Ulyana Wolf
Uljana Wolf (born April 6, 1979 in Berlin ) is a German writer .
Life
Uljana Wolf studied German , English and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies in Germany, Poland, Belarus and Ireland. In 2005 she made her debut with the volume of poetry, kochanie I have bought bread , for which she was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize in 2006 (as the youngest author to date) . The jury's reasoning stated:
“As a German-Polish border crosser, Uljana Wolf [...] intertwines her generation's attitude to life with foreign parcels - as the title of a cycle of poems - to create an intense linguistic landscape. With just a few strokes, she succeeds in capturing the essences of her world of experience in linguistic miniatures in a dreamlike manner.
Her second volume of poetry, false friends , was published in 2009. This volume is divided into the cycles "FALSCHE FREUNDE", "SUBSISTERS" and "ALIENS", all of which deal with the problematic but also the productive fuzziness of translation. Wolf's approach is particularly sharp in the "ALIENS" cycle, which literally understands "translating" as "putting bodies over the sea"; the contemporary figure of the migrant and the classification processes carried out on it are given a poetic shape.
Uljana Wolf also works as a translator from American English. a. Christian Hawkey , Matthea Harvey , Yoko Ono and Eugene Ostashevsky . In 2009 she was co-editor of the Yearbook of Poetry .
She is also a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
Uljana Wolf lives in Berlin and New York.
Fonts
Books
- Kochanie I bought bread. Poems. kookbooks , Idstein 2005, ISBN 3-937445-16-1 .
- False friends. Poems. kookbooks , Idstein 2009, ISBN 978-3-937445-38-0 .
- Box office. Lyrik-Kabinett Foundation, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938776-26-1 .
- My most beautiful Lengevitch. Prose poems. kookbooks , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937445-57-1 .
- Wandering Errands . Zwiesprachen - A series of the Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett Munich. Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg, 2016. ISBN 978-3-88423-529-4 .
Contributions to anthologies and literary journals
- Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3937445809 .
- Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present. 2008.
- Timo Berger (Ed.): Devolver el fuego. Cinco poetas de Alemania. Ediciones Vox, Bahía Blanca (Argentina) 2006.
- Björn Kuhligk , Jan Wagner (Ed.): Poetry from Now. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7852-X .
- Literary magazines: Bella triste , Critical Edition , The Monday Letters, The Outside of the Element , Edit , The Poem, intendenzen, Kursywa, Poetry Ireland Review, randnummer literaturhefte , WIR. Arte Nova.
Awards
- 2019: one-year scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
- 2019: August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professorship for Poetics of Translation at the Free University of Berlin , winter semester 2019/2020
- 2019: Prize of the City of Münster for International Poetry , together with the poet Eugene Ostashevsky and the other translator Monika Rinck
- 2019: Berlin Art Prize for Literature
- 2017/2018: Scholarship holder, Villa Massimo
- 2017: Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- 2016: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
- 2015: Erlangen Literature Prize for Poetry as Translation
- 2013: Wolfgang Weyrauch Sponsorship Award
- 2012: Nomination of "false friends" (translated into English by Susan Bernofsky ) for the Best Translated Book Award
- 2010: Artist residency at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles
- 2008: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 2006: Dresden Poetry Prize (together with Viola Fischerová)
- 2006: Peter Huchel Prize
- 2004: Mercator-Berghaus-Scholarship in Krzyzowa (Kreisau) , Poland
- 2003: Vienna Workshop Prize
- 2000: Scholarship from the Dublin authors' association DUBCIT and participation in the European art project Poetry 2000 in Ireland
- 1997: German-Polish poet steamer
- 1996: National competition for young authors meeting
- 1995: Prize winner of the 4th Berlin Youth Literature Competition
Web links
- Literature by and about Uljana Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Uljana Wolf at Literaturport
- Uljana Wolf in the poet shop
- Cornelia Jentzsch: "Portrait of the Peter Huchel Prize Winner Uljana Wolf", Deutschlandfunk, April 13, 2006
- Press release from the Robert Bosch Stiftung on the 2016 Chamisso Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
- ↑ Art Prize Berlin 2019 , Akademie der Künste Berlin from March 18, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Ulyana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |