Johannes Beilharz (born 15 January 1956) is a German

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, painter and

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. Beilharz was born in Oberndorf am Neckar,

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, attended local schools, studied English, French, Spanish and Catalan at the University of Regensburg from 1975 to 1977, then continued his studies at the

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in 1977, graduating with an M.A. in English Literature/

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in 1981. He has worked mainly in translation and has traveled widely, primarily in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia. He has lived in Boulder, Colorado and Salida,

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, Stuttgart,

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and currently lives in

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and

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. Johannes Beilharz writes in German as well as English and has published poetry, fiction and poetry translations from several languages in numerous print and online magazines since 1978. A volume of his short stories (''Die gottlosen Ameisen'') was published in 2003. He has had solo art exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in France, Germany, India and Italy since 2002 and appeared in public readings, partially with jazz and Indian musicians, in Germany since 2003. Poets he has translated include

Gabriel Ferrater Gabriel Ferrater i Soler (; 20 May 1922 – 27 April 1972) was an author, translator and scholar of linguistics of the sixties who wrote in the Catalan language. His poetical work is one of the most important among the authors of post-war Catalo ...

Barbara Guest Barbara Guest, ''née'' Barbara Ann Pinson (September 6, 1920 – February 15, 2006), was an American poet and prose stylist. Guest first gained recognition as a member of the first generation New York School of poetry. Guest wrote more than ...

, John Ashbery,

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, Edward Dorn, John Tranter,

Kabir Kabir Das (1398–1518) was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das ...

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-cl ...

Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. Biography Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her f ...

and Erwin Einzinger.

Publications

*''Rural Ditties'' (English; self-published, 1980) *''Minima Amoralia'' (German; self-published, 1981) *''Die gottlosen Ameisen'' (German; Alkyon Verlag, 2003) *''Best of Meme'' (English; Wordclay, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 2008, ) *''101'' (English; epubli, Berlin, Germany 2014, ) *''Eine finnische Jazznummer für die Missverstandenen'' (German; epubli, Berlin, Germany 2014, )

External links

Johannes Beilharz's literature and art pagesOfficial homepage
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