Mathias Traxler

Why did you decide to take part in this project? What is your interest within the engagement with the „reading format“?The substantialities and formative relations of poetry, what we perceive as poetic processes, are always presented through performances and readings. Every effort and aspiration to wrap literary processes in terms like „hybrid“, „composite beings“ or other declarations, lowers this beauty.

 

Mathias Traxler, born 1973 in Basel, is a writer and translator, living in Berlin. His book “You’re welcome” was published in 2011, and in spring 2016 “Unterhaltungsessays” appeared (both kookbooks Publishing).

His texts regularly appear in literary reviews and anthologies, including “IDIOME. Hefte für Neue Prosa”, “randnummer” and “Moderne Poesie in der Schweiz” (Limmat, 2013).

He was awarded the “City of Münster Prize for International Poetry” in 2015, as translator of the works of Charles Bernstein (jointly with Tobias Amslinger, Norbert Lange, Léonce W. Lupette, VERSATORIUM).
In recent years he has explored numerous reading formats. Of particular importance are text-generating interpretative elements in his readings.