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Daniel Falb © Tineke de Lange
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Daniel Falb (b. 1977) is a poet and philosopher. He grew up in Kassel and has lived in Berlin since 1998, where he studied Philosophy and gained his doctorate with a thesis on the Idea of Collectivity. His first book of poems, die räumung dieser parks was published by kookbooks in 2003, with more following with the same publisher.
As well as poetry, Falb works on questions of geophilosophy and poetics. He was a collaborator in the collective poetics project Helm aus Phlox (with Ann Cotten, Hendrik Jackson, Steffen Popp and Monika Rinck, Merve 2011) and appears in the anthology Anthropozän. Dichtung in der Gegenwartsgeologie (Verlagshaus Berlin 2015).
In his challenging poems Falb casts a universal look at life, in which we are all part of a generational chain. Time and again they centre on questions of palaeontology and the climate, with the addition of the element of conservation and archiving. He also develops these themes in his “Svalbard Paem”, written in 2018, about the Spitzbergen seed bank and the sound archive lyrikline. It was published by kookbooks in early 2019 along with three other longer poems in his new collection Orchidee und Technofossil.
Publications:
die räumung dieser parks, kookbooks 2003
bancor, kookbooks 2009
CEK, kookbooks 2015
Chicxulub Paem, Broken Dimanche Press 2017
Orchidee und Technofossil, kookbooks 2019
Awards:
Laureate at the Literaturpreis Prenzlauer Berg Berlin 2001
Poetry Debut Prize of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin 2005
Kurt Sigel-Lyrikpreis of the German PEN 2016