Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938[1] – 24 September 2017[2]) was a Sorbian writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski.
Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961.[3] He was an employee at the Institute for Sorbian People Research in Bautzen between 1961 and 1972.
From 1972 until 1979, he worked as a dramaturge at the State Ensemble for Sorbian People's Culture.[4] Kito Lorenc was a member of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste and lived as a freelance writer in Wuischke by Hochkirch.
Works
edit- "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
edit- Literature Prize of Domowina
- Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1974
- Ćišinski Prize
- Heinrich Mann Prize 1991
- Förderpreis Literatur zum Kunstpreis Berlin
- Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony 2009
- Petrarca-Preis 2012[5]
References
edit- ^ Lorenc, Kito (2004). Die wendische Schiffahrt: zwei Dramen (in German). Domowina-Verlag. p. 327. ISBN 978-3-7420-1988-2. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ Zeitung, Sächsische (26 September 2017). "Wie die Welt nach Wuischke kam". Saechsische. (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ Prunitsch, Christian (26 June 2018). "Dr. h.c. Kito Lorenc (1938–2017)". Zeitschrift für Slawistik (in German). 63 (2): 351–354. doi:10.1515/slaw-2018-0024. ISSN 2196-7016. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ "Biografie von Kito Lorenc (1938-2017) - Sächsische Biografie | ISGV e.V." saebi.isgv.de. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ "Petrarca-Preis". Petrarca Netz (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2024.
