Lesung & Gespräch mit Frieda Paris ("Nachwasser")

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Awarded the Austrian Book Prize Debut 2024 & among the Poetry Recommendations 2025

What can a poem be? Everything. Frieda Paris' debut "Nachwasser" is permeable, deeply layered, fanning out. Here is a writer who listens to the whispers of her word mothers as well as those of a bird that has built a nest on her writing shoulder. The text allows its readers to participate in the creation of a long poem, taking them to the cutting table, where everything comes together: stranded poetry, tear salts, words from childhood - and the backs of notes from the estate of the great word mother Friederike Mayröcker. Undeterred, the author lays sentences on the edge of the table for herself and the reader, towards a single lifelong sentence, in the hope that it may - at some point - reach someone.

Frieda Paris, MA of Arts, born 1986 in Ulm. Graduated from high school and trained as a dressmaker in Wald. She has lived in Vienna since 2010. There she studied theater, film and media studies as well as language arts. Paris develops radio plays (most recently "HERZBEFELLT, ein Nachrufen") and poems, always close to the material. In 2020 she was a finalist for the 28th Open Mike. "Nachwasser" is her debut.