Michael Lentz

Michael Lentz ( born May 15, 1964 in Düren ) is a German writer, sound poet, literary scholar and musician.

Life

Michael Lentz, son of Düren Town Clerk Hubert Lentz, visited the school Stiftische Düren. After high school he studied German, history and philosophy in Aachen, Munich and Siegen and was a critical and documentary inventory doctorate with the two-volume dissertation sound poetry / music after 1945. 1999. His literary debut, the poetry and prose For information appeared on 29 September 1985 at a public reading at the Leopold -Hoesch Museum in Düren. In 1998 he won the German Poetry Slam Championship. Lentz attended the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1998 and 2001; In 2001 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his text mother dying. Since 2004 he is president of the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig; In 2005 he received the Prize of Literature homes. In May 2006 he was appointed professor at the Department of Creative Writing by the German Literature Institute Leipzig ( University of Leipzig), which he still holds today. Lentz was co-editor of the literary magazine Neue Rundschau. The general public he is best known for his novel Pacific exile, who was on the longlist for the German Book Prize 2007.

Michael Lentz lives in Berlin and Leipzig.

Honors and Awards

Publications

Prose

  • For information ( poetry and prose ), ( 1985)
  • Or ( prose ), ( 1998)
  • Once upon a time ... ( story ) (2001)
  • Mother dying ( prose ) (2001 ) (also as audio book )
  • Declaration of Love (novel ) (2003 ) (also as audio book )
  • Tell me - Tell (Book with CD) (2004)
  • Pacific Exile (novel ) (2007 ) (also as audio book )

Poetry

  • New anagrams ( poetry ) (1998)
  • End well. Speech acts (Book with CD) (2001)
  • All thing ( poetry ) (2003)
  • Open balance. 100 Love Poems ( Poetry ), S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-043926-0.

Radio plays

Plays

  • God helmet or Myth Claus. UA: Acting Frankfurt ( 2007)
  • Why are we so are here. No dream game. UA: Acting Frankfurt ( 2009)

Music

  • Speech acts X / TREME ( 2005) ( CD)
  • Michael Lentz, Uli Winters: Back - Steps, towers and cuts, a listening game, UA: Donaueschingen Music Festival ( 2007)
  • Michael Lentz, Uli Winters: Boxgesang, UA: Musica Viva (Munich ) (2008 ) (also on DVD )
  • Five people: Always emergency meeting ( 2011) ( CD)

Literature

  • Sound poetry / music after 1945 (Dissertation ) (2000)
  • Hubert Winkels (eds. ): Text of life: About literature, from which it is made, what precedes it and what follows from it. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-043934-5.
  • Breathe order abyss. Frankfurt lectures on poetics. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-043937-6.

Editions

  • Bob Cobbing: VerbiVisiVoco. Selected Poems 1942-2001 (Book with CD). Edited by Michael Lentz (2003)
  • Franz Mon: free flight for trick questions. 103 Alphabet poems and 26 Versalcollagen (Book with CD). Edited by Michael Lentz (2004)
  • Anthology. Yearbook of Poetry 2005 Poems selected by Christoph Buchwald and Michael Lentz (2004)
  • Helga M. Novak: Where I am now. Poems selected by Michael Lentz (2005)
  • Oskar Pastior: through - and back. Poems selected by Michael Lentz (2007)
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: The great reading book. Edited by Michael Lentz (2011)
  • Anthology: In this country: poems from the years 1990 to 2010. Edited by Michael Lentz and Michael Opitz (2011)
  • Franz Richard Behrens: Todlob. Field diary poems 1915/16. Edited by Michael Lentz (2012 )
  • Jesse Thoor: the work. Edited by Michael Lentz (2013 )
  • Franz Mon: refuge in flies. Reading book. Edited by Michael Lentz (2013 )

Editorship

  • Neue Rundschau: prose Leipzig. Together with Hans Jürgen Balmes, Jörg Bong, Alexander Roesler, Oliver Vogel. Issue 1/ 2010. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010
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