Mara-Daria Cojocaru (born 7 January 1980 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German poet and university lecturer for philosophy. [1] [2]
Mara-Daria Cojocaru (born 7 January 1980 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German poet and university lecturer for philosophy. [1] [2]
Cojocaru studied political science, theatre studies and law as well as philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2012, she graduated with a doctor's degree. Her thesis dealt with political philosophy. [3] In July 2022, Cojocaru was habilitated at the Munich School of Philosophy. [4] During her habilitation, she worked as a scholar at the University of Sheffield, the University of Brighton and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as well as a lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. [5]
During her academic years, she worked also as a translator of reference books. [6]
In 2008, Cojocaru published her first poetry collection, Näherungsweise (By approximation). Her second poetry collection, Anstelle einer Unterwerfung (Instead of a Submission), was published in 2016 and has gained her much attention. Her poems have been translated into English, Estonian and Italian. [7]
In her philosophical work as well as in her literary work, Cojocaru focuses on animal ethics and animals as our counterparts with whom we share an animalistic nature. From a Christian standpoint, Cojocaru criticises any belittlement or instrumentalisation of animals. For Cojocaru, conflicts between animals and humans occur predominantly when we neglect the aspect of our animalistic nature. Thus, in a world of over-civilisation and environmental degradation, we turn out to be increasingly estranged from our fellow creatures. Against this background, Cojocaru is "convinced that both intellectual and moral progress can be achieved by cultivating our sensibilities towards the suffering and the needs of non-human animals as realistically as required (überzeugt davon, dass sich sowohl intellektueller als auch moralischer Fortschritt daran festmachen lassen, dass wir unsere Sensibilitäten gegenüber dem Leiden und den Bedürfnissen von nicht-menschlichen Tieren so realistisch wie nötig ausbilden)." [8] [9]
For her artistic work on this subject matter in her poetry collection Anstelle einer Unterwerfung (Instead of a Submission), Cojocaru was granted the Bavarian arts and literary prize in 2017. [10]
Cojocaru is a member of the international, transdisciplinary network Minding Animals [11] and of the German Pragmatism Network GERPRAG.
"Noch weiß man nicht recht, wohin das frische Talent diese Autorin führen wird; aber man sollte sie im Auge behalten. (We don't just yet quite know where this author's fresh talent will take her; but one should keep an eye on her.)"
– The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about Näherungsweise (Approximately) [12]
"Cojocarus Verse sind Rätsel. Schillernd, irisierend. Sie scheinen zu atmen. Ein pulsierender Rhythmus verbindet die Worte. (Cojocaru's verses are riddles. Iridescent, opalescent. They seem to be breathing. A vibrant rhythm connects the words.)"
– Simone Guski about Anstelle einer Unterwerfung (Instead of a Submission) [13]
"Wer aber den Mut aufbringt, die Literatur derart eindringlich und zugleich voller Sprachlust an ihre Pflichten, an die Krise der Ethik im 21. Jahrhundert und an die potenzielle Rolle der Kunst bei der Wiederherstellung eines ethischen Wertesystems zu erinnern, sollte unbedingt gelesen werden. (But anyone who has the courage to remind literature of its duties, of the crisis of ethics in the 21st century and of the potential role of the arts in restoring an ethical system of values in such a keen way that is at the same time full of love for language should definitely be read.)"
– Alexandru Bulucz about Anstelle einer Unterwerfung (Instead of a Submission) [14]
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