Patric Hemgesberg

Patric Hemgesberg (born November 3, 1973, in Brühl) is a German poet.^[1]

Life and career

Patric Hemgesberg was born in 1973 in Brühl. After a brief study of social education he has worked since 2001 as a home educator in a home for disabled people in Bonn. In addition to the normal jobs, he also developed a talent in the writing guild. Since early 2000 he is represented as a lyricist with various publications in numerous poetry anthologies, including the Heyne Verlag in the anthology Weißt Du noch das Zauberwort, published by Kristiane Allert-Wybranietz,^[2] 2002 in the Young Poetry series Junge Lyrik in the Martin Werhand Verlag or edited by Axel Kutsch in the Poetry anthology Zeit. Wort: Deutschsprachige Lyrik der Gegenwart.^[3]

More publications can be found in particular in poetry magazines like Die Brücke - Forum für antirassistische Politik und Kultur,^[4] or Federwelt. Furthermore he is represented with his poems in various poetry anthologies of the Cologne Ferber publisher. In 2003, the poetry book^[5] Tor zur Hölle: bitte leise schließen; Gedichte um einen verrückten Planeten was published.^[6]

Patric Hemgesberg has numerous readings in North Rhine-Westphalia, organized with his poems in the Bonn-Cologne area. In 2003, the Thalia bookstore organized via its parent company Poertgen Herder in Münster on World Book Day on April 23 a reading with the anthology series Junge Lyrik.^[7]

Patric Hemgesberg is father of two sons and lives with his family in Bornheim near Bonn.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Tor zur Hölle: bitte leise schließen; Gedichte um einen verrückten Planeten. Lyrik, Ferber Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-931918-40-8.^[8]

Anthologies (selection)

• Weißt Du noch das Zauberwort. Anthology, Heyne Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-4531731-8-X.
• Junge Lyrik III - 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter. Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, ISBN 3-9806390-3-7. Also second, revised edition.^[9] (edited by Martin Werhand)
• Rot trifft Blau. Anthologie, Ferber-Verlag, Cologne, 2002, ISBN 3-931918-07-6.^[10]
• Ein leises Du. Anthology, Geest-Verlag, Vechta, 2003, ISBN 3-4531731-8-X.
• Schreiben. Ich schreibe, weil... Anthology, Ferber-Verlag, Cologne, 2003, ISBN 3-931918-08-4.
• Zeit. Wort: Deutschsprachige Lyrik der Gegenwart. Anthology, Landpresse, Weilerswist, 2003, ISBN 3-935221-21-5.
• 11. September 2001 - eine literarische Retrospektive. Anthology, Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2003, ISBN 3-937312-07-2.^[11]
• Einmal ist keinmal - CalVino Rosso. Anthology, Ferber-Verlag, Cologne, 2004, ISBN 3-931918-12-2.^[12]

External links

• Official website of Patric Hemgesberg (German)
• Literature by and about Patric Hemgesberg in the German National Library catalogue
• Patric Hemgesberg in: Lyrikwelt (German)
• Patric Hemgesberg in: WorldCat

Literature

• Patric Hemgesberg in: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert Band 16: Heinemann - Herrmann, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, Seite 396

References