Ulrike Almut Sandig

Ulrike Almut Sandig (born May 15, 1979 in Großenhain ) is a German writer and poet .

Ulrike Almut Sandig at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2016

life and work

Ulrike Almut Sandig, daughter of the pastor and politician Heiner Sandig , grew up in Nauwalde . In 2001, together with the author and musician Marlen Pelny , she founded the literature projects augenpost and ohrenpost , for which she stuck poems on construction fences, distributed them on flyers and free postcards and gave her first reading concerts. After studying journalism (discontinued), religious studies and Indology (including in India, MA 2005), she studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , which she graduated with a diploma in 2010. She made her debut in 2005 at the Leipzig publisher Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung with the volume of poetry Zunder .

Sandig writes poetry , prose and radio plays . From 2007 to 2009 she edited the Leipzig literary magazine EDIT together with Jan Kuhlbrodt . In the spring of 2010, the first volume of narrations (eleven short stories) was published under the title Flamingos by Schöffling & Co. Your volume of poetry I am a field full of rapeseed hide the deer and shine like thirteen oil paintings on top of each other was accompanied by the album audible poems , a collaboration with the sound cosmonaut Sebastian Reuter. For her live performances, Ulrike Almut Sandig works closely with various composers and musicians, including the poet and musician Marlen Pelny and the Cologne media art duo Bewernitz Goldowski. Together with the Ukrainian poet and musician Grigory Semenchuk, she runs the band project Landschaft , whose texts are based exclusively on poems by Sandig and Semenchuk. In 2017 she published the 31st yearbook of poetry together with Christoph Buchwald. Ulrike Almut Sandig lives with her family in Berlin . She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

2006: Merano Poetry Prize

2006: Hertha Koenig Promotion Prize

2007: Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop

2007: City Clerk of Sydney

2008: Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

2008: Award for the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry

2009: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony

2009: Leonce and Lena Prize

2010: Lit.Cologne Silver Pig Prize

2010: Scholarship from the Bodman House Gottlieben

2010: Helsinki city clerk

2010: Hotlist - Book Prize of the independent publishers for Flamingos

2012: Märkisches scholarship for literature (prose)

2012: Promotion prize for the Droste Prize of the city of Meersburg

2014: Working grant for women writers from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration

2017: Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft

2017: Scholarship from Villa Concordia Bamberg

2018: Wilhelm Lehmann Prize

2018: Horst Bingel Prize for Literature "for your lyrical work"

Works

Single track

Tinder. Poems. Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-937799-16-8 .
the day alma bought camomiles. Musical audio book with Marlen Pelny . Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937799-20-6 .
Scatter. Poems. Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937799-30-8 .
Hush little baby. Radio play. 2008.
Flamingos. Stories. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-185-8 .
Under water. Radio play. 2010.
Thicket. Poems. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-89561-186-5 .
March forest. Musical audio book with Marlen Pelny. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-89561-187-2 .
Book Against Disappearance. Stories. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-188-9 .
Grim . Poems based on the children's and house tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Edition Wegen durch das Land, Detmold 2015, ISBN 978-3-946156-00-0 .
I am in a field full of rape, hide the deer and shine like thirteen oil paintings on top of each other. Poems. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-89561-189-6 .
Ulrike Almut Sandig. (= Poetry album. 323). Poetry selection: Axel Helbig, graphic by Cristina Ohlmer. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2016, ISBN 978-3-943708-23-3 .
Landscape. Music album with Grigory Semenchuk. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-184-1 .
Monsters like us. Novel. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-89561-183-4 .

Anthologies and literary journals

Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene. kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .
Tobias Lehmkuhl (Ed.): The first frost comes unsolicited. A hundred winter poems. 2011.
Susanne Gretter (Ed.): Summer love. A vacation reading book. 2011.
Ron Winkler (Ed.): Snow poems. 2011.
Christoph Buchwald (ed.): Year book of poetry . 2006, 2009, 2011.
Shafiq Naz (ed.): The German poetry calendar 2011. Every day a poem, alhambra publishing, B-Bertem 2010.
Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . The big book of new German poetry, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008.
Ron Winkler (Ed.): Hermetically Open. Poetics by young German-speaking authors. 2008.
Jan Wagner , Björn Kuhligk (Eds.): Poetry by Jetzt Zwei. 2008.
Fritz Deppert , Christian Döring , Hanne F. Juritz (eds.): Under the foil of air. Anthology to the literary March 2009. 2009.
Literature magazines: Akzente , BELLA triste , um [loud] , clearings , sense and form , wasp's nest , fiction, etc.