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Elena Kaufmann, born in 1992, is working on a multimedia approach to poetry and lives in Berlin.

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27.09. – 18.10.2024                   Das lässt sich sehen – zeitgenössische Positionen der Visuellen Poesie

                                                   group-show & festival

organised by KOOK e.V.

                                                   Galerie Spor Klübü, Berlin

14.11.2024                                 poetry reading at meine drei lyrischen ichs, Kunstverein München

08.+09.02.2025                        daniel's destruction, Sophiensaele Berlin

                        Performance

                       

                        A project by Unbestimmte Bewegung

                        Director: Yannik Böhmer

                        Text: Nicolaas van Diepen

                        Dramatic composition: Elena Kaufmann                            

                        Performance: Nicolaas van Diepen

                                               Shlomi Moto Wagner

                                               Tim-Fabian Hoffmann

__starting December 2022 there's a second edition of the artist's book Dear world you have made the persons slow.

__working grant Literature of the city of Berlin 2023

press statement Literaturstiftung Bayern – LITERATURUPDATE 2020 Den Tod schreiben (second prize): 

 

"The eleven poems of the 27-year-old, born in Erlangen, are rhythmic miniatures on the fragility of life. The jury remarks that 'impressively, Kaufmann manages to write the ever-existent presence of death in its most literal sense, word by word, sound by sound."

BR2 KulturLeben, 21.10.2021  –  

"Dear World..." – Mit Blackout Poetry durch die Krise. Kunstbuch der Lyrikerin Elena Kaufmann

 

„[…] Erst beim Zuhören fällt er so richtig auf, der persönliche Ton, der in ihren poetischen Botschaften mitschwingt: sphärisch und direkt; tastend, aber irgendwie unerschrocken.“"

(...listen to the complete feature here)

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