Marcel Beyer

Marcel Beyer studied at University of Siegen. The recorded working language is German and English. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and essay. Friederike Mayröcker is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dresden. Employment is recorded with European Graduate School. Distinctions recorded are Heinrich-Böll-Preis, Kleist Prize, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen and Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.

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 at the University of Siegen; in 1992, he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987, he has developed performance art. Since 1989, he published, with Karl Riha, the series Vergessene Autoren der Moderne (Forgotten Modernist Authors) at the University of Siegen. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as editor on the literary magazine Konzepte; from 1992 to 1998, he was a contributor to the music magazine Spex. In 1996 and 1998, he was writer in residence at University College London and the University of Warwick in Coventry. Beyer lived until 1996 in Cologne, and since then in Dresden. He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. From early on, Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman, has been a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.

• Walkmännin, Neu-Isenburg 1990 • Das Menschenfleisch, Frankfurt/Main 1991 • Friederike Mayröcker, Frankfurt/Main 1992 • Brauwolke. Berlin 1994 (together with Klaus Zylla) • Flughunde. Frankfurt/Main 1995 (translated as The Karnau Tapes by John Brownjohn, 1997 and graphic novel adaptation by Ulli Lust, 2013) • HNO-Theater im Unterhemd. Berlin 1995 • Falsches Futter. Frankfurt/Main 1997 • Spione. Cologne 2000 (translated as Spies by Breon Mitchell, 2005) • Zur See. Berlin 2001 • Erdkunde. Cologne 2002 • Nonfiction. To Cologne 2003 • Vergeßt mich. Cologne 2006 • Kaltenburg. Suhrkamp 2008 (translated as Kaltenburg by Alan Bance, 2012) • Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung. Bühnenmusik für vierzehn Herren. Opernlibretto (composition by Enno Poppe) • IQ. Testbatterie in 8 Akten. Opernlibretto (composition by Enno Poppe). UA: 27. April 2012, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele • Putins Briefkasten. Erzählungen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2012, • Graphit. Gedichte. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2014, • XX. Lichtenberg-Poetikvorlesungen (Göttinger Sudelblätter). Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, • Im Situation Room: der entscheidende Augenblick. Rede an die Abiturienten des Jahrgangs 2015. Conte, Sankt Ingbert 2014,

• "Das wilde Tier im Kopf des Historikers", in: Lose Blätter No. 27, 2004 • "Die Katze von Vilnius", in BELLA triste No. 15, 2006 • "Aurora", Münchener Reden zur Poesie. From the series Lyrik Kabinett Munich, 2006

• Michael Hofmann: Feineinstellungen. Cologne 2001 • Gertrude Stein: Spinnwebzeit, bee time vine und andere Gedichte. Zurich 1993

• Junge Lyrik, Neuss 1983 (Neue Neusser Series)