Christoph Leisten

Christoph Leisten (2015)

Christoph Leisten (born May 30, 1960 in Geilenkirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German teacher and writer.

life and work

After graduating from high school, Christoph Leisten studied German and philosophy in Bonn . He made his debut in 2001 with the volume of poetry distant proximity . Leisten writes poetry , prose and essays that have been published in anthologies and literary journals. He is co-editor of the Frankfurt literary magazine “ Zeichen & Wunder” and organizer of the annual Euregional Poetry Daysin Würselen. Literary works by Christoph Leisten have been translated into Italian, Czech and Arabic for various collections. The translation of his prose work Marrakech, Djemaa el Fna into Arabic in 2009 is characterized by the encounter with Maghreb culture.

Christoph Leisten lives in Würselen in the Aachen region and works as a high school teacher for German and philosophy at the Clara-Fey-Gymnasium in Schleiden .

Works

• grand hotel tazi , poems, Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2020
• Argana. Notes from Morocco , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2016.
• up to weightlessness , poems, Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2010.
• the moon in vain. Poems from ten years , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2006.
• Marrakech, Djemaa el Fna , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2005 (3rd edition 2013).
• In this light , poems, Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2003.
• Distant Proximity , Poems, 2001

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Anton G. Leitner (Ed.), The bees keep the clocks. Natural poems , Reclam Verlag, Ditzingen 2020.
• Anton G. Leitner and Christoph Leisten (eds.), THE POEM 27. Poets to nature . AGL-Verlag, Weßling 2019.
• Anton G. Leitner (ed.), The sky of tomorrow. Poems about God and the World , Reclam Verlag, Ditzingen 2018.
• Bernhard Albers (ed.), The world knows no poetry. 100 poems by 100 authors , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2015.
• Christoph Buchwald and Nora Gomringer (eds.), Yearbook of Poetry 2015, DVA, Munich 2015.
• Fouad EL-Auwad (Ed.), The candle is still burning , Edition Lyrik-Salon special, Aachen 2015.
• Jürgen Nendza , Hajo Steinert (Ed.), Stadtlandfluss. 111 poets from North Rhine-Westphalia, Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2014.
• Christoph Buchwald and Jan Wagner (eds.): Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2013, DVA, Munich 2013.
• Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2008.
• Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . German-language poetry of the present. Volumes 1 - 13 , Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008–2020.
• Shafiq Naz: The German Poetry Calendar 2010/2011/2012/2013. A poem every day , alhambra publishing, B-Bertem 2009 - 2012.
• Theo Breuer (Ed.): NordWestSüdOst. Poems by contemporaries, Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2003.
• Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Time. Word. German-language poetry of the present , Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2003.
• Theo Breuer (Ed.): 2 0 0 2 , Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2002.
• Magazines: Die Horen , Leaflet , Das Gedicht , Musselhaufen u. a.

literature

• Theo Breuer: Christoph Leisten , in: TB, Kiesel & Kastanie. From new poems and stories , Sistig / Eifel: Edition YE 2008.
• Christa Karpenstein-Essbach: Marrakech as a form of identity. (on Canetti, Fichte and Leisten) - In: Thomas Klinkert (Ed.): Migration et Identité. Freiburg i.Brsg./Berlin: Rombach Verlag 2014.
• Christoph Leisten. - In: Bernhard Albers (Ed.): We outsiders. 33 years of Rimbaud Verlag. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag 2015.
• Jürgen Nelles: Christoph Leisten . - In: Critical lexicon for contemporary German-language literature. 124th subsequent delivery, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Leisten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christoph Leisten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Days of Poetry
• Author's website