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Oct 20, 2024 · Lutz Seiler’s novel “Star 111” is a braided tale that follows both Carl’s search for himself in the burgeoning Berlin counterculture and his parents’ struggle to find their footing as ...
It took Lutz Seiler, born in East Germany, thirty years to give to the moment [of the Fall of the Berlin Wall] the full richness of fertile and ambiguous human experience. With its ample narrative and powerful imagination, Star 111 is the “Wenderoman” par excellence, the great novel of the “turn”, as German reunification is called.’
Mar 30, 2023 · In Case of Loss. In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler’s non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler’s beautifully anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light on literature and his background, not least the environmental and human ...
https://lutzseiler.de/. Lutz Seiler (born 8 June 1963 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the most important German poets living today, [2] he is the author of numerous books of poetry, prose, and essays, and gained national attention for his debut novel Kruso. In 2023 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize ...
Pitch & Glint. 2023 Poetry Book Society Translation Choice. On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler’s childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly personal, porous, twisting, cadenced, cryptic and earthy, traversing the rural ...
Lutz Seiler found his way to literature late in life. He first wrote poetry, celebrated his greatest successes with novels, and now received his literary accolade with the Georg Büchner Prize. By Holger Moos. Lutz Seiler’s path to becoming a poet and writer was anything but preordained, as he did not come from an educated middle-class household.
Nov 28, 2023 · Celebrated genre-crossing author and Büchner Prize winner Lutz Seiler on his three new English translations, the literary significance of objects, and what it takes to write both poetry and prose. This year, the Büchner Prize – Germany’s most prestigious literature award – was given to Lutz Seiler, a figure as close to universally liked and respected as is possible in the envy-driven ...
