Alexander Kappe

Alexander Kappe (born 1987 in West Berlin) worked as a poet, translator, literary mediator, and scholar. He studied philosophy, comparative literature, and creative writing in Berlin and Leipzig. He completed his doctorate in Berlin and Oxford; his dissertation focused on an écriture of theory in the work of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Kappe worked, among other roles, as a research associate at RWTH Aachen and in automatic text generation, academic management, and metadata management. His literary work appeared in journals and anthologies, and he co-edited the anthologies “Tippgemeinschaft” and “Ansicht der leuchtenden Wurzeln von unten.” In 2021, he was nominated for the Open Mike and received a research grant from the Berlin Senate for his novel project “Rosa Ricardo.” “Nachreden auf Dunkelengel” was his first poetry collection.