Klaus Hensel

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Klaus Hensel (right) at a reading by Jan Koneffke

Klaus Hensel (born May 14, 1954 in Kronstadt , Romania ) is a German writer and journalist.

Life

After graduating from the Johannes Honterus Lyceum in Brașov, he studied German and English at the University of Bucharest . In 1978 he completed his studies with a thesis on Johannes Bobrowski . He then taught German and English at a school in Bucharest, began to write and made literary contacts with other German-speaking authors in Romania such as Franz Hodjak . From 1979 he worked as a lecturer for the publishing houses Kriterion and Meridiane in Bucharest . In 1981 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he settled as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main . From 1983 to 1984 he lived in Berlin on a scholarship from the Literary Colloquium .

Klaus Hensel has worked for Hessischer Rundfunk since 1984 , initially as a freelance writer and presenter of the programs Die Alternative and Radioskop in the cultural department of the radio. In the 1990s he shifted his journalistic focus, was mainly a television writer a. a. for the ARD culture magazines Kulturreport and ttt - titles, theses, spirits on the go and worked regularly for the 3sat magazine Kulturzeit .

Since 2003 he has been the senior editor of the literary department at hr-fernsehen and editor of the ARD literary magazine hot off the press . Since 2004 he has also been editor of the Franco-German culture magazine Metropolis on ARTE . Klaus Hensel belongs to the PEN Center Germany and now lives in Altenstadt .

Awards

Works

  • The last breakfast with Gertrude. Poems. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1980
  • October, play of light. Poems. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988, ISBN 3-627-10050-6
  • Stradivarius violin stone. Poems. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1990, ISBN 3-627-10051-4
  • Sums in falsetto. Poems and balance sheets from the Stracciafoglio Romano. German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome 1995
  • Humboldtstrasse, Roman red. Love poems. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89561-131-X

literature

  • Jürgen Becker : What is missing . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1984.
  • René Kegelmann: "At the borders of nothingness, this language ..." On the situation of Romanian-German literature in the 1980s in the Federal Republic of Germany. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1995. ISBN 3-89528-132-8
  • Steffen Jacobs: Storage room, in the evening . In: Die Welt , September 1, 2001, review of the poem from Humboldtstrasse, Roman red .
  • Karsten Kruschel : Hensel, Klaus , in: German Literature Lexicon 20th Century, Volume 16: Heinemann – Henz . Edited by Lutz Hagestedt. DeGruyter Verlag, Berlin and Boston 2011, columns 573-574.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Meike Feßmann : Meeting ( memento of the original from October 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 7, 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov