Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (German: Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt) is a poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein. It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden, lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment.[1][2][3]
| Author | Durs Grünbein |
|---|---|
| Original title | Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt |
| Translator | Karen Leeder |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 2020 |
| Pages | 49 |
| ISBN | 9783518417225 |
The English interpretation by Karen Leeder received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for 2021.[4]
References
edit- ^ Opitz, Michael (27 September 2005). "Vom Untergang meiner Stadt" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ Osborne, Dora (2014). ""Diese heiklen Formen": Destruction and Desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan". The Germanic Review. 89 (1): 20–39. doi:10.1080/00168890.2014.875429.
- ^ Wells, Alexander (7 April 2021). "Dicey Forms: On Durs Grünbein's "Porcelain"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "German – Schlegel-Tieck Prize". Society of Authors. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
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