Roland Erb

Roland Erb (born April 1, 1943 in Töppeln ) is a German writer and poet .

Life

He grew up in Königsberg in the Neumark and then moved to Nordhausen am Harz . There he attended school and graduated from high school .

From 1961 to 1966 he studied Romance studies in Leipzig and then worked as a publishing and external editor. He has been a freelance writer and literary journalist since 1972. As a translator , he devoted himself to texts by Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Romanian authors.

After the publication of his first volume of poetry in 1981, he was banned from publishing for several years.

From 1995 to 1999 he was co-editor of the Dresden literary magazine " Ostragehege ".

Prizes and awards

• Rilke scholarship from the Valmont Foundation, 1987
• Scholarship from Casa Baldi (Olevano Romano), 1993
• Eminescu Medal of the Republic of Romania , 2000

Works (selection)

• The silence of the typhoon. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin, 1981
• Paris - explored from the basement. Essay, in: Waiting Rooms in Klee. Book laboratory, Dresden, 1995
• March sheep. Poems. Hellerau Verlag, Dresden, 1995
• Before gutting. Dresden, 1997
• Peace and order the day before the demolition. Dresden, 1997
• Literature in divided Germany. Bucharest, 2001
• Hegelstrasse and other stories. Leipzig, 2002
• Change trains in the lost city. Heiligenstadt, 2003
• La traduction de Claude Esteban in le context de la poésie. Paris, 2006
• Despite all the hostile news. Poems. (Neue Lyrik series, Vol. 7). Poetenladen Leipzig, 2014

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Ralph Grüneberger (ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry . New poetry album . Issues 1/2007, 4/2008, 1/2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Erb in the catalog of the German National Library