Johannes Beilharz (born 15 January 1956) is a German poet,

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and translator. Beilharz was born in Oberndorf am

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, Baden-Württemberg, attended local schools, studied English, French, Spanish and Catalan at the University of

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from 1975 to 1977, then continued his studies at the University of Colorado in 1977, graduating with an M.A. in

English Literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

/ Creative Writing in 1981. He has worked mainly in translation and has traveled widely, primarily in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia. He has lived in

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and Salida, Colorado,

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Germany and currently lives in Pliezhausen, Germany and Rome, Italy. Johannes Beilharz writes in German as well as English and has published poetry, fiction and poetry translations from several languages in numerous print and online magazines since 1978. A volume of his short stories (''Die gottlosen Ameisen'') was published in 2003. He has had solo art exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in France, Germany, India and Italy since 2002 and appeared in public readings, partially with jazz and Indian musicians, in Germany since 2003. Poets he has translated include Gabriel Ferrater, Barbara Guest,

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, Kenneth Koch, Harry Mathews,

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, Kabir, Rabindranath Tagore, Friedrich Hölderlin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ingeborg Bachmann and

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Publications

*''Rural Ditties'' (English; self-published, 1980) *''Minima Amoralia'' (German; self-published, 1981) *''Die gottlosen Ameisen'' (German; Alkyon Verlag, 2003) *''Best of Meme'' (English; Wordclay, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 2008, ) *''101'' (English; epubli, Berlin, Germany 2014, ) *''Eine finnische Jazznummer für die Missverstandenen'' (German; epubli, Berlin, Germany 2014, )

External links

Johannes Beilharz's literature and art pagesOfficial homepage
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