Vera Ludwig (born 5 May 1978, in Detmold) is a German poet.

Life and work

Vera Julia Ludwig was born in

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1978. After finishing school with the Abitur at Christian-Dietrich-Grabbe-Gymnasium in 1997 she studied special needs education at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

to become a German teacher. In 2004 she started working as a student teacher at a special school in Gütersloh. From 2006 to 2008 she was a teacher at a special school, first in Beckum, later back at her first school in Gütersloh. Besides working as a teacher she developed her talent as a writer, especially as a poet. She first published some of her poems in 2000 in the anthology Junge Lyrik II by

Martin Werhand Verlag The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...

. From 1999 to 2002 Martin Werhand Verlag published 3 volumes of poetry, each with 750 poems of 50 young, yet unpublished authors. In connection with this some of the authors, among them Vera Ludwig, participated in a series of readings of their works at the University of

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

. More poems by Vera Ludwig can be found in the anthology Junge Lyrik III from 2002. In March 2016 she published her first own book of poetry Sandtropfen (Drops of Sand) in the series 50 Gedichte (50 poems) by Martin Werhand Verlag, half a year later her second one with the title Horizont (Horizon) in the series 100 Gedichte (100 poems) by the same publisher. Vera Ludwig's poetry is characterized by a direct or metaphorical, psychologically motivated figurative language like the one of

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. Vera Ludwig lives and works in Gütersloh.

Publications (selection)

Books

* ''Sandtropfen.'' 50 Gedichte.

, Melsbach 2016, 100 p. . * ''Horizont.'' 100 Gedichte.

, Melsbach 2016, 152 p. .Vera Ludwig
in

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Anthologies

* ''Junge Lyrik II – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2000, . * ''Junge Lyrik III – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, . Also second, revised edition.

Literature

Vera Ludwig
In: ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert Band 38: Loewe – Luttmer'', Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2022,
Vera Ludwig
In: Nicolai Riedel ''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020'', Metzler, Heidelberg, 2023, S. 781,

External links

*
Vera Ludwig
in: NRW Literatur im Netz

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludwig, Vera 1978 births Living people People from Detmold Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia 21st-century German women writers 21st-century German poets German women poets German-language poets Modernist poets Modernist women writers University of Cologne alumni