Nancy Hünger
Author

Стихотворения

[DAS GEZWEIG BIN ICH] немецкий

[DIE KNIEKEHLE AUFWÄRTS] немецкий

[MEINE HÜFTE IST EINE VOLLWAISE] немецкий

[ICH SCHNEIE DICH] немецкий

Musik von sanften Motoren немецкий

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Der Abschied ist gemacht немецкий

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Bei Tisch немецкий

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Hab Acht немецкий

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Um die Häuser, mein Freund немецкий

Nancy Hünger
Author

About

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* 13.02.1981, Weimar, Германия
Место жительства: Gotha, Германия

Nancy Hünger was born in Weimar, of the former German Democratic Republic, in 1981. Unlike many poets of her generation (most of whom live in Berlin), Nancy Hünger has remained faithful to this region of central Germany. She studied fine arts at Bauhaus University in Weimar and then fully committed to literature.

After her 2006 debut collection Aus blassen Fasern Wirklichkeit was published to great acclaim, Hünger was awarded various prizes and scholarships, including the Hermann-Lenz Scholarship (2008), Caroline-Schlegel-Förderpreis of the city of Jena for an essay on the story “Alte Abdeckerei” by Wolfgang Hilbig (2014), and a special scholarship of the Kulturstiftung Thuringia (2020). She was named city writer in Jena (2011) and in Tübingen (2018).

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Nancy Hünger's publications include collections of poetry (Aus blassen Fasern Wirklichkeit; Ein wenig Musik zum Abschied wäre trotzdem nett), boundary-crossing “more unstable texts” (Deshalb die Vögel. Instabile Texte), as well as short lyric prose (Halt dich fern; Wir sind golden, wir sind aus Blut; 4 Uhr kommt der Hund. Ein unglückliches Sprechen). Her shortness of breath – which Hünger herself says ties her to the lyric form – strikes readers as an urgent breathlessness. Her texts are often piercingly short and intensely concentrated.
With simple vocabulary, they invite us to estrange ourselves from that which seems familiar. This is accomplished by positioning, repeating, recombining a handful of words, usually within a short period of time – often lowercase, often without punctuation. In the maelstrom of enjambment, in which one line flows into the next, rhythm and sound replace grammatical sentences and word hierarchies as structuring forces. The reader is presented with an ambiguous play of multifaceted interpretation, rejection and reinterpretation. And so, distance and doubt surrounding familiar terms begin to creep in – creating space for new perspectives, new intimacy (Pauline Selbig)

Nancy Hünger lives as a freelance writer in Gotha. She is an important actor in promoting writers and culture in Thuringia and has worked (and continues to work) for various cultural institutions, including the Schiller Garden House of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and Lese-Zeichen e.V..