Svenja Herrmann

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Svenja Herrmann (* 1973 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Svenja Herrmann studied German , legal history and constitutional law in Zurich . This was followed by training as an expert in gifted and gifted development at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and in practice. She mainly writes poetry and is involved as an editor . Since 2007 their own platform "Schreibstrom" exists for their activities in the field of creativity and talent development for children and young people.

Svenja Herrmann is a member of the Writers' Association of Authors in Switzerland and the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center .

In 2017 she was u. a. to the International Poetry Festival Medellin invited.

Awards

  • 2003 2nd prize at the Berner Lyriktage
  • 2003 Text of the Month, Literaturhaus Zürich 2003
  • 2007 grant from the Canton of Zurich
  • 2009 Poetry Prize “Literature on Demand” - Transit
  • 2010 recognition from the city of Zurich for "swarming out"
  • 2010 Swiss literary pearl for "Enthralling"
  • 2010 Pre-final Munich Poetry Prize
  • 2015 studio grant from the Landis & Gyr Foundation

Works

  • The arrival of the trees , poems, Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-905910-92-6
  • Swarming , poems, Wolfbach Verlag , Zurich 2010 ISBN 978-3-90591-005-6 (2nd edition, 2013)
  • a quarter blue , poetry and electronic music, audio book, sound by Rino Meyer and Daniel Mewes, T & Tea Studios, Zurich 2003.
  • Poems in Ostragehege . Journal for Literature and Art, Volume V, No. 14, Dresden 2014
  • Poems in Modern Poetry of Switzerland. An anthology, ed. by Roget Perret, Zurich 2013
  • Poems in Poszernzenie Zrenic, Poezja Szwajcarii (anthology of Swiss poetry after 1945 in Polish), ed. by Werner Morlang and Ryszard Wojnakowski, trans. by Ryszard Wojnakowski, Wrocław 2013
  • Poems in Orizont, Revista a Unionii Sciitorilor din Romania (literary magazine of the Romanian Writers' Union), Timisoara, number 4, April 2012
  • Poems in "Gutter" 6, The Magazine of New Scottish Writing, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Glasgow 2011.
  • The fairy tale of the juggler in "Be Thoughtful Different From Place to Place", ed. v. Markus Bundi, Edition Isele, Zurich 2010
  • late poem in drafts No. 61/2010 (Zurich)
  • The story of Mrs.Wolle , in: traces of life, an anthology by the Literaturhaus Zürich 2006

Editing

  • Mittendrin & Hochhinaus , ed. by Svenja Herrmann, Maria Riss, Dieter Schlachter, reader for 6th grade primary school, Schulverlag plus 2010
  • 60 years of human rights. 30 literary texts , ed. by Svenja Herrmann and Ulrike Ulrich , anthology, Salis Verlag, Zurich 2008
  • Continue writing human rights. 30 literary texts on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ed. by Svenja Herrmann and Ulrike Ulrich , anthology, Salis Verlag, Zurich 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poetry Opens Rooms Book Magazine, February 15, 2013
  2. ^ Two perceptions of the moment Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Svenja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main