Peter Gosse

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The poet Peter Gosse

Peter Gosse (born October 6, 1938 in Leipzig ) is a German poet, prose writer and essayist.

Life

After a childhood and school time in Leipzig - Eutritzsch , Peter Gosse graduated from high school in 1956 at the workers and farmers faculty in Halle / Saale and studied high-frequency technology at the Institute for Energy in Moscow from 1956 to 1962. He then worked as a radar engineer in Leipzig from 1962 and switched to the work of a freelance writer in the GDR in 1968 .

Portrait painting by Sighard Gille , Leipzig 2015

With his work, which is primarily committed to poetry, Peter Gosse will work together with poets such as Volker Braun , Adolf Endler , Sarah Kirsch , Rainer Kirsch , Wulf Kirsten , Kito Lorenc , Karl Mickel and others. a. counted among the authors of the Saxon School of Poetry . Peter Gosse has been connected to the Russian language and literature since his studies. As a mediator between the arts, as their editor, translator and reviewer, he maintained close relationships with fellow Russian poets such as Bella Akhmadulina and Evgeny Evtushenko .

After teaching started in 1971, Peter Gosse was a long-time lecturer at the Leipzig Literature Institute "Johannes R. Becher" from 1984 onwards and in 1993 acted as its acting director. At the invitation of the University of Northern Iowa and Grinnell College, he was a half-year visiting professor in the USA in 1988.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Saxon Academy of the Arts . From 2008 to 2011 he was Deputy President of the Saxon Academy of the Arts . In 2015, the writer's legacy was added to the holdings of the Leipzig City Library .

Visitation. Peter Gosse love stories with two etchings by Peter Marggraf. 2005
Peter Gosse visits Volker Braun, Berlin 2010
Portrait painting "P.Gosse" by Volker Stelzmann, 1982

Works

Poems, essays, anthologies (selection)

  • Antenna diagrams - Young people before the 50th , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1967
  • Anti-autumn timeless , poems, with illustrations by Rolf Kuhrt , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1968
  • Cities make people , reports, together with Werner Bräunig , Jan Koplowitz and Hans-Jürgen Steinmann , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1969
  • Suggestion 1 , co-author, stage texts, world premiere: May 9, 1969, director: Horst Schönemann , Landestheater Halle
  • Small gardens - big people , comedy, together with Christoph Hamm, Joachim Nowotny , Hans Pfeiffer and Helmut Richter , Leipzig 1971
  • Locations , poems and notes, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1975
  • Chile - song and report , photos, poetry, graphics, ed. Thomas Billhardt , book design: Walter Schiller , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1975
  • Exit from Byzantium , poems, with illustrations by Ulrich Hachulla , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1982
  • Palmyra , stage play, published in Theater der Zeit, issue 12/1982
  • Mouth. Essays. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1983
  • Adults middle , poems, stories, pieces, essays, in the appendix: Conversation with Peter Gosse by Jürgen Engler , Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig 1986, ISBN 978-3-379-00032-1
  • Poetry album 252: Peter Gosse , poems, preliminary remark: Rainer Kirsch, cover and graphics: Rolf Münzner , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-355-00743-6
  • Stand scales , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1990, ISBN 978-3-354-00635-5
  • Focus , illustrated by Eric van der Wal , text selection: Hans Georg Bulla , Presse Eric van der Wal, Bergen / Holland 1991
  • Gleisskörper , poetry and essays, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 1996 ISBN 3-354-00916-0
  • Gerhard Kurt Müller's 70th birthday portfolio with graphics by Karl-Georg Hirsch and a text by Peter Gosse, Edition Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend, 1996
  • Your Eurasian face: writings on fine arts and literature , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-9805299-8-3
  • White New York - Pinhole camera photos by Sighard Gille , with a text by Peter Gosse, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 978-3-932900-21-1
  • Dances of Death - Volume 3 , poems, with wood engravings by Karl-Georg Hirsch, Edition Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend, 2000
  • Favor of being , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 2001, ISBN 3-89812-092-9
  • Phantomschmelz , poetry and short prose, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 2001, ISBN 3-932776-24-0
  • Baldwin Zettl, the graphic work Catalog raisonné 1965 to 2002, arrangement: Hiltrud Lübbert, introductory texts by Peter Gosse, edition of the Leipzig Bibliophile Evening 2003
  • Neles Selen - Viewing Pictures , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig / Halle 2003, ISBN 3-89812-179-8
  • In and of itself - reports, letters, pictures , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-938543-06-1
  • Temporary disposition - Dresdner Schriften , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-938543-22-1
  • Weltnest - literary life in Leipzig 1970–1990 , photographs by Helfried Strauss , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-508-6
  • Stable action - the love stories , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938543-41-2
  • Sollbruch stele - the love poems , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938543-36-8
  • Well-tempered breviary - the 111 poems , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-631-1
  • Go ahead, Gnu! , Children's book, together with Joachim Jansong, Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-884-4
  • Facing face - News from painting and graphics , Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2011, ISBN 978-3-86237-651-3
  • About the gradual creation of the world in poetry , essays; Drawings: Volker Stelzmann , laudation: Wulf Kirsten , epilogue: Jens-Fietje Dwars , Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2013, ISBN 978-3-943768-12-1
  • Petrified , poems, with illustrations by Rolf Münzner, Projekt -Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2013, ISBN 978-3-95486-328-0
  • Pink silk for Richard Wagner - eight drypoint etchings by Sighard Gille with a text by Peter Gosse, Leipzig 2013
  • From the guild of friends - 9 1/2 glances into Saxon art wine presses , with a foreword by Otto Werner Förster , Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817608-1-1
  • Luminous word / image amalgam - On Dieter Gleisberg's volume of poems "How beautiful was the chalk time" in: Marginalien , magazine for book art and bibliophilia, Pirckheimer Society, vol. 224, no. 1: 80–81, 2017
  • Stabilized string position , the love poems, with drawings and woodcuts by Gerhard Kurt Müller , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-912-1
  • Pemmican. My life, F., the grandson, told , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 2018

