The poet and private scholar Dieter Schlesak, born in Schaessburg

(Siebenbuergen/Transsylvanien), people school teacher was in

Filter defiency guarantee, studied Germanistik, operated as an editor

The magazine " new literature " in Bucharest. It debuetierte

As poets still in its homeland (" border strip ", 1968).

it moved to l969 into the Federal Republic, where it one year later

" visas. East west lessons " 1970 with S. Fischer in Frankfurt

published.

Since then numerous poem books appeared (among other things " white ones Area ", 81; " rearing up. Poems and an essay ", 90, all

Rowohlt); 1997: " landlong " with the edition Galrev in Berlin l997; 1986

That novel appeared " Native country days and the art of the

Disappearing " with Benziger in Switzerland.

Schlesak wrote radio plays, radio work, work to the topics:

Meditation. Parapsychology, psychiatry, wrote Bildmeditationen

Over the reconditioned Sixtini chapel (3 tapes of one

Art print documentation), essays and Prosa over the time turn

1989/90: " if the things from the name fall " with Rowohlt (

1991). In the autumn 1994 "standing I in current time " -

synoptic diary of the years 89-94 with Reclam Leipzig.

Schlesak received several prices (among other things " Gryphius Foerderpreis,

Price of Kuenstlergilde, Lenau price)

And scholarships (German literature fund, academy lock

Solitude), it is member of the German P.E.N center.