the dog is always hungry
“Her highly focused, scorching and very sensitive tone is captivating.” - Ülrich Rüdenauer, SWR2
Newspaper boys, a girl on a playground, youths with their naive dreams and blue ...
Anja Kampmann
Anja Kampmann was born in 1983 in Hamburg. In 2015 she received the Wolfgang Weyrauch Sponsorship Prize at the Literarischer März poetry competition in Darmstadt. Her poetry collection Proben von Stein und Licht was published by Hanser in 2016. Her debut novel, Wie hoch die Wasser steigen, was awarded the Lessing Sponsorship Prize and Mara Cassens Prize.
High as the Waters Rise
“Anja Kampmann dares to travel to the roots of our present times – atmospheric, intense and sensual.”
Lutz Seiler
One stormy night on an oil platform in the middle of the ...
Samples of Stone and Light
I never saw so much snow
never so many tracts of land frozen so thick
cold and icestill like the land that turns away from us
So begins Anja Kampmann’s exploration of ...