About Marius Hulpe

Marius Hulpe, born in 1982 in Soest, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim, Potsdam, Berlin, Leipzig and Zurich. Since 2002, his poems, essays and prose have appeared in newspapers, magazines and on the radio. He works as an editor of the lifestyle magazine “lit.07″ and at the literary magazine “Am Erker” as an assistant director; he was co-editor of the book “Landpartie 2008”, which he recorded in 2009. In 2008, his first poetry book “Wiederbelebung der Lämmer” was published by the Ammann Verlag, distinguished with the LCB Grant of the Berlin Senate and the Literature Prize of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Marius is also a member of the Schriftsteller Nationalmannschaft (the German national writers team) which won the Ruhr Lit Cup in May. The tournament, held in connection with the RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture festivities in the city of Unna nearby Dortmund, saw the German writers victorious against teams from Sweden, England, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Marius lives in Hildesheim, a city in the northwestern federal state of Lower Saxony.