Team Saxony (Sachsen)
Christian Lehnert (b. 1969) was born in Dresden and grew up there. After military service in the units of the NVA in prora, Merseburg and Storkow he studied Protestant theology in Leipzig from 1989 as well as theology and Oriental Studies in Berlin. A study visit took him to the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, where he occupied himself with Judaism. He also studied Arabic in Berlin.
After the Vicariate in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony 1996-1998 and spent two years living as a freelance writer in Santiago de Compostela. His first book of poems was published 1997 under the title "Bound singer". Source: Munzinger
Barbara Köhler (b. 1959) was born in Burgstädt / Saxony.
After graduation, she completed an apprenticeship in textile skilled worker in Plauen and then practiced various activities in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz).
First poems by K. appeared in unofficial journals. From 1988 to 1990 she worked as a research assistant at the District Literary Centre Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz. For the radio program "Voice of the GDR", she wrote a radio play; some of her early poems and prose pieces were published in literary magazines in the GDR and the Federal Republic, in addition, she worked as a translator of Hungarian texts. Since 1991, K. is a freelance writer. In 1997 she became "writer in residence" at the University of Warwick / UK and in winter semester 1999/2000 "Artist in dialogue" at the University of Witten / Herdecke. Her first volume of poetry "Deutsches Roulette" was released in 1991 by Suhrkamp Verlag. Source: Munzinger
Durs Grünbein (b. 1962) was born in Dresden, where he lived until graduation. In 1986 he moved to Berlin and studied there for a year theater studies at Berlin's Humboldt University. Grünbein worked for various magazines and established during its contacts with performance artists, actors and painters. The participation in exhibition projects followed, among others performances in galleries. After the reunification in 1989, the author traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia and in the USA; Amsterdam, Paris, Toronto and Vienna were, among others to his whereabouts. The poet, essayist and translator is living in Berlin.
Durs Grünbein is one of the most important representatives of the younger generation of poets.
In 1995 Grünbein received the Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry and the Georg Büchner Prize. Apart from numerous other honors, he received the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, the Berlin Literature Prize of the Foundation Royal Norwegian Pier-Paolo Pasolini-Prize and the Prize of the city of Västerås Tranströmer. In 2003 he was awarded as the first non-philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche price. Source: Goethe-Institut
Volker Braun (b. 1939) was born in Dresden-Rochwitz. The father was killed in the last days of the war, so that the mother had to raise their five sons, after the destruction of Dresden alone. B. got after graduation no place available and therefore worked from 1957 to 1960 in a print shop in Dresden, in the civil engineering of the Combine "Schwarze Pumpe" and for a skilled worker training course as a machinist for mining machines in the mine Burghammer. From 1960 to 1964 he studied philosophy in Leipzig and then moved to East Berlin.
Begins as a writer 1965-1966 B. worked at the invitation of Helene Weigel as a dramaturge at the prestigious Berliner Ensemble , where his first play "The Kipper" was staged. His first book of poems, "Provokation für mich", was published 1965.
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Team Zuid-Holland (South Holland)
Erik Lindner (b. 1968) was born in The Hague.
Started at sixteen with reciting poems. Worked the first years (1984-1994), often accompanied by musicians . He debuted with Tramontane (Perdu, 1996). After he published the bundles Tong and step (The Busy Bee, 2000), Table (The Busy Bee, 2004) and Land (The Busy Bee, 2010). August 2013 appears his first novel in The Busy Bee, to Whitebridge.
He organized literary programs at the Institut Néerlandais in Paris until 2003.
He has published in magazines in Albania ( Poeteka ), Germany ( Edit and Spritz ), France ( Quaderno, Action poétique, Po & sie, If ), Britain ( Poetry Review, Leviathan Quarterly ), Macedonia (Blesok) Austria ( Manuscripts ), Taiwan ( Unitas ) and USA ( Interim ). Erik Lindner is editor of The Government Inspector and Terrace . He provides a section for Poetry International and freelance various magazines.
Tonnus Oosterhoff (b. 1953) was born in Leiden.
He studied Dutch language and literature and psychology at the University of Groningen; immediately thereafter studying psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam; then worked as a school psychologist. In 1990 he publishes his first book of poetry Boer Tiger ; receives C.Buddingh' Prize for new Dutch poetry (for Boer Tiger ); working as a copywriter
2001 Initiates own website with 'moving' poems
2003 Awarded the VSB Poetry Prize
2005 Guest Writer at University of Groningen (September to November)
2010 Guido Prize of the City of Bruges (for Actual Size )
2011 Publication of grant PC Hooft Prize (December 20)
2012 Presentation of the PC Hooft Prize (May 24);
Publishes collected poems ( Here floats away )
2013 Grant Paul Snoek Poetry
Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Arjen Duinker (b. 1956) was born in Delft. He debuted in 1988 with the collection of Red Bank. He received the 1993 Prize of the city of Roermond Halewijn for lifetime achievement in 2001 and the Jan Campert Prize for his poetry collection The History of an enumeration . His bundle Maybe four equations was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize in 2003 for The Sun and the World (2004) he received the 2005 VSB Poetry. In 2006 Arjen Duinker published together with the French poet Karine Martel And that? Infinite. Duinker works with glassblower Bernard Heesen in the series Encyclopaedic dictionaries "The world of the glassblower".
Poetry: Red Bank (1988) Loose poems (1990) The facade cleaner and others (1994) The hour of the dream ( 1996) Zaap zaap kwaririp (1997) Even though it is not so (1998) The history of a list (2000) Maybe four equations (2002) The Sun (2003) The sun and the world (with CD, 2004) And that? Infinity (2006); Karine Martel Starfish: Quartet for two voices (2007) Neighborhood Children (2009) Autobiography until today (2012). Source: Querido
Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933) was born in The Hague. During the war his father died during a bombing raid. Nooteboom attended grammar school in Venray and Eindhoven in 1951 and went to work at a bank in Hilversum. In the evening he made his high school course of study.
In 1953 Cees Nooteboom began to wander through Europe. He debuted in 1955 with the novel "Philip and the others." In this novel, which was awarded the Anne Frank Award, the protagonist makes a journey through Europe looking for a girl.
"Rituals" was awarded the F. Bordewijk Prize in 1981 and the American Pegasus Price 1982 The story was filmed in 1989.
In 1992, Nooteboom was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize. In the autumn of 2009, Cees Nooteboom received the Prize of Dutch Literature. The jury called the work of Nooteboom profound and philosophical. These are the qualities that his work abroad is usually praised. The Dutch Language Union has this award every three years to an author whose work occupies an important place in Dutch literature. Source: Cultuur Archief
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