Norbert Scheuer

Norbert Scheuer (born December 16, 1951 in Prüm, Westeifel, Rheinland-Palatinate) is a German author.[1]

Norbert Scheuer in Offenburg, 2013

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.[2]

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.[3][4] 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.[5] 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.[3] 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.[6]

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.[7] Scheuer's work will be published in English for the first time with The Language of Birds appearing in June 2017.[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[9]

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 978-3895613005
  • Flußabwärts. (Novel) (2002) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406493126
  • Kall, Eifel. (Short stories) (2005) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406535543
  • Überm Rauschen. (Novel) (2009) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406610417
  • Bis ich dies alles liebte. (Poems) (2011) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406621727
  • Peehs Liebe. (Novel) (2012) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406639494
  • Die Sprache der Vögel. (Novel) (2015) C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3406677458 Translated as The Language of Birds. (2017) The University of Chicago Press for Haus Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1910376638
  • Am Grund des Universums. (Novel) (2017). C. H. Beck, München ISBN 978-3-406-71179-4
  • Winterbienen, novel, C.H.Beck, Munich 2019.

Awards

Literature
  • Theo Breuer: Winterbienen im Urftland. Empfundene/erfundene Welten in Norbert Scheuers Gedichten und Geschichten, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019.

References
  1. Biographical note by publisher C H Beck: http://www.chbeck.de/trefferliste.aspx?action=author&author=12381.
  2. 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
  3. Berlin International Literature Festival programme note: http://www.literaturfestival.com/archiv/teilnehmer/autoren/2012/norbert-scheuer
  4. Published as Norbert Scheuer: Kant, die Provinz und der Roman. Andreas Erb (Ed.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis Verlag, 2012
  5. "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)
  6. University of Bonn: https://www.germanistik.uni-bonn.de/studium/poetikdozentur/poetikdozenten/norbert-scheuer-1
  7. http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2015-02/buchmesse-leipzig-nominierung-belletristik
  8. The Language of Birds. (2017) The University of Chicago Press for Haus Publishing, forthcoming in June 2017. ISBN 9781910376638
  9. "Afghanistan-Roman - Der Spatz im Panzerwrack," from a radio programme by Wolfgang Schneider, broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur vom 10. März 2015 10.03.2015
  10. Published in Die Zeit, 16 September 2009: http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2009-09/Buchpreis-nominierung
  11. "Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis | Literaturpreis Gewinner".
  12. "Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2019 - Die Eifel als Spiegel der Welt". Deutschlandfunk.
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