Peter Gosse Explained

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

Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow.^[1] After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. 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

• Book: Gosse, Peter . Gleisskörper : Gedichte . Mitteldeutscher Verlag . Halle . 1996 . 3-354-00916-0 . 36216761 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Seinsgunst : Gedichte . Mitteldeutscher Verlag . Halle . 2001 . 3-89812-092-9 . 51842357 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Phantomschmelz : Lyrik & Kurzprosa . Mitteldeutscher Verlag . Halle . 1998 . 3-932776-24-0 . 40378178 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Erwachsene Mitte : Gedichte, Geschichten, Stücke, Essays . P. Reclam . Leipzig . 1986 . 3-379-00032-9 . 16801878 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Standwaage : Gedichte . Mitteldeutscher Verlag . Halle . 1990 . 3-354-00635-8 . 24518459 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Dein eurasisches Antlitz Schriften zu bildender Kunst und Literatur . Leipzig . 1997 . 978-3-9805299-8-3 . 75807260 . de.
• Book: Gosse, Peter . Neles Selen Bilder sichten . Halle (Saale) . 2003 . 978-3-89812-179-8 . 249441605 . de.

Awards

• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985
• Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1991

Notes and References

1. Book: Gerber, M. . Studies in GDR Culture and Society 4: Selected Papers from the Ninth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic . University Press of America . 1984 . 978-0-8191-4015-9 . 17 Oct 2023 .