Nora Gomringer: Am Meerschwein übt das Kind den Tod

In the organizer's words:

She leaves behind three children and a hyphen. She leaves me her friends, her library, her unease. I write after her as a missing daughter, as an angry woman, as a silenced poet and wonder how little she lets herself be summoned when I want her to. She has - now heavenly - finally emancipated herself.

I write about my multifaceted mother, her wisdom and comedy, her husband, the thing with the guinea pigs and myself.
- NORA GOMRINGER

Nora Gomringer has published numerous volumes of poetry and writes for radio and feature pages. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015 and the Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry Prize in 2022.

Matthias Lorenz is Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.