Uljana Wolf

Uljana Wolf is a German poet, translator and essayist whose work explores the poetics and politics of translation and translingual writing. She translates poetry from English and other languages, often collaboratively, of poets such as Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Erín Moure, Christian Hawkey, Valzhyna Mort, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. In 2019 she held the August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel Guest Professorship for Poetics of Translation at Freie University Berlin and in 2024 she held the inaugural Guest professorship for Literary Translation at Frankfurt University.  Since 2025 she is director of the international poetry festival „Poetica“ in Cologne, Germany. Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Recent publications include: muttertask. Gedichte (2023), Etymologischer Gossip. Reden und Essays (2021) which was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction/essay category. English translations include: kochanie today i bought bread Poems (transl. from the German by Grace Nissan, 2023); subsisters: selected poems (transl. from German by Sophie Seita, 2021). Other translations of her work include matriochkas, transl. by Douglas Pompeu and Daniel Martineschen, Jabuticaba 2025, as well as Nosso amor de trincheira nosso trânsito de fronteira, transl. by Guilherme Gontijo Flores & Ricardo Pozzo, Editora Moinhos 2019. Forthcoming in November 2025 is an English language academic monography on her work entitled Poetry, Translation, Contestation, ed. by Áine McMurtry with Christine Frank, De Gruyter (Berlin).