Undine Materni

Undine Materni (* 1963 in Sangerhausen ) is a German writer and poet .

Life

Undine Materni graduated from high school in 1982 and initially studied chemistry, in 1987 she received her diploma in this subject. She worked as a research engineer, geriatric nurse and waitress and was co-editor of the legendary reiterIn Dresden magazine. From 1990 to 1993 she studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Later she worked as a publishing employee at the Goldenbogenverlag Dresden and worked for the Ausländerrat Dresden e. V.

Since 2006 she has been working as a freelance author, editor and journalist, columnist, art and literary critic. She has received several scholarships from the Free State of Saxony and is a member of the Literature Forum Dresden e. V.

Undine Materni has a son.

Prizes and awards

• MDR Literature Prize for Short Stories, 2000
• Christine Lavant Literature Competition, Wolfsberg / Carinthia (Austria), 2003
• Ms. AVA literature competition, Paudorf-Göttweig, 2006
• Literature Prize from the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art , 2008
• 2nd prize for the Silver Berry Prize, Gardelegen 2013

Publications

• "Irr-Land", poems, Hellerau-Verlag Dresden 1996
• “The persistent misfortune of things”, Janos Stekovics publishing house, Halle / Saale 2000
• "Amaterasu or the favor of the goddess", together with Katharina Fimmel and Kazuya Nakagawa theater play UA 1999. / Children's book of the same name, Dresden 2000 (self-published 50 copies)
• "Friedas Himmelfahrt", artist book, together with the Dresden painter and graphic artist Petra Kasten , Dresden 2003
• “Landgang im November”, Die Scheune Verlag, Dresden 2004
• "The days come across the river", poems in German / Polish, Edition Tikkun, Warsaw 2005 (repairs by Marek Sniecinski)
• "Zwischen den Moden" artist's book with works by the Dresden painter leonore Adler, Dresden 2008
• "My father's absent house", Projekteverlag, Halle / S. 2012

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• The under thirty, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1990
• Dresden Material, Dresden 1990
• reiterIn, Dresden, 1991, 1992, 1993
• Monologue of the sand, Dresden 1992
• Continued risk, Berlin 1992
• PERSPECTIVE, Austria, 1992
• Ostragehege, Dresden 1992-2004
• SINN UND FORM, Berlin 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
• Free enclosure, Almanac of Saxon authors, Leipzig 1994
• Waiting rooms in Klee, Dresden Book Laboratory, 1995
• Chocolate break, A Neustadt reading book, DIE SCHEUNE publishing house, Dresden 1995
• new german literature, Berlin 1995, 1999, 2002
• pomosty, Wrocław, 1996
• The secret reason, Kiepenheuerverlag 1996
• Black shoes, a reading book for women, Verlag DIE SCHEUNE, Dresden 1996
• Literature and Criticism, 2/98 Salzburg
• It's time to change clothes, special issue by OSTRAGEHEGE, Dresden 1998
• Landscape with traces of light, Reclamverlag 1999
• Green moon and other stories, Verlag Faber and Faber 1999
• To the other bank, 3rd anthology of the Independent Writers Association Dresden, Verlag DIE SCHEUNE, Dresden 1999
• Lubliner Lift, German-Polish anthology (repairs), DIE SCHEUNE publishing house 1999 (also published in Poland)
• My father's garden, Vorstadtgeschichten, DIE SCHEUNE Verlag, 1999
• ZPG, magazine for worship, Gütersloh 2001
• Ofra, The most beautiful love poems from ten years, Janos Stekovics, Halle / Saale 2003

• Ralph Grüneberger (ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry . New poetry album . Edition 1/2013.

literature

• Undine Martini and Heike Stephan (eds.): The armament of the nightingale . Berlin 2015, p. 230. ISBN 978-3-944058-45-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Undine Materni in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal homepage