Steffen Popp

Steffen Popp ( born July 18, 1978 in Greifswald ) is a German writer.

Life and work

Steffen Popp grew up in Dresden, where he attended a scientific specialty school. He studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, later literature and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His books of poetry How Alps, Colony sun and thicket with speeches and eyes got huge response in the criticism; His novel Ohrenberg or the way there has won several awards and was nominated for the German Book Prize. He translated among others Poems of the poet Christian Hawkey U.S. and Ben Lerner. Poems by Steffen Popp appear regularly in the newspaper, have been translated into numerous languages ​​and is represented in relevant anthologies.

Steffen Popp lives in Berlin.

Awards

  • 2014: Peter Huchel price for thicket with speeches and eyes
  • 2011: Kelag Prize at the 35th Festival of German literature in Klagenfurt
  • 2011: Prize of the city of Münster for International poetry in translation by Ben Lerner
  • 2011: Leonce and Lena Prize
  • 2010: promotion price for Berlin Art Prize
  • 2007: Rauris Literature Prize
  • 2006: nominated for the German Book Prize
  • 2006: Award for Heimrad Baker price
  • 2004: Kranichsteiner Literature Prize of the German Literature Fund
  • 2003: Winner of the Academy Graz

Publications

  • Thicket with speeches and eyes, poems, kookbooks, Berlin, 2013. ISBN 978-3-937445-54-0
  • Colony Sun, poems, kookbooks, Idstein 2008. ISBN 978-3-937445-35-9
  • Ohrenberg or the way there, Roman, ibid, 2006. ISBN 3-937445-17- X
  • How Alps, poems, ibid, 2004. ISBN 3-937445-03- X
  • Ben Lerner: The Lichtenberg Figures, Poetry English - German, from the am English by Steffen Popp luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5.
  • Christian Hawkey: Travel in Ziegengeschwindigkeit, poems, English- German, from the am English by Steffen Popp and Ulyana Wolf, kookbooks, Idstein 2008 ISBN 978-3-937445-30-4.
  • Poems by István Kemény, in: istván Kemény: useful ruins, Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-936826-63-0.
  • Helm of Phlox. On the Theory of the worst tool. With Ann Cotten, Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Hendrik Jackson &, Merve Verlag, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 978-3-883962-92-4
  • Train to the sources, novel excerpt, in: BELLA triste No. 23, Hildesheim, 2009.
  • Thomas Geiger ( ed.), lute verses. Poems from the present, dtv, München, 2009. ISBN 978-3-423-24692-7
  • Poetry as a life form, essay, in: BELLA triste No. 18, Hildesheim, 2007.
  • Jan Wagner and Björn Kuhligk (ed.), Poetry of now, DuMont Literatur Verlag, Cologne, 2003. ISBN 3- 8321-7852 -X
  • Conversations with Eckermann, narrative, in: BELLA triste No. 6, Hildesheim, 2003.
  • Farewell to the shore, narrative, in: Katja Lange -Müller (ed.), spat upon by fish, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2002 ISBN 3462030736.
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