Marcel Beyer

Marcel Beyer.

Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965 in Tailfingen, Württemberg) is a German writer.

Life

Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and Literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987 he has developed Performance art. From 1989 he published with Karl Riha the series Vergessene Autoren der Moderne (Forgotten Authors of the Modern style) at the University of Siegen.

From 1990 to 1993 he worked as editor on the literary magazine Konzepte; from 1992 to 1998 he was a contributor to the music magazine Spex . In 1996 and 1998 he was writer in residence at University College London and the University of Warwick in Coventry. Beyer lived until 1996 in Cologne, and since then in Dresden. He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

From early on Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French Nouveau Roman, was a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.

Honours

• 1991 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann scholarship
• 1991 Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt
• 1992 North Rhine Westphalia promotional prize
• 1996 Berlin Literature Prize
• 1996 Johannes Bobrowski medal
• 1996 German Critics Federation prize
• 1997 Uwe Johnson prize
• 1999 Lessing prize of Saxony
• 2001 Heinrich Böll prize
• 2003 Friedrich Hölderlin prize of the city of Tübingen
• 2004 Spycher literary award
• 2006 Erich Fried Prize

Works

• Walkmännin, Neu-Isenburg 1990
• Das Menschenfleisch, Frankfurt/Main 1991
• Friederike Mayröcker, Frankfurt/Main 1992
• Brauwolke. Berlin 1994 (together with Klaus Zylla)
• Flughunde. Frankfurt/Main 1995
• HNO-Theater im Unterhemd. Berlin 1995
• Falsches Futter. Frankfurt/Main 1997
• Spione. Cologne 2000
• Zur See. Berlin 2001
• Erdkunde. Cologne 2002
• Nonfiction. To Cologne 2003
• Vergeßt mich. Cologne 2006
• Kaltenburg. Shurkamp 2008

Essays

• "Das wilde Tier im Kopf des Historikers", in: Lose Blätter No. 27, 2004
• "Die Katze von Vilnius", in BELLA triste No. 15, 2006
• "Aurora", Münchener Reden zur Poesie. From the series Lyrik Kabinett Munich, 2006

Publications as editor

• Rudolf Blümner: Der Stuhl, die Ohrfeige und anderes literarisches Kasperletheater Siegen 1988 ISSN 0177-9869 number 35
• Ernst Jandl: Gemeinschaftsarbeit. Siegen 1989 (written together with Friederike Mayröcker and Andreas Okopenko)
• Rudolf Blümner: Ango laina und andere Texte. Munich 1993 (together with Karl Riha)
• George Grosz: Grosz Berlin . Hamburg 1993 (together with Karl Riha)
• William S. Burroughs . Eggingen 1995 (together with Andreas Kramer)
• Ausreichend lichte Erklärung. Munich 1998 (together with Christoph Buchwald)
• Friederike Mayröcker: Collected prose . Frankfurt/Main (together with Klaus and Klaus Kastberger) 2001
• Friederike Mayröcker: Collected poems . Frankfurt/Main 2004

Translations

• Michael Hofmann: Feineinstellungen. Cologne 2001
• Gertrude Stein: Spinnwebzeit, bee time vine und andere Gedichte. Zurich 1993

Anthologies

• Junge Lyrik, Neuss 1983 (Neue Neusser Series)

External links

• Marcel Beyer @ European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography and articles
• Marcel Beyer @ Germany-Poetry International Web
• Marcel Beyer @ Goethe Institut, Australia

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