Entgegenkommen

Dialogues with Barbara Köhler
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1372-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 48, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: German Monitor

This volume presents the first collection of critical essays on the work of the contemporary poet Barbara Köhler (b.1959). Köhler's first collection Deutsches Roulette attracted wide critical acclaim on its publication in 1991, when its poetic articulation of a last days' consciousness of the German Democratic Republic hit a nerve with the German reading public. The radicalisation of her poetics in her subsequent mainstream publications, Blue Box (1995) and Wittgensteins Nichte (1999), together with her interest in pursuing work at the periphery of the publishing scene, perhaps explains the relative lack of critical attention accorded her work up until now. The seven critical essays in the volume provide an overview of the various aspects of her work to date (poetry, essays, text installation in the public sphere), as well as debating from different theoretical perspectives (including feminist and media theory) the reconceptualisation of the subject and of intersubjective relations that lies at the heart of her poetological project. The volume also includes texts by Köhler from the late 1990s - two poems from her 1998 artbook publication cor responde, and her extended reflection on gender relations in the German language, Tango. Ein Distanz -, a conversation between the author and Georgina Paul, and, as a coda, an essay on translating Köhler that presents versions of one of her best-known poems ‘Rondeau Allemagne'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Paul, Georgina

Schmitz, Helmut

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Georgina PAUL & Helmut SCHMITZ: Introduction. Barbara KÖHLER: Aus cor responde (1998). Barbara KÖHLER: Tango. Ein Distanz. Barbara KÖHLER & Georgina PAUL: ‘Ich wäre mir so gerne selbst/verständlich’: Ein Gespräch. Birgit DAHLKE: ‘. auf einem Papierboot bestehen’: Schreiben in der DDR der 80er Jahre. Karen LEEDER: Two-way Mirrors: Construing the Possibilities of the First Person Singular in Barbara Köhler's Poetry. Roger THIEL: Hölderlin auf halbmast: Überlegungen zu Barbara Köhlers Gedicht ‘Endstelle'. Helmut SCHMITZ: ‘Viele Ausgänge?' On some Motifs in Barbara Köhlers Poetry. Margaret LITTLER & Hilary OWEN: Barbara Köhler's cor responde. German and Portuguese Correspondences: Dialogue or Palimpsest? Kerstin MEY: Sprachgesten und Spielräume. Zu Prosatexten von Barbara Köhler. Anthonya VISSER: Bild-Sprache: Barbara Köhlers Texte für öffentliche Räume. Barbara KÖHLER, Karen LEEDER, David MORLEY & Georgina PAUL: The Challenge of Translation. Variations on Barbara Köhler's ‘Rondeau Allemagne'. Bibliography. Contributors.