Editions (selection)

  • Vietnam at this hour. Artistic documentation. together with Werner Bräunig, Sarah and Rainer Kirsch, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1968
  • The unholy Mohammed , novel by Tschingis Hussejnow, German translation after the Russian version: Peter Gosse, Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1979
  • Endler file. Poems from 25 years , selection and epilogue by Peter Gosse, Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1981
  • The gentle noon. Stories & Miniatures by Manfred Jendryschik, Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1983
  • Poetry album No. 227 - Nika Turbina , graphics: Ulrich Hachulla, adaptations: Thomas Böhme , Peter Gosse, Thomas Rosenlöcher , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1986
  • Francesco Petrarca , selected by Peter Gosse, transferred by Gottfried August Bürger , edited by Orplid & Co., Society for the Care and Promotion of Poetry, Independent Publishing House Ackerstrasse, Berlin 1991
  • Gerhard Kurt Müller , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 978-3-9804313-9-2
  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote , ten excerpts from the text and a comment by Peter Gosse. Five lithographs by Rolf Münzner, Institute for Book Art, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 978-3-932865-08-4
  • What is that which lasts? - Twenty meddling of writers and literary scholars , collection of articles, Edition Ost, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-932180-95-8
  • My nude academy. Saxon love poems. , Ed. With Richard Pietraß , Halle / Saale 2003 also as print for the blind, German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig 2005
  • RK 70 - Rainer Kirsch , birthday folder, together with Herbert Kästner , Edition Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend, 2004
  • Carousel of fools - Rolf Münzner. With an essay by Peter Gosse , together with Rolf Münzner, Klaus Göbel and father Ludwig, Burgart-Presse, Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-910206-71-7
  • Nothing can be forgiven - Gerhard Kurt Müller & Zeitgenossen , collection of articles, together with Manfred Jendryschik , Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2011, ISBN 978-3-86237-640-7
  • “I hung a weak boat on the big ship. The life journey of Paul Fleming in his most beautiful poems ”. , with graphics and readings by Saxon visual artists and poets, ed. together with m. Richard Pietraß , Halle / Saale 2009

Radio plays (selection)

Audio book

Quotes

“In a short text by myself on the death of Richard Leising in 1997, I list four characteristics of the Saxon school of poetry: sanguine, world reference, serious craftsmanship and insistence on reason. Peter Gosse put it this way, I just spread it. "

- Rainer Kirsch: And without this word the poem would be nothing , Interview in: Neues Deutschland from July 19, 2014, p. 18

“Moscow, where he studied and Mockau, where he stayed for two decades, are the elliptical axes of the poet Peter Gosse. Encouraged by the disclosure of the Stalinist crimes to a poetology of the prince enlightenment, he resigned in it after the fusilization of the Prague Spring. His poems, full of senses, change from the Ikari striving to Daedal weighing, from transparency to transparency.

(...) We have just heard, read by Rainer Kirsch, Peter Gosse's poem »Petersberg«. That's when I realized that Peter is a mountain himself. A towering, and despite a few years, without any hint of a hump. And that's what I particularly like about him: a Saxon bucolic who enjoys every spice: the finely honed spiciness of the formulation, the delusional spiciness of a pastoral hour. Peter's demands on himself and on others are high, but he presents them cheerfully, so acceptable. If he occasionally pulls the thumbscrews on the promise, a little later he indulges in delicacies for the palate and down. So he always goes to all that he is after, a Renaissance nature with baroque features. "

- Richard Pietraß, 1997/2003

“Gosse's sonnets are particularly close to me; there is a density, an easily made heaviness in it, which pleasingly and artistically fits into the old form. One would have to call it classical, if there was not something peculiarly baroque in it, a comfort that does not disdain the ornament and sometimes goes overboard with dignified flourishes. It is very conscious of everything in its solid means, without that constructive paralysis taking place that I sometimes find precarious with other masters of the Saxon School. "

- Friedrich Dieckmann

"Weeks ago a slipcase with four volumes from the Mitteldeutscher Verlag:" Gleißkörper ": poems from 1996," Phantomschmelz ": poetry and short prose from 1998," Seinsgunst ": poems from 2001," Neles Selen ": pictures views from 2003. The Single volumes are presented with graphics by the Leipzig artists Gerhard Kurt Müller, Rolf Münzner, Baldwin Zettl, the remarkably beautiful cover design by GK Müller almost hides the strange name of the whole thing: Chaos? House. Does Gosse, the poet and essayist with a strong sense of tradition, want to arrive in postmodernism with this motto? That it is philosophically more complex, hardly conceivable, says the prose poem Borges in Seinsgunst: “In the end, in the presence of all things, things would have to be both transparent and opaque in order to stand unmixed; some sort of transparency, highly desirable. The law would appear, crystal of chaos, and, purified from chance, would know the future. ”Law in being is hoped for against chaos as a disordered mass. Almost more, however, for the poet is the house, a home filled with people, the opposite pole to the seemingly omnipotent chaos as a gaping emptiness above all else. Peter Gosse offers us pieces to try and reflect on. - A great continuity of energetic work over a decade, a decade of profound change is made visible with the collecting edition form - even if it does not present every activity and writing of the author, not his efforts for Petrarch, for example, not all of his writings on fine art and Literature. She snatches a work from the portioned diversion. "

- Dieter Schlenstedt : Sanguine and World Relation , 2003

"Peter Gosse is a master of the most joyfully practiced artificiality, his language bulges out, is new wordless, it sometimes stilts, it is stubbornly peculiar, greedy for barbs - his poetry is that of a player in Schiller's sense: He probably has the story of Poetry as the history of the entire genre in the head - because only in poetry are the murmuring, the sigh and the pathetic transgression, the frenetic joy and the abysmal sadness still and perpetually present as an indisputable credibility. You can read of "feverish oversize of distance", of "motherly guardian looks", of the "scraping shrill of the excavator", of "quarreling tears", of "invisibility", of "home-like light dust". The world is »junior«, »tense with lust« or »dry light«. "

- Hans-Dieter Schütt : Verblitzendes Desire , Neues Deutschland from November 14, 2017, p. 16

literature

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Glutkern my home feeling" - the Leipzig poet and translator Peter Gosse , in interview: Leipziger Volkszeitung October 2, 2013, p 12
  2. ↑ Gundula Sell: Arabesques with lovebirds - The Leipzig poet Peter Gosse plays ironically with thoughts, feelings and language in his poems in: Sächsische Zeitung of July 9, 2009, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Thomas Mayer: Lust und Welternst - A visit to the tireless poet Peter Gosse in: Leipziger Volkszeitung, September 30, 2017, p. 21
  4. ↑ Horst Nalewski: Blendung und Gnade in Neues Deutschland from August 1, 2009, p. 13
  5. ↑ Hans-Dieter Schütt: Verblitzendes Desire in: Neues Deutschland from November 14, 2017, p. 16
  6. ↑ Dieter Schlenstedt: Sanguine and world reference - Peter Gosse and the "Sächsische Dichterschule" in: Neues Deutschland from October 4th 2003, p. 13.
  7. ↑ And without this word the poem would be nothing , interview with Rainer Kirsch, in: Neues Deutschland from July 19, 2014, p. 18
  8. ↑ http://www.roessing-stiftung.de/2010.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Delitzsch/Lyriker-Peter-Gosse-mit-nordsaechsischem-Gellert-Preis-geehre
personal data
SURNAME Drain, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, prose writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig