Karin Kiwus

Karin Kiwus ( born November 9, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

Karin Kiwus studied journalism, German Studies and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and received a master's degree in 1970. From 1971 to 1973 she was a research assistant at the Berlin Academy of Arts from 1973 to 1975, she worked as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag, and in 1975 she headed the department of literature of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1978 she stayed as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin on 1981 to 1982 she was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. 1986/87 she worked again as a publishing editor in Hamburg, before 1987 the Academy of Arts in Berlin returned, where she lives today.

For her poetry book, Karin Kiwus received, inter alia, 1977 the Bremen Literature Prize and the 1981 Award of the Cultural Committee of the Federation of German Industry. In 2005 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

• From both sides of the present, Frankfurt am Main 1976
• Suppose later, Frankfurt am Main 1979
• Fragile, 1979
• 39 poems, Stuttgart 1981
• Doubtful morning, Leipzig 1987
• The Chinese Exam, Frankfurt am Main 1992
• In the first light 1976
• Certain Connection, 1979
• After the life, 2006

Editorship

• When the war was over, Berlin 1975
• Discussion about the Martin- Gropius-Bau and the Adjacent terrain: Documentation, Berlin 1983
• Berlin Authors City book, Berlin 1985
• The dream of reason, from the misery of the Enlightenment, Darmstadt [ua ] Sequence 1 Between July 1984 and February 1985, 1985
• Sequence 2 Between June 1985 and February 1986, 1986