Volker Sielaff

Volker Sielaff at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2015

Volker Sielaff (* 1966 in Großröhrsdorf ) is a German writer.

life and work

Volker Sielaff made his debut in 2003 with the volume of poetry postcard for Nefertiti . Poems have been published in anthologies (including the Jahrbuch der Lyrik ) and literary magazines since 1990 and translated into English, French, Italian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Arabic. Sielaff also writes reviews and literary portraits, which are published in daily newspapers such as Dresdner Neue Nachrichten and Tagesspiegel as well as the literary magazine Language in the Technical Age . In 2007 he was awarded the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony , and in 2015 he received an honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation in Marbach. He was a member of the Advisory Board for Literature of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and is a co-founder of the Dresden Literature Forum

Volker Sielaff lives in Dresden .

Single track

Postcard for Nefertiti , poems, Verlag Zu Klampen , Springe 2003. ISBN 3-933156-78-5
Self-portrait with dwarf , poems, luxbooks , Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-939557-98-2
Glossary of the Prince , Poems, luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2015. ISBN 978-3-945550-10-6
Überall Welt , Ein Journal, Edition Azur, Dresden 2017. ISBN 978-3-942375-24-5
Barefoot in front of Penelope , Verlag Voland & Quist / Edition Azur, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-942375-45-0

Awards

2007 Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
2015 Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation

Release

The humor of the clouds. Modern Poetry from Taiwan , Poems, Taipei 2009.

Web links

Commons : Volker Sielaff - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Sielaff, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Großröhrsdorf