Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer.
Marcel Beyer in 2008
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 .[1] 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, ISBN 978-3-518-46324-6
Graphit. Gedichte. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42440-7
XX. Lichtenberg-Poetikvorlesungen (Göttinger Sudelblätter). Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1674-4
Im Situation Room: der entscheidende Augenblick. Rede an die Abiturienten des Jahrgangs 2015. Conte, Sankt Ingbert 2014, ISBN 978-3-95602-058-2
"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
Rudolf Blümner : Der Stuhl, die Ohrfeige und anderes literarisches Kasperletheater Siegen 1988 ISSN 0177-9869 number 35
Ernst Jandl : Gemeinschaftsarbeit . Siegen 1989 (written together with Friederike Mayröcker and Andreas Okopenko )
Rudolf Blümner: Ango laina und andere Texte . Munich 1993 (together with Karl Riha )
George Grosz : Grosz Berlin . Hamburg 1993 (together with Karl Riha )
William S. Burroughs . Eggingen 1995 (together with Andreas Kramer)
Ausreichend lichte Erklärung . Munich 1998 (together with Christoph Buchwald)
Friederike Mayröcker : Collected prose . Frankfurt/Main (together with Klaus and Klaus Kastberger) 2001
Friederike Mayröcker: Collected poems . Frankfurt/Main 2004
Junge Lyrik , Neuss 1983 (Neue Neusser Series)