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 (engulf-enkindle), 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 her audio play suchrufen, taub (search calling, deaf) which was granted the advancement award of the Karl Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art in 2008.[1]
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.
Utler is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and co-founder of the PEN Berlin. In 2022, she gained a fellowship of the Hamburg based think tank The New Institute.
Anja Utler lives in Leipzig.
Critical recption
“(Anja Utler's poems are) sensual sound constructions, on paper as in recitation, without being pure sound-poetry. Rather, they are language games of psychological world perception, that out of the substance of their words create shafts of illumination through which our curiosity, but also our bafflement in the exploration of language, feel their way.” – The jury of the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis[2]
Honours (selections)
- 2001 Literature Fellowship of the Insel Hombroich foundation
- 2003 Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
- 2005 Advancement award of the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry
- 2006 Advancement award of the Deutsche Schillerstiftung
- 2008 Advancement award of the Karl Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art
- 2009 Bavarian Award for the Advancement of the Arts (literature category)
- 2010 Advancement award of the Heimrad Bäcker Prize
- 2012 engulf-enkindle, the translation of münden – entzüngeln by Kurt Beals, is nomnated for the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry
- 2014 Basel Poetry Prize
- 2016 Heimrad Bäcker Prize
- 2016 literature scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria
- 2018 Thomas Kling Poetry Lectureship
- 2020 South Palatinate poetry prize
- 2021 Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik of the city of Hagen
- 2023 Ernst Jandl Prize
- 2024 Peter Huchel Prize
References
- ^ Kultur, S. W. R. (2024-03-11). "Anja Utler: suchrufen, taub". swr.online. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
- ^ "Anja Utler". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-05-02.