Barbara Köhler
Author

Poems

Gedicht german

Translations: ka fr en ga nl bg si ta

Rondeau Allemagne german

Translations: ka en nl bg

In the movies german

Translations: bg en ga ka nl

[SELBANDER: wir beide] german

Translations: en fr nl

Ceci n’est pas un’homme german

Translations: bg fr nl

Angel german

Translations: en nl

Die Dominospieler german

Translations: en nl si ta

f e r m a t e german

Translations: bg ga nl

Jemand geht german

Translations: en fr

MUSE, POLYTROP german

Translations: fr nl

CAMBRIDGE, DEN 29.10.05 german

Translations: pt

LÖSUNG: TURNER german

Translations: pt

SPELL BOUND german

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ELF 1/2 german

Translations: pt

Barbara Köhler
Author

About

* 11.04.1959, Burgstädt, Germany
† 08.01.2021, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Barbara Köhler was born in Burgstädt, in former East Germany, on April 11, 1959 and grew up in Penig. After leaving school, she spent some time working in the textile manufacturing industry in Plauen, in a care home for the elderly, and as a lighting assistant in the city theatre in Karl Marx Stadt (now Chemnitz). From 1985 to 1988 she studied at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig and began publishing work in magazines. After the fall of the Wall, her debut collection, Deutsches Roulette (German Roulette), was published in 1991 by Suhrkamp Verlag. It was followed by many more, including the poetry collection Blue Box (1995) and Wittgensteins Nichte (Wittgenstein’s Niece; 1999). In 2007 she published Niemands Frau: Gesänge (Nobody’s Wife: Cantos), which has won her several awards, including the Poetry Prize of the German Industry Culture Group in 2009.
In 1994 Barbara Köhler moved to Duisburg. She has also been active as a translator from English and French, gaining accolades for her versions of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett. She has frequently collaborated with artists and on multi-media projects, textual images, and text installations in public spaces.
After a long illness, she died in January 2021 in a hospice in Mülheim an der Ruhr.