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With the numerous awards for his debut Lichter in Menlo Park, Raphael Urweider (born 1974, Switzerland) light-footedly stormed the stage of poetry and “hurtled along the route to success as a young poetry star.”
He is one of the most versatile, creative and innovate authors writing in German. He has made his name, apart from as a poet, above all with his work as a theatre musician and in performances with rap and hiphop projects. He has composed together with, among others, Hans Koch, producing with the latter the music for the play Dreiraff oder die reinste Entsorge by Oswald Lipfert (after August Stramm), which was performed at the Schlachthaus Bern in March 1999. Urweider’s poetry is heavily determined by the musicality of the language and characterized by his verbal acrobatics.
Publications : Lichter in Menlo Park (2000), Das Gegenteil von Fleisch (2003)
Awards (selection): Work Stipend of the Deutsche Literaturfonds (1999), Leonce and Lena Prize (1999), Literatur-Förderpreis der Stadt Bremen (2001), 3sat Award in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition at Klagenfurt (2002), New York Stipend of the Kranichstein Prize for Literature (2002), Clemens-Brentano-Förderpreis für Literatur der Stadt Heidelberg (2004)