© Alexander Paul Englert
(author) born in 1951 in Schwabach, is a German poet, playwright, essayist and translator. After completing his bookseller training, Falkner lived in London and published poems and prose in artist books and magazines such as Bateria and Lettre International in the mid-1970s. He made his debut with the poetry collection “so beginnen am körper die tage” in 1981 (Luchterhand Verlag). He has published numerous volumes of poetry, including “Hölderlin Reparatur”, for which he received the Peter Huchel Prize in 2009, and most recently the poetry collection “Ignatien” (2014), with pictures by Yves Netzhammer. His novel “Apollokalypse” was nominated for the German Book Prize 2016. Falkner lives in Bavaria and Berlin.
He had various residencies at the Villa Massimo (Casa Baldi) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2013 he became the first fellow for literature in the culture academy Tarabya in Istanbul. 2014 he was the scholar at Villa Aurora Los Angeles in California. Working as a translator, he translated the work of Gerard Maley Hopkins, John Ashberry and William Butler Yeates into German. His second novel „Romeo und Julia“ (2017) was additionally nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis.
so beginnen am körper die tage. Poems. Luchterhand Verlag, 1981.
Bruno. Eine Novelle. Berlin Verlag 2008.
Apollokalypse. Novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016.
Romeo oder Julia. Novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2017.
Events
Ways to disappear
Wed, 11. July, 20:00,
Studio 1 (Kunstquartier Bethanien)