Kito Lorenc

Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938^[1] – 24 September 2017^[2]) was a Sorbian writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski.

Kito Lorenc (2013)

Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961.^[3] He was an employee at the Institute for Sorbian People Research in Bautzen between 1961 and 1972.

From 1972 until 1979, he worked as a dramaturge at the State Ensemble for Sorbian People's Culture.^[4] Kito Lorenc was a member of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste and lived as a freelance writer in Wuischke by Hochkirch.

Works

• "Nowe časy - nowe kwasy" (New Times - New Weddings), Poems, VEB Verlag Domowina, 1962
• "Swĕtło, prawda, swobodnosć" (Light, Justice and Freedom), (Anthology of Sorbian Poets, Editor) VEB Verlag Domowina, 1963
• Mina Witkojc "Po pućach časnikarki", Translation in Upper Sorbian, VEB Verlag Domowina 1964
• Handrij Zejler "Serbske fabule", Translation, VEB Verlag Domowina 1966
• "Struga. Bilder einer Landschaft (Struga. Pictures of a Landscape)", Poetry, VEB Verlag Domowina, 1967
• "Der betresste Esel", Fabeln von Handrij Zejler, Translation, 1969, new at Domowina-Verlag 2004
• "Flurbereinigung", Poetry, Aufbau Verlag 1988
• "Gegen den grossen Popanz. (Against the Great Popanz)", Poetry 1990
• "Achtzehn Gedichte der Jahre 1990-2002 (18 Poets of the Years 1990-2002)" Selections from Manfred Peter Hein
• "An einem schönbemalten Sonntag : Gedichte zu Gedichten (A beautifully painted Sunday: Poetry to Poets)", Edition Thanhäuser
• Rudolf Hartmetz, Hans Mirtschin, Kito Lorenc "Terra budissinensis", Lusatia 1997
• Jurij Chĕžka "Die Erde aus dem Traum (The Earth from the Dream)", Domowina-Verlag 2002
• "Die Unerheblichkeit Berlins (Berlin's Unconsiderablity)", Buch&Media 2002
• "Die wendische Schiffahrt (The Wendish Voyage)", Domowina-Verlag 2004

Awards

• Literature Prize of Domowina
• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1974
• Ćišinski Prize
• Heinrich Mann Prize 1991
• Förderpreis Literatur zum Kunstpreis Berlin
• Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony 2009
• Petrarca-Preis 2012^[5]