Swantje Lichtenstein

Swantje Lichtenstein (* 1970 in Tübingen ) is a German performance artist, author and university lecturer.

life and work

Swantje Lichtenstein studied philosophy, German and sociology in Tübingen, Bonn and Cologne. She completed her studies with a doctorate on postmodern poetry.

In 2001/02 she worked as a lecturer for the DAAD in New Delhi , then for the WDR and Deutsche Welle . In 2007 she was a scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . In 2011 she received an artist grant from the city of Cologne to move into the Atelier Galata studio in Istanbul for six months .

Since 2007 she has been teaching text and aesthetic practice as a professor at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Culture-Aesthetics-Media.

In 2006 Swantje Lichtenstein's first book of poems figurenflecken or: blind dispatching, in which words, sounds and associations are composed like pictures in non-representational painting .

Swantje Lichtenstein lives in Düsseldorf .

Single track

Poetry books

• Figure stains or: blind dispatch. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89086-587-4 .
• Land. Poetry edition 2000, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86906-077-4 .
• Along the living line. Sexophisms. A lyric cycle . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-930-6 .
• Horae. Resistant hours. Publishing house J. Frank, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3940249548 .
• Gender. Publishing house J. Frank, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3940249814 .
• Comment types . Publishing house J. Frank, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3945832028 .
• turtle dreams . With Maria Schleiner. Self-Press, Bönen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049947-0 .

poetics

• The lyrical project: rhetoric, spatiality and science. Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89129-473-5 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Erika Kronabitter (Ed.): HAVE THE THAT. Friederike Mayröcker on her 90th birthday . Edition Art Science, Sankt Wolfgang 2014.
• Theo Breuer and Traian Pop (eds.): Matrix 28 . Breathing alphabet for Friederike Mayröcker . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012.

Release

• University of the Air. With Volker Demuth. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2010.
• is the artist necessary for making art today? With Tom Lingnau. Self-Press, Cologne 2015.

translation

• Kenneth Goldsmith : Uncreative Writing. Language management in the digital age . With Hannes Bajohr . Matthes & Seitz publishing house, Berlin 2017.
• Robert Fitterman / Vanessa Place: Cover text: Notes on conceptualisms . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88396-328-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Swantje Lichtenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lichtenstein website
• Context COVERTEXT - website by Lichtenstein and Tom Lingnau
• Homepage at the HS Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lichtenstein, Swantje Julia Maike. In: Library of Congress. Retrieved April 26, 2020 (English). 
2. ↑ Swantje Lichtenstein. In: haus-fuer-poesie.org. April 26, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020 . 
3. ^ Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf: Lichtenstein, Swantje. In: rsh-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences: Prof. Dr. Swantje Lichtenstein receives scholarship in Istanbul. November 26, 2010, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Swantje Lichtenstein receives scholarship in Istanbul. (No longer available online.) In: Communication from the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences from November 26, 2010. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on August 3, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Sonja Eismann: figurenflecken or: blind dispatch. Retrieved December 2, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Info «Swantje Lichtenstein. Retrieved February 10, 2020 (American English). 
8. ^ Criticism at Fixpoetry May 13, 2012.
9. ^ Cover text for the book. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .