Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (born 26 January 1980) is a German and Swiss poet and writer. She has won a number of awards, including the 2013

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, the 2015

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and the

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by Rhineland-Palatinate. She lives in

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, where she has been directing the , a cultural institution founded by the

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, since 2010. Her mostly lyrical work appears under the name Nora Gomringer, published by Voland & Quist. ''Hydra's Heads'', a collection of her work translated into English by Annie Rutherford, appeared with Burning Eye Books in 2018.

Life

Gomringer's parents are Nortrud Gomringer, and the Swiss concrete poet,

Eugen Gomringer Eugen Gomringer (born 20 January 1925 in Cachuela Esperanza, Bolivia) is a Bolivian-born German concrete poet. He is head of the Institut für Konstruktive Kunst und Konkrete Poesie (IKKP) in Rehau, Germany. Between 1977 and 1990, he was a profes ...

. Born in Neunkirchen,

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, she is their only daughter and the sister of seven half-brothers. She grew up in Wurlitz (

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), and moved to

in 1996. She achieved an American high school diploma in

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in 1998, and in 2000 graduated from the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium Bamberg. Gomringer went onto study English, German and Art History at the

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, completing her degree in 2006. She completed internships at the

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(2001 and 2004) and the archive of the

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, Los Angeles (2000). In April 2010, Gomringer became director of the International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg.

Poetry

Gomringer's first collection of poetry appeared in 2000. Following on from this self-published collection, the publisher Grupello Düsseldorf published ''hyphenation'' in 2002. Since 2006, she has been published by the independent publisher Voland & Quist. Her works include over ten volumes of poetry and two books of essays. Her most recent collection is ''Gottesanbieterin'', which appeared in 2020. She frequently collaborates with musicians and visual artists. The artist Reimar Limmer illustrated the three collections which make up her 'Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities'. Her musical stage partners have included: Günter Baby Sommer, Franz Tröger, Scratch Dee, Michael Stauffer, Word Class Ensemble and DJ Kermit. She performs most frequently with the drummer Philip Scholz. Her poetry has appeared in English in translations by Annie Rutherford, brought together in ''Hydra's Heads'' (Burning Eye Books, 2018). Her volumes of poetry have also been translated into Swedish (translator: Cecilia Hansson), French (translator: Vincent Barras), Belarusian (translator: Volha Hapeyeva), and Spanish ( Pablo Jofré). Individual texts and small cycles have been translated into Norwegian, Spanish, American English, Letzeburgische, Dutch, Breton and

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Opera, video and sound

In 2013, Nora Gomringerwrote the libretto for the opera project ''Three flying minutes'', (music by

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, and director

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) which premiered in

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. Her work is frequently accompanied by small film and video projects, including several filmpoems by Cindy Schmidt. A number of her poetry books have been released with audio CDs.

Collaboration with Word Class Ensemble

Since about 2010, the a cappella ensemble formation

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have worked with her texts and used it for settings with and for the active organization of workshops. From 2011 onwards, the five singers worked with Nora Gomringer, together on stage and performed a full-length program. In 2012, the program "Nora Gomringer meets Wortart Ensemble" was invited to the 50th anniversary of the Goethe Institute in Toronto. A tour of the US and Canada and then a tour of Germany followed, and in 2013 an album resulting from this collaboration was produced.

Poetry Slam

In the years 2001-2006, Nora Gomringer was active in the German poetry slam scene, including in the Bamberg Poetry Slam, which she founded in 2001 with Stefankai Spörlein and

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. For several years, the Poetry Slam had its permanent venue in the Morph Club, Bamberg and is managed by the award-winning Slammer and author Christian Ritter.

Awards

* 2012: * 2013:

* 2013: August-Graf-von-Platen-Lyrikpreis * 2014: * 2015:

* 2021:

Works

In English

* ''Hydra's Heads'', tr. Annie Rutherford. Burning Eye Books, 2018,

In German

*''Gedichte''. 2000 *''Silbentrennung: Gedichte'', Grupello-Verlag, 2002, *'' Sag doch mal was zur Nacht''. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2006, *'' Klimaforschung''. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2008, *'' Nachrichten aus der Luft.'' Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2010, *'' Ich werde etwas mit der Sprache machen''. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2011, *'' Mein Gedicht fragt nicht lange''. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2011, *'' Monster Poems.'' With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2013, *''Morbus.'' With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015, *''Mein Gedicht fragt nicht lange reloaded.'' Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015, *''achduje.'' Der gesunde Menschenversand, Luzern 2015, *''Ich bin doch nicht hier, um Sie zu amüsieren.'' Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015, . *''Moden.'' With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2017, *''Gottesanbieterin.'' Voland & Quist, Berlin / Dresden, 2020,

References

External links

Official websiteInternationales Künstlerhaus: Nora GomringerNora Gomringer's page at Poetry International
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