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Odile Kennel

Salbei denken

  • 1 im Hof der tschatschenden Frisöre | Translations: enno
  • 2 mit Sappho im Hof | Translations: enno
  • 3 Salbei denken | Translations: enesfaitpt
  • 4 & dann fing ich noch einmal mit der Zeile an | Translations: esfaitpt
  • 5 fröhliches Gedicht
  • 6 O-Ton schonendes Gedicht
  • 7 Tiere zu fragen | Translations: en
  • 8 wenn ich die Augen schließe, ist der Himmel ein Bagger | Translations: enfa
  • 9 nach Pasárgada | Translations: enfauk
  • 10 die metaphorische Logik einer Verbindung | Translations: enfa
Language: german
Translations: english (Thinking sage and you), spanish (Pensar salvia), persian (مریم‌گلی اندیشیدن), italian (Pensare salvia), portuguese (Pensar sálvia e você)
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Salbei denken

ich denke Salbei, wenn ich Salbei
sehe, denke grüngraue, samtene Blätter
paarweise gegenständig, Lippenblütler
bitter und würzig, oder ich denke nichts
nicht Salbei, nicht Pflanze, nicht Duft
weil vor lauter Denken der Salbei
wohl vorkommt am Fenster, doch
verkommt im Kopf, er also für mich
nicht existiert, er aber für sich
existiert und nicht weiß, wie er heißt
und nichts weiß von seiner Existenz
vermutlich gar nichts weiß.

Ich denke du wenn ich nicht
Salbei denke, nicht denke
dass die Mauersegler dösen
in den höheren Schichten der Luft
während wir wach liegen am Fenster
ich denke du, während der bittere
und würzige Duft in deine und meine
Existenz dringt, von der er nichts weiß
und so entsteht ein existenzielles
Ungleichgewicht im Nachmittagslicht
denn wir wissen, wir wissen sehr genau
dass alle Zeit nur eine himmelwärts stürzende
Tasse
ist oder ätherisches Öl, oder
eine Apparatur der Einsamkeit, vermutlich



mit einem Zitat von Ulrike Draesner

© dtv
From: oder wie heißt diese interplanetare Luft.
München: dtv premium, 2013
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2014
Categories: plants

Translations:

Language: english

Thinking sage and you

I think sage when I see
sage, think grey-green hoary leaves
growing in pairs, sharp or spicy,
the flowers labiate,
Or I don't think at all, neither sage
nor plant nor scent since with too much
thinking the sage flourishes at my window
but dwindles in my head
exists then for me no more but
exists for itself and does not know what
its name is and knows nothing about
its existence, knows nothing at all, I suppose.

I think you when I don't think
sage don't think that
the swifts doze on the high
shoals of air when we lie awake
at the window I think
you when the bitter and
spicy scent in your and in my
existence breaks through knows nothing of it
and thus is born an existential
imbalance in the afternoon light
for we know we know precisely
that the whole of time is never more than
a cup hurled into the sky or even essential oil
or fittings of solitude, I suppose

Translation by Anna Crowe
Language: spanish

Pensar salvia

pienso salvia cuando miro
salvia, pienso verde grisáceo hojas de terciopelo
por parejas opuestas, labiadas
amargas y aromáticas o no pienso nada
ni salvia ni plantas tampoco aroma
porque por puro pensamiento la salvia
prende bien en la ventana, sin embargo
se echa a perder en la cabeza, entonces para mí
la salvia no existe, aun así existe
para sí y no sabe cómo se llama
y no sabe de su existencia
es posible que no sepa absolutamente nada.

En vos pienso cuando no
pienso salvia, no pienso que
los vencejos dormitan
en las esferas más altas del aire
mientras estamos despiertas al lado de la ventana
en vos pienso mientras el aroma amargo
y a especia en tu existencia
y en la mía viene de donde el aroma mismo no sabe
y así surge un desequilibrio
existencial en la luz de la tarde
porque sabemos, sabemos con precisión
que el tiempo es nada más que una taza
que se tira hacia el cielo o aceite etéreo o
un dispositivo de aislamiento, es posible

Versión: Silvana Franzetti
Language: persian

مریم‌گلی اندیشیدن

همین که مریم‌گلی می بینم، مریم‌گلی می اندیشم،
مخملین برگان سبزسیر، زوج وار و قرینه،
لب-شکوفه های تلخ و تند، یا هیچ نمی اندیشم
نه مریم‌گلی، نه گیاه، نه شمیم
چرا که پیش از اندیشیدن ناب، مریم‌گلی
پشت پنجره پیدا می شود، یا
تباه می گردد در ذهن، پس او برای من
وجود ندارد، برای خودش وجود دارد و خود نمی داند
چه نامیده می شود و هیچ نمی داند از وجودش
چه بسا که ابداً هیچ نداند.

