Paul Alfred Kleinert
Paul Alfred Kleinert (born February 24, 1960 in Leipzig ) is a German writer.
Life
Kleinert was born in Leipzig to parents from Silesia and Danzig . One of his ancestors was the theater maker Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken . Kleinert grew up in various cities and towns in the GDR and ČSSR . Kleinert had to interrupt his studies of theology and Celtology in East Berlin in favor of various auxiliary activities as a tutor, extra or in construction, as he was expelled from the university for political reasons and had applied for an exit visa . After moving in 1986, he continued his studies with the support of the Otto Benecke Foundation and the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst in West Berlin and also in Edinburgh and Dublin until he graduated. Since 1994 he has been the editor of the lyric series “Zeitzeichen” from 1999 to 2009, from 2003 to 2005 of the “Nessing'schen Hefte” in the publishing house of the Nessing'schen Buchdruckerei and from 2006 of the “Nordic series”. In 2006 the first Faroese-German volume of poetry was published on the continent "Stjørnuakrar / Sternenfelder" by Guðrið Helmsdal , transferred by Annette Nielsen; 2007, trilingual and with an afterword by Kleinert: "From Djurhuus to Poulsen - Faroese poetry from 100 years" (scientific advice: Turið Sigurðardóttir , linear translations: Inga Meincke). In addition to his job, he has activities in various fields. Kleinert's main areas of work are: poetry, transcriptions from classical ancient languages and editions.
Kleinert has been a (founding) member of the international Franz Fühmann Circle of Friends since 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Circle of Friends since 2001. He is also a member of the German Writers' Association (VS Berlin).
Kleinert is married to Inge Sabine Kleinert and has several sons. He has lived and worked in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1986 .
Awards
- Scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst from 1987 to 1993,
- Work grants from the NGDK (Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst Berlin) in 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2006.
- Travel grant from the Berlin Senate for Ireland (1998).
- Travel grant from LBV Vienna for the Shetland Islands (2002).
- “Writer in residence” at the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators in Visby on Gotland / Sweden (2006).
- Travel grant from LBV Vienna for Sweden and Finland (2007)
- Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature , together with Sándor Tatár (2009)
- Residence grant at the artist and scholarship house in Salzwedel (2010, 2011 and 2015)
- "Writer in residence" at the Ventspils House for Writers and Translators in Ventspils / Latvia (2014)
- Travel grant from JTHBV Vienna for Sweden (2015)
- Funding for a work stay in Poland by the cultural administration of the State of Berlin (2016)
- Travel and translation grant from JTHBV Vienna to the German Baltic Sea (2017)
- Travel grant from LBVF Vienna for Norway (2018)
- Residence grant at the artist and scholarship house Salzwedel (2020)
Publications
- A story of thought (lyrical prose, Berlin 1988)
- Transitional period (poems, Berlin 1991, 2 editions, together with David Pfannek am Brunnen and Lutz Nitzsche-Kornel)
- Poems and transmissions (Vienna / Berlin 1992)
- Middle of life (poems, Hamburg 1996).
- Entries in Dasein (poems, Aschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-9807111-0-2 )
- Ferries and tracks (poems, Vienna 2001).
- Lust and burden (poems, Berlin 2003)
- sometimes / olykor (poems, German / Hungarian, transcriptions by S. Tatár, Budapest / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-963-446-468-6 )
- and directed back to islands (poems, Vienna / Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86703-748-8 )
- Rabensaat / Hollóvetés (poems, bilingual, Berlin 2009, together with Sándor Tatár , graphics by Volker Scharnefsky, artist book)
- around fifty - koło pięćdziesiątki - ötven felé (poems, with Polish and Hungarian translations by M. Jakubów and S. Tatár, Budapest 2010, ISBN 978-963-446-558-4 )
- vestigium hominis - a year in a circle of life (poems, Vienna 2012)
- on the way (poems, Vienna 2015)
- in nuce (poems, Berlin 2020, graphics by Antonia Stoyke, artist book of the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee )
- Individual poems and a short story by Kleinert have been translated into Polish, Russian, English, French, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian and Latvian and have appeared in anthologies in the respective countries. In 2008 a bilingual selection of Kleinert's poems was published in Dr. Sándor Tatárs in Budapest.
- Participation in artist books: Edinburgh 1990, Vienna 1998 and 2005, Berlin 2002, 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2020
- Editor's workshop since 1994: 40 editions so far, including in the edition series:
- Zeitzeichen (1999–2009) [1]
- The Nessing books (2003-2005) [2]
- Nordic series (since 2006) in the “pernobilis-edition” Leipzig [3]
literature
- Karl-Heinz Baum: theologian caught between stools. Failed first because of GDR ideology, then because of church law , in: Frankfurter Rundschau No. 143 of June 24, 1998, p. 5
- Katja Reimann: On the truant patrol , in: Der Tagesspiegel from January 23, 2008
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar from 1998,
- German author's lexicon since 2000
- German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century (Vol. 28), ed. by Lutz Hagestedt , Berlin and Boston 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Alfred Kleinert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Paul Alfred Kleinert [4] in the catalog of the British Library
- Literature by and about Paul Alfred Kleinert [5] in the catalog of the National Library of Scotland
- Short biography and information on the work of Paul Alfred Kleinert at Literaturport
- Short biography. (No longer available online.) In: lyrik.de. Archived from the original .
- http://vsbrandenburg.de/paul-alfred-kleinert/
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kleinert, Paul Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |