vita

Axel Gör­lach was born in 1966 in Kauf­beu­ren, Ger­many, and li­ves as an aut­hor and as a lan­guage te­a­cher for for­eign youth and re­fu­gees in Nurem­berg. He stu­died edu­ca­tion, phi­lo­so­phy, and mo­dern Ger­man li­te­rary history in Er­lan­gen and Ha­gen, and stu­died Ger­man as a se­cond lan­guage and Tur­kish in Nurem­berg and Is­tan­bul. His po­ems have been pu­blished in ma­ga­zi­nes and se­ve­ral an­tho­lo­gies as well as in the vo­lu­mes le­ben ge­zeich­net (fza Ver­lag, Vi­enna 2009) and licht­still (edi­tion art sci­ence, St. Wolf­gang 2015). He re­cei­ved the Vi­enna Work­shop Prize 2008 among others, was a pri­ze­win­ner at the Ir­seer Pe­ga­sus 2010 and was awarded the first prize of the Feld­kir­cher Ly­rik­preis in 2014. Axel Gör­lach is a re­gu­lar per­for­mer in re­a­dings and is ac­tive on va­rious poetry jud­ging pa­nels.