GÖRITZ, Matthias

Matthias GÖRITZ (b. 1969, Hamburg) has taught at many German Universities as well as at Bard College in New York. A recipient of numerous fellowships, he has spent time in several European cities as well as New York and Chicago. His first book of poems, [Loops], was published in 2001 in German. He has contributed prose and poetry to many magazines, anthologies, and the major German newspapers, e.g.  Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Welt.  With Chong Heyong, he co-translated Kim Kwang Kyu's [The Depth of the Shell];  and frequently translates from the English for the journal Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, where he is also a contributing editor. He is participating courtesy of Max Kade German Writer in Residence Program.