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), Stars & Stripes (Washington D.C.) [15] , die furche (Vienna), [16] Akzente (Munich), Frankfurter Hefte (Berlin), [17] 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", [18] and hosts the podcast "ÄNDERN leben" [19] that discusses spirituality with a wide variety of guests, such as the award-winnig chef Konstantin Filippou, hairstylist Mario Krankl, [20] the artist Elisabeth von Samsonow, [21] as well as composers, photographers and writers.
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