Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt 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.- knackige codes, Galrev 1993
- singtrieb, Urs Engeler Editor 1997
- Zeichen im Schnee, Luchterhand 2001
- Bildstock, Kunstverein Hasselbach 2003
- Stille Quellen, Luchterhand 2004
- Totentanz, Luchterhand 2007
Translations
- Inger Christensen, Das Schmetterlingstal. Ein Requiem
- Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot.
- out here in the dark, Essay, in: Edit 38, 2005.
- Du hast dich durch Räume bewegt, about Lars Reyers poems, in: BELLA triste Nr. 17, special edition for German contemporary poetry, Hildesheim 2007
Editor
- William Butler Yeats - Die Gedichte
- Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2006
- Lyrikedition 2000
Selected awards
- Förderpreis Literatur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 1995
- Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Stipendium of the city of Cologne 1996
- Mondseer Lyrikpreis 1998
- Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium 2000
- Fellow der Raketenstation Hombroich 2005
- Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis 2007
