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Alexandra Bernhardt (born 1974 in Bavaria, Germany) is a German philosopher, poet, writer, translator, editor and publisher living in Austria.[1]
Alexandra Bernhardt read philosophy, comparative literature studies, classical philology (ancient Greek) and oriental studies in Munich and Vienna. In 2007, she graduated from the class of Peter Kampits with the University of Vienna. Her thesis dealt with the teleological concept of the philosophical term "person".[2]
Bernhardt writes mainly poetry but has also published a collection of short stories. Under the pseudonym Oskar Seltsam, she also writes children's poetry.[3] Besides, she translates poetry from Catalan[4], Danish, English, Icelandic[5] and Polish[6] amongst others into German. Her own poems have been translated into American English[7], Danish, Dutch, French[8] and Slovene and set to music[9].
Since 2019, Bernhardt is the editor of the "Jahrbuch österreichischer Lyrik", a biennial anthology of contemporary Austrian poetry.[10]
In the spring of 2020, Bernhardt founded the Vienna based independent publishing house Edition Melos the focus of which lies on contemporary German-language poetry.[11][12][13]
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Vienna Literature Grant in 2021[14] and the Media Prize of the RAI South Tyrol at the Merano Poetry Prize in 2022.[15]
Since 2002, Bernhardt lives in Vienna.[16]
"These small, compacted forms do not (...) restrict, but rather provide space to follow the network of references. The typography (...) may remind of a ship's bow or a sail; nautical vocabulary gives the poems a strong motivic compactness. (Diese kleinen, komprimierten Formen (...) engen nicht ein, sondern sie gewähren Raum, dem Verweisnetz zu folgen. Die Typographie (...) mag an einen Schiffbug gemahnen oder an ein Segel; nautisches Vokabular verleiht den Gedichten eine starke motivische Dichte.)" – The jury of the Merano Poetry Prize about the awarded poetry cycle trutzlichtigall[17]
"In (...) Europaia (2021), or European-ish, Alexandra Bernhardt establishes what it means to be European through found, fractured, and experimental poems, reflecting Europe’s long and shifting cultural identities. (...) At the center of Bernhardt’s work is a focus on encountering the other, which is perhaps Europe’s greatest historical inheritance – border-creation, border-destruction, and all that lies between.
Bernhardt’s restructuring and deconstruction of language include Middle High German dialect and unestablished compound words, creating a rich and complicated narrative for twenty-first-century readers. (...) (T)here is not one historical or present-day Europe, Bernhardt argues, but instead multiple Europes frankensteined together into something more reflective of human movement and resistance on the continent." – Hannah V Warren about translating the poetry collection Europaia[18]