Ulrich Schlotmann

Ulrich Schlotmann

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Ulrich Schlotmann (born in 1962 in Balve, Sauerland) has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982 and has been a writer since 1986. He attempts to find out whether he as a writer is at all able to say anything about the world “if he doesn’t completely ignore the fact that visible material makes up only a negligibly small percentage of the total mass in the Universe,” as he says. He is looking for a way to order the world differently, through sound and rhythm but mainly by constantly revising the text to a degree of complexity where self-organisation takes over by forming patterns.
Schlotmann’s work has earned him many prizes and fellowships; most recently he was Writer-in-Residence at the Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania (2014). During his fellowship as the Graz city writer in 2016 he wrote the work Dichtarbeit – Schreibprozesse, which he published with Ritter Verlag in collaboration with Max Aufischer. In 2015 Der Mann der in den Wald (hinein)geht was published. a monograph by Sebastian Kiefer on Ulrich Schlotmann and his 2009 book Die Freuden der Jagd. Since 2016 Schlotmann has had a working fellowship with the German Literature Fund. His artistic work also includes translations, radio works and music projects, including with Zeitblom and Jazzkantine.

Publications:
Die Freuden der Jagd. Novel. Urs Engeler Editor 2009
Bluten, Wald. Book and CD. Ritter Verlag 1999
In die feuchten Wälder gehen. Ritter Verlag 1996
Entlöse. Maas Verlag 1993