Ulrike Almut Sandig (Germany)

Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in East Germany and now lives with her family in Berlin. Various story collections, pop music albums, radio pieces, five poetry collections and two novels have been published to date. Her work in English translation is out with Seagull Books, Calcutta / New York / London. Her poetry volume “I Am a Fied Full of Rapeseed Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other” has been published in Georgian translation by Bela Chekurishvili with Meridiani in 2023. Her latest German original title is her novel “Im Orkan” (In the Hurricane, Schöffling & Co. 2026). 

For her poetry performances she works with composers and musicians, such as Hinemoana Baker (New Zealand Aotearoa), Alif (India) and Grigory Semenchuk (Ukraine). She is frontwoman of the Ukrainian-German poetry collective Landschaft fusing poetry, film and loop-based electronic music. Ulrike Almut Sandig is a member of the European poetry platform Versopolis and founding member of the German PEN section Berlin.