Udo Kawasser

Udo Kawasser at a reading in the bookstore of the poetry publishers at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Udo Kawasser (* 1965 ) is an Austrian writer , translator , contemporary dancer and choreographer .

Life

Udo Kawasser grew up in Lauterach on Lake Constance. He studied German , French and Spanish philology in Innsbruck and Vienna .

Kawasser works as a contemporary dancer and choreographer and writes poetry, prose and essays, which he has published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba.

In 2009 he took part in the 5th International Poetry Festival in Granada / Nicaragua .

Udo Kawasser translates Spanish-language literature into German and has worked with the Cuban author Carlos A. Aguilera in recent years. He translated several dossiers of Cuban, Chilean and Nicaraguan poetry for the literary magazines Lichtungen , Ostragehege and ndl . In 2002 he led a poetry translation workshop in Havana, from which the bilingual anthology of German-language poetry El cerebro que canta. Siete poetas de lengua alemana emerged .

Udo Kawasser lives in Vienna.

Single track

• Collapse of the landscape. Zurich – Havana. Prose. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85415-403-7 .
• no mouth. muzzle. Poems. parasite press, Cologne 2008.
• from the edge of the eye . Poems. With pictures by Karin Ferrari . Bucher Verlag, Hohenems / Vienna 2011.
• little cuban grammar. Poems. With a poem by Reina María Rodríguez, Edition Keiper, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503343-1-9 .
• Under the buckthorn . Records from the Au . Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-85449-460-7 .
• Reed . Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-85449-533-8 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Erika Kronabitter (Ed.): HAVE THE THAT. Friederike Mayröcker on her 90th birthday . Edition Art Science, Sankt Wolfgang 2014.
• Theo Breuer and Traian Pop (eds.): Matrix 28 . Breathing alphabet for Friederike Mayröcker . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012.

Awards

• 2001: Vorarlberg Literature Prize
• 2005/2010: 3rd prize Feldkircher Poetry Prize
• 2006/07/2009/10: Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 2007: 2nd prose award Brixen / Hall
• 2008: Dulzinea Poetry Prize
• 2001/2012: Vorarlberg Literature Scholarship

Translations

Spanish German

• Carlos A. Aguilera: Theory of the Chinese Soul , Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2007.
• Carlos A. Aguilera (Ed.): The Empty Utopia. Intellectuals and State in Cuba . Essays. Leykam Verlag, Graz 2005.
• Carlos A. Aguilera : The China machine . Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2004.
• Francisco Ruiz Udiel: Someone sees me crying in a dream . hochroth Verlag, Vienna 2013.

German Spanish

• El cerebro que canta. Siete poetas de lengua alemana. Edited and translated by Udo Kawasser with the assistance of Francisco Díaz Solar. Torre de Letras. La Habana. 2009.

literature

• Helmuth Schönauer : Diary of a librarian . Volume III. 2004-2008. Foreword by Dieter Bandhauer. Sisyphus Verlag, Klagenfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-901960-81-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Udo Kawasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review no mouth - mouth in the Literaturhaus Vienna (May 28, 2011)
• Review no mouth - mouth at Poetenladen (May 28, 2011)
• Review invasion of the landscape. Zurich - Havana (May 28, 2011)
• Video in Spanish Mango Poetry Festival Granada (May 28th 2011)
• Video in German mont ventoux Poetry Festival Granada (May 28, 2011)
• Video beGIERde, dance and choreography (May 28, 2011)