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Charlotte Van den Broeck

Stierenkop

  • 1 Acht, ∞ - VIII. [niet overhellen] | Translations: de
  • 2 Acht, ∞ - VII. [iets in het vlees] | Translations: de
  • 3 Acht, ∞ - VI. [een goochelaar zaagt me in twee stukken] | Translations: de
  • 4 Acht, ∞ - V. [Europa, een inwisselbaar landschap] | Translations: de
  • 5 Acht, ∞ - IV. [buiten buigt de storm de palmbomen om] | Translations: de
  • 6 Acht, ∞ - III. [je naam ondertussen van alles de opmaat] | Translations: de
  • 7 Acht, ∞ - II. [al die brieven geschreven] | Translations: de
  • 8 Acht, ∞ - I. [Op het veld liggen een jongen en een meisje] | Translations: de
  • 9 Boekarest | Translations: dees
  • 10 Sisjön | Translations: dees
  • 11 Växjö | Translations: dees
  • 12 Hvannadalshnúkur | Translations: dees
  • 13 Stierenkop | Translations: dees
Language: dutch
Translations: german (Stierkopf), spanish (Cabeza de toro)
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Stierenkop

Sinds ik geboren ben, woedt er in de onderbuik van mijn moeder
een enorme stierenkop. Hij raast door haar verlaten lijf

en maakt littekens in de braakliggende moeder, soms
weet ze niet zo goed wie ik ben, dat is verontrustend

want ooit paste ik helemaal in haar, gelukkig
ben ik volgens de astronomische constellatie van de Kreeft

genotzuchtig, betrouwbaar en creatief. Hierin vindt ze houvast,
een godsbewijs tussen vruchtwater en heelal.

Als we witlof met hesp in de oven aten, kreeg ik het kaaskorstje.
Helemaal. Omdat ik het wilde.

Liefde is iets wat ik ken uit een kookpot,
altijd twee extra scheppen op een vol bord

een tweede koekje in de gele pudding verstopt.
Dat is een veelvoorkomende vorm van moederlijk gedrag:

‘De opvulling van het jong’.
Door de holte die ik in haar naliet, wilde ze mij vol en rond.

Op een ochtend kondigde ik haar dan de komst van de kleine borsten aan.
Ze was daar dagenlang kapot van.

Uiteindelijk kreeg ik een bh,
één met Hello Kitty erop.

Vanuit haar buik bonkte de briesende stierenkop.
Een holte is pas een leegte als er niets meer in past.

Langzaam fossiliseerden we in twee aparte wezens.
Het is niet zeker

wie van ons het insect en wie
de barnsteen werd.

© Charlotte Van den Broeck
From: Kameleon
Amsterdam / Antwerpen: De Arbeiderspers, 2015
ISBN: 9789029538435
Audio production: Charlotte Van den Broeck, 2016
Categories: narrative poetry, performance , body

Translations:

Language: german

Stierkopf

Seit ich geboren bin, wütet im Unterbauch meiner Mutter
ein riesiger Stierkopf. Er rast durch ihren verlassenen Körper

und macht Narben in der brachliegenden Mutter, manchmal
weiß sie nicht so recht, wer ich bin, das ist beunruhigend

denn einst passte ich ganz in sie hinein, zum Glück
bin ich der astronomischen Konstellation des Krebses zufolge

genusssüchtig, vertrauenswürdig und kreativ. Das gibt ihr Halt,
ein Gottesbeweis zwischen Fruchtwasser und All.

Wenn wir Chicoréeauflauf mit Schinken aßen, bekam ich die Käsekruste.
Ganz. Weil ich sie wollte.

Liebe ist etwas, das ich aus einem Kochtopf kenne,
immer zwei extra Löffel auf einen vollen Teller

einen zweiten Keks, in  gelbem Pudding versteckt.
Das ist eine verbreitete Form mütterlichen Verhaltens:

‘Die Füllung des Kindes’.
Wegen des Hohlraums, den ich in ihr hinterließ, wollte sie mich voll und rund.

An einem Morgen kündigte ich ihr dann die Ankunft der kleinen Brüste an.
Tagelang musste sie sich davon erholen.

Schließlich bekam ich einen BH,
einen mit Hello Kitty drauf.

Aus ihrem Bauch heraus stieβ der schnaubende Stierkopf.
Ein Hohlraum ist erst eine Leere, wenn nichts mehr hinein passt.

Langsam fossilisierten wir zu zwei getrennten Wesen.
Es ist nicht sicher,

wer von uns beiden das Insekt und wer
der Bernstein wurde.

