Uwe Martens (born 3 February 1970 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

) is a German writer and poet.

Life and work

Uwe Martens was born in Cologne in 1970. After graduating from high school at the Städtisches Gymnasium Cologne-Pesch and the subsequent civil service in a Cologne retirement home, he began studying law at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

, but after three semesters in 1992 he switched to an apprenticeship in the book trade in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, which he completed in 1995. He then lived for three years in

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, East Westphalia. At the beginning of 1999 he returned to Cologne, where he lived until 2011. During this period he worked in a bookstore in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

. In 2011 he moved to the edge of the

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for work. There he was in charge of the paperback department in a bookstore in

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until 2016. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Uwe Martens has been represented as an author with publications in various poetry anthologies, including 2002 in the Martin Werhand Verlag in the third volume of the anthology series Junge Lyrik. In 2015, his first own volume of poetry, Nebeltag, was published in the 100 poems series by Martin Werhand Verlag. His second poetry publication followed in September 2017 under the title Weltwelke in the series 50 poems by the same publisher. In December 2018, the MWV published a third volume by Martens under the title Light Sketches in the series 150 poems. Today Uwe Martens lives and works as a freelance writer in Cologne.Biographical details of ''Uwe Martens.'' In: ''Lichtskizzen (150 Gedichte).'', Martin Werhand Verlag, 2018, S. 177

Publications (selection)

Books

* ''Nebeltag.'' 100 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2015, 164 p. . * ''Weltwelke.'' 50 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2017, 120 p. . * ''Lichtskizzen.'' 150 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2018, 220 p. .

Anthologies

* ''Junge Lyrik III – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, . Also second, revised edition.

Literature

Uwe Martens
In: ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert Band 40: Mansion - Mehl'',

Verlag Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Ber ...

, 2023,
Uwe Martens
In:

Nicolai Riedel Nicolai Riedel (born 17 October 1952 in Lübeck) is a German philologist, author and an editor. Riedel worked for a long time as a research fellow in the library of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. In addition, he is the author ...

''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020'', Metzler, Heidelberg, 2023, S. 790,

References

External links

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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 ...

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