Peter Horn (poet)

Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn (born 7 December 1934 in Teplice - Šanov, Czechoslovakia) is a South African poet.

Life

At the end of the Second World War, Peter Horn and his family fled to Bavaria and then to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he completed his schooling at the Berthold -Gymnasium. In 1954 he emigrated with his parents to South Africa. He worked for a time as a packer, masons, laboratory assistant, photographer, insurance agent and teacher at the German School in Johannesburg.

He studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the College of Education ( Johannesburg). He was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of South Africa and the University of Zululand. From 1974 to 1999 he was a professor of German at the University of Cape Town.

He is the author of poems and short stories.

Awards and Honors

Works

  • Walking through our sleep. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1974, ISBN 0-86975-036-4. Review: Poems sincere to the point of pain. In: Natal Witness. 12. December 1974.

Literary criticism

  • RA Kruger (ed.): German poems from the Reformation to the present. McGraw-Hill, 1973.
  • Walter Saunders ( ed.): It's gettin late ... and other poems from Ophir. Ravan / Ophir, 1974.
  • Heinrich von Kleist's narratives. An Introduction. Language Literature Teaching. Scriptor, 1978.
  • Cape of Good Hope. Poems from the South African resistance. Translated and introduced by Peter Horn. Atheneum, 1980.
  • Kleist Chronicle. Atheneum, 1980.
  • Writing my Reading. Essays on Literary Politics in South Africa. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1994 [ recte 1995 ], ISBN 3-89896-346-2. ( = Cross / Cultures - Readings in Post / Colonial Literatures in English 15), p 172
  • Anette Horn ( Ed.): The knowledge of world citizens. Series ' discourse philosophy. " Athena Publishing, Oberhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89896-301-5.
  • Verbal violence or Kleist on the couch. Beyond the issue of psychoanalysis of literary texts. Athena Publishing, Oberhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89896-346-6.
  • Anette Horn: "I am learning to see " To Rilke's poetry. Athena Publishing, Oberhausen 2010.
  • The yarns of the fishermen of Mondsee. For the poetry of Paul Celan. Athena Publishing, Oberhausen 2011.
  • In the song blows her mind. Hölderlin's Late hymns. Athena Publishing, Oberhausen, 2012.
  • Anette Horn: "I 'm probably a mystery to you? " Heinrich von Kleist's dramas. Athena Publishing, Oberhausen 2013.
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