Peter Gosse 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

International PEN

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 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
  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...
  
   1985
• Heinrich Mann Prize
  Heinrich Mann Prize
  The Heinrich Mann Prize is a literary award given annually by the Berlin Academy of Art . The prize given for works with socially critical aspects in a character that would honor Heinrich Mann...
  
   of the Akademie der Künste Berlin 1991

External links

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