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Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in

Neuss Neuss (; spelled ''Neuß'' until 1968; li, Nüss ; la, Novaesium) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district. It ...

) is a German

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

essayist An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal ...

and

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."Norbert Hummelt"
in: ''

Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender The ''Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender'' is a reference work that currently contains around 12,000 bio-bibliographic articles and addresses of writers of German literature, as well as translators, publishers, agencies, radio stations, wr ...

2016/2017''. vol. II: P–Z. Walter De Gruyter, 2016, , p. 438. Hummelt studied German studies and English studies in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

until 1990. He worked together with

Marcel Beyer Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer. Life Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and literary studies ...

and like him he started as a rather

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a ...

writer, following

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (16 April 1940 – 23 April 1975) was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries. Life and work Rolf Dieter Brinkmann is considered an important forerunner of the German so-called ''Pop-Li ...

and

Thomas Kling Thomas Kling (June 5, 1957 – April 1, 2005) was a German poet. Life Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf. He studied philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for ...

. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of the Kölner Autorenwerkstatt; an authors group in Cologne. With his second collection of poems, „singtrieb“ from 1997, he came closer to concepts of

Romantic poetry Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18t ...

. Norbert Hummelt lived in the

Bergisches Land The Bergisches Land (, ''Berg Country'') is a low mountain range region within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, east of Rhine river, south of the Ruhr. The landscape is shaped by woods, meadows, rivers and creeks and contains ...

near Cologne for several years. Since January 2006 he lives in Berlin. He taught and gave classes in creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and works for the ''

Text+Kritik ''Text+Kritik'' (stylized ''text+kritik'') is a quarterly German journal for literature, music, film, and cultural studies in which German-language writers have their works analysed and presented by fellow writers and experts in literary researc ...

'' journal.

Collections of poems

* ''knackige codes'' (crisp codes), Galrev 1993 * ''singtrieb'' (appetite for singing / sing instinct), Urs Engeler Editor 1997 * ''Zeichen im Schnee'' (signs in the snow), Luchterhand 2001 * ''Bildstock'' (picture stock), Kunstverein Hasselbach 2003 * ''Stille Quellen'' (silent fonts), Luchterhand 2004 * ''Totentanz'' (dance of the dead), Luchterhand 2007

Translations

* Inger Christensen, ''Das Schmetterlingstal. Ein Requiem'' (from Danish, in: ''Schreibheft'', no. 52, 1999) * ''

Four Quartets ''Four Quartets'' is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ''Burnt Norton'', was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ''Collected Poems 1909–1935''). After a f ...

'', T. S. Eliot (in: T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets ..., Rigodon, 2006). * T. S. Eliot, '' Das öde Land'', Suhrkamp : Frankfurt am Main 2008

Selected essays

* ''out here in the dark'', essay, in: ' 38, 2005. * ''Du hast dich durch Räume bewegt'' (you moved through spaces), about Lars Reyer's poems, in: ', no. 17, special edition for German contemporary poetry, Hildesheim 2007

Editor

* ''

William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

– Die Gedichte'' (Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2005) * ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2006'' (with , S. Fischer Verlag 2005) * ''Lyrikedition 2000'' (since 2005)

Selected awards

* Förderpreis Literatur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 1995 * Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Stipendium of the city of Cologne 1996 * 1998 * Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium 2000 * Fellow der Raketenstation Hombroich 2005 * Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis 2007

References

External links

Hummelt at Lyrikwelt, GermanAuthor page
at Lyrikline.org, with audio, text, and translations). {{DEFAULTSORT:Hummelt, Norbert 1962 births Living people People from Neuss Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia German poets German male poets German-language poets