Róža Domašcyna (11 August 1951, in district of Bautzen,

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. She writes in German and in the

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. Winner of the promotional award for Ćišinski-Preis and

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Works

* ''Wróćo ja doprědka du'' (English: ''I go back to the front''), 1990 * ''Zaungucker'', 1991 * ''Pře wšě płoty'' (English: ''Over all fences''), 1994 * ''Zwischen gangbein und springbein'', 1995 * ''Der Hase im Ärmel'', Illustration: Angela Hampel, 1997, 2011 * ''Selbstredend selbzweit selbdritt'', 1998 * ''Kunstgriff am netzwerg'', 1999 * ''Pobate bobate'', 1999 * ''"sp"'', 2001 * ''MY NA AGRA'', 2004 * ''stimmfaden'', 2006 * ''Balonraketa'' (two texts for the theater), 2008 * ''ort der erdung'', 2011 * ''«Prjedy hač woteńdźeš»'', 2011. * ''Štož ći wětřik z ruki wěje'', 2012 * ''Feldlinien'', 2014 * ''Die dörfer unter wasser sind in deinem kopf beredt'', 2016 * ''znaki pominaki kopolaki'' (together with Měrana Cušcyna and Měrka Mětowa), 2019 * ''W času zeza časa'', 2019 * ''stimmen aus der unterbühne'', 2020 * ''Poesiealbum 354'', 2020

References

Literature

* Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts: Meine 24 sächsischen Dichter, Hrsg. Gerhard Pötzsch, 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-935-8 * Dueck, Cheryl. "Selbstredend selbzweit selbdritt: Serpentine selves in the poetry of Róža Domašcyna." ''Canadian Slavonic Papers'' 45, no. 3-4 (2003): 283-294. 1951 births Living people People from Bautzen (district) Sorbian-language writers Writers from Saxony German women poets 20th-century German poets 20th-century German women writers {{Germany-poet-stub