Anne Seidel

komitas und dane zajc in minsk

Language: german
Translations: french (komitas et dane zajc à minsk), english (komitas and dane zajc in minsk), macedonian (комитас и дане зајц во минск)

komitas und dane zajc in minsk

 

komitas                                                                                            schwarzblaue amsel

auf einem blauen zaun                                                dein auge

                                                                                                     komita

                    unbewegt

             eine kleine hand                                            in aengstlichkeit zu dir

komitas                                                                                                beschienen vom

sonnenuntergang

                  in minsk                                                                                              april

              (dein april)                                                                              (dein minsk)

 

                      kom i ta                                                         wie ein sturm

                                    ein schwarm

                                                                                                              vorbeiziehender 

                                                                                        schwalben

so leis hallt dein stille gewordenes schweigen                          ass ass ass

      die scherben des wassers                            auf einem dunkel werdenden feld

Anne Seidel

photo © Rainer Böhme
* 29.12.1988, Dresden, Germany
lives in: Dresden, Germany
Anne Seidel is a poet and artist from Dresden. Her debut Chlebnikov weint (published by Poetenladen Verlag, 2015) was selected by Marion Poschmann for the Poetry Recommendations of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Lyrikkabinett Munich and was awarded as Best Poetry Debut of the Year at the House for Poetry in Berlin. Anne Seidel studied Slavonic Literatures and Eastern European History in Giessen, Minsk and London. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Macedonian, and Turkish and published in national and international anthologies. 

photo © Rainer Böhme
In 2020 the bilingual volume Khlebnikov pleure was published in a translation by Laurent Cassagnau by Éditions Unes in France. It was reviewed in Lire Magazine littéraire and Le Matricule des anges among others.

"In Chlebnikov weeps Anne Seidel writes forth the tradition of Russian modernism. Rail journeys through Siberia, a lot of snow full of tracks that dissolve again, but also the Soviet history with its deportations and prison camps form the motivic structure. With an atmospheric, ostensibly classic vocabulary a space of consciousness is being created in these poems which overrides the logical structure of language and instead engenders breaks, canting and openings - always looking for a fundamental silence from which perceptions can set themselves apart fleetingly. 'Because to understand nothing / is the only possibility to understand something', says the opening poem of this intense, highly energetic debut volume. After reading Chlebnikov weeps one understands much better what understanding could be." (Marion Poschmann)

Anne Seidel has initiated conceptualistic sound art projects like signal dispersion with different artists and musicians and exhibited the sound art installation sound memories. Sinistra is a blend of dark ambient, techno and poetry made by theater composer Daniel Williams and Anne Seidel. “Our aim is to head for the ritual and the hidden, and to open everything up into a warm sonic and literary darkness. We do not write or prepare the music for any of the tracks or material. All performances in the combination of words and music are improvised.” (Daniel Williams). The first album, nihil habentes et omnia possidentes, was published on phonocake in 2020.
Publications

  • Chlebnikov weint

    Gedichte

    Leipzig: poetenladen Verlag, 2015

  • Khlebnikov pleure

    Traduit de l’allemand par Laurent Cassagnau

    Nice: Editions Unes, 2020:

Links

  • Chlebnikov weint

    Poetenladen

    Website

  • Khlebnikov pleure

    Editions Unes

    Website

  • Khlebnikov pleure d’Anne Seidel par Laurent Cassagnau

    Article

    Website

  • KHLEBNIKOV PLEURE de Anne Seidel par Gilles Jallet

    Article

    Website

  • « kostbar ist uns nur der augenblick des erkennens » Une introduction à la lecture de Chlebnikov weint (2015) d’Anne Seidel

    Laurent Cassagnau in "Germanica", Article

    Website
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