Thomas Bruns (born November 16, 1976 in

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) is a German writer and poet.

Life and work

Thomas Bruns was born in 1976 in Greven in

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. After finishing school with the Abitur at Gymnasium Augustinianum Greven and doing military service he started studying macroeconomics at

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

in 1997, after four semesters he changed his subject to politics, philosophy and comparative literature at the same university. After his studies, he travelled to

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several times and also stayed there for longer periods. Since the beginning of 2000, Thomas Bruns has published as an author in several anthologies of poetry, among others in the third volume of the series of ''Junge Lyrik'' published by

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in 2002. In 2003 he participated together with six other authors, among them Florian Cieslik,

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and

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, in a reading from the series Junge Lyrik organized by Thalia bookstore on

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, 23 April in

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. He also published some of his poems in the anthology ''Die Jahreszeiten der Liebe'' (The seasons of love). In November 2015 his first poetry book ''Sternenstaub'' (Stardust) was published in the series ''50 Gedichte'' (50 poems) by Martin Werhand Verlag. His second book of poetry followed in September 2016, titled ''Morgenröte'' (Aurora) in the series ''100 Gedichte'' (100 poems) by the same publisher. In December 2019 a third book of poetry followed titled ''Zauberbuch'' in the series ''150 Gedichte'' (150 poems). Today Thomas Bruns works as a freelance writer and lives in

.Biographical details of ''Thomas Bruns.'' In: ''Morgenröte (100 Gedichte).'', Martin Werhand Verlag, 2016, S. 117

Publications (selection)

Books

* ''Sternenstaub.'' 50 Gedichte.

, Melsbach 2015, 100 p. . * ''Morgenröte.'' 100 Gedichte.

, Melsbach 2016, 154 p. . * ''Zauberbuch.'' 150 Gedichte.

, Melsbach 2019, 220 p. .

Anthologies

* ''Junge Lyrik III – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, . Also second, revised edition. * ''Die Jahreszeiten der Liebe.'' Anthology,

, Melsbach 2006, .

Literature

Thomas Bruns
In: ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert - Nachtragsband: A - E Volume 1'',

Verlag Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

, 2020,
Thomas Bruns
In:

Nicolai Riedel Nicolai Riedel (born 17 October 1952 in Lübeck) is a German philologist, author and an editor. Riedel worked for a long time as a research fellow in the library of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. In addition, he is the author ...

''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020'',

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, Heidelberg, 2023, S. 562,

References

External links

Official website of Thomas Bruns
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in:

NRW Literatur im Netz NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruns, Thomas 1976 births Living people People from Steinfurt (district) German-language poets German male poets Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia German poets University of Münster alumni