Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten (* 1982 in Ames , Iowa , USA ) is a German-speaking writer and translator .

The writer Ann Cotten at the book launch of "The shuddering fan" at the ARTE stand at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

life and work

Cotten came to Vienna with her family when she was five . She completed her German studies in 2006 with a thesis with Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler on "the lists of concrete poetry ", in which she attempted to demonstrate the "inherent dynamics of the list as a [...] power instrument of a system". After appearing as a poet at poetry slams and having published poems and prose in literary magazines and anthologies , her first volume of poetry, Foreign Dictionary Sonette , was published in 2007 .

Cotten was a member of the Forum of 13 and also appeared as a literary theorist. Her collection of short stories, The Schaudern Fächer (2013), is “a slap in the face of all those who think one must also be able to understand literature,” judged Ijoma Mangold . Mangold reminded Cotten's stories of Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde . Ann Cotten writes literary and literary journalistic articles for the daily newspapers Junge Welt and taz .

In her texts, Cotten uses experimental forms of gendered language, which she calls “Polish gendering”. In this procedure, “all letters required for all genders come at the end of the word in any order”. In 2019 she used the method in her novel Lyophilia and points out that the poet Monika Rinck also uses Polish gendering. "Greisenni", "Teilnehmernnie", "Betrachterni" and "Oberunterösterreichernnnie" appear in the novel. In her 2020 translation of Mary MacLane's I Expect the Coming of the Devil , Cotten used the procedure sporadically. The literary critic Magnus Klaue criticized the procedure in his column Lahme literati .

“Yes, I think so, I come from mimesis when I write. So, that was the first discovery that you can draw with language, and you recognize it and you can somehow capture that moment, through description. That was just the cool thing about writing and that, I think that is still what just gives sensual pleasure and at the same time, I think, then more and more discover the beauties of language or the wild grammatical constructions and this mechanics that then it happens that my thoughts are shaped by grammar .... "

Cotten lives in Vienna and Berlin .

Single track

• Foreign dictionary sonnets. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12497-0 .
• After the world. The lists of concrete poetry and their consequences. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902665-01-0 .
• Glossary bustards. Exception Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940992-09-3 .
• The horse. SuKuLTuR Verlag , Berlin 2009 (= Schönerlesen No. 84), ISBN 978-3-941592-03-2 .
• Florida rooms. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42132-1 .
• with Kerstin Cmelka: I, Coleoptile. Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-032627-1 .
• Pflock in der Landschaft , Schock Edition (1), EdK / Distillery, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941330-28-3 .
• with Daniel Falb , Hendrik Jackson , Steffen Popp and Monika Rinck : helmet made of phlox. To the worst tool theory . Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-292-4 .
• Main work. Softsoftporn. Peter Engstler , Ostheim / Rhön 2013. ISBN 978-3-941126-49-7 .
• The shivering fan. Stories. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42389-9 .
• Banished! Verse epic, with illustrations by the author. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-07143-4 .
• Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2016, ISBN 978-3-941126-91-6
• Lather in Heaven! (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin, 2016. ISBN 978-3-943196-40-5 .
• Almost stupid, essays from on the road. Starfruit Publications, Fürth 2017, ISBN 978-3-922895-32-9 .
• Lyophilia , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42869-6 .

Awards

• 2007: Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• 2008: George Saiko Travel Grant
• 2008: Clemens Brentano Prize
• 2012: Prize of the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize
• 2014: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 2014: Wilhelm Lehmann Prize
• 2015: Promotion Prize of the Ernst Bloch Prize
• 2015: Klopstock Prize
• 2017: Hugo Ball Prize
• 2017: Admission to the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• 2018: Scholarship at Villa Aurora
• 2020: International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures , together with the author Isabel Waidner , for the translation Geile Deko

Web links

Commons : Ann Cotten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ann Cotten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ann Cotten at perlentaucher.de
• Works by and about Ann Cotten at Open Library
• Ann Cotten on the Suhrkamp-Verlag website
• Cottens Glossary Bustard Project
• Sounds like Talking Heads, Erich Kästner and Roxy Music (Cotten reviews Mascha Kaléko : All works and letters in four volumes)
• Jochen Jung: Heart-squeezing, as bright as dust - Review of Florida rooms , in Die Zeit , September 22, 2010
• Conversation with Ann Cotten about The Shuddering Fan Video 8min, BR February 3, 2014 [3]
• Review by Michaela Schmitz of The Schauder Fächer on Deutschlandfunk from January 6, 2014.

Portraits

• Ruben Donsbach: Portrait of Ann Cotten in Die Zeit , February 27, 2008
• Ina Hartwig : Portrait of Ann Cotten , from Frankfurter Rundschau , August 17, 2007, (English), on signandsight.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zeit Online: Tanzen mit dem Fettknick , February 27, 2008
2. ^ Cotten, Ann. The Whole World: Lists in Concrete Poetry and After. Thesis. Vienna 2007. [1]
3. ↑ ^{a b} The lack of consequences of knowledge , cover culture magazine , January 26, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2018.
4. ↑ lyrikkritik.de: Something more: About the premises and the meaning of what we are able to do with words
5. ↑ Zeit Literature No. 41, September 2013, p. 12.
6. ↑ Ann Cotten: Three weeks in normalcy. December 1, 2017, accessed April 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Hanna Engelmeier: Volume of stories by the poet Ann Cotten: Anyone who reads this is stupid . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 5, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 27, 2020]).
8. ↑ Beat Mazenauer: The Fractals of Being: In “Lyophilia” Ann Cotten designs para-dingical states in a parallel world that somehow resembles our cosmos. In: literaturkritik.de . August 8, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020.
9. ↑ Lame literati. Retrieved June 8, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Mascha Jacobs: "I want to mix my ashes with yours". Ann Cotten about her favorite books and knowledge production (2020) [2] at podcast.piqd.de . Ann Cotten talks to Mascha Jacobs about her favorite books and how she organizes her knowledge and what she has read. From minute 25.
11. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
12. ↑ Villa Aurora Fellows 2018 , Villa Aurora, July 14, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2017.