Aus dem Niederländischen übersetzt von Janet Blanken
Language: spanish

Cabeza de toro

Desde que nací, brama en el abdomen de mi madre

una enorme cabeza de toro. Le sacude el cuerpo abandonado


y dibuja cicatrices en la madre baldía, que a veces

no recuerda muy bien quién soy, resulta inquietante


porque en su momento cupe entera en ella, por suerte

soy según la constelación astronómica de Cáncer


hedonista, fiable y creativa. Con eso ella tiene un asidero,

una certeza divina entre líquido amniótico y universo.


Cuando comíamos endibias con jamón al horno, me daba

el queso gratinado. Todo. Porque yo quería.


El amor es algo que conozco de las cazuelas,

siempre dos cucharadas más en el plato lleno


una segunda galleta escondida en las natillas.

Es una manifestación común de conducta maternal:


«Colmar a la cría».

Por haber dejado ese hueco en ella, me quería ver llena y oronda.


Una mañana le comuniqué la aparición de incipientes pechos.

Durante días se sintió destrozada.


Al final me dio un sujetador,

uno que ponía «Hello Kitty».


Desde su vientre la cabeza de toro golpeaba y bufaba.

Un hueco tan solo es un vacío cuando ya nada cabe en él.


Fuimos fosilizándonos hasta ser dos seres independientes.

No se sabe con certeza


cuál de las dos es ahora el insecto

y cuál, el ámbar.

Traducción al español: Ronald Brouwer
Publicada en: Charlotte Van den Broeck, Camaleón, ed. De Conatus, Madrid, 2018
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Charlotte Van den Broeck

photo © Stephan Vanfleteren
* 29.06.1991, Turnhout, Belgium
lives in: Turnhout, Belgium

Charlotte Van den Broeck won her poetical spurs in a similar way to Maud Vanhauwaert, namely onstage. The accompanying familiarity of her name provided her debut Chameleon with the necessary impetus. Chameleon would appear to be the perfect title for a debut volume of poetry. Changeability is the chameleon’s foremost characteristic: the animal adopts various colours depending on its surroundings at any given time. By giving her first book this title, Charlotte Van den Broeck seems to be aware of the fact that not all the poems are of equal strength, but are still part of her identity. The possible criticism overcome by this attitude distances it from the Schein des Naiven that Friedrich Schiller ascribes to the female gender in the motto prefacing the volume.

 photo © Stephan Vanfleteren für Ehrengast Flandern und die Niederlande FBM16’
At the same time, the chameleon’s changeable and convertible nature is an appropriate image to summarise the search for female identity in this volume. The poems deal with landscapes, the relationship with her grandfather, with a lover and especially with her mother, but the recurring theme is that of an I in search of identity. However, this identity appears as something difficult to attain, because it is inherent in a process of continuous assimilation to others and what is other (‘I am however available in various flavours’ as the poem ‘Charlotte Pudding’ has it) and of reacting against this (‘the mother is a stone’, as a line says in ‘Genealogy’). The conquest of the self lies in this double bind that a chameleon puts into practice on a daily basis.

The poems only appear naïve. They seem to have been written down as a direct reflection of performance poetry, but also effectively display sublayers hinting at greater coherence and themes. They are lyrical in the sense that their eloquence fans out in all directions with many surprising images, but also with a reprisal of images, such as the stone in varying contexts, which forces the reader to reread the book, to return to earlier poems.

Chameleon marks Charlotte Van den Broeck’s successful and promising debut.

Charlotte Van den Broeck (1991) holds an MA in English-German language and literature and is now studying Verbal Arts at the Antwerp conservatory. She twice reached the top 100 of the Turing National Poetry Prize and published in Het Liegend Konijn. She is already a household name as a performance poet. In 2015, on the advent of her debut volume Chameleon, she was added to the line-up of the Saint Amour tour through Belgium and the Netherlands.

English translation: Willem Groenewegen

Publications
  • Kameleon

    poëzie

    Amsterdam/Antwerpen: De Arbeiderspers, 2015

  • Nachtroer

    poëzie

    Amsterdam/Antwerpen: De Arbeiderspers, 2017

  • Waagstukken

    proza

    Amsterdam/Antwerpen: De Arbeiderspers, 2019

  • Wagnisse

    13 tragische Bauwerke und ihre Schöpfer

    Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 2021

  • Nachtdrift

    Gedichte

    Aus dem belgischen Niederländisch von Stefan Wieczorek

    Leipzig: Leipziger Literaturverlag, 2021

Awards
  • 2016 Herman De Coninck Prize for Debuts

  • 2019 Paul Snoekprijs

Links
  • Charlotte Van den Broeck

    official website

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