Paul Alfred Kleinert

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Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator, was born 1960 in Leipzig, son of parents with roots in Silesia and Danzig, studied theology and celtic studies in Berlin/East und West, Edinburgh and Dublin, since 1994 editor, edition of “Zeitzeichen”-seria (http://www.lyrikwelt.de/sonderseite-zeitzeichen.htm) since 1999, from 2003 to 2005 “Die Nessing’schen Hefte” (http://www.lyrikwelt.de/sonderseite-nessingsche.htm) and from 2007 onwards “Nordische Reihe” in “pernobilis-edition” Leipzig. 2006 edition of the first volume of Faroese/German (translation by A.Nielsen) poetry by G.Helmsdal "Stjørnuakrar /Sternenfelder" and “A végesség kesernyés v... /Endlichkeit mit bittrem Trost” by Sándor Tatár (Hungarian/ German, adaptions by various poets), 2007 was edited by him the anthology “From Djurhuus to Poulsen – Faroese Poetry during 100 Years” (http://www.lyrikwelt.de/sonderseite-nordischereihe.htm).

Head working fields: poetry, short stories and translations from the classical languages.

Lives and works in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1986.

Fellow of “Verband deutscher Schriftsteller” (VS Berlin – www.vs-in-berlin.de)

scholarship by Studienwerk Villigst from 1987 to 1993,
working grants by NGDK Berlin 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2006
travelling grant (Ireland) by Berliner Senat (1998)
travelling grant (Shetland-Isles) by LBV Vienna, (2002)
"writer in residence" in Visby/Gotland/Schweden (2006)
travelling grant (Sweden/Finland) by LBV Vienna (2007)

[edit] Books

"Eine Gedankengeschichte" (lyrical prose, Berlin 1988)
"Übergangszeit" (poetry, Berlin 1991, 2 editions, together with D.Pfannek am Brunnen and L.Nitzsche-Kornel)
"Gedichte" (poetry, Vienna/Berlin 1992)
"Lebensmitte" (poetry, Hamburg 1996).
"Einträge in 's Dasein" (poetry, Aschersleben 1999)
"Fähren und Fährten" (poetry, Vienna 2001).
"Lust und Last" (poetry, Berlin 2003)
"manchmal/olykor" (poetry, German/Hungarian, Budapest/Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-963-446-468-6)
"und wieder an Inseln gewiesen" (poetry, Vienna/Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86703-748-8)

Some poems and one short story have been translated into Polish, Russian, English, French, Hungarian, Czech and Bulgarian and have been published in those countries in anthologies

editor, since 1994 34 editions