Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten

DAAD Poetics Chair

Education

Master (Neuere Deutsche Literatur), Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Master Theseis published: Nach der Welt. Listen in der konkreten Poesie, Vienna, Klever Verlag 2008 

Areas of Research/ Interest

Conceptual writing / art theory / cognitive science, cognitive aesthetics / intercultural terminology history /  Japanese

External Affiliations

Grazer Autorinnen Autoren Versammlung / Berliner Akademie der Künste

Fellowships /Honors

Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2018; Hugo Ball Preis 2017; Ernst-Bloch-Förderpreis for Philosophy 2015; Klopstockpreis 2015; Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto 2014; Chamisso Preis 2014; Canetti-Stipendium 2010; Clemens-Brentano-Preis 2008; Österreichisches Staatsstipendium (2008, 2009, 2016); George Saiko Reisestipendium 2008; Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis 2007

Awards

Publications

  • Fremdwörterbuchsonette
    (edition suhrkamp, 2006)
    Collection of double sonnets
  • Das Pferd
    (Sukultur, 2007)
    Elegy
  • www.glossarattrappen.de
    (2008)
    Website featuring a body of short texts and images aleatorically combined to meaningful juxtapositions
  • Nach der Welt. Listen in der Konkreten Poesie
    (Klever, 2008)
    Ann's diploma thesis on concrete poetry, as presented to the German Literature faculty of Vienna University
  • Florida-Räume
    (Suhrkamp, 2010)
    A collection of prose and poetry ascribed to a variety of fictional characters, exploring the reasons for writing
  • I, Coleoptile
    (engl., Broken Dimanche Press, 2011)
    Collaboration with Kerstin Cmelka, pursuing W. Majakowskij's figure of the Hooligan
  • Pflock in der Landschaft
    (Schock-Edition, 2011)
    Collection of poems
  • Helm aus Phlox
    (cooperation with D.Falb, H. Jackson, S. Popp, M. Rinck; Merve 2011)
    Experimental poetics
  • nimmst du bitte die waffen aus dem bett
    (DVD; cooperation Starsky; departure, 2012)
    Short texts and ditties concerning verbs of activity and human relationships
  • Der schaudernde Fächer
    (Suhrkamp, 2013)
    Short stories
  • Hauptwerk. Softsoftporn
    (Verlag Peter Engstler, 2013)
    Poems and short prose, illustrated by Mareile Fellien
  • Rein – ja oder nein?
    (Slotta, Berlin 2013)
    Political poems, illustrated by Anne Michalek
  • Verbannt!
    (edition suhrkamp, 2016)
    Political epic in Spenserian stanzas, illustrated by the author
  • Lather in Heaven
    (engl., Broken Dimanche Press, 2016)
    Poems written in english and prose translated from the German, photography by the author
  • Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa
    (Verlag Peter Engstler, 2017)
    Prose, experimental essay, poetry, drawings, revolving around the study of Japanese kanji
  • Fast dumm
    (starfruit press, 2017)
    Travel essays and translations, with photography by the author
  • Was geht
    (Sonderzahl, 2018)
    Salzburg poetics lecture on the cognitive pitfalls which walking and writing have in common
  • Lyophilia
    (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019)
    Speculative Fiction

Interviews, in English

  • Click: A Conversation with Ann Cotten
    Jeremy Balius and Ann Cotten, in: Cordite Poetry Review, Sep 1, 2013.
    http://cordite.org.au/interviews/balius-cotten/
  • If You no Longer Would Like to Exist, You May Bite the Dust.
    An Interview with Ann Cotten by SJ Fowler, in: 3:AM Magazine, maintenant #34 Ann Cotten, Nov 2, 2010.
    https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-34-ann-cotten/

Work Online

  • https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2015/08/11/translation-tuesday-multilingual-poems-by-ann-cotten-2/#
  • https://www.lyrikline.org/de/gedichte/metonymie-wir-4404
  • www.glossarattrappen.de
  • Wikipedia sites in German, English, Arabic and Lëtzebuergesch.