Walle Sayer
Walle Sayer (born September 13, 1960 in Bierlingen ) is a German writer.
life and work
After completing his apprenticeship as a banker and doing civilian service, Walle Sayer made his debut in 1984 with the volume of poetry The Remaining Colors and has lived as a freelance writer since 1992 . Sayer writes poetry and short prose , which have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. He is a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany , and has also received numerous awards in the field of poetry.
Walle Sayer lives in Horb am Neckar.
Single title (selection)
- The day to the days poems (2006)
- About the nature of astonishment. Miniatures, notes and a panopticon (2002)
- Kohlraben white. Images of people, determinations of place , prose cycles (1995; 2001)
- Mistakes , poems (2000)
- Starting point , poems (1998)
- Fundus. Notebook Pages (1997)
- Time Drift , Poems (1994)
- The Leftover Colors , Poems (1984)
- Souvenirs , poems (2019)
Anthologies and literary journals (selection)
- Karl Otto Conrady (ed.), The Great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present , Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2008.
- Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze. The big book of new German poetry, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008.
- Helmut Zwanger (Ed.): GOTT im Gedicht , Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2007.
- Shafiq Naz (Hrsg.): The German poetry calendar 2008. Every day a poem , alhambra publishing, B-Bertem 2007.
- Christoph Buchwald and Silke Scheuermann (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry 2007 (2006).
- Theo Breuer (Ed.): NordWestSüdOst. Poems by contemporaries , Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2003.
- Contributions for accents , commons , leaflets, etc. v. a.
Awards (selection)
- Vera Piller Poetry Prize (1989)
- Squidward Troll Prize (1994)
- Sponsorship award for the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg (1997)
- Berthold Auerbach Prize (1997)
- Hermann Lenz Grant (1999)
- Special Prize Irseer Pegasus (2006)
- Award Ludwig Uhland Prize (2009)
- Basel Poetry Prize (2017)
- Gerlinger Poetry Prize (2018)
literature
Theo Breuer: Walle Sayer, in: TB: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 , Sistig: Edition YE 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walle Sayer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walle Sayer in the collection of articles in the Innsbruck newspaper archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basler Poetry Prize 2017 to Walle Sayer. Fixpoetry, December 3, 2016, accessed December 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerlinger Poetry Prize to Walle Sayer , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on June 19, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sayer, Walle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bierlingen |