Rainer Hesse (poet)
Rainer Hesse (born March 28, in Königsberg, today Kaliningrad) is a German poet and author of scholarly publications.[1] As a technical chemist, he was a head of department in various laboratories. Hesse engages in linguistic research concerning the reform of Chinese characters and he has published four scholarly works on this subject.[2] He has translated poetry of Belgian writers from Flemish into German. As a poet, he prefers to write Tanka and Haiku but his poetic oeuvre includes also other genres. Hesse also takes an active interest in the arts and theatre.[3]
Since 2000, Hesse and his wife are living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Publications (a selection)
- Umfassend analytisch-synthetisches Referenzwörterbuch moderner chinesischer Schriftzeichen nach der Kolumnen-Methode. Verlag BoD, 2011, ISBN 3839175143, ISBN 978-3839175149
- Das Kanji-Netzcode-System: Eine universelle Wörterbuchordnung sino-japanischer Schriftzeichen. Verlag: BoD, 2000, ISBN 3831102074, ISBN 978-3831102075
- Han Minwen: Versuch zur Entwicklung einer chinesischen Volksschrift. Verlag Harrassowitz, 1981, ISBN 3447022183, ISBN 978-3447022187
- Sternenlicht und unberührter Schnee, Ausgewählte Gedichte. Verlag BUCH&media München, 2011, ISBN 3869061545, ISBN 978-3869061542
External links
- Literature by and on Rainer Hesse in the catalog of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) http://www.dnb.de/
- Translations by Rainer Hesse, see Catalogue of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (Royal Library of Belgium): http://www.kbr.be/bb/nl/nlsep/n10cdibb.html
- Journal of the German Haiku Society, May 2010, issue 60: http://deutschehaikugesellschaft.de/wp_CKq-ieWN-JKPs-iPj-UT/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Heft-60.pdf
References
- ↑ See: Directory of European Professional & Learned Societies, (CBD Research) n.d., p.52.
- ↑ See: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan(ed.), Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library (Ntl. Diet Library, Library Cooperation Department) 2001. - The National Diet Library or Library of the Parliament in Japan is comparable to the Library of Congress in the U.S.
- ↑ See for instance: Wouter Davidts and Kim Paice (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work. (Valiz) 2009, p.126.
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