“BODY TAG
Poems – inspired by muses worldwide”

published December 2018, 188 pages, soft cover

painting by Franz Fusseder

With her writing and performances, Franziska Ruprecht reclaims the body. A “tag” can be the graffiti signature of an artist, left in darkness, hoping to not get caught. A “body tag” can be the signature of the artist on the model’s body instead of painting or sculpting him. Ruprecht’s poems, however, move sculpted on the page and have been rasped and polished over the years. Each poem signs its title on the mental image of a person, capturing memories or fantasies.

“Stirring what’s concealed, obscuring to reveal, these poems split the atom with an intensely personalized and challengingly obfuscated vision of nature.”

Doc Waffles, Detroit

Franziska Ruprecht plays with language deliberately, informed by her writing in two tongues.
In her live shows, she provokes by embracing pop and glitter, music and dance. On paper, touch and feelings are engraved through her writings.

“The common themes throughout the collection give it a through line LOVE – obviously romantic (with its ups, downs, joys and pains and seasons with and without) and physical (lust too), but at least (or more) as importantly love of words and language(s) and art and being an artist, performer and poet.”

Michael Whalen, Brooklyn, New York

Order it now via e-mail (see envelope icon below) so I can personalize it with my signature! Alternatively, “BODY TAG” is available as e-book as well on Amazon. ISBN: 978-3-7481-7017-4.

From a reader review

“The substance of “glitter”: Excellently written in English and the interplay between English and German.”

John P., on Books on Demand, 2018

“Meer-Maid” book of poems.
GEDOK Literary Advancement Award 2020

published January 2015, 140 pages, soft cover, 2nd edition 2016

“Reading her performance poetry is a cinematic experience!”

Wolfbach Verlag, Zürich, 2015

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“Meer-Maid” is sometimes creature, sometimes sensual human woman. Through elements of pop culture, she dives below the shallow. This is where she is finding herself in imagined universes, poetic realities, or in between. Franziska Ruprecht recites, raps, and sings her texts live as a performance. This sense of movement still vibrates through the poems in print. She describes her counterpart – often the object of desire – and the persona with new words, and in many nuances. This book is about the courage to feel: desire, joy, loss, up to finding strength . . .

Prize

2020 GEDOK Literary Advancement Award. The Laudatory Speech and me saying thank you took place online due to regulations during the pandemic.

Reviews

“There is not much to comment, except for the fact that youth is our best hope, in a literary sense as well.”

Urs Heinz Aerni, berg.link buchtipp_ meer-maid, Berlin, 03.02.2015

“The book of poems “Meer-Maid” by Franziska Ruprecht, published in Zurich’s Wolfbach Verlag, is one of the guilty pleasures of the year.”

Stefan Schmitzer, Fixpoetry, Hamburg, 10.10.2015

“For Walter Benjamin, the book is, historically as well as politically, a one-way-road for the sighted, for Franziska Ruprecht, it is a highway and a rollercoaster for the blind. Now avantgarde doesn’t glitter in the dark anymore, and the beat goes on.”

Sucram Nebel, Neue Wörtlichkeit, Leipzig, 07.27.2015

Comments by readers

“Your texts are highly sophisticated, profound, artificial, of high poetic skill. (…) Captivating the three poems about Cassandra, as a Germanist (Schiller, Christa Wolf) I was directly caught, as myth is the telling of the many times told. You are writing modernity into the old plot.”
Uwe Grund, Hannover

“The persona in “Meer-Maid” is most of the time a searching, romantic, tender, feminine “I”. It is tied into dresses and rituals that are not made for her. Thus, she is dreaming herself away, to a “you”.”

Petra Ina Lang, in Munich’s Literaturbüro