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Pia Tafdrup

ORDENE REJSER

  • 1 KERNE
  • 2 OCEANERS BRÆNDPUNKT | Translations: de
  • 3 VI ER IKKE ENDAGSDYR | Translations: de
  • 4 EN HUND LUKKES IND
  • 5 GODNAT
  • 6 PAS, PASSPORT PASSAPORTO ETC.
  • 7 ORDENE REJSER | Translations: de
  • 8 HJEMKOMST
  • 9 DAMESVING
  • 10 SALAMANDERSJÆLENS DRØM
  • 11 SYV KJOLER FOR SYNLIGHEDEN
  • 12 TARKOVSKIJS HESTE
Language: danish
Translations: german (DIE WÖRTER REISEN)
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ORDENE REJSER

Jeg bor i et andet land, men forlader
alligevel ikke mit hjem.
Alfabetet tager jeg med
og gramatikkens strukturer,
ordenes betydning og betoning.
    Uanset hvor på kloden
jeg slår mig ned,
bor jeg i sproget,
     jeg er født ind i.
Ingen storm af andre sprog
vælter mit omkuld.
Jeg er jeg
          i mit eget sprog -
drømmer på det, der tilfældigt
blev mit modersmål.
Jeg skriver hjemme,
                   skriver ude,
overalt det samme:
Ordene har trækfuglehjerte,
viser dissektionen,
     de vil nå en anden,
     og jeg lever
med disse fugleord, deres sang og hæse skrig.


© Pia Tafdrup and Gyldendal
From: Trækfuglens kompas
Gyldendal, 2010
Audio production: LiteraturHaus København, 2013
Categories: poetry & poets, literature & reading, language, travel

Translations:

Language: german

DIE WÖRTER REISEN

Ich wohne in einem andern Land,  verlasse dennoch
aber nicht mein Zuhause.
Das Alphabet nehme ich mit
und die Strukturen der Grammatik,
Bedeutung und Betonung der Worte.
        Ganz gleich, wo auf dem Erdball
ich mich niederlasse,
wohne ich in der Sprache,
in die ich hineingeboren worden bin.
Kein Sturm von anderen Sprachen
wirft mich um.
Ich bin ich
        in meiner eigenen Sprache –
träume in der, die zufällig
meine Muttersprache wurde.
Ich schreibe daheim,
        schreibe auswärts,
überall dasselbe:
Die Worte haben Zugvogelherzen,
zeigt die Obduktion,
        sie wollen einen andern erreichen,
        und ich lebe
mit diesen Vogelworten, ihrem Singen und heiseren Schreien.


Aus dem Dänischen von Hanns Grössel.



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DIE WÖRTER REISEN

Ich wohne in einem anderen Land und verlasse
dennoch nicht mein Zuhause.
Das Alphabet nehme ich mit
und die Strukturen der Grammatik,
die Bedeutung der Worte und ihre Betonung.
            Wo immer auf der Erde
ich mich niederlasse
wohne ich in der Sprache
            in die ich hineingeboren bin.
Kein Sturm anderer Sprachen
weht die meine um.
Ich bin ich
           
in meiner eigenen Sprache –
träume in dem, was zufällig
meine Muttersprache wurde.
Ich schreibe zu Hause,
            schreibe unterwegs,
und überall dasselbe:
Die Wörter haben Zugvogelherzen,
wie die Obduktion ergibt,
            sie möchten einen anderen erreichen,
            und ich lebe
mit diesen Vogelwörtern, ihren Liedern und heiseren Schreien.



Aus dem Dänischen von Ursel Allenstein. 

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Pia Tafdrup

photo © Isak Hoffmeyer 2010
* 29.05.1952, Copenhagen, Denmark
lives in: Copenhagen, Denmark

Pia Tafdrup was born in 1952 in Copenhagen. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, and her work has been translated into many languages. Her fourth collection, Spring Tide, was published in English by Forest in 1989. In 1991 she published a celebrated statement of her poetics, Walking Over Water. She received the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize – Scandinavia’s most prestigious literary award – for Queen's Gate, which was published in David McDuff’s English translation by Bloodaxe in 2001. Also in 2001, she was appointed a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, and in 2006 she received the Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy. In 2009 she won the international Jan Smrek Prize (awarded to non-Slovak, foreign poets) for her poetry. Her latest work translated into English is Tarkovsky’s Horses and other poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), combining The Whales in Paris (2002) and Tarkovsky's Horses (2006).

 photo © Isak Hoffmeyer 2010
Publications
  • Når der går hul på en engel

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1981

  • Intetfang

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1982


  • Den inderste zone

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1983

  • Springflod

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1985


  • Hvid feber

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1986

  • Døden i bjergene

    Skuespil

    Teaterforlaget Drama, 1988

  • Sekundernes bro

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1988


  • Over vandet går jeg

    Skitse til en poetik

    København: Borgen, 1991

  • Jorden er blå

    Skuespil

    Teaterforlaget Drama, 1991

  • Krystalskoven

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1992

  • Territorialsang

    Digte

    København: Borgen, 1994


  • Dronningeporten

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 1998

  • Tusindfødt

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 1999


  • Digte 1981-83

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 1999

  • Digte 1984-88

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2000

  • Drottningporten

    Translated into Swedish by Sven Christer Swahn

    Lund: Ellerströms, 2000

  • Digte 1989-98

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2001

  • Queen's Gate

    Poems

    Translated by David McDuff

    Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2001

  • Hvalerne i Paris

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2002

  • Hengivelsen

    Roman

    København: Gyldendal, 2004


  • Tarkovskijs heste

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2006


  • De Koninginnepoort

    Translated by Jytte Kronig

    Amsterdam: Wagner & Van Santen, 2006

  • Springet over skyggen

    Udvalgte digte 1981-2006

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2007

  • Det drømte træ

    Fotos Hanne Skyum. Digte Pia Tafdrup

    Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2007

  • Boomerang

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2008

  • Stjerne uden land

    Roman

    København: Gyldendal, 2008

  • Trækfuglens kompas

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2010

  • Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems

    Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2010

  • Salamandersol

    Digte

    København: Gyldendal, 2012

  • Tarkowskis Pferde

    Gedichte

    Zweisprachig dänisch/deutsch. Aus dem Dänischen von Peter Urban-Halle

    München: Edition Lyrik Kabinett im Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017

Awards
  • 1994 Weekendavisens litteraturpris

  • 1999 Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris

  • 2001 Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

  • 2005 Søren Gyldendal Prisen

  • 2006 Det Svenske Akademis Nordiske Pris

  • 2009 Ján Smrek Prize (Bratislava/Slovakia)

  • 2010 Statens Kunstfond

Links
  • Website of Pia Tafdrup

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