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Anne Posten

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Anne Posten

Germany

Anne Posten translates prose, poetry, and drama from German. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, her translations of authors such as Carl Seelig, Thomas Brasch, Tankred Dorst, and Paul Scheerbart have appeared with New Directions, Christine Burgin/The University of Chicago, n+1, VICE, and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. She lives and works in Berlin.

Articles by Anne Posten

A row of violins

Photo by Umutcan Günüç on Unsplash

Strands

By Verena Rossbacher

He laid the hairs out in front of him on the kitchen table, stretched out straight and flat next to each other like the strings of an instrument.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Pas de Deux

By Libuše Moníková

Being with you is like being on an island, a quarantine island.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

From “Staying Gone”

By Ulrike Ulrich

She wonders why she’s doing this to herself. Is it supposed to be some kind of test?

Translated from German by Anne Posten

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Found on the Tracks: European Writing on Train Travel

Trains . . . unite many dichotomies: the exotic and the banal, freedom and luxury, nostalgia and modernity, the possible and the real.

Fish Television

I was clouds transforming, a sinking billow.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Zürich Meets New York: Max Frisch at Deutsches Haus

Max Frisch is a figure so seminal that he’s ironically also easy to miss: Frisch’s Homo Faber is the first full novel I ever read in German (in a 200-level undergraduate class) and, as unfortunately…

Block

By Andreas Eschbach

No one seriously considered the idea that the world’s oil deposits might be limited.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Multilingual

What I Wish For Myself

By Thomas Brasch

Of Wonder's songs the saddest / about the downfall of New York City

Translated from German by Anne Posten

To Awaken with Her

To awaken with her, this dream / to begin days, days full and ripe

Translated from German by Anne Posten