Thorsten Libotte (born 20 July 1972 in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

) is a German writer and poet.

Life and career

Thorsten Libotte was born 1972 in Bonn (

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...

). After graduating from high school and subsequent military duty he began his biology studies at the

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

in the fall of 1992. In the spring of 2001 he moved to the

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to research as a doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Medicine and received his PhD in the summer of 2004. In addition to normal studies and professional activities, he developed his talent as a writer. Since the late 1990s, he is represented as a poet with various publications in numerous poetry anthologies, including three volumes of the Young Poetry Series ''Junge Lyrik'' at the Martin Werhand Verlag. Furthermore, he contributed to the classic series ''Gedichte zur Weihnacht'' at the

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. In 2006 the Bremer Straßenbahn AG under the direction of Dr. Joachim Tuz started a visual lyrical project called ''Poetry in Motion (Poesie bewegt)'' with many modern authors and their contemporary poems, Thorsten Libotte among them. In March 2014 his own first book of poetry ''Quintessenz'' appeared in the series ''100 Gedichte'' at Martin Werhand Verlag. His second poetry book was published in the same year under the name ''Mitbürger''. His third book of poems ''Zapping'' appeared in the series ''250 Gedichte'' and was published at Martin Werhand Verlag in November 2015. Thorsten Libotte is father of two kids and lives with his family in Ruppichteroth.

Publications (selection)

Books

* ''Quintessenz.'' 100 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2014, 136 p. . * ''Mitbürger.'' 100 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2014, 136 p. . * ''Zapping.'' 250 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2015, 294 p. .

Anthologies (selection)

* ''Junge Lyrik – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 1999, . * ''Junge Lyrik II – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2000, . * ''Junge Lyrik III – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, . Also second, revised edition. * ''Die Jahreszeiten der Liebe.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2006, . * ''Gedichte zur Weihnacht.'' Anthology, Reclam Verlag, Ditzingen 2009, . * ''Gedanken wie Schmetterlinge.'' Anthology, Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, .''Thorsten Libotte.'' In: ''Gedanken wie Schmetterlinge.'', Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 2010, p. 45
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Literatur

Thorsten Libotte
In: ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert Band 36: Lehmann – Lichtenberg'',

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, 2021,
Thorsten Libotte
In: Nicolai Riedel ''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020'',

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, Heidelberg, 2023, S. 772,

External links

Official website of Thorsten Libotte
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in:

NRW Literatur im Netz NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ...

Thorsten Libotte in: WorldCat

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Libotte, Thorsten 1972 births Living people German male poets 21st-century German poets 21st-century German male writers Writers from Bonn Writers from the Rhine Province University of Cologne alumni