Sirka Elspaß
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Sirka Elspaß

Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and language arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (under Monika Rinck, among others). She was a prize-winner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013, she co-edited the magazine BELLA triste (no. 41-45) and has published her work in various magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The collection of poetry ich föhne mir meine wimpern is her debut.
Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and language arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (under Monika Rinck, among others). She was a prize-winner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013, she co-edited the magazine BELLA triste (no. 41-45) and has published her work in various magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The collection of poetry ich föhne mir meine wimpern is her debut.
Awards (selection)
Shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022 (for ich föhne mir meine wimpern)
Shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022 (for ich föhne mir meine wimpern)

PUBLICATIONS

starve pray sob swim
Year of Publication: 2025
Sirka ElspaßYear of Publication: 2025
Feeling exhausted, hurt, unstable, seeking help – these are some of the existential feelings and emotional struggles that Sirka Elspaß addresses in her new collection of poems. From everyday observations, such as “how often don’t worry about it / appears in the thread”, to the guardian angel who throws in the towel and is no longer reachable, “has even turned off his voicemail.” The gaze falls on...
i am blow-drying my lashes
Year of Publication: 2022
Sirka ElspaßYear of Publication: 2022

Everything begins with birth, but »no one comes into the world / and knows how things work«. But then the doctor says straight away that she is capable of great things, with which he...

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Elspaß receives the prize for her collection i am blow-drying my lashes.