Paul-Henri Campbell

Paul -Henri Campbell ( b. 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is a German -American author.

Paul -Henri Campbell is a bilingual author and writes poetry and prose both in English and German language. He studied Classical Philology ( Greek) and Catholic Theology at the National University of Ireland and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In his work he seeks mythologies of the present. His prose he describes as mythical realism. He has written numerous articles in German and international literary magazines published (eg clearings, World Literature Today, Hessian Literaturbote designs, Cordite Poetry Review, THE POEM ).

Life

Paul -Henri Campbell is the son of a U.S. Army officer and a German nurse. He grew up in Massachusetts and later moved with his parents to Germany, where he obtained a high school in Bavaria. Since his birth, he has a serious heart defect and he has been wearing his 24th year with a pacemaker. Campbell is currently working on a dissertation in fundamental theology at the College of the Jesuits, Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main.

Work

In addition to essays and narrative prose Campbell mainly written poetry. His poems deal in scenic images Mythologies. Here he is, both in the tradition of the thing and in the poem of symbolism. His lyrical themes are things like the Firebird Trans Am, the New York City subway line A-Train, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Concorde. He is trying to Lyrical continue to take and not to conceive at the level of the individual poem. So his poetry book Space Race is an overall lyrical implementation of a formative for the 20th century mythology of conquest and struggle for the moon.

Since January 2013, Campbell permanent member of the editorial board of the poetry magazine THE POEM, where he collaborated with Michael Augustin and Anton G. Leitner an English-language edition, THE POEM chapbook. German Poetry Now, has initiated. She, the target of German -language poetry of the presence of an international audience in translation accessible.

Publications

Author

  • Duktus operandi. Poems, ATHENA -Verlag, Oberhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89896-406-7.
  • My delusional street. Narratives, fhl -Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942829-20-5.
  • Space Race. Poetry: Poems, fhl -Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942829-21-2.
  • . Pope Benedict XVI, Audio book (Speaker: Andreas Herrler and Mirko Casimir ), Monarda Publishing House, Halle / Saale, 2012.

Editor or translator

  • Paul -Henri Campbell ( ed.), Sottorealism. Aris Kalaizis, Imhof Verlag, Peter Berg, 2013.
  • Ludwigstein Lord, All Ears, Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2013 ( translated by Paul -Henri Campbell).
  • Michael Augustin, Anton G. Leitner, Paul -Henri Campbell, THE POEM chapbook. German Poetry Now, Wessling near Munich in 2014.

Prices

  • 2012 Translation Prize of the sealing ring Bonn
  • 2012 Poet- in-Residence Dresden ( finalist with Carl-Christian Elze and roza Domašcyna )
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