Poetry has the reputation of being difficult to understand at times. This can sometimes also apply to jury reasons for poetry prizes. In any case, the young Munich author Sophia Klink won a Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award at the renowned Darmstadt Leonce and Lena Prize this March; “for poems in which the lyrical I as a ‘not-self with identity complexes’ breaks out of the fatal succession of generations in a playful, cheerful and yet serious way and deletes bread and cherries from its genes; breaks down all receptors that have wrongly closed it; and turns to the creature in order to keep naming it anew in rich, surprising pictorial invention, instead of burying it”.
If there are still questions: The reading, with which Klink, her co-prizewinner Robert Stripling and the main prizewinner Alexander Schnickmann introduce themselves in the Poetry Cabinet, will hopefully rebuild a few of the receptors.
Junge Poetry, Thursday, March 30, 7 p.m., Poetry Cabinet, Amalienstraße 83, lyrik-kabinett.de