Die ‚noethische‘ Funktion von Wissenschaftssprache und -mustern bei Ulrike Draesner

Ulrike Draesner, in her multifaceted activity as a scholar, translator, essayist, but above all author of poetry and prose, develops a discourse on the body, landscapes and memory that is always polyphonic and cross- linguistic. Memory travels through unexpected connections between areas of knowledge and experience, capable of linking organic and inorganic nature, ancient world memory, individual and collective historical memory and post-memory, theory of knowledge and ethics of living together among people, between humans and things, between human kind and nature. In my contribution I will be trying, through case-studies, to highlight the poetic, ethical, creative, therefore po(i)ethical role played by scientific languages and lexika in Ulrike Draesner's writing. As a “poeta docta”, Draesner is an artist and not as a scientist or philosopher. The aggregations of sense and memory do not only travel on the logic of images and themes, but also on the surprising intersections between sense and sound, as well as between different languages.