Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City explained

Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City
Author:	Durs Grünbein
Title Orig:	Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt
Orig Lang Code:	de
Translator:	Karen Leeder
Country:	Germany
Language:	German
Publisher:	Suhrkamp Verlag
Pub Date:	2005
English Pub Date:	2020
Pages:	49
Isbn:	9783518417225

Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (German: Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt) is a poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein. It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden, lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The English interpretation by Karen Leeder received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for 2021.^[4]

External links

• Suhrkamp Verlag
• Chicago University Press
• Seagull Books

Notes and References

1. News: Opitz . Michael . 27 September 2005 . Vom Untergang meiner Stadt . de . . 14 August 2024 .
2. Osborne . Dora . 2014 . “Diese heiklen Formen”: Destruction and Desire in Durs Grünbein’s Porzellan . . 89 . 1 . 20–39 . 10.1080/00168890.2014.875429 .
3. News: Wells . Alexander . 7 April 2021 . Dicey Forms: On Durs Grünbein’s “Porcelain” . . 14 August 2024 .
4. Web site: German – Schlegel-Tieck Prize . . 14 August 2024 .