Ulrike Almut Sandig

im sommer sitzen die alten

Language: german

Translations: english (in summer the elderly sit), spanish (se sientan los viejos en verano)

im sommer sitzen die alten

die füße am leib und halten den koffer sehr fest.
darin sind: gespartes in folie, der goldschmuck
von mutter, drei fotos, zwei briefe, der pass.
nur die alten sitzen auf tischen im dunkel, wenn wind
sich auflädt, und zählen die zeit zwischen donner und blitz
und sitzen die alten und sagen kein wort

Ulrike Almut Sandig

photo © Nils Kinder

* 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

photo © Nils Kinder

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.

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