en

11801

Logo lyrikline pure Logo lyrikline claim
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
all results
  • Contact
  • Partners
  • Donation
  • deutsch
  • english
  • français
  • slovenščina
  • العربية
  • русский
  • español
  • português
  • 中文
  • POETS
    • A-Z 
      • A
      • B
      • C
      • D
      • E
      • F
      • G
      • H
      • I
      • J
      • K
      • L
      • M
      • N
      • O
      • P
      • Q
      • R
      • S
      • T
      • U
      • V
      • W
      • X
      • Y
      • Z
    • by languages 
      • afrikaans
        albanian
        amharic
        arabic
        armenian
        basque
        belarusian
        bengali
        bosnian
        breton
        bulgarian
        burmese
        catalan
        chinese
        cree
        croatian
        czech
        danish
        dutch
        english
        estonian
        finnish
        french
        galician
        georgian
        german
        greek
        gujarati
        hebrew
        hindi
        hungarian
        icelandic
        indonesian
        irish
        italian
        japanese
        kalaallisut
        kannada
        korean
        kurdish
        latvian
        lithuanian
        macedonian
        malay
        malayalam
        maltese
        marathi
        nepali
        northern sami
        norwegian
        oriya
        persian
        polish
        portuguese
        punjabi
        rhaeto-romance
        romanian
        russian
        scottish gaelic
        serbian
        shona
        sindhi
        sinhala
        slovak
        slovenian
        southern sami
        spanish
        swahili
        swedish
        tamil
        telugu
        tswana
        turkish
        ukrainian
        urdu
        uzbek
        vietnamese
        welsh
        xhosa
        yiddish
    • by countries 
      • Albania
        Algeria
        Andorra
        Angola
        Argentina
        Armenia
        Australia
        Austria
        Bahrain
        Bangladesh
        Belarus
        Belgium
        Bolivia
        Bosnia and Herzegovina
        Botswana
        Brazil
        Bulgaria
        Burundi
        Cambodia
        Canada
        Chile
        China
        Colombia
        Congo - Kinshasa
        Costa Rica
        Croatia
        Cuba
        Cyprus
        Czech Republic
        Côte d’Ivoire
        Denmark
        Dominican Republic
        Egypt
        Estonia
        Ethiopia
        Finland
        France
        Georgia
        Germany
        Ghana
        Greece
        Greenland
        Guatemala
        Guinea-Bissau
        Haiti
        Honduras
        Hungary
        Iceland
        India
        Indonesia
        Iran
        Iraq
        Ireland
        Israel
        Italy
        Jamaica
        Japan
        Kenya
        Kuwait
        Latvia
        Lebanon
        Libya
        Lithuania
        Luxembourg
        Macedonia
        Malawi
        Malaysia
        Malta
        Martinique
        Mexico
        Moldova
        Montenegro
        Morocco
        Mozambique
        Myanmar [Burma]
        Netherlands
        New Zealand
        Nigeria
        Norway
        Oman
        Pakistan
        Palestinian Territories
        Paraguay
        Peru
        Poland
        Portugal
        Puerto Rico
        Romania
        Russia
        Saint Lucia
        Saudi Arabia
        Senegal
        Serbia
        Singapore
        Slovakia
        Slovenia
        South Africa
        South Korea
        Spain
        Sri Lanka
        Sweden
        Switzerland
        Syria
        São Tomé and Príncipe
        Taiwan
        Trinidad and Tobago
        Tunisia
        Turkey
        Ukraine
        United Arab Emirates
        United Kingdom
        United States
        Uruguay
        Uzbekistan
        Venezuela
        Vietnam
        Yemen
        Zambia
        Zimbabwe
  • POEMS
    • by languages 
      • afrikaans
        albanian
        amharic
        arabic
        arawak
        armenian
        basque
        belarusian
        bengali
        bosnian
        breton
        bulgarian
        burmese
        catalan
        chinese
        cree
        croatian
        czech
        danish
        dutch
        english
        estonian
        finnish
        french
        galician
        georgian
        german
        greek
        gujarati
        hebrew
        hindi
        hungarian
        icelandic
        indonesian
        irish
        italian
        japanese
        kalaallisut
        kannada
        korean
        kurdish
        latvian
        lithuanian
        lushai
        macedonian
        malay
        malayalam
        maltese
        maori
        marathi
        nepali
        northern sami
        norwegian
        oriya
        persian
        polish
        portuguese
        punjabi
        rhaeto-romance
        romanian
        romany
        russian
        scottish gaelic
        serbian
        shona
        sindhi
        sinhala
        slovak
        slovenian
        sorbian language
        southern sami
        spanish
        swahili
        swedish
        tamil
        telugu
        tswana
        tumbuka
        turkish
        ukrainian
        urdu
        uzbek
        vietnamese
        welsh
        western frisian
        xhosa
        yiddish
    • in translation 
      • abkhazian
        afar
        afrikaans
        albanian
        arabic
        araucanian
        armenian
        assamese
        basque
        belarusian
        bengali
        berber
        bosnian
        breton
        bulgarian
        buriat
        catalan
        chechen
        chinese
        chuvash
        corsican
        croatian
        czech
        danish
        duala
        dutch
        english
        esperanto
        estonian
        finnish
        french
        galician
        georgian
        german
        greek
        gujarati
        haitian
        hebrew
        hindi
        hungarian
        icelandic
        indonesian
        irish
        italian
        japanese
        kannada
        kashmiri
        kazakh
        kirghiz
        korean
        kumyk
        kurdish
        latin
        latvian
        lezghian
        lithuanian
        lushai
        macedonian
        malay
        malayalam
        maltese
        marathi
        mayan language
        mongolian
        nepali
        norwegian
        occitan
        oriya
        persian
        polish
        portuguese
        rhaeto-romance
        romanian
        romany
        russian
        sanskrit
        sardinian
        scots
        scottish gaelic
        serbian
        shona
        sindhi
        sinhala
        slovak
        slovenian
        sorbian language
        southern sami
        spanish
        swahili
        swedish
        swiss german
        tajik
        tamil
        telugu
        tetum
        turkish
        udmurt
        ukrainian
        urdu
        uzbek
        vietnamese
        welsh
        yakut
    • genres & aspects
      • experimental poetry
      • concrete poetry
      • sound poetry
      • visual poetry
      • poetry projects
      • series & cycles
      • poetry for children
      • humorous poetry
      • narrative poetry
      • poems on poetics
      • Ecopoetry / Nature writing
      • political poetry
      • erotic poetry
      • dialect
      • performance
      • with music / sound
      • spoken word / Rap
      • translingual / hybrid / Pidgin
    • poetic forms & terms
      • ode
      • haiku / tanka
      • collage / montage
      • Dinggedicht
      • prose poem
      • rhymed stanza
      • renshi
      • sestina
      • sonnet
      • terza rima
      • villanelle
      • ghazal
      • ballad
    • issues
      • society
        • identity (collective)
        • traditions
        • homeland
        • cities & urban life
        • history
        • politics
        • war
        • exile
        • economy
        • social critique / cultural criticism
      • life & relationship
        • family
          • birth
          • child
          • mother
          • father
        • infancy & youth
        • age
        • memory
        • identity (personal)
        • gender & sexuality
          • woman
          • man
          • sex & eroticism
          • homosexuality
        • friendship
        • love
        • marriage
        • relationship conflict
        • work
        • illness
        • body
        • violence
        • loss & separation
        • death & grief
        • funeral
        • religion & sprituality
        • Dream
        • travel
        • time
        • eating & drinking
        • alcohol & drugs
      • culture & science
        • architecture & design
        • poetry & poets
        • art & painting
        • literature & reading
        • fairy-tales & legends
        • medicine & science
        • music
        • mythology
        • philosophy
        • photography & film
        • popular culture
        • language
        • theater & dance
        • writing (poetry)
      • nature
        • spring
        • summer
        • fall
        • winter
        • landscape
        • water
        • animals
        • plants
    • Rhythmic Patterns
      • Parlando
      • Cadence
      • Variable Foot
      • Sprung Rhythm
      • Syncopations
      • Rubato
      • Permutations
      • Gestic rhythm (= Stressed Enjambements)
      • Cut-ups
      • Ellipses
      • Syllabic decompositions
      • Lettristic Decomposition
  • NEW
    • Poems
    • Poets
    • Translations
Login
  •  

Kerstin Preiwuß

[ich will was durch meinen mund flattert]

  • 1 [Aalmutter fang an dann rede ich.] | Translations: fien
  • 2 [Die Windsbraut schläft in mir] | Translations: fien
  • 3 [Die Wölfin trägt mich am Nacken durch die Welt] | Translations: fien
  • 4 [Habt ihr meinen Fisch gesehen?] | Translations: en
  • 5 [Wird die Unruhe mich nicht erreichen] | Translations: fien
  • 6 [Das ist der Winter] | Translations: en
  • 7 [Hab mich ausgesperrt] | Translations: en
  • 8 [Außen ist Welt immer das ganz Nahe] | Translations: en
  • 9 [ich will was durch meinen mund flattert] | Translations: en
  • 10 [Bin leer in mir ein Gefäß innen] | Translations: en
Language: german
Translations: english ([I don’t want to utter what flutters])
  • play
  • pause
Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

[ich will was durch meinen mund flattert]

Ich will was durch meinen Mund flattert
nicht aussprechen auch nicht anschreien
denn dann ist es in der Welt.
Es bleibt wo es ist und zahnt blind aus dem Gaumen.
Wie ein Kind wenn es wächst.
Dort ist sein Rachen.
Wie wenn ich lache.
Ich will aus Licht und Schatten
keinen Umriss mehr machen
wie bei einem Scherenschnitt.
Ich will weder jagen gehen noch Jagdwild sein.
Ich verzehre mich nicht.
Keinen Happen von mir.
Keinen Happen für mich.
Ich hab nichts übrig dafür.
Es bleibt alles in mir wie es ist.
Und kehrt in die Erde zurück.
Wie wenn ein Blitzschlag mich trifft.
Und nur manchmal ist mir kalt.

© Berlin Verlag in der Piper Verlag GmbH, München/Berlin 2016
From: Gespür für Licht. Gedichte
Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2016
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2013
Der Tonaufnahme liegt eine frühere Textfassung zugrunde.

Translations:

Language: english

[I don’t want to utter what flutters]

I don’t want to utter what flutters
through my mouth or yell it out
because then it’s in the world.
It stays where it is and teethes its gums blind.
Like a child in a growth spurt.
There’s its throat.
Like when I laugh.
I no longer want to make silhouettes
out of light and shadows.
Like with a paper cutting.
I want to neither be the hunter nor be the hunted.
I do not consume myself.
No morsels of me.
No morsels for me.
I have no love lost on it.
Everything inside me remains
as is and returns to earth.
As if lightning hit me.
And I only sometimes feel cold.

Translated by Bradley Schmidt
previous poem
   ([Außen ist Welt...)
9 / 10
next poem
([Bin leer in mir ein...)   
listen to all poems

Kerstin Preiwuß

photo © gezett.de
* 21.11.1980, Lübz (Meckl.), Germany
lives in: Leipzig, Germany

Kerstin Preiwuß, born in Lübz in 1980, initially studied German, Philosophy and Psychology, later, until 2009, at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, where she now lives and co-edits the literary journal Edit. In 2006, her first book of poems, „nachricht von neuen sternen“, was published, followed by „Rede“ in 2012 and „restwärme“ in 2014.
Her poems set off movement below the threshold of consciousness that creates a shift in ways of speaking and perception. Poet Monika Rinck finds in her poems a “complexity in things that are simply said, although the simplicity, like free style, is the hardest to achieve.”

 photo © gezett.de
Among other distinctions she has won the Working Scholarship of the German Literature Fund (2010) and the 2012 Mondseer Poetry Prize (2012).

Kerstin Preiwuß is married, has two children and lives in Leipzig.

Publications
  • Nachricht von neuen Sternen

    Gedichte

    Leipzig: Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2006

  • Rede

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012

  • Restwärme

    Roman

    Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2014

  • Gespür für Licht

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2016

  • Nach Onkalo

    Roman

    Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2017

  • Taupunkt

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2020

Awards
  • 2008 Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium

  • 2012 Mondseer Lyrikpreis

  • 2018 Eichendorff-Literaturpreis

  • 2018 Lyrikpreis Meran

Links
  • Homepage von Kerstin Preiwuß

    Website
  • Kerstin Preiwuß @ Literaturport

    Website

Remember poem / Add to List

remembered 1 times

Included in the following lists
  • Zeitgenössische deutsche Gedichte
    compiled by Dustin
all public lists

Poem already on my list

If you want to remember or list a poem, become a community member.

Login/Register now
more poets from Germany more poems in german Translations into german Kerstin Preiwuß as a translator

Random poem

PUSH!

gedicht page complete: (0,105s)
  • About
  • Links
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Produced by
  • privacy
lyrikline is created by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in cooperation with its international network of lyrikline partners