Ann Cotten

Is it the ancestors that are making the air heavy, crowding around the island? In the form of people, clouds, winds, fish, birds of the mountains, birds of the coast, migratory birds and seabirds that come to Hawaii to flirt, lay eggs, rest and then retreat back to the open sea?

Ancestral Destructions deals with the narrator's spiritual and material prehistory: that is...

Ann Cotten has grown up, a fact that catapults us somewhat into the future. She claims that all she is interested in now is a constructive approach to a functioning, reasonable life for everyone (if possible). A philanthropic robot, so to speak. But her strangely labyrinthine yet overly respectful way of confronting problems still shows traces of the experiences she gathered as a young...

Billowing palm trees, a rustle in the celery, a tiger disappears, an atomic bomb detonates in the distance, and a consciousness starts moving backwards. The latter belongs to a TV presenter who has been banished to a deserted island due to numerous instances of grave misconduct, equipped with (as per her own choice) a knife, a grindstone and Meyers...

»Want to earn money writing? Want to disclose your most intimate thoughts?« Naturally, people reacted to our invitation in the classifieds and sent in texts. Some of them have been gathered in the...

Weighed down by few associations, artificial, new, or existing in our everyday language merely temporarily – loan words seem to apologise for their existence: »I’m only fulfilling a conceptual function, occupying a job for which there’s no qualified German available at the moment.«

Could they be serious? Ann Cotten employs them in the rattling machines of thought...