Asher Reich

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Asher Reich (born September 5, 1937 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli writer and poet.

Life

Asher Reich was born in 1937 under the British League of Nations mandate for Palestine . He grew up isolated from modern life in Mea Shearim , the Orthodox district of Jerusalem, and received a strictly religious upbringing at home and at school. After two years of military service, he studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He then worked in Tel Aviv as a journalist for various newspapers and taught creative writing at the Beersheba University . From 1980 to 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the literary magazine of the Israeli Writers' Union. In 1984 Reich was invited to the University of Iowa as Writer in Residence and in 1990 and 2004 he received a DAAD scholarship in Berlin .

His first volume of poetry was published in 1961 and funded by the American Israel Cultural Foundation . In addition to a large number of volumes of poetry, he wrote radio plays and short stories as well as the autobiographical novel Zichronot Shel Holeh Shichehah (1993), which was created during his stay in Berlin in 1990.

In 1988 Reich received the Literature Prize of the Israeli Publishers' Organization, in 1989 the Literature Prize of the Israeli Prime Minister and in 2000 the Grand Prize of the Israeli President.

Since 1998 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Reich lives in Tel Aviv.

Works in German translation

  • A man with a door . Stories. From the Heb. by Ruth Achlama. Frankfurt, M.: S. Fischer, 2012
  • The house that we inhabit. Asher Reich / Said. An Israeli-Iranian poet talk. With an afterword by Christoph Lindenmeyer. Munich: Lyrik Kabinett , 2009
  • Memories of a forgetful . Novel. From the Heb. by Ruth Achlama. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 2000
  • Tel Aviv impatience . Poems. From the Heb. transfer by Lydia Böhmer u. a. Frankfurt am Main: Dielmann, 2000
  • Works on paper . Poems. With a post by Christoph Meckel. From the Heb. by Judith Brüll u. a. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1992

literature

  • Harald Hartung : Three poets from Israel: Tuvia Rübner, Dan Pagis, Asher Reich , in: Merkur , December 1993, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1091-1096.
  • Yair Mazor: The Poetry of Asher Reich . The University of Wisconsin Press 2003, ISBN 978-0-299-18154-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yair Mazor: The Poetry of Asher Reich . Publishing announcement
personal data
SURNAME Rich, Asher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem