Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in Neuss) is a German poet, essayist and translator.
Hummelt studied German studies and English studies in Cologne until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer and like him he started as a rather experimental writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. 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.
Norbert Hummelt lived in the Bergisches Land 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 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, 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 – 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, German
About Hummelts poetry, German
Author page at Lyrikline.org, with audio, text, and translations).
