Durs Grünbein

Durs Grünbein ( born October 9, 1962 in Dresden ) is a German poet, essayist and translator.

  • 5.1 translations

Life

Grünbein began studying theater arts at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he broke in 1987. He then worked as a freelancer for various magazines. After 1989, he traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. He was a guest of the German Department at New York University, Dartmouth College and the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Grünbein is a freelance writer in Berlin.

Grünbein is a member of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), the German Academy for Language and Literature, Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Arts. Since 2005 he is Professor of Poetry at the Dusseldorf Art Academy and since 2008 member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts in Berlin.

In the winter semester 2007/ 08 was Durs Grünbein Heine visiting professor at the Heinrich -Heine- University of Dusseldorf, 2009 scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In the winter semester 2009/2010 he held the Frankfurt poetry lectures on the topic: "From the importance of words."

Work

In his work, Durs Grünbein sets deals with the areas of science ( quantum physics, neurology ) and of philosophy.

Awards

Works

  • Gray area in the morning. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-13330-6.
  • Skull base lesson. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40375-3.
  • The Expensive dead. 33 epitaphs. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40629-9.
  • From the evil side. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40616-7.
  • The Swiss correction (together with Brigitte Oleschinski and Peter Waterhouse ). Urs Engeler editor, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-9520722-0-6.
  • The body break. Speech to receive the Georg Büchner Prize. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-09178-6.
  • Galileo missed Dante's hell and freezes on the dimensions. Essays 1989-1995. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-40758-9.
  • According to the satires. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41028-8.
  • Brain and thinking. Cosmos in his head. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-775-70938-5
  • Travel, dead. Radio play with Ulrike Haage. Sans Soleil, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-88030-037-8.
  • The first year. Berliner records. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-41277-9.
  • Declared night. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-41305-0.
  • Una Storia Vera. A children's album in verse. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-458-19237-9.
  • Why schriftlos live. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12435-8.
  • From the snow or Descartes in Germany. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41455-0
  • At Seneca. Postscript. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3- 518-41609 -X.
  • With all my heart. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89479-185-3.
  • Berenice. A libretto based on Edgar Allan Poe for an opera by John Mary Staudt. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41642-1.
  • Ancient dispositions. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41715-0.
  • Porcelain. Poem of the demise of my city. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41722-3.
  • The Misanthrope on Capri. Histories, and poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-22394-1.
  • Verses for the day after tomorrow. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41908-3.
  • Love poems. Poems. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-35098-9.
  • The Cartesian diver. Three meditations. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-26007-4.
  • Praise of the typhoon. Travel diaries in haikus. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-19308-1.
  • The Bars of Atlantis. An inquiry into fourteen dives. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12598-4.
  • From the importance of words. Frankfurt poetics Lecture 2009. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-06140-4.
  • Flavor. A Roman characters book. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42167-3.
  • Colossus in the fog. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42316-5.

Speaking

  • Bondage. Speech in the Frauenkirche in Dresden on October 6, 2009 in: Germany Archive, Vol 42, 2009, H. 6, pp. 983-992

Works in English

  • Ashes for Breakfast - Selected Poems, select from the following works translated by Michael Hofmann: gray area, in the morning, base of skull lesson, wrinkles and falling, according to the satires, Explained night, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-374 - 53013-6
  • Published simultaneously by Faber & Faber, London 2006, ISBN 9780571228492
  • The Bars of Atlantis - Selected Essays (ed. by Michael Eskin ), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2010, ISBN 9780374260620
  • Descartes ' Devil - Three Meditations, translated by Anthea Bell, Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., New York 2010, ISBN 9780979582943

Translations

  • The Persians of Aeschylus, Suhrkamp Verlag 2001 ISBN 3-518-13408-6
  • Thyestes of Seneca, 2002 ISBN 3-458-17114-2 island
  • Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, Suhrkamp Verlag 2003 ISBN 3-518-13431-0
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