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Birgit Kreipe

schneewittchen. revisited.

  • 1 New schneewittchen. revisited. | Translations: en
  • 2 New schwesternlicht | Translations: en
  • 3 KINDERHEIM _ | Translations: sl
  • 4 KINDERHEIM 1 | Translations: sl
  • 5 KINDERHEIM 2 | Translations: sl
  • 6 KINDERHEIM 3 | Translations: sl
  • 7 KINDERHEIM 4 | Translations: sl
  • 8 KINDERHEIM 5 | Translations: sl
  • 9 KINDERHEIM 6 | Translations: sl
  • 10 KINDERHEIM 7 | Translations: sl
  • 11 KINDERHEIM 8 | Translations: sl
  • 12 KINDERHEIM __ | Translations: sl
  • 13 über die alpen I
  • 14 über die alpen II | Translations: cs
  • 15 am morgen nach der schlacht | Translations: cs
  • 16 mon capri
  • 17 san clemente | Translations: cs
  • 18 auf der suche nach dem sagenhaften kleinianischen reich
  • 19 der himmel ist ein blauer hund | Translations: cs
  • 20 [der dezember ist ein nashorn] | Translations: cs
Language: german
Translations: english (snow white. revisited)
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schneewittchen. revisited.

schneewittchen.
das gute an ihr:
man kann sie vergiften, schütteln
sie wacht wieder auf.

mal tanzt sie auf sieben hügeln
dann löscht die nacht sie aus
wie man eine schneekugel
vom nachtisch fegt.

da liegt sie. die ganze weiße
pracht schmilzt wie pulver.
jetzt ist klar, wer                                        
die glitzernde, strenge schöne ist. 

aber ein morgen, irgendeiner
voller apfelnachbilder
voller miederbänder und apfelreste
bringt sie zurück. irgendwann.

leg sie auf eis.
sie passt zu uns:
man kann sie auftauen und
wieder einfrieren. sieben
kühlschränke geben uns recht

ihre kehle ein bach, ihre zunge
liegt auf der zunge wie ein guter wein
ihr herz, königinnenart
verdirbt nicht so schnell.

© Brigit Kreipe
From: Schönheitsfarm
Berlin: Verlagshaus Berlin, 2012
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2020
Categories: gender & sexuality, woman, fairy-tales & legends

Translations:

Language: english

snow white. revisited

snow white.
the good thing about her:
you can poison her, shake her
she will wake up again.

sometimes, she dances on seven hills
then nighttime puts her out.
just like whisking a snow globe
from your bedside table.

there it lies. the whole white
splendor melts like powder
now, it‘s clear, who
the sparkling, strict, beautiful woman is.

but one morning, any one of them
full of apple after-images,
full of corset ribbons and apple residues
brings her back. some day.

put her on ice.
she‘s one of us:
you can thaw and
refreeze her. seven
refrigerators prove us right

her throat is a brook, her tongue
lies on the tongue like a good wine
her heart, á la reine
doesn‘t spoil so easily

Translated by Catherine Hales
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Birgit Kreipe

photo © gezett.de
* 28.05.1964, Hildesheim, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Birgit Kreipe (born in 1964 in Hildesheim) creates pictorial spaces in her poems in which fairy tale motifs, archaeological traces, memories and imagination intermingle. Psychological techniques unfold their poetic potential – the woman with the cuckoo hands appears. Small leaves fall out of the light over the tree stumps. Ghosts of ponies show the way. An ancient layer of mortar surprises with its capacity to cuddle and proves to be an ancient proposal for binding theory.
Birgit Kreipe’s poems have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Awards include the Literature Fellowship of the Berlin Senate in 2016 and the Munich Poetry Prize in 2014. 

 photo © gezett.de
Publications
  • wenn ich wind sage seid ihr weg

    Fixpoetry-Lesehefte No. 20

    Verlag im Proberaum 3, 2010

  • Schönheitsfarm

    Berlin: Verlagshaus J. Frank, 2012

  • SOMA

    Berlin: kookbooks, 2016

Awards
  • 2014 Irseer Pegasus

  • 2014 Lyrikpreis München

  • 2016 Literaturstipendium des Berliner Senats

  • 2017 Autorenresidenz der Slovenia Book Days in Ljubljana und Kranj, Slowenien

Links
  • Birgit Kreipe @ Fixpoetry

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  • Birgit Kreipe @ Wikipedia

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  • Birgit Kreipe @ Literaturport

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  • Birgit Kreipe @ Poetenladen

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  • Birgit Kreipe @ Planet Lyrik

    Rezensionen von 'Schönheitsfarm'

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