Michael Lentz
Literature
Michael Lentz, born in 1964 in Düren, Germany, is a distinguished author, musician, and performer known for his experimental texts and sound poetry. He studied German literature, history, and philosophy in Aachen and Munich, earning his doctorate in 1998 with a dissertation on sound poetry and music after 1945. A student of composer Josef Anton Riedl, Lentz is acclaimed for his work as a writer, saxophonist, and interpreter of avant-garde literature and performance.
Lentz’s prolific output spans novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, poetry, and compositions for a variety of ensembles. His 2007 novel, Pazifik Exil (S. Fischer Verlag), explored the German-speaking exile community in Los Angeles around figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Arnold Schoenberg. Since 2006, Lentz has served as Professor of Creative Writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig.
He has received numerous awards, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2001) and the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize (2012). His most recent novel, Schattenfroh. Ein Requiem (S. Fischer Verlag), was published to critical acclaim. Lentz lives in Berlin and Leipzig.
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