Traxler, Mathias

Mathias Traxler © Robert Golinski

Mathias Traxler, born in Basel in 1973, lives as an author and translator in Berlin. His publications include: You’re welcome (kookbooks, 2011), Unterhaltungsessays (kookbooks, 2016), Komplimente machen (hochroth, 2020), and most recently Álvaro Seiça/Mathias Traxler, previsão para 365 poemas/365 predicted poems (parasitenpresse, 2021). Soon Restaurant & Orchestre Touché – Poems, Concert Pieces, Songs by kookbooks will be published. Of particular importance in his work are readings and collaborative performances with musicians (including Harald Muenz, Edith Steyer), which incorporate text-generating improvisational elements. Traxler received the City of Münster Prize for International Poetry in 2015 (as translator of Charles Bernstein into German, together with Tobias Amslinger, Norbert Lange, Léonce W. Lupette). From July to September 2022 he is a fellow at the German Study Center in Venice. www.traxlerm.net

Festival Content

POETS‘ CORNER Mitte – Poetry in the Districts: Focus Switzerland

The warm-up before the start of the 23rd poesiefestival berlin! Poets’ Corner takes over the city with poetry! Berlin-based poets and musicians will read and perform across the city’s districts in libraries, gardens, and cultural centers, thanks to support of Berlin’s city districts and cultural institutions. There’s room for poetry everywhere!

Jagdmann, Anna • Schramm, Nora • Siegenthaler, Agnes • Traxler, Mathias