Wilfried Ihrig

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Wilfried Ihrig (born July 12, 1953 in Michelstadt ) is a German literary scholar and author .

Career

Ihrig studied German, philosophy, political science and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1987 he received his doctorate there. Wilfried Ihrig has lived in Berlin since 1987. From 1987 to 1995 he taught as a research assistant and assistant to Walter Höllerer , Norbert Miller and Reinhard Baumgart at the TU Berlin.

Theirs was editor of the magazine Language in the Technical Age . He has been a freelance author, editor and poetry translator since 1995. He has published many essays, lexicon articles, epilogues and editions. He had particular success as co-editor of the anthologies Ick kieke, staune, wundre mir (2017) with poems from Berlin and The Dawn of Words (2018) with poems by Roma and Sinti from all over the world. This anthology, conceived as a "Modern Poetry Atlas", presents Roma poetry for the first time as "world literature" and was described by Angelika Overath in the FAZ as a "pioneering act" and by Karl-Markus Gauß in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as an "impressive editorial achievement "reviewed. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation selected the anthology as one of the 10 best books of 2018, the experts of the "Poetry Recommendations" recommended it for 2019 as one of the 10 best volumes of poetry translated into German.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. Poetischer Atlas der Roma und Sinti - editor Wilfried Ihrig in conversation with Andrea Gerk [1] In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , reading from September 6, 2018
  2. Angelika Overrath: Poetry of the Sinti and Roma: What should I be afraid of? [2] In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 15, 2018
  3. Karl-Markus Gauß: Going long ways [3] in Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 26, 2018
  4. These are our 10 best books of 2018. December 21, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
  5. Wilfried Ihrig and Ulrich Janetzki (eds.): The dawn of words. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .