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
4. ^ Peter Huchel Prize 2014. SWR, accessed on February 2, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Award for a masterpiece of modern sonnet art. City of Münster, accessed on April 5, 2011 .