تو می اندیشم هنگام که مریم‌گلی
نمی اندیشم، نمی اندیشم که
بادخورکها پینکی می زنند در بالاترین لایه های هوا
دمی که بیدار غنوده ایم پشت پنجره
من، تو می اندیشم، دمی که شمیم تند و تلخی
در وجود تو و من رخنه می کند،
که مریم گلی هیچ ازآن نمی داند
و بدین سان عدم توازنی وجودی
در پرتو پسینگاه شکل می بندد
چرا ما می دانیم، ما بس دقیق می دانیم
که تمام زمان، تنها فنجانی فروافتنده است از سمت آسمان یا
روغنی اثیری، یا ادوات تنهایی چه بسا

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ترجمه علی عبداللهی
Ali Abdollahi
Language: italian

Pensare salvia

penso salvia, se vedo
la salvia, penso foglie grigioverdi, vellutate,
l'una opposta all'altra a coppie, Lamiaceae
amare e speziate, o non penso niente
non salvia, non pianta,non profumo
perché a furia di pensare
la salvia accade sì alla finestra,
però accade nella testa, quindi per me
non esiste, ma per sé
esiste e non sa come si chiama
e non sa nulla della sua esistenza
e probabilmente non sa proprio nulla.

Penso tu, se non penso
salvia, se non penso
che le rondini sonnecchiano
negli strati più alti del cielo
mentre noi rimaniamo vigili alla finestra
penso tu, mentre il profumo amaro
e speziato penentra nella tua e nella mia
esistenza, della quale non sa nulla
e così si crea uno squilibrio
esistenziale nella luce del pomeriggio
perché sappiamo, sappiamo molto bene
che tutto il tempo è solo una tazza che precipita
verso il cielo o uno olio essenziale, o
uno strumento della solitudine,  presumibilmente

Traduzione: Nicoletta Grillo
Language: portuguese

Pensar sálvia e você

Eu penso sálvia quando eu
vejo sálvia penso folhas de veludo
verdes-cinzas pareadas opostas ou
labiadas ou temperadas e amargas
ou eu penso em nada nem sálvia nem
planta nem cheiro pois por tanto
pensar a sálvia se encontra
à janela se desencontra na mente pois
ela para mim não existe mas
existe para si nada sabe de
seu nome nada sabe de seu
existir presume-se que nonada sabe.

Eu penso você quando eu não
penso sálvia quando não penso que
os andorinhões cochilam nas altas
camadas do ar e nós deitadas
despertas à janela eu penso
você e o cheiro amargo
e temperado infiltra-se no seu
no meu existir de que nada sabe
e assim origina-se um desequilíbrio
existential na luz pós-meridiana
pois sabemos sabemos muito bem
que todo tempo é apenas uma xícara a
despenhar-se aos céus ou óleo etéreo
ou a maquinaria da solidão, presume-se.

Traduzido por Ricardo Domeneck
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Odile Kennel

photo © Jo Frank
* 26.06.1967, Bühl (Baden), Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

In her first book of poetry, “oder wie heißt diese interplanetare Luft” (or what do you call this interplanetary air), which appeared in 2013, Odile Kennel (born 1967, Bühl/Baden) sonorously and sensuously describes a present, which permits moments of transcendence even in its quotidian simplicity.

The prose and poetry writer, who grew up bilingual, has distinguished herself through her active translation work. From the French, Portuguese and Spanish, she has translated contemporary poets such as Ricardo Domeneck, Angélica Freitas, Damaris Calderón and Jean Portante.

 photo © Jo Frank
Before moving to Berlin in 1999, she studied Cultural Studies and Political Science in Tübingen, Berlin and Lisbon, as well as Cultural Management in Dijon and Bukarest.

In 2014 Kennel won second place in the Munich Poetry Prize. She has been awarded numerous scholarships.



Publications
  • Wimpernflug – eine atemlose Erzählung

    Dortmund : Edition Ebersbach, 2000

  • Was Ida sagt

    Roman

    München : dtv premium, 2011

  • oder wie heißt diese interplanetare Luft.

    Gedichte

    München: dtv premium, 2013

  • Mit Blick auf See

    Roman

    München: dtv, 2017

  • Hors Texte

    Gedichte

    Berlin; Verlagshaus Berlin, 2019,

Awards
  • 2004 1. Preis des Rheinsberger Autorinnenforum

  • 2013 2. Münchner Lyrikpreis

Links
  • Odile Kennel's blog

    in German

  • Lyrikschaufenster: Nico Bleutge spricht über...

    „Tiere zu fragen“ von Odile Kennel und „Wieder die Wespe sein, die morgens“ von Brigitte Oleschinski

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