Poetry

Elke Erb

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Elke Erb was born in 1938 in Scherbach (now Rheinbach) in the Eifel region, but moved to Halle in East Germany with her family in 1949. After a spell working on the land she studied German Literature, Slavonic Studies, History and Education in Halle. She qualified as a teacher in 1963, then worked for several years in publishing. Since 1966 she has been a freelance writer (poetry and fiction) and a translator. She lives today in Berlin and the Upper Lausitz region.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2018 Mörike Prize of the city of Fellbach
  • 2014 Anke Bennholdt-Thomsen Prize for Poetry, German Schiller Foundation
  • 2013 Ernst Jandl Prize
  • 2012 Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry
  • 2012 Roswitha Prize
  • 2011 Erlangen Literature Prize for Poetry as Translation
  • 2011 Prize of the Literature Houses
  • 2007 Hans Erich Nossack Prize
  • 1999 F. C. Weiskopf Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
  • 1999 Norbert C. Kaser Prize
  • 1995 Ida Dehmel Prize
  • 1995 Erich Fried Prize
  • 1994 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal
  • 1993 Honorary Prize, Schiller Foundation
  • 1990 Heinrich Mann Prize (jointly with Adolf Endler)
  • 1988 Peter Huchel Prize

More Publications

Sonnenklar. Poems
roughbooks, Berlin 2015.
 
Meins. Poems
roughbooks, Berlin 2010.
 
die crux. Poems
Engeler, Basel und Weil am Rhein 2003.
 
Der wilde Forst, der tiefe Wald. Auskünfte in Prosa
Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1995.
 
Nachts, halb zwei, zu Hause. Texte aus drei Jahrzehnten
Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1991.
 
Vexierbild
Aufbau Verlag, Berlin/Weimar 1983.
 
Der Faden der Geduld
Aufbau Verlag, Berlin/Weimar 1978.
 
Gutachten. Poesie und Prosa
Aufbau Verlag, Berlin/Weimar 1975.

Featured Books

Book cover Suspicion of Poem

Gedichtverdacht
[Suspicion of Poem]

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