Norbert Hummelt

Norbert Hummelt (* 1962 in Neuss ) is a German writer.

After graduation Norbert Hummelt studied until 1990 German and English at the University of Cologne. He wrote primarily poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals. In addition, he translated poetry from English and Danish. Hummelt wrote first ( such as Marcel Beyer, with whom he worked long ) experimental poems in imitation of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. In 1997, he turned with his second book of poems "singing mode" more traditional forms and approached concepts of romance. From 1988 to 1992 he was director of the Cologne author's workshop. He taught, inter alia, at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and is editor of the journal Text Kritik. He is a member of the PEN center of Germany.

Norbert Hummelt lived in Berlin since 2006.

Title

• Sing operation, Poems (with CD ), Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 1997.
• Sign in the snow, poetry, literature Luchterhand Verlag, Munich 2001.
• Stock Image, Poetry, art club Hasselbach 2003.
• Silence sources, poems, Luchterhand, Munich 2004.
• How poems arise - with Klaus Siblewski - Luchterhand, Munich 2009.

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Christoph Buchwald (ed.), Yearbook of Poetry ( regelm since 1990).
• Axel coach (ed.), Versnetze ( unregelm since 1987).

Publication

• William Butler Yeats, The Poems, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2005.

Transmission

• TS Eliot, Four Quartets, Rigodon: Food 2006.

• Rolf -Dieter Brinkmann scholarship from the city of Cologne in 1996
• Fellow of the rocket Hombroich 2005
• Niederrheinischer Literature Prize 2007