Martin Piekar

Martin Piekar was born to Polish parents in Germany in 1990. In 2012, he won the Open Mike Award for Poetry and has since received several distinctions for his works, e.g. Irseer Pegasus and Alfred-Gruber-Preis, both 2018. His first volume of poems titled “Bastard Echo” was published by Verlagshaus Berlin in 2014 and was followed by his second volume “AmokperVers” in 2018. Martin Piekar’s poetry crosses intercultural boundaries, emotionally grapples with personal development and explores the possibilities of subjectivity in a political realm. In 2023, his third collection of poetry named “livestream & leichen” was published and he won two awards (the Kelag-Preis and the audience award) at the prominent “Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur” in Klagenfurt.