Heinrich Ost

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Heinrich Hermann Ost (born March 11, 1935 in Oelde ) is a German poet and storyteller.

Life

Heinrich Ost grew up in Westphalia. He studied philosophy, classical philology and art history in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Munich. From 1963 to 1966 he worked as an editor for the Munich publishers Piper and Szczesny . He lived in Switzerland for a long time. He researched and taught on Pestalozzi , among others in Zurich and Yverdon-les-Bains . From 1992 to 2000 he was a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck .

His literary activities are diverse. He writes poetry and prose, translated with Alexander Kaempfe, among others, Joseph Brodsky , wrote the screenplay for The Unworthy Lover (1980) with Selma Urfer for ARD , wrote radio reports for WDR as well as art reviews for SDR and the text for 1977 in the Kunsthalle Nuremberg premiered music theater piece Santuperanos with music by Burkhard Rempe and Wulf Konold . His texts can be found in magazines and anthologies, for example in the “Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ” (1974). In his 1999 book Pestalozzi the Unusable , published in the series “Philosophy” , he dealt with, among other things, his main work “My research into the course of nature in the development of the human race”.

Ost lives as a freelance author in Munich.

Publications

Own works

  • Wind would be pleasant. Poems. With 4 original linocuts by Oskar Sommer, Eremiten-Presse, Stierstadt im Taunus, Sanssouris Castle 1960
  • Between the big streets. Development of a rural community in the Münsterland. Oelde 1969
  • Populated shadows. Zaludnione cienie. Poems by Heinrich Ost. Ink drawings and mixed media by Leon Jonczyk. Edited and with an afterward by Yolanda Klesen. Translated into Polish by Leon Jonczyk. Art podium, Munich 1975
  • The anchor or the forgetfulness of the government. Edition dandelion. Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-900521-38-7
  • Pestalozzi the Unusable. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-341-6
  • Mirror glass in ruins. Poems. With linocuts by Zoppe Voskuhl. Corvinus Presse , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-910172-68-5
  • Over the rivers. Poems. With graphics by Zoppe Voskuhl. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942280-17-4

Translations

together with Alexander Kaempfe

Some poems in:

  • Joseph Brodsky: Stop in the Desert - Poems. Russian and German. Library Suhrkamp 1997, ISBN 978-3-518-22266-9
  • Joseph Brodsky: Letter to the Oasis. A hundred poems. Hanser, Munich 2006,

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Ost, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ost, Heinrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Oelde