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Anne Posten

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Anne Posten

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

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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Fish Television

I was clouds transforming, a sinking billow.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

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.

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

Karl Walter Block was the only son of Irmgard Block (née Mucek) and Heinrich Maria Block. Heinrich had been a captain during the war and worked in an important secret office in Berlin until, for…

Translated from German by Anne Posten

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