Thomas Kade

Thomas Kade (born February 7, 1955 in Halle (Saale) , GDR ) is a German writer .

life and work

Kade has lived in the Ruhr area since 1961 and in Dortmund since 1980 . In addition to his writing activities, he worked as a cultural pedagogue at the Volkshochschule Dortmund in 1988/89, in 1990/92 at the Dortmund Literature Association in the project management of the European Literature Days, 1993/95 as a press officer at a science association in the Dortmund Technology Center, and as a project manager for the Dortmund Poetry Weeks ( 88, 90, 96 and 98) and the literature festival LesArt (2000). In addition, Kade worked as a bookseller and as a social worker at the Multicultural Forum Lünen (2011–14 and 2016). Kade has published volumes of poetry since 1983, as well as articles in magazines, newspapers and anthologies.

Kade has been a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) since 1987 (District Spokesman 88/90), founding member (1989) of the Association for Literature eV Dortmund (on the board from 1995–2009), founder of the Dortmund Authors' Round Table and its director since 1987 and founder and chairman of the support association LiteraturRaum DortmundRuhr 2018.

Works

• The tightrope walkers are unemployed. Poems / short prose. Rote Welle publishing house, Hamburg 1983.
• Fly ash Edition I. Poems. Flugasche Verlag, Stuttgart 1983.
• Landscape with a violinist. Poems. Flugasche Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-925286-04-7 .
• A strange movable thing. Poems. Flugasche Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-925286-21-7 .
• with Eva von der Dunk : StadtLandFluss. Poems / narrative poems. Intent publisher. Dortmund 1999.
• The eyes in love. A romance in art, bodies, heads and (almost entirely) in black. Vorsatz Verlag, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-9805503-5-4 .
• Remote inquiry. Try a few poems about love, death and other details or exquisite samples of poetic secondary lessons. Vorsatz Verlag, Dortmund 2005, ISBN 978-3-9805503-6-9 .
• Body volatilities. Poems. Vorsatz Verlag, Oelde and Dortmund 2011, ISBN 978-3-943270-01-3 .

as editor and co-author

• They're lynching us. Criminal chain novel . Verlag Dortmunder Buch 2016, ISBN 978-3-945238-12-7 .

Together with Matthias Engels (Ed.) And Thorsten Trelenberg (Ed.):

• Nice here! Favorite places and kind of heart in Westphalia . Verlag Dortmunder Buch 2017, ISBN 978-3-945238-17-2 .
• Lucky places in Dortmund. A travel guide . Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-7700-2070-6
• Pay the bill. A different kind of dictionary . Verlag Dortmunder Buch 2019, ISBN 978-3-945238-35-6 .
• all over home. Anthology. Stories and Friends, Lehrensteinsfeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-942181-89-1 .
• Neighborhood neighborhood . Verlag Dortmunder Buch 2020, ISBN 978-3-945238-38-7 .

Awards

• Winner of the "Open Text Competition" of the Herne Literary Workshop in 1975
• Working grants from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 1993 and 2002 (poetry)
• 3rd prize at the Günter Bruno Fuchs literary competition 2012 (short story)
• Authors' grant from the Kunststiftung NRW for a short story volume 2015
• Postpoetry Prize 2015
• Work grant from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2018 (for stories)
• Postpoetry Prize 2019

literature

• Ludwig Janssen: Literature Atlas NRW . Edited by the Literatur-Rat Nordrhein-Westfalen eV, Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-96-0 , p. 274.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Kade in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Kade in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Entry on Thomas Kade at Fixpoetry