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Vera Ludwig (born 5 May 1978, in Detmold) is a German poet.[1]

Vera Ludwig
Born	(1978-05-05) 5 May 1978 (age 44) Detmold, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Poet
Years active	2000–present
Website	Vera Ludwig in: NRW Literatur im Netz (in German)

Life and work

Vera Julia Ludwig was born in Detmold in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1978. After finishing school with the Abitur at Christian-Dietrich-Grabbe-Gymnasium in 1997 she studied special needs education at the University of Cologne to become a German teacher. In 2004 she started working as a student teacher at a special school in Gütersloh. From 2006 to 2008 she was a teacher at a special school, first in Beckum, later back at her first school in Gütersloh.[2]

Besides working as a teacher she developed her talent as a writer, especially as a poet. She first published some of her poems in 2000 in the anthology Junge Lyrik II[3] by Martin Werhand Verlag.[4] From 1999 to 2002 Martin Werhand Verlag published 3 volumes of poetry, each with 750 poems of 50 young, yet unpublished authors.[5] In connection with this some of the authors, among them Vera Ludwig, participated in a series of readings of their works at the University of Cologne.[6] More poems by Vera Ludwig can be found in the anthology Junge Lyrik III from 2002.[7] In March 2016 she published her first own book of poetry Sandtropfen (Drops of Sand) in the series 50 Gedichte (50 poems)[8] by Martin Werhand Verlag, half a year later her second one with the title Horizont (Horizon) in the series 100 Gedichte (100 poems)[9] by the same publisher.[10] Vera Ludwig's poetry is characterized by a direct or metaphorical, psychologically motivated figurative language like the one of Erich Fried[11] or Sarah Kirsch.

Vera Ludwig lives and works in Gütersloh.[12]

Publications (selection)

Books

• Sandtropfen. 50 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2016, 100 p. ISBN 978-3-943910-25-4.[13]
• Horizont. 100 Gedichte. Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2016, 152 p. ISBN 978-3-943910-31-5.[14]

Anthologies

• Junge Lyrik II – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter. Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2000, ISBN 3-9806390-0-2.
• Junge Lyrik III – 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter. Anthology, Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2002, ISBN 3-9806390-3-7. Also second, revised edition.[15]

See also

External links

• Literature by and about Vera Ludwig in the German National Library catalogue
• Vera Ludwig in: NRW Literatur im Netz (in German)

References

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