Jan Wagner

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- Awards
- Georg Büchner Prize Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Born
- 1971 · Hamburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- translator · literary critic · writer · poet · essayist
- Fields
- creative and professional writing · poetry · literary criticism · translation
- Honours
- Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize · Anna Seghers Prize · Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis · Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik · Georg Büchner Prize · Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction
- Languages
- German · English
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Biography
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The recorded working language is German and English. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and literary criticism. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Distinctions recorded are Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize, Anna Seghers Prize, Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis and Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Awards — Georg Büchner Prize Leipzig Book Fair Prize • Notable Works — Regentonnenvariationen Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971) is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Life
Life
Wagner was born in Hamburg, and grew up north of it, in the small town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein. He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated from Hamburg University, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College. In 2001, his first volume of poetry Probebohrung im Himmel was published. Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages. Wagner is also a translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), a freelance reviewer (Frankfurter Rundschau and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element". Since 1995, he lives in Berlin.
Works
Works
• Probebohrung im Himmel. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001,. • Guerickes Sperling. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004,. • Achtzehn Pasteten. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007,. • Australien. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010,. • Die Sandale des Propheten. Essays. Berlin Verlag. Berlin 2011,. • Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern. Drei Verborgene. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2012,. • Poesiealbum 295. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst 2011,. • Der verschlossene Raum. Münchner Reden zur Poesie. Herausgegeben von Maria Gazzetti und Frieder von Ammon, Lyrik Kabinett München, 2012.. • Regentonnenvariationen. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2014,. • Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm. Ausgewählte Gedichte 2001–2015. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2016,. • Der verschlossene Raum. Beiläufige Prosa. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017,. • Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019),. • Der glückliche Augenblick. Beiläufige Prosa. Essays. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2021,.
Identity
Identity
Metabolic, circulatory and hormonal effects of the beta₂-adrenoceptor stimulating drug salbutamol in late pregnancy / by Jan Wagner. Recorded as translator, literary critic, writer, poet and essayist.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1971
Jan Wagner born at Hamburg.
Awards (selection)
Awards (selection)
• 2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis • 2004: Anna Seghers Prize • 2004: Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize • 2010: Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome • 2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen • 2011: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis • 2015: Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach • 2015: Leipzig Book Fair Prize • 2017: Georg Büchner Prize • 2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the University of Peking • 2020/2021: Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg (33rd poetics professor at the University of Bamberg). • 2021: PONT Euro-Mediterranean literary prize, Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia
Memberships
Memberships
• PEN Centre Germany • Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung • Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste • Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
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- 1.Jan Wagner. Vita. In: literaturport.de. In: Literaturport, abgerufen am 20. Juni 2017.
- 2.Jan Wagner. In: badsk.de. Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, abgerufen am 24. Februar 2020.
- 3.Mitgliedseintrag von Jan Wagner bei der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, abgerufen am 6. November 2017. – ›Festvortrag von Jan Wagner‹. In: adwmainz.de, 20. November 2019, abgerufen am 25. Februar 2020 („seit 2010 Mitglied der Klasse der Literatur und der Musik“).
- 4.Mitglieder. PEN-Zentrum Deutschland.
- 5.Liste der 370 Mitgründer:innen. penberlin.de.
- 6.Jan Wagner: Aus dem Munde des Altertums. Gedanken zu Winckelmann, Freiheit und Kunst. In: Sinn und Form. 5/2018, S. 608–616 (Rede gehalten am 13. Juni 2018 auf der Tagung der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft in Berlin; [noch] keine Downloadmöglichkeit).
- 7.Johann Thun. Zahnlose Verse, blutlose Reime. Der Rabe Ralf. 2024-12.
- 8.Susanne Kippenberger (Protokoll): Jan Wagner gewinnt Leipziger Buchpreis: „Am liebsten schreibe ich in meinem alten Ohrensessel“. In: Der Tagesspiegel. 12. März 2015, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2025.
- 9.LiSe. Jan Wagner kuratiert das forum:autoren 2018. literaturfest-muenchen.de. 2018-02-02.
- 10.In: conte-verlag.de.
- 11.Nicolas Freund. Die Wiederverwunderung der Welt. Jan Wagners Prosaband „Der glückliche Augenblick“: Am Beispiel des Fisches. Süddeutsche Zeitung. 2021-06-28.
- 12.Stipendiaten. In: kuenstlerhof-schreyahn.de, abgerufen am 1. Juli 2017.
- 13.orm, str: Literarische Auszeichnung – Lyriker Jan Wagner erhält Georg-Büchner-Preis. In: Deutschlandfunk. 20. Juni 2017, abgerufen am 20. November 2022.
- 14.In: wdr.de, 27. Januar 2022, abgerufen am 27. Januar 2022.
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