Daniel Falb 
Author

Poems

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Übersetzung

Svalbard Paem german

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*** [أرض شفافة — Maervent Oiosis] german

*** [Vielen Dank für diese wundervolle Einladung] german

*** [die gletscher schieben alles herum] german

*** [Das ist nicht die Wahre Tastatur dieses Notebooks] german

Translations: pt

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*** [Your Excellency President Jacob Zumba] german

*** [die menschen von einst liebten den tanz] german

Translations: pt

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*** [das wollte ich nicht] german

Translations: ar

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*** [geodätische kuppeln] german

Translations: en

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*** [register beim amtsgericht] german

*** [beide dimensionen der gleichförmigkeit] german

Daniel Falb 
Author

photo © Mike Schmidt
* 11.10.1977, Kassel, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Daniel Falb (b. 1977) is a poet and philosopher. He grew up in Kassel and has lived in Berlin since 1998, where he studied Philosophy and gained his doctorate with a thesis on the Idea of Collectivity. His first book of poems, die räumung dieser parks was published by kookbooks in 2003, with more following with the same publisher.

As well as poetry, Falb works on questions of geophilosophy and poetics. He was a collaborator in the collective poetics project Helm aus Phlox (with Ann Cotten, Hendrik Jackson, Steffen Popp and Monika Rinck, Merve 2011) and appears in the anthology Anthropozän. Dichtung in der Gegenwartsgeologie (Verlagshaus Berlin 2015).

 photo © Mike Schmidt
In his challenging poems Falb casts a universal look at life, in which we are all part of a generational chain. Time and again they centre on questions of palaeontology and the climate, with the addition of the element of conservation and archiving. He also develops these themes in his “Svalbard Paem”, written in 2018, about the Spitzbergen seed bank and the sound archive lyrikline. It was published by kookbooks in 2019 along with three other longer poems in his latest collection Orchidee und Technofossil.

Publications
  • die räuming dieser parks

    Idstein: kookbooks, 2003

  • bancor

    Gedichte

    Idstein: kookbooks, 2009

  • naturezas-mortas sociais

    33 poemas

    (Português-Deutsch)

    Lissabon: Sextante Editora, 2009

  • Helm aus Phlox

    Zur Theorie des schlechten Werzeugs

    Zusammen mit Ann Cotten, Hendrik Jackson, Steffen Popp, Monika Rinck

    Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2011

  • CEK · COÖPERATION est KOÖRDINATION

    Gedichte

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2015

  • Geospekulationen

    Metaphysik für die Erde im Anthropozän

    Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2019

  • Orchidee und Technofossil

    Gedichte

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2019

  • Deutschland. Ein Weltmärchen (in leichter Sprache)

    Gedichte

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2023

Awards
  • 2001 Literaturpreis Prenzlauer Berg

  • 2005 Lyrikdebütpreis von Kunst: Raum Sylt-Quelle und Literarischem Colloquium Berlin (LCB)

  • 2005 Aufenthaltsstipendium für das Schriftstellerhaus Stuttgart

  • 2006 Stipendium des Autoren-Förderungsprogramms der Stiftung Niedersachsen

  • 2012 Stipendium der Berliner Literaturförderung

  • 2015 Aufenthaltsstipendium für das Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

  • 2016 Kurt Sigel-Lyrikpreis

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