Wolfgang Schlenker
Wolfgang Schlenker (born July 26, 1964 in Nuremberg ; † August 1, 2011 in Müncheberg ) was a German poet and literary translator .
Life
Schlenker experienced his childhood and school days in Nuremberg. From 1986 to 1991 he studied social education and sinology in Nuremberg and Berlin . From 1989 to 2001 he lived mainly in Berlin as a freelance writer and made long trips and stays abroad. From 2003 until his death in 2011 he was the head of the project “Kinderstrasse. The street where I live ”and publisher and lived in Franconian Switzerland.
Publications
- The Orphaned Land , poems, Marbach 1993
- Rorschach fauna , poems, Berlin 1993
- Twenty-one poems , Leipzig 1997
- Alias Augen , Gedichte, Berlin 1997
- Herr Today , Poems, Klagenfurt 1998
- Nachtwächers Morgen , Gedichte, Basel and Vienna 2000
- Doctor time , poems, Solothurn 2012
Translations
- Gesualdo Bufalino , Bitter Honey , Poems, Berlin 1995
- Emily Dickinson , Bee and Klee , poems, Basel and Vienna 2001
- Emily Dickinson , bee and clover , poems, expanded and revised new edition, Basel and Vienna 2008
in magazines (Akzente, Lettre International, Zwischen der Linien) and anthologies ( American poetry , Munich 2000 and Alexandria , Stuttgart 2001) by John Ashbery , Christopher Middleton , Sylvia Plath , Anne Sexton , Lucio Piccolo and Rocco Scotellaro
Awards
- Travel grant for translators from the Berlin Senate
- Prize winner at the 1st International Open Mike of the literaturWERKstatt berlin
- Scholarship from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
- Alfred Döblin grant from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- Author's grant from the Berlin Senate
- Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Schlenker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography with photo
- Selection of works with excerpts
Individual evidence
- ↑ We mourn Wolfgang Schlenker . Obituary at Literaturwerkstatt Berlin , February 23, 2012. September is given as the month of departure .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlenker, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and translator of poetry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2011 |
| Place of death | Müncheberg |