Marcel Beyer

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Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer.

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Life

Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987, he has developed performance art. From 1989 he published, with Karl Riha, the series Vergessene Autoren der Moderne (Forgotten Modernist Authors) at the University of Siegen.

From 1990 to 1993, he worked as editor on the literary magazine Konzepte; from 1992 to 1998, he was a contributor to the music magazine Spex . [1] In 1996 and 1998, he was writer in residence at University College London and the University of Warwick in Coventry. Beyer lived until 1996 in Cologne, and since then in Dresden. He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

From early on, Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman , has been a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.

Honours

Works

Essays

Publications as editor

Translations

Anthologies

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References

  1. "Marcel Beyer — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com.
  2. Beyer, Marcel (15 June 2012). "Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim. Nachricht auf suhrkamp.de". Suhrkamp Verlag (in German). Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. "Top German literature prize goes to Marcel Beyer". Deutsche Welle . 28 June 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  4. Wetzel, Marie-Dominique (29 March 2021). "Marcel Beyer erhält den Peter-Huchel-Preis 2021". swr.online (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  5. "Schriftsteller Marcel Beyer erhält Huchel-Preis 2021". Die Zeit (in German). 16 January 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.