Sylvia Geist

Sylvia Geist, Erlanger Poetenfest 2018

Sylvia Geist (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German writer . She has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2017 .

Sylvia Geist studied chemistry , German and art history at the TU Berlin and moved to Hanover in 1989. Today she lives in the Uckermark and Vancouver.

Individual publications

• Morning blue animal. Poems. to Klampen Verlag Springe, 1997, ISBN 978-3-933156-38-9 .
• Non-Euclidean journey. Poems. Bonsai-type Art Verlag , 1998.
• The area around the eye. Poems. musilmuseum-literatour Druckwerk Nr. 1, 2004.
• Read book No. 67. Poems. Aphaia Publishing House, 2006.
• The peacock. Novella. Luftschacht Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-902373-30-4 .
• Before the weather. Poems. Luftschacht Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-902373-42-7 .
• Last friends. Stories. Luftschacht Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-902373-67-0 .
• Gordian paradise. Poems. Hanser Berlin Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24501-3
• reversed destruction. 15 merzette. With collages v. Arne Rautenberg. Carl-Walter Kottnik (ed.), Hamburg 2015
• Ráno modré zviera a iné básne . (Translated by Martina Straková) Edition Ars Poetica, Bratislava 2017, ISBN 978-80-89283-88-0
• Foreign skins . Poems. Hanser Berlin Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25851-8

Editions

• (Ed.) Textura. Series for Eastern European Literature, Hanover, 1992–1994.
• (Ed.) Between the lines. A Polish anthology. Postscript publisher, 1996.
• (Ed., Together with Ursula Macht) In the garden of words. Places and objects of Slovak literature . die hear, no.208 (2002)

translation

• Chirikure Chirikure : prospect of own shadow. Poems. Wunderhorn Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-368-9
• Peter Gizzi : Being dead is good in America. Poems. (together with Christian Lux, Daniela Seel and others) luxbooks, 2012, ISBN 978-3939557432
• Arrival another day. Contemporary poetry from South Africa. Wunderhorn Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88423-425-9

Awards (selection)

• 1998: Lower Saxony sponsorship award
• 2002: Meran Poetry Prize - together with O. Egger
• 2006: Scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
• 2006: Annual grant from the State of Lower Saxony
• 2008: Adolf Mejstrik honorary gift for poetry from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2014: Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg
• 2018: Scholarship from the Rainer Malkowski Prize
• 2019: Writer in Residence in Krems

Quote

• "In Sylvia Geist's poetry, linguistic styles permeate one another: the exactness of scientific designation, the vagueness of colloquial language and, last but not least, the extreme condensation of poetic speech. Language reflection that remains legible is at a high level, that is introspection that does not primarily focus on the dissecting knife leaves." (Tim Schomacker)
• "With her poems, Sylvia Geist reinforces the movement that lies in the already wobbly systems of science; she breathes intimacy into them, destroys them, questions them." Non-Euclidean journey "is the name and program of her last volume of poetry; the common notion the room only serves as a projection surface for lustful negation. " (Arne Rautenberg)
• "Reading the poems of Sylvia Geist means immersing yourself in a highly sensitive sensorium. Extreme tension in reaching into it. Dissecting and separating flesh and nerve cords, muscle fibers: the poem works from the inside out. The wounds: invisible on the skin, barbs, tugging at synapses. "(Christine Marendon)
• "Sylvia Geist's poetry is about dissolution and dematerialization. Her language work is confident, unpretentious, light, delicate and quiet." (Kurt Drawert)

Web links

• Literature by and about Sylvia Geist in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature forum "The Golden Fish"
• The poet Arne Rautenberg on Sylvia Geist
• Poem in "Lose Blaetter"
• Poetry in the "Poetenladen"