Yevgeniy Breyger

Yevgeniy Breyger was born in Charkow, Ukraine and moved to Magdeburg, Germany with his family in 1999. He studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the University of Hildesheim, Literature Writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut (German Literature Institute) in Leipzig, and Curatorial Studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main.

Breyger’s work has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Lyrik von jetzt 3, Bella triste, and Edit. He was an editor of Tippgemeinschaft, the annual anthology of the students at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut, and the anthology Ansicht der leuchtenden Wurzeln von unten (poetenladen, 2017). Breyger is a member of the poets’ collective Salon Fluchtentier. He lives and works in Frankfurt.

Poem from Peace without War (kookbooks, 2023)

Translated from the German by Alexander Kappe

Arna aistriú ón nGearmáinis ag Colm Breathnach

Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher