Anja Utler
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Anja Utler
Anja Utler (born 24 July 1973 in Schwandorf, Germany) is a German poet, essayist and translator.
Anja Utler studied Slavic studies, English studies and speech science. In 2003, she received a doctor's degree from the university of Regensburg. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the relevance of gender in the work of four Russian women poets (Zinaida Gippius, Elena Guro, Anna Akhmatowa and Marina Tsvetaeva).
In 2004, she published her debut poetry collection münden – entzüngeln, which had been awarded the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis the year before. Anja Utler's work is focused on text according to writing and sound. In 2006, Utler published brinnen as both a book and an audio CD with two routes running through the text. In 2009, the collection jana, vermacht was likewise published as a book containing an acoustic text installation.
In 2007, the Austrian national public broadcaster ORF broadcast herin der Reihe „Literatur als Radiokunst“ ihr audio play suchrufen, taub which was granted the advancement award of the Karl-Sczuka-Preis in 2008.
In 2014, Utler was a fellow of the International Writing Program in Iowa. In 2015, she was Writer-in-Residence at the Oberlin College, Ohio. In 2019, she participated at the the 29th Medellín International Poetry Festival.