Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named one of the best young novelists in the world by The New Yorker. He lives in Dresden.
Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named one of the best young novelists in the world by The New Yorker. He lives in Dresden.
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2021
Peter-Huchel-Preis for Dämonenräumdienst 2021
Lessing-Preis 2019
Georg-Büchner-Preis 2016
Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2016
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Graphit 2015
Kleist-Preis 2014
Fellowship at Villa Massimo in Rome 2010
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2008
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2008 for Kaltenburg...
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2021
Peter-Huchel-Preis for Dämonenräumdienst 2021
Lessing-Preis 2019
Georg-Büchner-Preis 2016
Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2016
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Graphit 2015
Kleist-Preis 2014
Fellowship at Villa Massimo in Rome 2010
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2008
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2008 for Kaltenburg
Erich-Fried-Preis 2006
Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk 2004
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2003
Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2001
Uwe-Johnson-Preis 1997
Berliner Literaturpreis 1996
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1995
Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 1991
PUBLICATIONS
Collected Poems
Collected Works in Four Volumes
Fifteen years after his early death, it is time to discover the entire œuvre of Thomas Kling. The provocatively-sensitive Thomas Kling of contemporary classics such as the volumes of poetry flavour enhancers and Long-distance Trading. The arbiter of traditions and fearless polemic Thomas Kling in the poetological self-placement Itinerar and in the seminal collection...
Demon Removal Service
There is a performance at the trashy theatre. Hildegard Knef gets in a car. Rudolph Moshammer carries his Yorkshire Terrier around Munich. S. T. Coleridge makes a joke about Cologne. Works of art...
Kurdish rights (tîr-verlag)
Sondages
As the images of the devastating attack on the World Trade Center in New York were flickering across the TV screens on September 11, 2001, Thomas Kling began drafting a laconic lament as a live...
France (Unès)
The Century that Cried itself Blind
Considering this current moment of great change as well as the 20th century when death became a master from Germany, is literature still possible? Does it still have a reason for being in a post-Auschwitz world where all cultural production can only be an expression of barbarism? Or is literature necessary, indeed indispensible, precisely because of such atrocities? Which methods must such a...
The Karnau Tapes
English World Rights (New York Review of Books), France (Ça et La), Netherlands (Scratch Books), Slovak Republic (Brak)
Putin’s Postbox
One morning, Marcel Beyer drives out to the...
English world rights (Voland & Quist)
Kaltenburg
English world rights (Harcourt), Spanish world rights (Edhasa), Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Métailié), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Cossée), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Czech Republic (Havran), Hungary (Magvetö), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)
The Karnau Tapes
World War II. The final days of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer, is obsessively compiling an archive of every conceivable nuance of human sound. Karnau's work so impresses...
USA (Harcourt), UK (Secker and Warburg), Spanish world rights (Debate), Russia (Amphora), France (Calmann-Lévy), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Hyonamsa), Japan (Sanshusha), Poland (Słowo / Obraz Terytoria), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Balkani), Estonia (Tänapäev), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti), Israel (Books in the Attic)