Ulrike Almut Sandig
Author

Poems

[war der tisch, war der stuhl] german

Translations: ar en es tr

im sommer sitzen die alten german

Translations: en es

[Süden] german

Translations: fr ka

[meine Freunde] german

Translations: fr ka

[schmale Schatten] german

Translations: fr ka

[russenwald] german

Translations: en

[meine heimat] german

Translations: ar en es pl tr ka

[auf einem sinkenden schiff] german

Translations: en es tr

[fischen] german

Translations: en

im juli german

Translations: ar en ka

[war himmel] german

Translations: en es tr

[vom reden] german

Translations: en

lass liegen german

Translations: en

[Jagdlied] german

Translations: fr

[alles wird immer noch da sein] german

Translations: fr

[Lied] german

Translations: en

Schlaflied german

Translations: hi ks ka

Ulrike Almut Sandig
Author

About

* 15.05.1979, Großenhain, Germany
lives in: Leipzig, Germany

Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (Saxony), in 1979, and grew up in the German town of Riesa, near Dresden. After working in France for a year, she moved to Leipzig in 1998, where she still lives today. She made several extended study-trips to India, and together with Marlen Pelny founded the literary project 'augenpost' (Poetry for all, www.augenpost.de), where the two brought poetry to the streets of Leipzig, pasting poems on lampposts, traffic lights, and building hoardings. She completed her degree in Religious Studies and modern Indian languages and literature in 2005

In the same year her first volume of poetry was published, entitled »Zunder«, and in 2006 Pelny and Sandig published the song/poetry audio book, der tag, an dem alma kamillen kaufte. In 2007 appeared the follow-up, »streumen«, that was awarded with the . Ulrike Almut Sandig publishes poetry, prose and radio plays, and between 2007 and 2009 was the editor of the literary magazine EDIT. SWR (Südwestrundfunk) broadcast the first performance of her radio play Hush little Baby in 2008; her second radio play, Unter Wasser, is to be be broadcast in April 2010.

Sandigs poems have won numerous different prizes - first the Meran Poetry Prize in 2006, and most recently, the Leonce and Lena Prize, in 2009. Sandig is currently working on her first volume of stories, entitled , which is set to appear in Spring 2010.