Norbert Hummelt is a German

Germany

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, essayist and translator.

Hummelt studied German studies

German studies

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 und English studies

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 in Cologne

Cologne

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 until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer

Marcel Beyer

Marcel Beyer is a German writer.-Life:Marcel Beyer 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...

 and like him he started as a rather experimental

Experimental literature

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 writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...

 and Thomas Kling

Thomas Kling

- Life :Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf. He studied Philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for a certain period. Since 1983 he presented his poems on public performances – first in Vienna, than in the Rhineland...

. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of the Kölner Autorenwerkstatt; an authors group in Cologne. With his second collection of poems, „singtrieb“ from 1997, he came closer to concepts of Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry

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.

Norbert Hummelt lived in the Bergisches Land

Bergisches Land

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 near Cologne for several years. Since January 2006 he lives in Berlin

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. He taught and gave classes in creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and works for the Text + Kritik journal.

Collections of poems

• knackige codes (crisp codes), Galrev 1993
• singtrieb (appetite for singing / sing instinct), Urs Engeler Editor 1997
• Zeichen im Schnee (signs in the snow), Luchterhand 2001
• Bildstock (picture stock), Kunstverein Hasselbach 2003
• Stille Quellen (silent fonts), Luchterhand 2004
• Totentanz (dance of the dead), Luchterhand 2007

Translations

• Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.-Life and work:...
  
  , Das Schmetterlingstal. Ein Requiem (from Danish, in: Schreibheft Nr. 52, 1999)
• Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
   (in: T. S. Elliot: Four Quartets …, Rigodon, 2006).

Selected essays

• out here in the dark, Essay, in: Edit 38, 2005.
• Du hast dich durch Räume bewegt (you moved through spaces), about Lars Reyers poems, in: BELLA triste Nr. 17, special edition for German contemporary poetry, Hildesheim 2007

Editor

• William Butler Yeats - Die Gedichte (Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2005)
• Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2006 (with C. Buchwald, S. Fischer Verlag 2005)
• Lyrikedition 2000 (since 2005)

Selected awards

• Förderpreis Literatur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 1995
• Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Stipendium of the city of Cologne 1996
• Mondseer Lyrikpreis 1998
• Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium 2000
• Fellow der Raketenstation Hombroich 2005
• Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis 2007

External links

• Hummelt at Lyrikwelt, German
• About Hummelts poetry, German
• author page at Lyrikline.org
  Lyrikline.org
  lyrikline.org hosts contemporary international poetry as audio and text , plus bibliographies and biographies for each poet.lyrikline.org was started in November 1999 as a German-language site...
  
  , with audio, text, and translations).