Streitraum: »Amerikanischer (Alb-)Traum«

What is happening in the United States? What images and language can be used to describe the dismantling of American democracy, even if the terms themselves are distorted and hollowed out, banned or misused? What is new about what we are seeing under Donald Trump, and what has a long tradition? Where can opposition and resistance come from?

CLAUDIA RANKINE is the author of five poetry collections, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, three plays, including HELP, which premiered in New York in March 2020, and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019, as well as numerous video collaborations. Her collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020, and her latest project, TRIAGE, will be published there in 2026. She is also co-editor of several anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, Rankine co-founded the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) . Among her numerous awards and honours are the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers' Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. Claudia Rankine, former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, joined NYU's Creative Writing Programme in autumn 2021. She lives in New York.

Claudia Rankine is fellow at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

With simultaneous English translation by Lilian Astrid Geese and Julia Wardetzki.