Prosa der Verhältnisse #36: »HEIM.STATT«

What does the language of fl ight, persecution and disruption sound like, whatdoes it tell us? In Heim.Statt Esther Kinsky collects images from a mythology ofinjury in our present. She listens to the voices that fi nd their feelings in unknownlanguages, and to the quiet that results from silencing. The short, bright callsof a swallow could be the voice of a woman who has lost her tongue. Deniz Utlutalks to Esther Kinsky about a poetics that refuses the current conditions of violenceand so returns home to a language of change.