Norbert Scheuer
{{short description|German author (born 1951)}}
Norbert Scheuer (born December 16, 1951, in Prüm, Westeifel, Rheinland-Palatinate) is a German author.Biographical note by publisher C H Beck: http://www.chbeck.de/trefferliste.aspx?action=author&author=12381.
He earns a living as an IT system programmer for Deutsche Telekom and now lives in Keldenich, Kall, North Rhine-Westphalia in the area where he grew up, after lengthy periods spent in Düsseldorf and Bonn.Published in Die Welt on 10/03/2015: https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article138228423/Die-Welt-ist-nur-ein-Dorf-in-der-Eifel.html
Early career
Scheuer qualified as an electrician after secondary school then studied technology in Iserlohn. He then undertook further studies at the University of Düsseldorf and graduated in philosophy before completing his master's degree on the work of Kant.Berlin International Literature Festival programme note: http://www.literaturfestival.com/archiv/teilnehmer/autoren/2012/norbert-scheuerPublished as Norbert Scheuer: Kant, die Provinz und der Roman. Andreas Erb (Ed.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis Verlag, 2012
In 1994 he made his debut with a collection of short stories, Der Hahnenkönig, and this was followed in 1997 by a collection of poems, Ein Echo von allem."Eine lyrische Marginalie oder Ein Echo von allem. Der Lyriker Norbert Scheuer," in Theo Breuer: Ohne Punkt & Komma. Lyrik in den 90er Jahren. Köln: Wolkenstein (1999) His 1999 Novel Der Steinesammler marked the beginning of his exploration of his own Eifel homeland.
Public appearances
In 2012 and 2013, Scheuer was a participant in the Berlin International Literature Festival. He was poet in residence at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011 and held the Thomas-Kling Lectureship in Poetry at The University of Bonn in 2014 courtesy of the Kunststiftung NRW.University of Bonn: https://www.germanistik.uni-bonn.de/studium/poetikdozentur/poetikdozenten/norbert-scheuer-1
Recent work
Scheuer's most recent work is his novel, Die Sprache der Vögel, published in Germany in 2015. This made the shortlist of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2015-02/buchmesse-leipzig-nominierung-belletristik|title = ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl}} Scheuer's work will be published in English for the first time with The Language of Birds appearing in June 2017.The Language of Birds. (2017) The University of Chicago Press for Haus Publishing, forthcoming in June 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-910376-63-8}} The novel recounts the experiences of a German Army medic deployed in the Afghanistan war in 2003, Paul Arimond. The horrors and banalities of everyday life threaten to overcome him but he finds refuge in the natural world and the exquisite beauty of birds"Afghanistan-Roman - Der Spatz im Panzerwrack," from a radio programme by Wolfgang Schneider, broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur vom 10. März 2015 10.03.2015
Scheuer has received numerous awards for his literary work.
List of works
- Der Hahnenkönig. (Short stories) (1994) (Out of print)
- Ein Echo von allem. (Poems) Mainz : Hase & Koehler (1997) (Out of print)
- Der Steinesammler. (Novel) (1999; 2nd edn., 2010) Schöffling & Co. Frankfurt am Main {{ISBN|978-3-89561-300-5}}
- Flußabwärts. (Novel) (2002) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-49312-6}}
- Kall, Eifel. (Short stories) (2005) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-53554-3}}
- Überm Rauschen. (Novel) (2009) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-61041-7}}
- Bis ich dies alles liebte. (Poems) (2011) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-62172-7}}
- Peehs Liebe. (Novel) (2012) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-63949-4}}
- Die Sprache der Vögel. (Novel) (2015) C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-67745-8}} Translated as The Language of Birds. (2017) The University of Chicago Press for Haus Publishing, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-910376-63-8}}
- Am Grund des Universums. (Novel) (2017). C. H. Beck, München {{ISBN|978-3-406-71179-4}}
- Winterbienen, novel, C.H.Beck, Munich 2019. {{ISBN|978-3-406-73963-7}}
Awards
- 2003: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
- 2004: Literary Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW
- 2006: 3sat-Prize at the Festival of German-Language Literature
- 2006: Georg-K.-Glaser Prize
- 2009: Shortlisted for the German Book Prize for Überm RauschenPublished in Die Zeit, 16 September 2009: http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2009-09/Buchpreis-nominierung
- 2010: {{ill|Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis|de}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.literaturpreisgewinner.de/belletristik/duesseldorfer-literaturpreis|title=Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis | Literaturpreis Gewinner}}
- 2010: Rheinischer Literaturpreis Siegburg for Überm Rauschen
- 2015: Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Die Sprache der Vögel
- 2019: Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for Winterbienen{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wilhelm-raabe-literaturpreis-2019-die-eifel-als-spiegel-der.691.de.html?dram:article_id=459586|title=Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2019 - Die Eifel als Spiegel der Welt|website=Deutschlandfunk}}
Literature
- Theo Breuer: Winterbienen im Urftland. Empfundene/erfundene Welten in Norbert Scheuers Gedichten und Geschichten, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019.
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