Christian Lehnert
Christian Lehnert, born in Dresden in 1969, studied theology, religious studies and Middle Eastern studies in Leipzig, Berlin and Jerusalem. He then worked as a pastor near Dresden. He has been head of the Department for Liturgy Studies of the United Protestant-Lutheran Church of Germany at the University of Leipzig since 2012. He is a member of Saxony’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy for Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
Christian Lehnert, born in Dresden in 1969, studied theology, religious studies and Middle Eastern studies in Leipzig, Berlin and Jerusalem. He then worked as a pastor near Dresden. He has been head of the Department for Liturgy Studies of the United Protestant-Lutheran Church of Germany at the University of Leipzig since 2012. He is a member of Saxony’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy for Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
Deutscher Preis für Nature Writing 2018
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis 2016
Hölty Prize 2012
Hugo Ball Prize 2005
Berlin Art Prize 2003
Lessing Prize 2003
Dresdner Preis für Lyrik 1998
Deutscher Preis für Nature Writing 2018
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis 2016
Hölty Prize 2012
Hugo Ball Prize 2005
Berlin Art Prize 2003
Lessing Prize 2003
Dresdner Preis für Lyrik 1998
PUBLICATIONS
The House and the Lamb
In the midst of a life crisis, the narrator of this book retreats to an old, near-derelict farmstead in the Eastern Ore...
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But this is not a formalistic exercise. In...
Out Towards the Inward
A »story of the invisible world on single pages« – poet and theologian Christian Lehnert has nothing less in mind for this book. The starting point for his thoughts are nature spirits and lower deities, dualistic notions of angels and demons, the formation of divine hierarchies, border crossings between this world and the other side with mysterious intellectual contraband in...
Cherub Dust
Christian Lehnert’s seventh volume of poetry again goes all out: from two-line moments, to sonnets, odes and tersest and onwards to extensive, multi-facetted poems, this poetry works with a tremendous diversity of form.
The poet makes multiple excursions into a »dictionary of natural phenomena.« In it the world and characteristics of snow...
Draughts
In Draughts, poems...
Corinthian Rocks
He is the protagonist, one of the most-interpreted and most-fought thinkers of Christianity. Paul the Apostle did not speak from a place of self-assuredness and worldliness, but from the shaky ground of a new beginning, driven by contradictions, as someone asking questions and struggling with language, the first to wrest concepts such as »church« and the »return« of...