Marion Poschmann Biography
Marion Poschmann was born in 1969 in Essen and grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and in Essen. She studied German philology, philosophy and Slavistic philology (1989-1995), first in Bonn; since 1992 in Berlin - in 1994 she also studied Dramatic Writing at the University of the Arts Berlin. Between 1997 and 2003 she taught German in the context of a German-Polish primary school project called Spotkanie heißt Begegnung.
She is a member of P.E.N and lives and works in Berlin.
it was grey was exactly like back then
the unchanged spaces separating
off voices inner restlessness smoke
from the roofs like on the run
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you have counted the metallic
age-rings on the fruit conserves,
every top-side rotating stasis
like flickering ventilators -
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baroque this desire to overflow,
twitching eyelids, twitching legs,
thickly sugar-encrusted sleep, sweet burden
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look at this attached place. what do you make of it?
negation of landscape.
plants that have no business existing. a cable-like
plant connecting us to the green lung:
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a triangle of energy, colourless and flat when seen
from the air, spread out across the ground. contrasting
with it alarmingly blue attributes of labour, the open air sky,
the overalls, the lakes to come (the biggest in Europe).
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