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Pick mich auf mein Flügel oder Anleitungen zu poetischem Verhalten (1976)

Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker

Title of the album: Sprechklavier
Title: Pick mich auf mein Flügel oder Anleitungen zu poetischem Verhalten (Track 14)
Publisher: Preiser Records, Wien
Date: 1976
Medium: record 30 cm
Cover: Fotograph: Renate von Mangoldt
Performers: Friederike Mayröcker, Traute Foresti

 

The album Sprechklavier (speech piano) comprises 20 poems by the Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker. "Pick mich auf mein Flügel oder Anleitungen zu poetischem Verhalten" is one of the six works read by the author herself.

In contrast to the poems, which are often spoken in a concentrated, thoughtful manner, Friederike Mayröcker follows the appealing dynamics of the text in "Pick mich auf mein Flügel..." in a more powerful performance and with a slightly raised voice. It consists almost entirely of imperatives, i.e. a bundle of appeals to the reader or listener.

Poetic, playful, whimsical, enigmatic, absurd and humorous, the words and lines vary in different constellations. The second title, "Anleitung zu poetischem Verhalten" ("Instructions for poetic behaviour"), from the mouth of the experimental lyricist Mayröcker, can certainly also be understood as a plea to use language in ever new and also unconventional ways. "Let the words howl! [...] Forget the whole language! Put syllables on ice! [...] Exaggerate the grammar! [...] Disturb the language a little more! [...]"

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