Thomas Kling

Thomas Kling ( born June 5, 1957 in Bingen, † April 1, 2005 in Dormagen ) was a German writer.

Life

Thomas Kling grew up in Hilden Dusseldorf and visited in a humanistic Gymnasium. He studied German, history and art history in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Vienna and held a long time in Finland. Since 1983, he presented - first in Vienna, then in the Rhineland - his poems at public readings, which often had performance character, and appeared together with the jazz drummer Frank Köllges.

He lived with his wife, the painter Ute Langanky until his death in 2005 from lung cancer, on the site of the former missile base Hombroich near Neuss. Thomas Kling was buried in Neuss- wood home.

Work

Thomas Kling was " undoubtedly the most important poet of his generation". He was influenced by authors such as Mayröcker, Jandl and Celan and the Vienna group Artmann and Bayer and is regarded as the style for German -language poetry after 1990.

Kling's texts are determined in their form of composition through performative elements, word sound and melody play an important role. At the same time, however, a sensual and semantic multidimensionality them is constitutive. Kling said archaeological poems show their full complexity only in the carefully crafted printed versions.

Kling published his first texts in the magazine Zwiebelzwerg - magazine for art and social issues. He published his first book in 1977 Zwiebelzwerg publisher.

Thomas Kling was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Awards

Works

  • The state before the sunset, Dusseldorf 1977
  • Busloads, from flavor enhancers poems Frankfurt am Main 1985-1993
  • Testing heart -strengthening agent, Dusseldorf 1986
  • Flavor enhancers, Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Traffic, 1989
  • Brennstabm, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Nacht.sicht.gerät, Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Walls Moor, Münster 1994
  • Rotten, Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Itinerary, Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Wolkenstein. Mobilisierun ', Münster 1997
  • GROUND camo, Münster 1997 ( with Ute Langanky )
  • Long-distance trade, Cologne 1999 ( reading is on CD)
  • Messengers, Cologne 2001
  • Tyrol Tyrol. Hörstükk, Bielefeld 2001 ( Audio book, with Jörg Ritzenhoff )
  • Soundings, Cologne 2002
  • Analysis of flight data, Cologne 2005
  • Collected Poems, Cologne 2006
  • The Baader - letters, in: Culture Crash 12/2008

Editorship

  • Mayröcker: Adjacent metals. Frankfurt am Main in 1998.
  • Sabine Scho Thomas Kling discovers Sabine Scho. Hamburg [u a ] 2001.
  • Voice memory. 200 poems in German from the eighth to the twentieth centuries, Cologne 2001.

Translations

  • Gaius Valerius Catullus: The hair of Berenice, Ostfildern before Stuttgart 1997
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