German Poetry Now: A bilingual online-anthology, featured by DAS GEDICHT chapbook
Anja Tuckermann
Silver earrings
with blue stones
gently jingle
in the ears
are they little bells
on the ears
tolling
the time
by the quarter
the earrings waggle
klong
four times every full hour
klong kling right
klong kling left
just can’t go without
bling
translated by Paul-Henri Campbell
+ German Original / Das OriginalAnja Tuckermann
Silberohrringe
mit blauen Steinen
klingeln leise
in den Ohren
sind das kleine Glocken
an den Ohren
die die Zeit
anklingen
jede Viertelstunde
wackeln die Ohrringe
klong
zur vollen Stunde viermal
klong kling rechts
klong kling links
geht eben nicht ohne
Klunker
© Anja Tuckermann, Berlin
aus: DAS GEDICHT Bd. 22 / Oktober 2014
+ About the author / Zum AutorBorn in Selb/Bavaria in 1961, Anja Tuckermann was raised in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In the 1980s, she was member of a feminist organization that was geared towards young women. Anja Tuckermann also edited their magazine Tigermädchen that published pieces written by children and young adults. She later was a contributing editor for a children’s broadcasting service and today also conducts literary seminars for young folks. Given her enormous interest in making sure literary culture is passed on from one generation to younger generations, her work skillfully and entertainingly moves back and forth between literature for young adults and literature for a more mature audience. Anja Tuckermann is also a prolific playwright and operatic librettist. With a clairvoyant eye for the intercultural dynamics of contemporary German demographics, she has put forth novels and non-fiction books that focus on issues, such as immigration and the persecution of adolescents during World War II. Her work has received the Kurt-Magnus-Preis awarded by ARD (the German PBS), the German award for children’s and youth literature (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis), as well as residencies in places like Stuttgart, Munich, Cracow, and Ankara. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Norwegian, Dutch, French, Turkish, and Chinese.
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« im Archiv
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« is an online collection of contemporary German-language poetry in English translation. All poems were taken from issue no. 22 of the German poetry magazine DAS GEDICHT, focused on the Poetry of Things. New English translations by Paul-Henri Campbell as well as the German originals are published here every Wednesday. All poems of this online-collection will also be published in a special print-edition. In order to read previous poems in this series, click here.
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« ist eine Online-Sammlung zeitgenössischer deutschsprachiger Dinggedichte in englischer Übersetzung. Alle Texte sind Band 22 der Zeitschrift DAS GEDICHT entnommen. Jeden Mittwoch erscheint ein neues Gedicht, das von Paul-Henri Campbell ins Englische übertragen wurde, zusammen mit dem deutschen Original. Die Beiträge dieser Online-Anthologie gibt es auch als Sonderausgabe in Buchform. Alle bereits erschienenen Folgen von »Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« finden Sie hier.
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« im Archiv
