Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt is a German poet, essayist and translator.
Hummelt studied German studies and English studies in Cologne until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer and like him he started as a rather experimental writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of the Kölner Autorenwerkstatt; an authors group in Cologne. With his second collection of poems, singtrieb from 1997, he came closer to concepts of Romantic poetry.
Norbert Hummelt lived in the Bergisches Land near Cologne for several years. Since January 2006 he lives in Berlin. He taught and gave classes in creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and works for the Text+Kritik journal.
Collections of poems
knackige codes, Galrev 1993singtrieb, Urs Engeler Editor 1997Zeichen im Schnee, Luchterhand 2001Bildstock, Kunstverein Hasselbach 2003Stille Quellen, Luchterhand 2004Totentanz, Luchterhand 2007Translations
- Inger Christensen, Das Schmetterlingstal. Ein Requiem Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot.
- T. S. Eliot, Das öde Land, Suhrkamp : Frankfurt am Main 2008
Selected essays
out here in the dark, essay, in: ' 38, 2005.Du hast dich durch Räume bewegt, about Lars Reyer's poems, in: ', no. 17, special edition for German contemporary poetry, Hildesheim 2007Editor
William Butler Yeats – Die Gedichte Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2006- ''Lyrikedition 2000''