Aldona Gustas

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Aldona Gustas (2012)

Aldona Maria Gustas (born March 2, 1932 in Karzewischken , district Šilutė , Lithuania ) is a German writer , poet and painter of Lithuanian origin.

Life

Aldona Gustas grew up in Lithuania and moved to Germany in 1941, where she first lived in Rostock and from 1945 in what was then West Berlin . Since 1957 she has been working there as an author, since 1970 also as a visual artist, who was taught graphics and painting by Horst Strempel and Matthias Koeppel . In 1972 she founded the Berlin painter-poets together with Wolfdietrich Schnurre , Günter Grass , Kurt Mühlenhaupt and Günter Bruno Fuchs . For this artists' association she organized exhibitions at home and abroad and published catalogs. She lives and works in Berlin even after the fall of the Wall .

She was married to the writer Georg Holmsten (1913-2010).

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Aldona Gustas debuted in 1962 with the poetry collection "Night streets" in the Eremitenpresse of Victor Otto Stomps . Hans Sünderhauf illustrated the volume with his woodcuts. Since then, the majority of her numerous volumes of poetry have been published by Eremitenpresse and Corvinus Presse , many of them with her own drawings and graphics. Aldona Gustas is represented with poems in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. Her texts have been translated into Lithuanian , Italian , Spanish , French , Russian , Polish and American English . She is a member of the Varnhagen Society , the Society for Contemporary Poetry and the Association of German writers (VS) in ver.di .

Single title (selection)

  • Time brings us . Corvinus Press, Berlin 2017.
  • Undead . Corvinus Presse, Berlin 2011.
  • Berlin diary. Poems . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-873653-41-2
  • Reading book 77. Selected poems and graphics . Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Lost in the night. Bilingual edition: German / Polish. Translated by Waldemar A. Zamlewski. Wielkopolska Agencja Literacka, Poznan 2004, ISBN 83-901586-7-1
  • Asylum in a poem . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-87365-326-5
  • Sphinx women. Texts and drawings. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-910172-64-4
  • but my heart is a hercules. A hundred love poems. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-87365-314-1 .
  • Now. Poems and drawings. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-910172-57-1 .
  • Solar cycle. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-910172-59-8 .
  • Symbiotic women. Drawings and prose. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-910172-18-0
  • Cross-section. Collected poems 1962-1992 . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-87365-269-2
  • Body natures. Drawings and poems. Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Detmold 1991, ISBN 3-9802501-9-9 .
  • Second residences. Poems and pictures. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-87365-248-X .
  • Erotic poems by men. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3423107146 .
  • Erotic poems by women n. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3423104481 .
  • Postage morning sky . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Berlin painter poets . Introduction by Karl Krolow. Nicolai, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-87584-039-9 , (2nd edition 1978, ISBN 3-87584-074-7 .)
  • Asylum in sex. Drawings and lines. Ladengalerie, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926460-15-6 .
  • word erotic. Wolfgang Fietkau Verlag (steps 21), Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-87352-021-4 .
  • Grass interpreter. Hand press printing. Hanover 1962.
  • Night streets. Hermit Press, Stierstadt 1962.

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SURNAME Gustas, Aldona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gustas, Aldona Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Karzewischken , Lithuania