Peter Gosse

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

Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a free lance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985, he was a lecturer of poetry at the "Johannes R. Becher" Literary Institute in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Afterwards, he became a guest Professor in the USA. Peter Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

Works

• "Gleisskörper", Lyrics and Essays
• "Seinsgunst", Poetry
• "Phantomschmelz", Novel
• "Ausfahrt aus Byzanz" (Departure from Byzanz), Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1982
• "Erwachsene Mitte" (Adult Center), Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig 1986

"Standwaage", Poetry, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1990

• "Scharfeinstellung", 1991
• "Schreiben, Bücher, Büchermachen", 1991
• "Aus gegebenem Anlaß", 2002
• "Dein Eurasisches Antlitz : Schriften zu Bildender Kunst und Literatur"
• "Neles Selen : Bilder Sichten", Mitteldeutscher Verlag

Awards

• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985
• Heinrich Mann Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin 1991

External links

• Literature by and on Peter Gosse in the Catalog of the German National Library