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Fouad El-Auwad
in the coffeehouse
smoking area:
on the table
a little spray of flowers
a cup of coffee
a glass of water
and an ashtray
the cup is emptied
the glass is emptied
the ashtray fills up
the flowers wilt away.
translated by Paul-Henri Campbell
+ German Original / Das OriginalFouad El-Auwad
im kaffeehaus
raucherzone:
auf einem tisch stehen
ein kleiner blumenstrauß
eine tasse kaffee
ein glas wasser
und ein aschenbecher.
die tasse wird leer
das glas wird leer
der aschenbecher wird voll
der blumenstrauß geht ein.
© Fouad El-Auwad, Leverkusen
aus: DAS GEDICHT Bd. 22 / Oktober 2014
+ About the author / Zum Autor
Fouad El-Auwad was born in 1965. As an architect from Damascus, he has lived in Germany for over fifteen years. During this time, he became a bridge between Arabic and German poetry. In Munich, he founded the German-Arabic Poetry Salon, an institution unique in its kind that brings together poets from the Middle East and North Africa with poets from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, in order to share and exchange the inspirational power of their respective approaches to the art form. Fouad El-Auwad is the editor and translator of several anthologies that present Arabic and German poetry alongside their corresponding translations. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry written in German. He is part of the growing population of poets that use a literary language that they have acquired as a secondary language – a phenomenon common in early globalizers, such as in the United States, but until recently relatively rare in Germany. In his own work, his use of the mystic imagery of Middle Eastern Christianity as well as the Arabic emphasis on poetry as a supreme art culminates in a confident, vatic tone. Although his books appeared through small publishers, they rapidly went through multiple editions, such as »mit den buchstaben unterwegs« first published in 2003.
»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 are also 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
