Richard Pietraß

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Richard Pietraß (born June 11, 1946 in Lichtenstein ( Saxony )) is a German poet, translator and editor.

Richard Pietraß (1996)

Life

Pietraß graduated from high school in 1965. He acquired the skilled worker certificate as a metalworker, worked as an assistant nurse and then did his military service. From 1968 to 1975 he completed a degree in clinical psychology and a research degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1975 to 1979 he was editor of the lyric poetry publishing house Neues Leben and at the same time editor of the literary magazine Temperamente . From 1977 on, Pietraß published the poetry series Poesiealbum . After taking over from the editorial team and forcing him to leave it in 1979, he is a freelance writer. In 1989 he was elected to the PEN Center Germany , since 2000 he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts , where he was secretary of the literature and language maintenance class from 2001-2011. From 2009 to 2012 - in succession to Bernd Jentzsch as in the 1970s - he was the editor of the poetry series Poesiealbum published by Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst . In 2019 he was elected member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. Pietraß lives and works in Berlin.

Awards

Publications

  • Poetry album 82. Poems. Berlin 1974
  • Emergency exit. Poems. Berlin and Weimar 1980
  • Freedom Museum. Poems. Berlin and Weimar 1982
  • Cue ball. Poems. Berlin and Weimar 1987
  • What luckily I am missing. Selected poems. Frankfurt / M. 1989
  • Ostkreuz. Prose miniatures. With etchings by Ursula Strozynski . Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1990
  • Mrs. Naseweis. Children's book. Berlin 1990
  • World child. Selected poems. Leipzig 1990
  • Last figure. Poems. Warmbronn 1994
  • Peripheral location. Poems. Warmbronn 1996
  • Border cemetery. Poems. With lithographs by Liz Mields-Kratochwil . Berlin 1998
  • Convoy path. Selected poems. Aschersleben 2000
  • The weights. A hundred poems. Ebenhausen near Munich 2001
  • Shadow economy. Poems. Leipzig 2002
  • Dances of death. Poems with seven woodcuts by Karl Georg Hirsch. Leipzig 2002
  • Pre-heaven. Love poems. Blieskastel 2003
  • The prospect of the word. Warmbronn 2006
  • Clearance. Poems. Leipzig 2006
  • With one foot in Liechtenstein. A diary. Faber and Faber. Leipzig 2007
  • Turning circle. Mildenfurth Monastery 2007
  • Tracer. Schreyahner Schnuppen. Bergen (Holland) 2008
  • Binz treasure note. Love poems 2008
  • Dream hem. Wake up poems. Rheinsberg 2008
  • Stardust. Haikus. 2009
  • Tilt figure. A lapwing book looked over Richard Pietraß's shoulder. Edition ZWIEFACH. Berlin 2009
  • in: Poetry of the 20th Century: My 24 Saxon Poets , Ed. Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 9783861899358
  • Parisian Lust / Au Plaisir de Paris. Poems. German French. Translated into French by Alain Lance and Gabriele Wennemer. Publisher Ulrich Keicher. Warmbronn 2011
  • Walking star. The natural poems. With copper engravings by Baldwin Zettl. Edition ornament. Bucha near Jena 2012
  • Pleasure stroll. Poems. With watercolors by Gerda Lepke. Edition Petit. Publisher SchumacherGebler. Dresden 2014
  • Poet life. Wanted posters and kissing hands. Publisher Ulrich Keicher. Warmbronn 2016
  • LyrikHeft 19. With six original color woodcuts by Andrea Lange. Sonnenberg Press Chemnitz and Kemberg 2016
  • Divining rod. Poems. With hand screen prints by Gerda Lepke. Artist book 2016
  • Divining rod. Paths of life, paths of love, journeys. Recording of the reading by the author in Café Canapé in Berlin-Pankow on January 21, 2016. Verlag matrosenblau 2016
  • Nuit Ailée / Winged Night. Poems. German French. Translated into French by Alain Lance and Gabriele Wennemer. Editions L'Oreille du Loup. Paris 2017
  • American crickets. Pennsylvania Diary. With collages by Wolfgang Petrovsky. Edition Petit. Publisher SchumacherGebler. Dresden 2017
  • Coronades. Schumacher / Gebler publishing house. Dresden 2020.

Adaptations and translations (selection)

  • Seamus Heaney : North . Leipzig 1987
  • Boris Pasternak : The poems of Yuri Shiwagos . Berlin and Weimar 1992
  • Seamus Heaney: Thanks to the poetry. Nobel Prize Speech . Warmbronn 1999, extended edition 2013 (with two poems)

Editions

  • Uwe Greßmann : Life artist. Leipzig 1982
  • Albin Zollinger : Silence of the Miracle. Berlin 1984
  • Inge Müller : If I have to die. Berlin 1985
  • Hans Arp : Opus Null. Berlin and Weimar 1988
  • HC Artmann : when you come to the prater. Berlin 1988
  • Edith Södergran : Claw trail. Leipzig 1990
  • Lars Gustafsson : Poets Corner II. Berlin 1992
  • My nude academy. Saxon love poems. Edited with Peter Gosse . Hall 2003
  • 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. Edited by Richard Pietraß with the assistance of Peter Gosse . Edition Cornelius. Halle / Saale 2009
  • Poesiealbum series published by Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst:
    • 2009: Issue 282: Georg Heym; H. 283: Seamus Heaney; H. 284: Wolfgang Hilbig; H. 285: Inger Christensen
    • 2010: H. 286: Thomas Rosenlöcher; H. 287: Nelly Sachs; H. 288: Christoph Meckel; H. 289: Christine Lavant; H. 290: Boris Pasternak; H. 291: Hermann Kasack
    • 2011: H. 292: Rose Ausländer; H. 293: Peter Rühmkorf; H. 294: Guillaume Apollinaire; H. 295: Jan Wagner; H. 296: Heinrich von Kleist; H. 297: Wilhelm Lehmann
    • 2012: H. 298: Tomas Tranströmer; H. 299: Tadeusz Rózewicz; H. 300: Gottfried Benn; H. 301: Elke Erb; H. 302: Günter Grass; H. 303: Hans Sahl
    • 2015: H. 318: Les Murray
    • Marina Tsvetaeva: The urge to go home. Poems from exile. Berlin 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knowledge in the Academy for Language and Poetry. ak-kurier.de, August 12, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ginkgo-Biloba to Richard Pietraß , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on July 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Pietraß, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenstein