Authors & Books
Oswald Burger
Oswald Burger, born in Merseburg in 1949, studied history, politics, philosophy, German language and literature studies in Konstanz and Marburg, since 1977 he worked as trade school teacher in Überlingen, since 1991 he works as head of literary forum in Oberschwaben, publications about history, politics and literature, amonst others:
Heinrich Georg Dikreiter: Vom Waisenhaus zur Fabrik. Eine Autobiographie. Eggingen (Isele). 1998 (als Mitherausgeber mit Martin Walser). (From orphanage to factory. An autobiography. co-edited by Martin Walser )
Spielwiese für Dichter. Literarisches Froum Oberschwaben. Ein Lesebuch. Eggingen (Isele). 1993 (zusammen mit Peter Renz). (playingfield for poets. literary forum Oberschwaben. A reader. (with Peter Renz).
Traumvermesser
50 years – 51 poems
- 168 pages
- Series Label (Reihe ETIKETT)
978-3-933974-50-1
together with Reinhard Gröper
Fifty years of poetry in Baden-Württemberg are half a century of intellectual history. The poems are standing in life-historical and cultural policy contexts – and who else than Reinhard Gröper with his role in the literary scene of the country would fit for making the atmosphere of these fifty years felt? Reinhard Gröper started writing a diary when he was not quite fourteen. Because of his decades-long occupation for literature and his preserved records, it seemed the thing to choose a distinctive entry for every year. Reinhard Gröper took the pick independent of the poetry selection of the editor Hermann Burger. The readers might seek out the references between the book's two components themselves. Every year, every poet, every diary entry, every poem stands for itself – yet still a nice entity arises from the network, which is together with the net of the dream surveyor lain down on the country.