Paul Alfred Kleinert
Paul Alfred Kleinert is a German writer, editor and translator.
Biography
Kleinert was born in Leipzig in 1960 with family roots in Silesia and Gdańsk. He studied theology and did theological and celtic studies in East Berlin at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ' and West Berlin at Freie Universität Berlin ', Edinburgh at the University of Edinburgh and Dublin. His main areas of interest are poetry, short stories and translation from classical languages. He has lived and worked in Kreuzberg in Berlin since 1986.Publications
43 editions since 1994, i.a.:- “Zeitzeichen”
- “Die Nessing’schen Hefte”
- “Nordische Reihe” in “pernobilis-edition” Leipzig ]
- First ever volume of Faroese/German poetry by Guðrið Helmsdal "Stjørnuakrar /Sternenfelder", translation by A.Nielsen
- First ever Faroese/German anthology “From Janus Djurhuus to Tóroddur Poulsen – Faroese Poetry during 100 Years”, academic advice: Turið Sigurðardóttir, lineartranslation: Inga Meincke.
Appreciation
- grant by Otto Benecke Stiftung Bonn
- Scholarship by Studienwerk Villigst
- Working Grant by NGDK Berlin
- Travelling Grant by Berliner Senat
- Travelling Grant by LBV Vienna,
- "Writer in Residence" at Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby/Gotland/Sweden
- Travelling Grant by LBV Vienna
- Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg-Prize 2009
- "Writer in Residence" at Künstlerhaus Salzwedel
- Travelling Grant by JTHBV Vienna
- "Writer in Residence" at Ventspils House for Writers and Translators in Ventspils/Latvia
- Travelling Grant by JTHBV Vienna
- Government Grant by Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin
- Travelling Grant by JTHBV Vienna
- Travelling Grant by LBVF Vienna
- "Writer in Residence" at Künstlerhaus Salzwedel
Books
- "Eine Gedankengeschichte"
- "Übergangszeit"
- "Gedichte"
- "Lebensmitte".
- "Einträge in's Dasein"
- "Fähren und Fährten".
- "Lust und Last"
- "manchmal/olykor"
- "und wieder an Inseln gewiesen"
- "Rabensaat/Hollóvetés"
- "um die fünfzig – koło pięćdziesiątki – ötven felé"
- "vestigium hominis – ein Jahres- im Lebenskreis"
- "unterwegs"
- "in nuce"
- "fraglich"
- "Ersatz, nicht die Landschaft meines Herzens". Ein "österreichischer Schriftsteller" im Brandenburgischen - Franz Fühmann in Märkisch Buchholz, ISBN 978-3-938008-76-8 and 978-3-96982-032-2
- "Zur Neugewinnung alter Erzählstoffe. Das Filmszenarium "Der Nibelunge Not" von Franz Fühmann and Franz Fühmanns Entwurf für einen Film zu Walther von der Vogelweide." In: Filmwelten Franz Fühmanns, edited by Paul Alfred Kleinert, Leipzig and Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-96940-278-8
- "Spætlese"