Haus für Poesie

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

Sina Klein (born 1983, Düsseldorf) has been working as a poet and translator since 2007 and has published in literary magazines such as “poet”, “lauter niemand” and in “gegenstrophe 5”. In Autumn 2014 her debut book of poems “narkotische kirschen” (narcotic cherries) will be published by Klever Verlag.

Sina Klein’s poems place habitual perception in question and deal with the paradoxes of inner life. Often her poems turn from the familiar “into the unreal, chaotic” (Bettina Hohoff). She is particularly interested in natural structures which are shaped by counteracting forces and self-referentiality.

Sina Klein studied Romance, English and German Philology at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, where she works.  She was a finalist in the 2012 Munich Poetry Prize and a participant of the Literary March in Darmstadt in 2013.

Publications in Magazines and Anthologies (selected)

poet, Proto, lauter niemand, Federwelt

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

The journalist and writer Florian Neuner (born 1972, Wels, Austria) has been living and working in Berlin since 1995. In his book “Ruhrtext. Eine Revierlektüre” (Ruhrtext. Reading of a District), he takes on the post-industrial, urban landscape of the Ruhr District. As such, “his gaze…  is honed on the spatial conceptions of the situations, to which it continually returns” (Adrian Kasnitz). In 2013 he was involved in the project “Psychogeographie Ruhr”, in the exhibition “EMSCHERKUNST.2013”.

His work has been recognised with a number of scholarships, including the Alfred Döblin Award (2010) and from the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Cesky Krumlov (2012). Florian Neuner is editor of “Idiome. Hefte für Neue Prosa”, and coeditor of Heinz-Klaus Metzger’s writings on John Cage: “Die freigelassene Musik” (Music Set Free).

Publications (selection)

Ruhrtext. Eine Revierlektüre (Ruhrtext. Reading of a District), Klever Verlag 2010
Satzteillager (Sentence Parts Depot), Klever Verlag 2011
Moor (oder Moos) (Moor [or Moss]), Verlag Peter Engstler 2013

Bernhard Saupe (born 1976 Linz, Austria) studied Sociology in Bielefeld and Vienna, where he lives and works as a poet and academic. His unusual professional field is located between social science, assistance for people with disabilities and literary creation. During his studies he attended various writing workshops, in 2005 the first publications of his poems followed, amongst others in the magazines “Kolik 35”, “Lichtungen” as well as in “lauter niemand”.

He won second place in the Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2007 and in 2010 published his first book of poems, “Viersäftelehre” (Four Elements Doctrine) with Klever Verlag.

Publications

Viersäfteslehre (Four Elements Doctrine). Poems, Klever Verlag, 2010