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Hendrik Rost

Imago

  • 1 Pflaumen | Translations: enda
  • 2 Das Fakten-Märchen | Translations: enda
  • 3 Eclipse chaser | Translations: enda
  • 4 Die Spanne | Translations: enda
  • 5 Imago | Translations: endazh
  • 6 Kontraste | Translations: enda
  • 7 Transit | Translations: enda
  • 8 Inspirierte Fehler
  • 9 Berenice | Translations: enda
Language: german
Translations: english (Imago), danish (Imago), chinese (蜕变)
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Imago

Dies hat mit der Schönheit zu tun,
für ein paar Tage allein im Haus zu bleiben:
Der Sommer nähert sich seinen Stichtagen,
und ich betrachte einen gewöhnlichen Vogel,
der sich wie ein Kolibri bei den Lilien hält.
Es ist später Nachmittag, feuchte Luft liegt
über dieser zerbrechlichen Nachbarschaft,
und ich bin selbst für die Schatten zuständig,
die ich werfe. Im Licht glitzert der einzelne
Flügel einer Libelle –
ihr früherer Körper klammert sich noch
an den Stengel überm Wasser.
Dies ist das Haus der früheren Gedichte,
das Haus der gefährdeten neuen.

© Hendrik Rost
From: Aerobic und Gegenliebe. Gedichte
Düsseldorf: Grupello Verlag, 2001
Audio production: 2001 M. Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin
Categories: poems on poetics, writing (poetry), summer, animals

Translations:

Language: english

Imago

It’s about beauty, really,
being at home for a few days alone.
The summer’s run is drawing to a close,
and I observe the way a common bird
floats like a hummingbird above the lilies.
It is late afternoon, moist air oppresses
this fragile neighbourhood, and I alone
am answerable for the shade I cast.
Light glitters from the lone remaining wing
of a dragonfly--its cast-off shell
still clings to the stalk
that leans above the water.
This is the house of former poems,
the house of endangered new ones.


translated by Lane Jennings

With special thanks to Goethe-Institut Washington/Timeshadows


- - - alternative - - -


Imago

This has to do with the beauty
of staying at home on one’s own for a few days:
Summer’s approaching its deadlines,
and I watch an ordinary bird
keeping to the lilies like a humming bird.
It’s late afternoon, a damp air lies
over this fragile neighbourhood,
and I myself am responsible for the shadows
I cast. In the light there gleams the single
wing of a dragonfly –
its former body still clinging
to the stalk above the water.
This is the house of former poems,
the house of imperilled new ones.

translated by Hans-Christian Oeser and Gabriel Rosenstock
Language: danish

Imago

Dette har at gøre med skønheden
ved at være et par dage alene hjemme:
Sommeren nærmer sig sine skæringsdage
og jeg betragter en almindelig fugl,
der holder sig til liljerne som en kolibri.
Det er sen eftermiddag, fugtig luft ligger
over dette skrøbelige naboskab,
og jeg er selv ansvarlig for de skygger,
jeg kaster. I lyset glimter en guldsmeds
ene vinge - dens tidligere krop klamrer sig stadig
til stængelen over vandet.
Dette er huset for de tidligere digte,
huset for de truede nye.

Oversat af Henning Vangsgaard
Language: chinese

蜕变

独自在家中歇上几天
为的是发现生活的美丽
炎炎夏日就要离去
我注目那只普通的小鸟
像蜂鸟一样悬停在百合花旁
近傍晚的时候
湿漉漉的空气,弥漫在
静物画一般的小区,地上映出
我孤独的身影,夕阳下
一只蜻蜓的单翼闪烁着
水面的草杆上,还紧粘着
它刚刚脱落的躯壳
这是昔日诗歌的家园
也是危机中新生的家园

译者:文珂,张宽

With special thanks to Goethe-Institut Washington/Timeshadows

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Hendrik Rost

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* 1969, Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia, Germany
lives in: Lübeck, Germany

Hendrik Rost was born in 1969 in Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia. After a stint in the US he read German and philosophy in Kiel and Düsseldorf. His poems have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, such as Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2001/2002, neue deutsche literatur, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schraffur der Welt. Junge Schriftsteller über das Schreiben and Sprache im technischen Zeitalter.

He has been awarded the Düsseldorfer Lyrikpreis (1996), the Förderpreis für Literatur der Stadt Hamburg (1998), the Brentano-Preis of the City of Heidelberg (1999) and the Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Preis zum Literarischen März (2001). The Darmstädter Jury des Literarischen März praised the clear imagery of a “sober and cerebral poetry”, giving, “with formal economy”, expression to “everyday situations as well as scientific-philosophical matters”.

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In addition to these awards Hendrik Rost received a stipend from the Akademie Schloß Solitude and, in summer 2001, a bursary from Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin. He was awarded with the 'Dresdner Lyrikpreis' (2002 ) the 'GWK-Förderpreis für Literatur' (2003), and the 'Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für Literatur' (2004).

His collections of poetry are vorläufige gegenwart (1995), FliegendeSchatten (1999), Aerobic und Gegenliebe (2001),Im Atemweg des Passagiers (2006) and Der Pilot in der Liebe (2010)

Today, Hendrik Rost lives in Hamburg.

Publications
  • vorläufige gegenwart.

    gedichte.

    Düsseldorf: Grupello Verlag, 1995

  • Fliegende Schatten.

    Gedichte.

    Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart: Solitude, 1999

  • Aerobic und Gegenliebe.

    Gedichte.

    Düsseldorf: Grupello Verlag, 2001

  • Im Atemweg des Passagiers

    Gedichte

    Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006

  • Der Pilot in der Libelle

    Gedichte

    Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010

  • Licht für andere Augen

    Gedichte

    Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2013

  • Das Liebesleben der Stimmen

    Gedichte

    Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016

Awards
  • 1996 Düsseldorfer Lyrikpreis

  • 1998 Förderpreis für Literatur der Stadt Hamburg

  • 1999 Brentano-Preis der Stadt Heidelberg

  • 2001 Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Preis zum Literarischen März

  • 2002 Dresdner Lyrikpreis

  • 2003 GWK-Förderpreis für Literatur

  • 2004 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für Literatur

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