Jan Wagner (poet)

Jan Wagner
Jan Wagner
Notable works	Regentonnenvariationen
Notable awards	Georg Büchner Prize; Leipzig Book Fair Prize

Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971) is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

Life

Wagner was born in Hamburg,^[1] and grew up north of it, in the small town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.^[2] He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated from Hamburg University, and at Trinity College, Dublin.^[2]In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College.^[3] In 2001, his first volume of poetry "Probebohrung im Himmel" was published.^[4] Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages.^[2] Wagner has been translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), freelance reviewer (Frankfurter Rundschau and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element".^[5]

Since 1995 he lives in Berlin.^[1]

Awards (selection)

2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis^[6]
2004: Anna Seghers Prize^[6]
2004: Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize
2010: Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome^[7]
2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen^[6]
2011: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis^[7]
2015: Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach^[6]
2015: Leipzig Book Fair Prize^[1]
2017: Georg Büchner Prize^[1]^[8]^[9]
2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the University of Peking^[6]
2020/2021: Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg (33rd poetics professor at the University of Bamberg).^[4]
2021: PONT Euro-Mediterranean literary prize, Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia^[10]

Memberships

Works

Probebohrung im Himmel. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8270-0071-2.
Guerickes Sperling. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-8270-0091-0.
Achtzehn Pasteten. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0721-6.
Australien. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0951-7.
Die Sandale des Propheten. Essays. Berlin Verlag. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1047-6.
Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern. Drei Verborgene. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24030-8.
Poesiealbum 295. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst 2011, ISBN 978-3-931329-95-2.
Der verschlossene Raum. Münchner Reden zur Poesie. Herausgegeben von Maria Gazzetti und Frieder von Ammon, Lyrik Kabinett München, 2012. ISBN 978-3-938776-32-2.
Regentonnenvariationen. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24646-1.
Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm. Ausgewählte Gedichte 2001–2015. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25075-8.^[11]
Der verschlossene Raum. Beiläufige Prosa. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25475-6.
Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019), ISBN 978-1-909942-28-8.
Der glückliche Augenblick. Beiläufige Prosa. Essays. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-446-26943-9.^[12]

References

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Jan Wagner – Autoren". Hanser Literaturverlage (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Jan Wagner – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). 13 March 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ "Jan Wagner". Poetry Foundation. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "2020/21 – Jan Wagner". Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ "Jan Wagner – Zur Person". Poetenladen (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Neuer Poetikdozent Jan Wagner". Hochschule RheinMain (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Jan Wagner". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ Deutsche Welle. "Top German literature prize goes to poet Jan Wagner | Books | DW | 20 June 2017". DW.COM. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
^ Bartels, Gerrit (20 June 2017). "Ein Virtuose der Sprache aus Neukölln". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ "German poet Jan Wagner to receive Pont literary prize". 18 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
^ May, Nina (24 November 2017). "Selbstporträt mit Bienen". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
^ ""Der glückliche Augenblick"". oe1.orf.at (in German). 25 February 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

External links

[Hanser_Literaturverlage-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Jan Wagner – Autoren". Hanser Literaturverlage (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[Home_2017-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Jan Wagner – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). 13 March 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[3] "Jan Wagner". Poetry Foundation. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

[Lehrstuhl_für_Neuere_deutsche_Literaturwissenschaft-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "2020/21 – Jan Wagner". Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[Poetenladen-5] "Jan Wagner – Zur Person". Poetenladen (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[Hochschule_RheinMain-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Neuer Poetikdozent Jan Wagner". Hochschule RheinMain (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[Künste-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Jan Wagner". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[8] Deutsche Welle. "Top German literature prize goes to poet Jan Wagner | Books | DW | 20 June 2017". DW.COM. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

[Tagesspiegel_2017-9] Bartels, Gerrit (20 June 2017). "Ein Virtuose der Sprache aus Neukölln". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[10] "German poet Jan Wagner to receive Pont literary prize". 18 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

[11] May, Nina (24 November 2017). "Selbstporträt mit Bienen". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[oe1.orf.at_2021-12] ""Der glückliche Augenblick"". oe1.orf.at (in German). 25 February 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

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