Martina Hefter

Martina Hefter

Martina Hefter (born in Pfronten, Allgäu in 1965) is a poet, dancer and performance artist. She studied contemporary dance in Berlin and literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. As well as her literary work, she engages in projects which combine language and movement, most recently in the performance installation Writing Ghosts in the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in 2015. In 2005 she was awarded the promotion prize for the Saxony Lessing Prize and a Hermann Lenz fellowship, in 2006 the London fellowship of the German Literature Fund and in 2008 the Meran Poetry Prize.

Publications (selection):
Ungeheuer. Plays and Poems. kookbooks 2016
Vom Gehen und Stehen. Ein Handbuch. kookbooks 2013
Nach den Diskotheken. Poems. kookbooks 2010
Die Küsten der Berge. Novel. Wallstein Verlag 2008
Zurück auf Los. Roman. Wallstein Verlag 2005
Junge Hunde. Roman. Alexander Fest Verlag 2001