Mara-Daria Cojocaru

Mara-Daria Cojocaru (born 7 January 1980 in Hamburg) is a German poet and university lecturer for philosophy.

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.

– Simone Guski about Anstelle einer Unterwerfung (Instead of a Submission)[14] "Wer aber den Mut aufbringt, die Literatur derart eindringlich und zugleich voller Sprachlust an ihre Pflichten, an die Krise der Ethik im 21.