Anja Kampmann

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Language: german

Translations: english (Dnipro)

dnipro

in der abendglühenden luft
die irgendwie matt ist, unklar
mit dem deutlichen geruch von industrie
anlagen, mit den großen blauen zügen
loks, langsam, fast lautlos
im untergehenden licht
vereinzelt
soldaten
mit freiem oberkörper
eine frau mit gebäck
geschwister, ein junge und ein kleines mädchen
halten sich an den händen
vor einer säule die silbrig glänzt
wie alle säulen hier
und das licht das alles
verlangsamt
mit den geräuschen
und in die geräusche hinein
einsteigen
dämmerung, die flussunruhe
und der geruch der keinen von uns
entlässt
die nervosität ist breitbeinig
sie hat müde freundinnen
in kurzen jeans
sie glaubt nicht alles was du sagst
oder sagen möchtest
übers wiederkommen.

Anja Kampmann

photo © Juliane Henrich

* 30.10.1983, Hamburg, Germany
lives in: Leipzig, Germany

Anja Kampmann

Anja Kampmann, born 1983 in Hamburg, studied at the University of Leipzig and the German Literature Institute. In 2011 she was a fellow of the International Writing Program Iowa, after which she began a dissertation on Samuel Beckett's late prose (Musikalität & Stille) as well as work for radio. Her poetry debut 'Proben von Stein und Licht' (Samples of Stone and Light) was published in 2016 in the Edition Lyrik Kabinett by Hanser, followed in 2017 by a volume of prose biographies 'Fischdiebe' (Fish Thieves) in a bibliophile edition of 100 copies. In 2018, the novel "Wie hoch die Wasser steigen" was also published by Hanser; the novel was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the German Book Prize and translated into six languages. For it, the author received the Mara Cassens Prize for the best novel debut in 2019, the Förderpreis Literatur of the city of Lüneburg, the Lessing Förderpreis of the Free State of Saxony in 2019. In 2019/2020, she is the Stadtschreiberin of Bergen-Enkheim. With "High as the Waters Rise" the translation of "Wie hoch die Wasser steigen" she was a finalist of the National Book Awards 2020 in the USA. In 2020 she received the Rainer Malkowski Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Her poetry collection "Der Hund ist immer hungrig" was published by Hanser Verlag in 2021; translations into Arabic, Italian, English and French are in progress. 2022 scholarship holder of the Roger Willemsen House and the German Literature Fund. Kampmann is currently working on her next novel and a musical piece with the composer Elnaz Sayedi.

photo © Juliane Henrich

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