Uljana Wolf

schliefen die öfen [I / berlin]

jezik: nemščina

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schliefen die öfen [I / berlin]

berlin

als wir aufwachten mit nestern
im haar die wir nacht nannten

schlugen die genesenden väter
schaufelhändig alle klappen zu

schliefen die öfen ohne uns
in ihr vergessen zu nehmen

Uljana Wolf

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* 06.04.1979, Berlin, Nemčija
živi v: Brooklyn, New York and Berlin , Nemčija

Uljana Wolf was born in Berlin in 1979. She studied German literature, English literature and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked part-time at a book shop.

Wolf’s poems have been published in magazines and anthologies in Germany, Poland, Belarus and Ireland, f. e. Die Außenseite des Elementes, Edit, Das Gedicht, intendenzen, Kursywa and Poetry Ireland Review. Her first collection of poetry, called kochanie ich habe brot gekauft, was released in 2005 and won her, as the youngest ever recipient, the Peter-Huchel-Preis in 2006. In 2009, 'Falsche Freunde' (False Friends) was published.

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Today Wolf lives together with her husband, the poet Christian Hawkey, in Berlin and New York. The couple is working together in translating the poems of the other into their own mother tongue.