Stefanie Kemper

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Stefanie Kemper (born November 26, 1944 in Hirschberg , Silesia ) is a German teacher, writer and poet .

Life

Kemper has lived in Maierhöfen in the Allgäu since 1978 . After teaching for three years at a comprehensive school in Berlin, she taught biology at the Natural Science and Technology Academy in Isny ​​im Allgäu from 1978 to 1999 .

Stefanie Kemper took part in various writing seminars, including poetry master classes at the Schwäbische Kunstsommer Irsee with Walter Helmut Fritz , Richard Exner and Werner Dürrson , and poetry seminars (among others with Karl Otto Conrady , Kurt Drawert , Uwe Kolbe , Steffen Jacobs , Ulrike Draesner , Franzobel , Anton G. Leitner ), at the short prose seminar “Prosaminiatures” with Imre Török and at the writing group leader course at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel with Katrin Bothe . Kemper has been giving writing courses himself since 2003.

She publishes poetry and prose, both monographically and in anthologies and magazines. She also works as a translator and reviewer.

Stefanie Kemper has been working with the composer, solo clarinetist and harmonica virtuoso René Giessen since 2000 , who set a cycle of poems and several individual poems to music. She also wrote poems for existing music (e.g. for Quartets / Quintet (2007) by Charles Uzor).

Stefanie Kemper has been the first chairwoman of the Wangener Kreis , the Society for Literature and Art “Der Osten” e. V., and since 2012 board member of the Society for Contemporary Poetry . She is also a member of the Association of German Writers , the Meersburg Authors' Round Table and the Literary Forum Oberschwaben.

She was also a member of the jury for “Signatur e. V. “Lindau and is still on the jury for the annual literature award in Isny. The author is also involved in the literature working group in the Kulturforum Isny ​​e. V., in the working group “Sculpture Path Maierhöfen” and when setting up the Maierhöfen village library.

Works

In anthologies and literary journals (selection)

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