Thomas Wensing, born 1978 in Cologne (
North Rhine-Westphalia) has studied at the
University of Cologne and at the
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He obtained his PhD from the latter institution in 2011. Besides studies and occupation, Wensing developed skills in writing literary texts. Since the late 1990s, he has been publishing poetry in a couple of anthologies, e.g. in
Junge Lyrik,
Junge Lyrik II and
Junge Lyrik III, a book series published by
Martin Werhand Verlag. In 2006, he participated in the visual-poetric project
Poesie bewegt of the
Bremer Straßenbahn AG under supervision of Joachim Tuz. Together with the two musicians Martin Schmitz and Michael Wurzel, Wensing formed the trio
eher selten that performed poetry and music at various occasions in the mid-2000s. Apart from that group, he tried out his texts in several other formats, e.g. in cooperation with the
Stadttheater Ingolstadt. In August 2014
Martin Werhand Verlag published Wensings first own volume of poems (Mitschrift), within the series
100 Gedichte. A volume of short stories (Zwischenspiel) appeared in late 2015 in the same publishing house. In December 2019 the MWV published a third book with poems (Herbsttag), within the series
50 Gedichte. ==Selected publications==