Aline van der Grinten
Aline van der Grinten (she/her) is a 24-year-old architecture student. Her texts play with anger and irony, circling around the pressure to function within a productivity-driven world. They explore the friction between external demands and internalized perfectionism.
She is interested in what is usually silenced: emotional volatility, bodily overwhelm, and the refusal to function. Her work insists on visibility — on speaking what is considered too much, too loud, too uncomfortable.
Women are allowed to be angry. Women are allowed to speak about shame. Women are allowed to lament publicly and loudly.
Her writing does not aim to resolve, but to remain — in contradiction, in intensity, in the unfinished.
Ich arbeite dran
(English below)
Wenn ich nur alles genug verstecke
Den Schnodder und die Tränen weg lecke
Schön das Hässliche verberge
Grausam das Lächeln herberge
Dann kann ich hinter den Kulissen luken
In meinem leeren Körper rumspuken.
Die Attrappen von innen betrachten
Bei Wind und Trubel auf sie achten.
Eine Ausbildung zur Bühnenbildnerin absolvieren.
Mit einer Abschlussarbeit:
Alle applaudieren.
Doing the work
If I could hide everything just enough
lick away the tears and the snot
beautifully cover the vile
cruelly accommodate the smile
then I could peek behind the backdrops
haunt my body, staged in props
study the props from the inside
stay alert when wind and turbulence collide
trained as a stage designer
with one final project:
everyone applauds.
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