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Georg Leß

Anderkatt

  • 1 der Fuchs am Südkreuz | Translations: enesrutr
  • 2 die kleinste Armee | Translations: elenru
  • 3 zehnter Wirbel / Arche, die Sorge | Translations: eneshurutr
  • 4 gegen das Geständnis
  • 5 Erkundung des Handschuhs
  • 6 Anderkatt | Translations: entr
  • 7 Rückkörperstoßmarsch
  • 8 Kondorlied | Translations: arel
  • 9 fünfter Wirbel / wir belagerten | Translations: eleneshutr
  • 10 erster Wirbel / Fossilienfund, Hagen | Translations: hu
  • 11 zweiter Wirbel / Axis | Translations: entr
  • 12 das 3. Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (2018) | Translations: estr
Language: german
Translations: english (The Haircut), turkish (Traş)
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Anderkatt

Gänsehaut, weil du von Haut
bevor du vom Fell sprichst

äußertest du einen Mungo
aufgeschwemmt und fürchterlich
und unterm Haar treibt lose ein Gesicht
seins oder deins, ich schneide das nie wieder

dass das kein Mungo sei, versichern selbst die Eltern
das, nein, ist niemals unser

du hast dich geborgen gefühlt
wie von einer Schere umarmt, unser Fell
sprießt dazwischen noch voller
und unsere Luftnot darunter gemischt

weil du von der Nordsee, von Expeditionen
bevor du vom Schiff sprichst
das Fell schlägt darüber zusammen, hält dicht

am Ufer Nummer 3 mit einer wunden Sprache nur
einer Gattung und
Export von Logik, was ich nicht auszusprechen weiß
nehme ich trotzdem in den Mund

© kookbooks
From: die Hohlhandmusikalität
Berlin: kookbooks, 2019
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019
Categories: language, animals

Translations:

Language: english

The Haircut

Gooseflesh because you speak of flesh
before you speak of fur

when you say mongoose—
bloated and terrible—
I see your hair, your cheek, and know
I would never groom that animal,

though even the beasts who bred it
would not claim it,

though the two of us be hugged
by a pair of scissors,
aren’t we still safe,
if breathless, if our fur sprouts thick between us,

gooseflesh because you speak of expeditions, because
you speak of the North before you speak of the ship,
a wave of fur collapses over that ship and holds tight

toward another shore where language is
as sore and particular as a furry export
of logic, where I only feel
what my dry mouth cannot utter.

Translated by Jericho Brown
VERSschmuggel 2019, Poesiefestival Berlin
Language: turkish

Traş

Tüylerim diken diken,

kürkten önce bahsediyorsun

çünkü sen deriden


bir mungodan

şişmiş ve korkunç

kürkünün altında sallanan yüzü

onunki ya da bununki,

kesmem daha bir daha ben


bir mungo değilmiş ki anası da onaylamış babası da

bizden olmadı asla, asla bizden değildi


kucaklarken makas seni kollarıyla

iyisin yalnız değilsin hadi

kürklerimiz kabarıyor katmer katmer

daralırken nefesimiz


çünkü sen gemiden önce bahsediyorsun

Kuzey denizi sevkinden

parçalanmış, üstünü örttüğün kürk


3 numaralı limanda bir türün yaralı dili ve mantığın ihracı,

telaffuz edemediğim

yine de ağzıma doladığım

Aus dem Deutschen ins Türkische übersetzt von Aysen Ritzauer
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Georg Leß

photo © Dirk Skiba
* 04.06.1981, Arnsberg, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Georg Leß was born 1981 in Arnsberg. In his work, wild creatures stroll beside unnamed figures and female horror movie directors. His love for the uncanny is communicated through an undefined terror that could take hold of you when you read about implantations, accidents and metamorphoses. Georg Leß lives in Berlin. In 2014 he received the GWK Promotion Prize for Literature and in 2016 he was awarded the Promotion Prize of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists.

 photo © Mirko Lux
Publications
  • Schlachtgewicht

    Gedichte

    Köln: parasitenpresse, 2013

  • die Hohlhandmusikalität

    Gedichte

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2019

  • die Nacht der Hungerputten

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2023

Awards
  • 2013 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats

  • 2014 GWK-Förderpreis für Literatur

  • 2016 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

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