Thomas Kling

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Thomas Kling (born June 5, 1957 in Bingen am Rhein , † April 1, 2005 in Dormagen ) was a German writer .

Life

Thomas Kling grew up in Hilden and attended a humanistic grammar school in Düsseldorf . He studied German, history and art history in Cologne , Düsseldorf and Vienna and stayed in Finland for a long time . Since 1983 he has presented his poems at public readings - first in Vienna, then in the Rhineland - which often had a performance character, and performed together with jazz drummer Frank Köllges .

He lived with his wife, the painter Ute Langanky , until his death in 2005 from lung cancer , on the premises of the Hombroich rocket station near Neuss . Thomas Kling was buried in Neuss-Holzheim .

The Thomas Kling Archive is housed in the poet's former study and is part of the archives of the Insel Hombroich Foundation .

plant

For the literary critic Michael Braun , Thomas Kling was "undoubtedly the most important poet of his generation". It was influenced by authors such as Mayröcker , Jandl and Celan as well as the Viennese group around Artmann and Bayer and is considered to be a style-forming element for German-language poetry after 1990.

Kling's texts are determined in their compositional form by performative elements, with word sound and word melody playing an important role. At the same time, however, a sensual and semantic multi-dimensionality is constitutive of the texts. Kling's linguistic archaeological poems only show their full complexity in the carefully crafted print versions.

Kling published his first texts in the magazine Zwiebelzwerg - newspaper for art and social affairs . He published his first book in 1977 in the Zwiebelzwerg Verlag .

Thomas Kling was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

reception

In 2011, the Kunststiftung NRW established a Thomas Kling poetics lectureship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . Authors and translators from North Rhine-Westphalia receive a scholarship for two semesters each and are given a teaching position at the Institute for German Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. With this form of author support, the Art Foundation intends to build a bridge between science and literature.

Awards

Works

  • the state before the sinking , Düsseldorf 1977
  • BUSLADUNGEN , from Flavor Enhancer Poems Frankfurt am Main 1985–1993
  • Testing of cardio-tonic agents , Düsseldorf 1986
  • flavor enhancer , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • traffic radio , 1989
  • Brennstabm , Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Nacht.sicht.gerät , Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • walls machn , Münster 1994
  • morsch , Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Itinerar , Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Selva. Mobilization ' , Münster 1997
  • TERRAIN camouflage , Münster 1997 (with Ute Langanky )
  • Steam-powered love establishment. Poems of Russian Futurism , Düsseldorf 1999 (CD, with Alexander Nitzberg )
  • Fernhandel , Cologne 1999 (reading is included on CD)
  • Messenger substances , Cologne 2001
  • TYROL TYROL. Hörstükk , Bielefeld 2001 (audio book, with Jörg Ritzenhoff)
  • Sondagen , Cologne 2002
  • Evaluation of the flight data , Cologne 2005
  • Collected poems , Cologne 2006
  • The BAADER letters , in: Krachkultur 12/2008
  • The burned performance. Readings and discussions. An audio book. Edited by Ulrike Janssen and Norbert Wehr (series of publications by the Kunststiftung NRW, volume 5). Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015. ISBN 978-3-940357-49-6 (4 CDs with accompanying book). Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2015; Audiobook of the year 2015 on the hr2 audio book top list

Editing

Translations

literature

  • Sophia Burgenmeister: The 'view of Beowulf'. A search for traces between mediality and materiality with Thomas Kling and Ute Langanky , transcript, Bielefeld 2018. ISBN 978-3-8376-4298-8 .
  • Sophia Burgmeister: "both sides stills - The interplay between literature and painting in Kling and Langankys walls Moor ", in: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec / Pawel Piszczatowski / Tomasz Szybisty (ed.), Literature and painting , imedius, Warsaw et al. 2018, pp. 361–376. ISBN 978-83-944308-7-0 .
  • Gabriele Wix and Kerstin Stüssel (eds.): Thomas Kling. Double exposure. Exhibition catalog, published in the series of publications of the Art and Museum Library Cologne, Vol. 5, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-942898-04-1 .
  • Gabriele Wix: “Stratigraphic Soundings: A Genetic Approach to the German Poet Thomas Kling”, Variants , 12-13 | 2016, 125-147. Electronic reference: URL: http://variants.revues.org/334
  • Enno Stahl (Ed.): Duo creations. Thomas Kling & Frank Köllges , together with others. Edition Virgines, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944011-60-8 .
  • Kerstin Stüssel and Gabriele Wix (eds.): Http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835313750-thomas-kling-zur-leitcodierung.html . Wallstein Verlag, 2013.
  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Thomas Kling , edition text + kritik , Vol. 147, Munich 2000. ISBN 978-3-88377-440-4 .
  • Thomas Kling - Karl-Heinrich Müller , Cologne 2004.
  • Hubert Winkels : The voices order. About Thomas Kling , Cologne 2005.
  • Norbert Wehr (Ed.): The burning archive. Unpublished poems, letters, manuscripts and photos from the estate as well as remotely published poems, essays and conversations during his lifetime , copybook 76, Essen 2011. ISBN 978-3-924071-32-5 .
  • The Burning Archive - Breviary. Edited by Ute Langanky and Norbert Wehr. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012 (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 4351). ISBN 978-3-518-46351-2 .
  • Peer Trilcke: Historical noise. The historical lyric work of Thomas Kling . Electronic dissertation, Göttingen 2012.
  • Frieder von Ammon / Peer Trilcke / Alena Scharfschwert (Ed.): The Gelling of the Ink. On the work of Thomas Klings , Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89971-874-4 .
  • Noël Reumkens: art, artist, concept and context. Intermedial and other references in the poetry of Mayröckers, Klings, Grünbeins and Draesners , Würzburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-8260-4816-6 .
  • Johann Reisser: Archeology and Sampling - The Reorganization of Poetry by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Thomas Kling and Barbara Köhler , Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-86599-222-2 .
  • Heinz-Norbert Jocks : Words from the volcano , In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn 1994, 23rd / 24th. July 1994.
  • Heinz-Norbert Jocks : Bilderfindungen, a conversation with Thomas Kling , in: Kunstforum International , Cologne 1998, vol. 140, pp. 238-253.
  • Detlev F. Neufert: fuel rod and smoke alarm . Portrait Thomas Kling WDR 1992.

Web links

Wikiquote: Thomas Kling  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the burned performance . Readings and discussions. An audio book. Edited by Ulrike Janssen and Norbert Wehr (= series of publications by the Kunststiftung NRW , volume 5). Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015. ISBN 978-3-940357-49-6
  2. ↑ Thomas Kling Archive
  3. ↑ Michael Braun: A nomadic language traveler. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 4, 2005, accessed on February 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Kunststiftung NRW sets up Thomas Kling poetics lectureship at the University of Bonn. Kunststiftung NRW, accessed on April 4, 2015 .
  5. ^ Thomas Kling in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Kling, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2005
Place of death Dormagen