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Ulrike Draesner
Born in München | lives in Berlin and Leipzig
UD, born 1962 in Munich, considered to be one of the leading voices in contemporary literature, writes poems, novels and essays. After spending years in England, she now lives in Berlin and Leipzig, where she has held a professorship at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut since 2018. She has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the LiteraTour Nord Prize (2020), the 2020 German Prize for Nature Writing, the Bayerischer Buchpreis (2020), and the Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2021. Her new novel zu lieben will be published in autumn 2024. She is a member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
Projects
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Atlas of Change
The Atlas is a subjective documentation for climatic changes already happening, as well as for effective solutions.
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exit erdbeer-klee
Ulrike Draesner
What does it mean, this “extinction of species”? We hear about it, we are alarmed by it, and we forget about it. They tell us that every system can absorb losses up to a critical threshold. That the process then becomes irreversible. In the alluvial forest of Leipzig, as in other places too, hundreds of plants are vanishing. The poetic video exit erdbeer-klee (poem by Ulrike Draesner, images by Stefan Harder) uses the components of words and images, i.e. letters and pixels, to depict this form of disappearance as a sensory experience. We are seeing first-hand how the threshold of tolerance is shifting – how the system is collapsing.
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