Ulf Stolterfoht

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Ulf Stolterfoht at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest (Erlangen poets' festival) 2009 UlfStolterfoht.JPG
Ulf Stolterfoht at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest (Erlangen poets' festival) 2009

Ulf Stolterfoht (born 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German writer.

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Life and work

Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen. Stolterfoht writes language-critical lyric poetry and essays which have been published in many anthologies (e.g. Der Große Conrady) and literary magazines. His first publication was the poetry volume "fachsprachen I-IX" ('specialist languages I-IX') which appeared in 1998 published by Urs Engeler Editor. In 2005, his translation of Gertrude Stein's "Winning His Way" appeared. From 2008 to 2009, he was visiting professor in the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt.

Ulf Stolterfoht lives in Berlin.

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Awards and prizes (selection)

  1. "Ernst-Jandl-Preis für Lyrik geht heuer an Ulf Stolterfoht". Der Standard (in German). 13 February 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.