Morten Søndergaard

Morten Søndergaard ( born October 3, 1964 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish writer, translator, literary editor and sound artist.

Life and work

Morten Søndergaard visited from 1989 to 1991, the writers school ( Forfatterskolen ) in Copenhagen and studied comparative literature. Together with Tomas Thøfner he was from 2002 to 2008 editor of the literary magazine Hvedekorn. He is co-founder of Poetry magazine Overste Kirurgiske. 2003 and 2007 he was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. His books have been translated into Arabic, English, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Serbian.

Søndergaard debuted in 1992 with Sahara i mine handers. In his poetry, he is trying new ways to represent the language. He joins in his exhibitions and installations with sound elements and experiments similar in its musical and dramatic works. Søndergaard has translated several works by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges into Danish.

Together with his wife, writer Merete Pryds Light, he wrote under the pseudonym of the fictional blind author Liv Dark some detective novels, among other hawks above falkoneren (2008) and Næsten levende (2012 ).

In 1996 Søndergaards poetry book Ubestemmelsessteder ( indeterminacy ). Theme is the urban social fabric, " anchored in the streets and squares of Copenhagen, often named. The exemplary content of the scenes one hand, leads to a delocalization, especially because the lyric I presented as a language- reflective observer, on the other hand appears through a veneer of solidarity with the urban outsiders. "

With beer dor sovende ( bees die in their sleep, 1998) was Søndergaards a wider public poetry accessible. The book was awarded the Michael Strunge Prize in 2007 and translated into German. It leaves the reader surreal and hyper-real images are created and enriched, not without humor, imagination, with the result that a different view of the world arises. Time and movement are the subject of his poetry collection Vinci, more cohesive ( Vinci, later, in 2002 ). In the Italian town of Vinci Søndergaard had lived for several years.

Søndergaard created numerous sound installations. Thus was created in 2005 to be Stenklaver (stone piano). Listed in the in 2004 in the " radio drama workshop " ( Germany Radio Berlin ) radio play Monte Altissimo - Falling off the White Mountain Søndergaard worked with shots of a marble quarry near the town of Carrara. His sound installation Stenvasken was at the Museum of Contemporary Art ( Museet for Samtidskunst ) issued in Roskilde in 2004 and Verdensnødbremse ( Weltnotbremse ) 2007 Art Museum in Esbjerg.

A language and art object, in which science and art have been linked together, is Søndergaards Word Pharmacy, which he realized in 2012 with the designer Christian Ramso. This poetic experiment called " word pharmacy " consists of ten drug boxes, each. Relation to a word class, for example, verbs or adverbs The respective leaflet explains about the application, dangers of overdosing on, etc.; as is for example the adjectives " In children under two years adjectives are applicable only with parental consent ." The poet Jan Wagner wrote a preface to these package inserts under the title The syllables that ointments.

Publications

Danish first editions

Further publications in anthologies and magazines, including 5 noter til landskaber in Passage. Tidsskrift for litteratur above criticism. No. 43 (2002), ISSN 1904-7797.

German -language editions

• Bees are dying in their sleep. Poems. From the Danish by Roland Hoffmann. litteraturverlag Roland Hoffmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-940331-00-7.
• Et i skridt the rigtige retning. Defendant. / A step in the right direction. Poems. German and Danish. From the Danish by Roland Hoffmann. litteraturverlag Roland Hoffmann, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-940331-04-5.
• The word pharmacy. From the Danish by Roland Hoffmann. With a foreword by Jan Wagner. litteraturverlag Roland Hoffmann, Munich, 2012.

Discography

• Kompas (along with Tommy Gregersen ), borrowing Forlag, 2000.
• Turbo remix, bookplate Records - bidrag, 2001.
• AudioPoesi - Superpositionsprincippet, Geiger Records, 2006.
• Hjertets abe sparker sig fri (along with Jacob Schweppenhäuser and Emil Thomsen ), Geiger Records, 2007.