Paul-Henri Campbell (birth name: Christopher Paul-Henri Campbell; born 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a German-American author. He writes in English and German. [1] He studied classical philology (Ancient Greek) and Catholic theology at the National University of Ireland and the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main.
Paul-Henri Campbell is the son of an American army officer and a German nurse. [2] He grew up in Massachusetts before moving to Germany with his parents, where he completed his high school education in Bavaria. [3] Campbell has a serious congenital heart defect since birth [4] and carries a pacemaker since the age of 24. [5] He discontinued his doctoral studies in fundamental theology at the Jesuit University Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. He held senior positions at the Diocese of Limburg and the Austrian Conference of Religious Orders before becoming a freelance writer. [6] [7] [8] He is married to violist and writer Tamara Štajner. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Campbell is a founding member of PEN Berlin [9] and was elected to its board in November 2024. [10]
For his poetry collection nach den narkosen (2017), Campbell received the Bavarian arts and literary prize. Additionally, the literary critic Gregor Dotzauer selected the collection for Literaturhaus Berlin as one of the “Ten Poetry Collections of the Year 2017.” [11] Uljana Wolf nominated the collection for the poetry recommendations of the German Academy for Language and Literature in 2018. [12] The collection features poems that develop a poetics of illness or "insufficiency," a poetic position for which Campbell coined the hermeneutic term "salutonormativity," inspired by Judith Butler. [13]
He profiled numerous authors, artists, and musicians, such as Marianna Gartner, Sebastian Schrader, Gabriela Montero, Hartwig Ebersbach, Arno Rink, Sighard Gille, Michael Morgner. He wrote extensively about tattoo artists, such as Henk Schiffmacher, Manfred Kohrs, oder Alex Binnie. His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers, such as Tagesspiegel (Berlin) [14] , Lichtungen (Graz), die furche (Vienna) [15] , Akzente (Munich), Frankfurter Hefte (Berlin) [16] , World Literature Today (Oklahoma City), Volltext (Vienna), DAS GEDICHT, and others. He writes a biweekly column for the International Catholic Journal Communio, entitled "God in 99 Objects" [17] , and hosts the podcast "ÄNDERN leben" [18] that discusses spirituality with a wide variety of guests, such as the award-winnig chef Konstantin Filippou, hairstylist Mario Krankl [19] , the artist Elisabeth von Samsonow [20] , as well as composers, photographers and writers.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in German-speaking Europe.
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
Manfred Kohrs is a German tattooist and conceptual artist, who has been tattooing since 1974. He was a student of Horst Streckenbach. Together they developed the barbell piercing in 1975. Kohrs invented a rotary tattoo machine with main part an electric motor and an ink reservoir. In 1977 Kohrs founded the first German Tattoo Artist Association. Kohrs has been chairman of the board of the Institute for German Tattoo History (IDTG), which he founded 1997. He gave up tattooing in 1990 and began studying economics. Since completing his economics degree in 1996, he has served as tax consultant and Certified Public Accountant (GER).
Karl Krolow was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and died in Darmstadt, Germany.
Das GEDICHT ( ), established 1993, is the largest poetry magazine in the German-speaking world. It was founded by the poet and publisher Anton G. Leitner together with Ludwig Steinherr. Between 1994 and 2007 as well as between 2020 and 2022, Leitner served as its sole editor. Between 2008 and 2019, 2023, and 2024, Leitner has edited the annual periodical with changing co-editors.
Anton G. Leitner is a German writer and publisher.
Wolfgang Kauer is an Austrian author who lives in Salzburg. He writes novels, short stories, audio plays, and poems in German.
Timo Brunke is a German slam poet. He won the 2011 Schubart-Literaturpreis.
Jürgen Becker was a German poet, prose writer and audio play author. He won the 2014 Georg Büchner Prize.
Elke Erb was a German author-poet based in Berlin. She also worked as a literary editor and translator.
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.
Matthias Politycki is a German novelist and poet. He studied in Munich and Vienna and obtained a PhD in philosophy in 1987. His first novel Aus Fälle/Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman. appeared that same year. His breakthrough came in 1997 with Weiberroman and in 2008 with his cruise ship satire In 180 Tagen um die Welt.
Peter Kurzeck was a German writer.
Monika Rinck is a German writer.
Christoph Leisten is a German teacher and writer.
Hanna Leybrand was a German writer, recitator and operatic soubrette.
Ré Soupault born known as Meta Erna Niemeyer, was a French-German artist, educated at the Bauhaus. She is known for a diversity of artistic works as a photographer, fashion designer, and also as translator.
Dagmara Kraus is a German poet and translator.
Tamara Štajner is a Slovenian violist and writer. She writes in Slovenian and German.
Jan Koneffke is a German novelist and translator.
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