Jan Wagner

teebeutel

Language: german

Translations: czech (pytlík čaje), english (tea bag), spanish (bolsita de té), french (sachet de thé), galician (bolsiña de té), hebrew (תֵּיוֹן), croatian (čajne vrećice), hungarian (teafilter), dutch (theezakje), norwegian (tepose), polish (woreczek herbaty), slovak (čajové vrecúška), swedish (Tepåse)

teebeutel

nur in sackleinen
gehüllt. kleiner eremit
in seiner höhle.

nichts als ein faden
führt nach oben. wir geben
ihm fünf minuten.

Translations:

Language: czech

pytlík čaje

I
jenom do pytle
se halí. poustevníček
ve své sluji.

II
nahoru vede
jediné vlákno. dáme mu
pět minut.

Language: english

tea bag

draped only in a
sackcloth mantle. the little
hermit in his cave.

a single thread leads
to the upper world. we shall
give him five minutes.

Language: spanish

bolsita de té

I

envuelta sólo en
tela de saco. pequeña eremita
en su cueva.

II

nada más que un hilo
conduce hacia arriba. le damos
cinco minutos.

Language: french

sachet de thé

juste enfermé
dans une étamine. petit ermite
dans sa caverne.

rien qu’un fil
le tire vers le haut. nous l’y laissons
cinq minutes.

Language: galician

bolsiña de té

I

envolto só nun manto de
tea de saco. o pequeno ermitán
na súa caverna.

II

só un fío conduce
cara ao mundo superior. temos que darlle
cinco minutos.

Language: hebrew

תֵּיוֹן

1
עָטוּי רַק
בְּאָרִיג-שַׂק. נָזִיר קָטָן
בְּכּוּכוֹ.

2
חוּט בִּלְבַד
מוֹלִיךְ מַעְלָה. אֲנַחְנוּ נוֹתְנִים
לוֹ חָמֵשׁ דַּקּוֹת.

Language: croatian

čajne vrećice

I.
samo vrećicom
zaogrnut. malen pustinjak
u svojoj pećini.

II.
ništa osim konca
ne vodi gore. dajemo mu
pet minuta.

Language: hungarian

teafilter

csak zsákvászonba
burkolva. remetécske
a barlangjában.

csupán egy fonál
vezet fölfelé. öt per-
cet adunk neki.

Language: dutch

theezakje

slechts in zaklinnen
gehuld. kleine heremiet
diep in zijn spelonk.

niet meer dan een draad
leidt naar boven. we geven
hem vijf minuten.

Language: norwegian

tepose

I

bare striesekk
til klær. liten eremitt
her i sin hule.

II

kun en enslig tråd
fører oppover. vi gir
den fem minutter.

Language: polish

woreczek herbaty

tylko płótnem worka
okryty. mały eremita
w pieczarze.

nic, zaledwie jedna nić
wiedzie w górę. dajemy
mu pięć minut.

Language: slovak

čajové vrecúška

len tak vo vrecku
ako malý pustovník
doma v jaskyni

nič len jedna niť
vedie hore. dávame
mu tak päť minút.

Language: swedish

Tepåse

I

i bara säckväv
höljd. en liten eremit
där i sin grotta.

II

endast ett snöre
pekar uppåt. honom ger
vi fem minuter.

Jan Wagner

* 18.10.1971, Hamburg, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Jan Wagner was born in Hamburg in October 1971. He studied British and American Studies at the University of Hamburg and the Trinity College in Dublin, before moving to Berlin, where he still lives today.

In Berlin Wagner started out by working on the international “literature box” Die Aussenseite des Elementes. Since 1995 he had been issuing the box together with Thomas Girst and a changing editorial team, till, after the eleventh edition, the project had to be ended in 2003.

Since 2001, when his first collection of poems was released by the Berlin Verlag, Wagner has been working as a freelance poet, translator and literature critic. He writes regularly for the Frankfurter Rundschau as well as other newspapers, magazines and the radio. Wagner’s translations of authors such as f. e. Charles Simic, James Tate, Matthew Sweeney, Jo Shapcott, Simon Armitage and Robin Robertson have been published in magazines and anthologies. He himself has been translated into multiple languages.

As an editor Wagner published together with Björn Kuhligk the anthology Lyrik von Jetzt. 74 Stimmen, a comprehensive collection of young German poetry. A follow-up has been issued in 2008.

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