Stephan Krass

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Stephan Krass (born September 9, 1951 in Ochtrup / Westphalia ) is a German writer and university professor.

Life

Stephan Krass studied German , philosophy and sociology . He received his doctorate in 2005 with a poetological work at the University of Mannheim for doctor of philosophy. Until 2017 he worked as an editor in the radio literature department of Südwestrundfunk in Baden-Baden , where he was responsible for the radio essay. In addition, he has written essays and reviews for various newspapers and magazines as well as radio features and radio plays . He gave audio books a . a. on Theodor W. Adorno and Niklas Luhmann , organized cultural studies lecture series and congresses and held teaching positions at universities in Germany and abroad. He has been teaching literature at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design since 2005, and has been an honorary professor for literary art since 2015. Krass is also a lecturer at the Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim and works as a project manager for the Ursula Blickle Foundation. As a literary author, Krass is primarily concerned with language games , in particular with anagrams , which he has also presented in the form of performances , public installations and exhibitions since the late 1990s . At the invitation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, he wrote an anagram poem for his poetry machine. The poetry machine has been hanging in the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach since 2006 and is alternately played with texts by Enzensberger and Krass. With his literature seminar at the HfG Karlsruhe, Krass developed the review machine CENSEO / GENERO (2007) and the book machine KLAK (2012), both of which can now be seen at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe.

Today Krass lives in Karlsruhe and New York City .

Works

  • 2002: tropics in the dew. Permutation , anagram poems, Berlin
  • 2004: Light broom made of lead , weighted poems, Berlin
  • 2005: The value of words. A poetological study on algebra and the alphabet , Mannheim
  • 2006: WortSpielZeug , Marbach (together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger )
  • 2007: Poetischer Doppelpass , Frankfurt am Main and others (together with Kitty Kahane)
  • 2009: Alphanumeric Thesaurus. The dictionary of weighted words , Saarbrücken
  • 2010: The Council of Planets. Poetic Constellations , Berlin
  • 2011: The review machine. Small operating instructions for critics and readers , Munich

Radio plays

  • Everything is said. Ein Wörterspiel (SWR 2003), director: Ulrich Lampen , composition: Thomas Gerwin
  • Ponderables. A game with words and values (SWR 2006), director: Ulrich Lampen, composition: Thomas Gerwin , radio play award of the Academy of the Arts 2007
  • The Amnesia of the Oceans (SWR 2009), director: Ulrich Lampen , composition: Ulrike Haage
  • Amnesia remixed (SWR / ZKM 2010), composition: Ulrike Haage
  • The green eye of Falun (SWR 2013), director: Ulrich Lampen , radio play of the month February 2013
  • On the ghost train . Ten direct mail (DLR 2013)
  • The Moon Tapes (SWR 2014) Composition and realization: Ulrike Haage
  • Der Speermann (SWR 2015), director: Ulrich Lampen, composition: Steffen Schleiermacher
  • Havanna Exit (DLF Kultur 2019), director: Iris Drögekamp, ​​composition: Andreas Bick

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report 2008/2009. (PDF; 8.7 MB) HfG Karlsruhe / State University for Design, November 26, 2009, accessed on April 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Krass, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ochtrup