Uli Becker

Uli Becker (born September 14, 1953 in Hagen ; pseudonym: Erwin Kliffert ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Uli Becker studied German and American studies . Since 1979 he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin .

Becker's first texts appeared in smaller alternative magazines . With his poems, mostly in short forms, he continues the undogmatic and libertarian tradition of pop and everyday literature; Finally, there is a further tendency towards scarcity up to haiku .

Together with Frank Witzel , Becker published the anthology Ich mal wieder - a self- amused reading book under the pseudonym Erwin Kliffert at Rowohlt in 1987, which was announced as an anthology of new German poetry. The parodies of bad poems contained therein were for the most part written by the two editors under different pseudonyms.

Uli Becker received the Hungertuch Prize in 1979 , a Villa Massimo grant in 1985 and a grant from the German Literature Fund in 1991 .

Works

• Bugger me! , Hamburg 1977
• People! Animals! Sensations! , Horn 1978
• April, April , Hamburg [a. a.] 1980
• The latest craze , Reinbek near Hamburg 1980
• That I don't laugh , Reinbek near Hamburg 1982
• Frollein Butterfly , Augsburg 1983
• Almost nothing , Reinbek near Hamburg 1984
• The blue miracle , Reinbek near Hamburg 1985
• The highest of feelings , Augsburg 1987
• Tomorrow's weather , Zurich 1988
• Six correct ones or How to make sense , Hamburg 1989
• Everything short and sweet , Zurich 1990
• The naked life , Augsburg 1991
• Falling groschen , Augsburg 1993
• United colors of Buxtehude , Leipzig 1996 (together with Michael Buselmeier , Kerstin Hensel and Helga M. Novak )
• With the Shinkansen to Jottweedee , Eschede 1998 (together with Hugo Dittberner and Günter Herburger )
• Dr. Dolittles Dolcefarniente , Augsburg 2000
• Light hidden in darkness , Hannover 2000 (together with Durs Grünbein , Makoto Ōoka , Junko Takahashi and Tanikawa Shuntarō )

Translations

• Mark Beyer: Agony , Augsburg 1992
• Joseph Moncure March: The wild festival , Reinbek near Hamburg 1995
• Harry Matthews: The Orchard , Berlin 1991

Editing

• Me again , Reinbek near Hamburg 1987 (under the name Erwin Kliffert)

literature

• Herlinde Koelbl : Uli Becker in: In writing at home - How writers go to work - Photographs and conversations , Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89660-041-9 ; Pp. 54-57; Becker's photo documentation, which portrays the author at his workplace and in his personal environment and, in an interview, represents the basis of his calling as well as the framework and individual approach to the creation of his works.

Web links

• Literature by and about Uli Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Uli Becker in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel : To the Kidneys in: SPIEGEL 23/1988 (June 6)