Peter Gosse


Peter Gosse is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the "Johannes R. Becher" Literary Institute in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Afterwards, he became a guest Professor in the USA. Peter Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste.

Works

"Standwaage", Poetry, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1990