Poetry

Christina Winkler has been writing poems for more than twenty years. Her writing happens spontaneously in German or French, and she translates herself into the other language. This translation is more like a transcription of the text’s atmosphere. You can discover her metaphoric style and language-challenging expression in several books designed by herself with her own original photographs.
 
Christina started reading her texts recently to the public.
 

Christina Winkler is presenting  her work in frech, German and in bilingual readings. 


First Book

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1fini or Endlich1 is a path to endless understandings. Blurriness and focus on details are showing the unresting human mind.

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Second Book

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2asONE is the story of an encounter and a tribute to friendship. Connection to what is around us and creating relationships are precious human abilities. 2asOne is a vision to cultivate it.
It is also a start for a photographic series that you can discover here.
 

Third Book

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Lumen means light in Latin and is also a measurement for the intensity of light. Nice is well known for its wonderful and very bright light which the Romans liked as they settled here and created Cemenelum on one of the seven hills of the modern town. Lumen is a metaphor for the end of the tunnel and the extinction of light in the human eye.

Fourth Book

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4nature is a love declaration. The power of nature, its beauty, and its incredible creativity can leave us speechless with fulfillment. Being inspired by nature helps us find our human nature again.

Fifth Book

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5portraits is seeing somebody beyond her traits. Associating a piece of art with a person’s personality means seeing her beyond comparison. Traits help to connect rather than categorize. Dive into seeing!

Sixth Book

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6thresholds is an ode to love. Love of life and of the risk it takes to cross the threshold to life.

Seventh Book

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Himmel7 means heaven seven. It was the first book of this series dedicated to my father, who had a wonderful view from the seventh floor into the sky of northern Germany. We both loved watching the sky, the clouds’ drawings, the colors’ changes – nothing special, just sitting there and being able to enjoy life.
The texts are thoughts about the sky, the universe, and the miracle of life.

Eighth Book

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8haiku or project 5-7-5 is a playful book. Haiku is a nice way to reduce sensations into words. I enjoyed the art of shaping an atmosphere in the elegant form of the 17th century’s Japanese art.

Ninth Book

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9human is the last of the series of nine. What makes us human? What do I see when I look at myself or at other human beings? What is life without beauty and poetry? Questions without answers—that is what 9human is searching for.

Booklets with paintings of Rosendo Li


 

 

 

Booklet 1 and 2
In 2015 I designed the co-creation of my existing poetry with original drawings by Rosendo Li. There is a lot of gratitude about this sort of encounter: when two kinds of expression and two sorts of style come together, it is also an encounter between two people. The sense of this sort of human exchange is priceless.

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