Walle Sayer

Born 1960 in Bierlingen near Tübingen, lives in Dettingen near Horb on the Neckar. Apprenticeship in banking, practical year in a kindergarten, civil service, odd jobs, taught German classes, responsible for child care in the central asylum seekers home in Horb, night attendant in a clinic for psychosomatic patients, manager of a cultural cafe in Horb-Nordstetten from 1985 to 1991, free-lance writer since 1992.

Publications since 1984; most recent:

1994	Zeitverwehung, poems Eppe Verlag, Bergatreute
1995	Kohlrabenweißes - Menschenbilder, Ortsbestimmungen, prose cycles Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen
1997	Fundus, notebook pages de scriptum Verlag, Uhldingen
1998	Ausgangspunkt, poems Verlag Eric van der Wal, Bergen/Holland
2000	Irrläufer, poems Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen

Awards:

1989	Vera Piller Poetry Prize
1994	Thaddäus Troll Prize
1997	Hölderlin Prize Scholarship of the City of Bad Homburg
1997	Berthold Auerbach Prize of the City of Horb
1999	Hermann Lenz Foundation Scholarship

Copyright © by Walle Sayer 2000

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