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Clemens Kuhnert
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Clemens Kuhnert (born 1965, Berlin) was a cofounder, and up until 1996, a coeditor of the literary magazine “Torso”. In addition, he is Chairperson of the Berlin author’s initiative “lauter niemand”, which publishes one of the most highly circulated literary magazines in Germany.
His debut book of poems “Tina die Teilzeitstewardess” (Tina the Part-time Stewardess), with 33 poems written over 20 years, was published in 2009. Kuhnert’s neo-expressionistic poetry explores (artist-) life in the big city: in it, one finds “[h]ard alliterations, hot asphalt and cold, clear water, double meanings between fantasies of prosperity [...], ambivalence between bourgeois participation and defiant resignation”, according to Daniel Kettler in TITEL-Kulturmagazin.
His poems have been published in the “Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2005”, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as part of their “Nachrichten von der Poesie”, as well as in 2008 in “L’amour au temps de l’UE”. Kuhnert lives and works in Berlin.
Publications (selection)
Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2005, C. H. Beck 2004
L’amour au temps de l’UE, Biliki 2008
Nachrichten von der Poesie, Süddeutsche Zeitung & CD- Anthologie, Random House Audio 2008
Tina die Teilzeitstewardess. Gedichte, Distillery 2009