Kito Lorenc grandson of the Sorbian writer Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski, is a Sorbian-German writer, lyric poet and translator.

Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus

Cottbus

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 from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig

Leipzig

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 from 1956 to 1961. He was an employee at the Institute for Sorbian People Research in Bautzen

Bautzen

Bautzen is a hill-top town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and administrative centre of the eponymous district. It is located on the Spree River. As of 2008, its population is 41,161...

 between 1961 and 1972. From 1972 until 1979, he worked as a Dramaturge

Dramaturge

A dramaturge or dramaturg is a professional position within a theatre or opera company that deals mainly with research and development of plays or operas...

 at the State Ensemble for Sorbian People's Culture. Kito Lorenc is a member of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste and lives as a freelance writer in Wuischke by Hochkirch.

Works

• "Nowe časy - nowe kwasy" (New Times - New Weddings), Poems, VEB Verlag Domowina, 1962
• "Swĕtło, prawda, swobodnosć" (Light, Justice and Freedom), (Anthology of Sorbian Poets, Editor) VEB Verlag Domowina, 1963
• Mina Witkojc "Po pućach časnikarki", Translation in Upper Sorbian, VEB Verlag Domowina 1964
• Handrij Zejler "Serbske fabule", Translation, VEB Verlag Domowina 1966
• "Struga. Bilder einer Landschaft (Struga. Pictures of a Landscape)", Poetry, VEB Verlag Domowina, 1967
• "Der betresste Esel", Fabeln von Handrij Zejler, Translation, 1969, new at Domowina-Verlag 2004
• "Flurbereinigung", Poetry, Aufbau Verlag 1988
• "Gegen den grossen Popanz. (Against the Great Popanz)", Poetry 1990
• "Achtzehn Gedichte der Jahre 1990-2002 (18 Poets of the Years 1990-2002)" Selections from Manfred Peter Hein
• "An einem schönbemalten Sonntag : Gedichte zu Gedichten (A beautifully painted Sunday: Poetry to Poets)", Edition Thanhäuser
• Rudolf Hartmetz, Hans Mirtschin, Kito Lorenc "Terra budissinensis", Lusatia 1997
• Jurij Chĕžka "Die Erde aus dem Traum (The Earth from the Dream)", Domowina-Verlag 2002
• "Die Unerheblichkeit Berlins (Berlin's Unconsiderablity)", Buch&Media 2002
• "Die wendische Schiffahrt (The Wendish Voyage)", Domowina-Verlag 2004

Awards

• Literature Prize of Domowina
• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR
  Heinrich Heine Prize
  Heinrich Heine Prize refers to two different awards named after the 19th century German poet Christian Johann Heinrich Heine:* Heinrich Heine prize of Düsseldorf...
  
   1974
• Ćišinski Prize
• Heinrich Mann Prize
  Heinrich Mann Prize
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   1991
• Förderpreis Literatur zum Kunstpreis Berlin
• Lessing Prize for Free State Saxony 2009

External links

Literature by and on Kito Lorenc in the Catalog of the German National Library

German National Library

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