Peter Gosse
Illustration — Gosse in 2012 Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.
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Illustration — Gosse in 2012 Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.
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Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. 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).
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• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985 • Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1991
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