About Andreas Johannes Painta
Born 1954. Andreas Johannes Painta is a Polish translator, writer, poet and opinion journalist.
Andrzej Pańta (also Andreas Johannes Painta, born April 10, 1954, in Bytom, Poland, died February 8, 2024 in Görlitz, Germany) is a Polish-German poet and translator of German literature.
Biography Painta studied Polish philology and biology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and made his debut in 1973 with poetry in the magazine Poglądy. He has published in Polish literary journals such as Arkadia, Portret, Śląsk, Kresy, Poezja, Integracja, Kultura and Nowy wyraz, Fa Style, List oceaniczny, Wyrazy, format and Fraza. He took part in the German-Polish poets steamer (Deutsch-Polnischer Poetendampfer) in 1998 and 1999, the festival Fortalicje in Zamość, the German-Polish Poetry Festival "wortlust" in Lublin 1997 and the Uniwersytet poezjii in Zielona Góra. He translated German writers and philosophers into Polish, among them Friedrich Hölderlin, Horst Bienek, Arthur Schopenhauer, Rose Ausländer, Jakob Böhme, Erik Blumenthal, Dieter Kalka and Alfred Georg Seidel. Andrzej Pańta lives in Görlitz, Germany.
Books of poetry Wyspa na jeziorze, Katowice 1977 Counter-revolution, 1989 Pan, Synchrones Poem, 1992 Nic więcej, 1995 Bez; ogródek, 1995 Wieczna naiwność wróżek, 1985 Za płotem, 1981 Brzuchem do słońca, 1986 Pneuma culi, 1988
Translation Friedrich Hölderlin, Fale nieba, poetry, 1991 Horst Bienek, Czas po temu, 1987 Horst Bienek, Stopniowe zadławianie krzyku i inne eseje, Essays, 2001 Arthur Schopenhauer: Metafizyka miłości płciowej, 1985 Rose Ausländer: W kotle czarownic, 1995 Jakob Böhme: O nowych, powtórnych narodzinach, 1993 Jakob Böhme: Aurora, Letters, Zgorzelec 1999 Jacob Böhme, Teozoficzne okólniki, Zgorzelec 2005 Erik Blumenthal, Uwierzyć w samego siebie. Samozaufanie płynące z głębi/ An sich selber Glauben. Selbstvertrauen aus der Tiefe, Gdańsk 1998 E. Blumenthal: Uwierzyć w samego siebie, Gdańsk 1998 Dieter Kalka: Podwójne i potrójne, Bydgoszcz 1999 Alfred Georg Seidel, Niebo nad granicami, Gliwice 2001
Prizes Kryształowy Lew. Kłodzka Wiosna Poetycka 1974 Nagrod "Pegaza" - za przekład poezji/ Pegasus Prize for translation of poetry (1992) Laureat nagrody im. Tadeusza Peipera Nagroda Czerwonej Róży w Gdańsku, 1990 Stypendium, Fundacja Pomocy Niezależnej Nauce i Literaturze Polskiej/ Scholarship, Foundation for Independent Polish Science and Literature, Paris 1991 Preis der Künstlergilde Esslingen 2000, German Prize of the "Künstlergilde"
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Polish author and translator
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Andreas Johannes Painta was born on 10 April 1954 in Bytom.
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