Nikolai Vogel (born 10 January 1971 in Munich) is a German writer.
Nikolai Vogel was born in 1971 in Munich. He attended school in Landsberg am Lech. He studied German literature, philosophy and computer science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Subsequently, he worked as a Web developer and writer. In 1993 he founded the start-up publishing house Black Ink Verlag together with Kilian Fitzpatrick. From 1996 to 2000 Vogel and Fitzpatrick organized the See-Lesungen (Readings on the Lake) at the Kleinhesseloher See in the Englischer Garten of Munich. In 2004, Vogel participated at the Open Mike of Berlin and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt, Austria.
In 1997 Nikolai Vogel was awarded the Kulturförderpreis des Landkreises Landsberg/Lech and in 2007 he received the literary prize Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis .
Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.
Paul Celan was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți, in the then Kingdom of Romania, and adopted the pseudonym "Paul Celan". He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era.
Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author, playwright and essayist.
The Festival of German-Language Literature is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of awards are given, the major one being the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, first awarded in 1977 and one of the most important awards for literature in the German language.
Landsberg am Lech is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech.
Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.
Buchloe is a community raised to town status in 1954, lying in Ostallgäu district in Bavaria. Together with the neighbouring communities of Jengen, Lamerdingen and Waal, Buchloe belongs to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Buchloe.
Sten Nadolny is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
Marcel Beyer is a German writer.
Wolf Wondratschek is a German author. He was born in Rudolstadt in Thuringia.
Helga Schubert is a German psychologist and author.
Angelika Overath is a German author and journalist.
Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
Terézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Andreas Mand is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature, and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to be an active part of his children's lives.
The Munich Metropolitan Region is one of eleven metropolitan regions in Germany, consisting of the agglomeration areas of Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Landshut, Rosenheim and Landsberg am Lech. It is Germany's fifth most populous metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan-Region, the Frankfurt Rhine-Main-Region, the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan-Region and the Stuttgart Metropolitan-Region.
Kathrin Schmidt, is a German writer. She is known both for her poetry and prose.
Burkhard Spinnen is a German author.
Ina Hartwig is a German writer, literature critic and academic lecturer. From July 2016, she has been Kulturdezernentin in Frankfurt, the city councillor responsible for culture and science.
Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic. He wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. He wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He was also a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen.