Haiku from German Tongues

Matthias Korn: Haiku from Magdeburg

2012-02-27T20:24:00.000+01:00

drunk:

the moon

is staggering

Mainichi, December 24, 2010

Open air concert

a child

counts legs

Mainichi, January 13, 2011

Clouds darken
in thechildren's room
a clock ticks

Asahi,June 18-19, 2005

Matthias Korn, bornin 1967, lives in Magdeburg, Germany, management assistant ininformatics, haiku poet since 2003 and member of the German Haiku Society.

GermanHaiku Society: member's page

Claudia Melchior: Haiku, Photos, Music

2012-02-13T19:07:00.003+01:00

acyclist carries

TheGirl from Ipanema

throughthe town

TheMainichi Daily News 03.09.2010 and „Annual Selection 2010“

AllHallows' Eve--

grandpaputs his teeth

intoa glass

Asahi Haiku Network 20.11.2009

marked for felling...

in the treetop

a bird's nest

World-Haiku-Review/WHC German/English: Spring 2008

Claudia Melchior was born1966 in Freiburg where she still lives and writes. She is a member of theGerman Haiku Society since 2006. Publications of haiku andhaiga in anthologies, in the Saijiki of Hamburger Haiku Verlag,Haiku heute, Sommergras, World Haiku Review, Chrysanthemum, TheMainichi Daily News, Asahi Shimbun, Haikuscope, Lynx, Dulzinea, WHAHaiga Contest. Also musical versions oftexts.

www.schoensinnlicht.de

member's site at German Haiku Society

Klemens Antusch: Haiku - Hobby and Challenge

2012-01-30T17:43:00.000+01:00

Penalty shootout
photographers with
one focused eye

Wine tasting
homeward bent
a wobbly moon

Long-term service
the rain
against the night

Asahi Haikuist Network

Klemens Antusch - born at Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1955, resident outside Regensburg and Perth, haiku - hobby and challenge.

Silvia Kempen: Writer and Editor

2012-01-16T15:51:00.000+01:00

growing moon -
his forefinger touches
the dark line

Haikuscope: Kurzgedicht der Woche 8. KW 2011

Flying seagull --
a boy
pulling the line

Asahi, Feb. 5, 2010

her raven-black hair
whitened with cherry petals
on her way to church

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2011

Silvia Kempen, *1958, lives in Apen, Lower Saxony. Board Member of the German Haiku Society and the editorial board of SOMMERGRAS. Writing haiku since 2005.

http://www.lyrikbaum.de/
http://deutschehaikugesellschaft.de/mitgliederseiten/alle-seiten/silvia-kempen/

Cezar F. Ciobîcă: Teacher and Author

2011-12-28T15:24:00.001+01:00

thunders -
dandelion fluff rises
without a god

Second Place, 2011 Pen Haiku Contest

kukai in orchard -
a cherry petal
settles as kireji

Honorable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, 2011

back at
the pawn shop -
the moon in the window

Excellent Award, Fourth National Haiku Contest, Bulgaria, 2011

Cezar F. Ciobîcă, born in 1971, in Romania, lives and works in Botoșani as teacher and author. He began writing haiku in 2008 and his poems have appeared on several websites (Haiku Heute, Chrysanthemum, Sketchbook, Mainichi Daily News, Tinywords, Asahi Haikuist Network). His awards are posted on Oglindiri.

http://catanasiu.blogspot.com

Gabriele Reinhard: Lives, Paints, Writes

2011-12-12T18:31:00.000+01:00

full moon
a guest
I didn't invite

children's voices
shadows of magnolias and blackbirds
the same black

twilight
he arranges figures
and waits

"Chrysanthemum, 6 October 2009, feature"

Gabriele Reinhard: born in 1956, lives, paints und writes ina small village between Köln and Frankfurt. Courious?

www.gabriele-reinhard.de

Udo Wenzel: Writer and Editor

2011-11-28T22:11:00.005+01:00

sea-gulls

carry the moonlight

across backwater

21st ITO EN 'Oi Ocha'

New haiku contest 2010 Merit Award

Hiroshima day -

the sound of the bell

over the town

Bashô's Anniversary Web Haiku Contest Award

Mie Times 2004

child soldier

peering at the sky

in his barrel

40th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku-Meeting

2006, Commended by Steve Wolfe

Udo Wenzel, born in 1957 in Southern Germany. Training as a bookseller, studies of sociology, diverse odd jobs. Works in the Information Technology since 1991. Lives in Hamburg since 1983. Occasionally he had been writing poems and short stories for about 30 years, got involved with haiku-poetry in 2002. Publications of haiku, essays about haiku-theory and -history, interviews, and translations in anthologies and haiku-magazines (national and international). Member of the German Haiku Society. Editor of TAUBENSCHLAG (dovecote), the litblog for short lyrics and short prose. Editor of the website HAIKU-STEG (haiku-jetty). Published his book "Taubenschlag" with short poems and short poetry in 2010 (Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt).

Klaus-Dieter Wirth: Linguist and Promoter

2011-11-13T19:51:00.006+01:00

St. Valentine's Day
at the end of the line
an audible smile

Awarded as "favorite haiku" in "Modern Haiku" Vol 35.3, 2004

dreary afternoon
a carp in the park pond snaps
at a speck of sun

Special prize in the "Genkissu! Spirit up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest 2006"

curtain of beads
the rustle
of filtered light

"Blithe Spirit" Vol 20, No 2, June 2010

Klaus-Dieter Wirth, living alternately in Viersen near Düsseldorf and at Burg, a village of wine-growers on the Moselle. Retired linguist in the teaching profession (English, French, Spanish). First contact with the haiku in 1967. Working for the promotion of haiku on an international level. Membership in several haiku societies (D, GB, NL/B, F, USA, CDN) and active collaboration on different journals, esp. "Sommergras", "Blithe Spirit", "Gong", "Chrysanthemum", and "Whirligig". Numerous publications in magazines and anthologies; awarded in several different competitions. Just out his quadrilingual haiku book "Zugvögel/Migratory Birds/Oiseaux migrateurs/Aves migratorias".

Klaus-Dieter Wirth's DHG-member-page

Claudia Brefeld: Author and Photographer

2011-10-31T18:31:00.042+01:00

holidays end--

only the motion of the sea

in the driving mirror

The Mainichi Daily News – Best of 2009

old stream--

the moon floats into

the blue hour

The Heron’s Nest – XVIII (1) 2011

dust-blind glass –
her hands searching

forgotten closeness

Chrysanthemum 8/2010

Claudia Brefeld – born 1956 in Gronau (NRW), lives in Bochum. She has written lyrics (and short stories) for many years and haiku and aphorism since 2003. Moreover she writes tan-renga, renku and rengay. Nature photography is also on the list of her hobby priorities. Her haiku and haiga have been published in anthologies and in such magazines as: Albatross, Chrysanthemum, Mainichi Daily News, Notes from the Gean, Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, WHC-German, WHA-Haiga-Contest. SOMMERGRAS, and other… She is the second chairwoman of the German Haiku Society, and founding member and secretary to the board of the German Aphorism Archive.

www.artgerecht-und-ungebunden.de/
homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Claudia.Brefeld/

Rudi Pfaller: "I Always Discover New Things"

2011-10-18T00:00:00.006+02:00

silent night
a nut drops
from the moon

Mainichi Daily News 04-12-2006

brimstone butterfly
the sun
gets wings

Mainichi Daily News Best of 2010

Autumn gale
every leaf
hunts leaves

Rudi Pfaller was born in 1949, and with his wife and his dog he lives in the valley of Rems nearby Stuttgart. He has been writing haiku since 2006. He says: “Since that time I try to reveal the secret about this short poetry and I always discover new things.”

haikuseite.blogspot.com

Heike Gewi: Writing Became a Life Style

2011-09-26T09:57:00.005+02:00

still not tired

to give -

apricot tree

Heron's Nest, Dec. 2010

wisdom of growing old

the koi moves

to a deeper level

Notes from the Gean, March 2011

fog

on cathedral glass

a man I can name

The Mainichi Daily News, May 10th 2011

Heike Gewi: born in Dessau/Saxony-Anhalt in 1964, living and working in Aden (Republic of Yemen), writing Haiku since 2007 and painting again after a 25-years-break since autumn 2010. She says: “Writing became a life style and doing so there is no imagination without highlightening some moments of our lives or giving answers in designed crime fictions to the question What if? ...“

www.heikegewi.keepfree.de

Gerd Börner: Short Poetry and Short Prose

2011-09-12T13:13:00.004+02:00

In the stairwell ...
your smile
already at the top

“Hinterhofhitze. Moderne Kurzlyrik - Haiku und Haibun“, Ideedition Berlin, 2005

autumn sun
skipping the shadows
along the trees

“Offene Ferne. Kurzlyrik und Kurzprosa“, Ideedition Berlin, 2008

at the edge of summer
going more slowly
through the rain

Haikuscope: Kurzgedicht der Woche 40. KW 2010

Gerd Börner: born in 1944, studied electrical engineering, lives today as lyric poet in Berlin, member of the editorial staff of the Poetry-Portal “Haikuscope” and “Chrysanthemum”. Publications: “Hinterhofhitze. Moderne Kurzlyrik - Haiku und Haibun“, Ideedition Berlin, 2005, “Offene Ferne. Kurzlyrik und Kurzprosa“, Ideedition Berlin, 2008. Own website with spoken short poetry and short prose:

www.ideedition.de

Helga Stania – Born in Siegen, lives in Switzerland

2011-08-29T18:31:00.004+02:00

spring wind

softly locking the door

of my parents' home

Asahi, April 30th, 2009

Rose of Sharon

the blue shimmer

of distant roads

Notes from the Gean, December 1st, 2010

boundery stones

on the old battlefield

melting snow

Mainichi, May 13th, 2011

Helga Stania was born in Siegen, Germany, in 1946, graduated in biology and geography (from Universität Bonn), now residing in Switzerland.

member's site at German Haiku Society
member's site "Haiku heute"

Volker Friebel – Psychologist and Author

2011-08-15T01:07:00.000+02:00

Summer wind.
The foal stable –

empty.

14th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2010

City wall.
The ivy sends new sprouts

through the arrow slit.

11th Kusamakura-Haiku-Contest 2006

Tulips.
Morning at the folds

of red.

15th Kusamakura-Haiku-Contest 2010

Volker Friebel, *1956, psychologist, author, musician, secretary of the German Haiku Society. He lives in Tübingen.

www.quellensteine.de
www.haiku-heute.de

Ramona Linke – Poetess from Saxony-Anhalt

2011-08-01T10:06:00.000+02:00

sightseeing
the wall
today

Mainichi Daily News, 12-2004

Quiet pond
grass blades tickle
the clouds

Asahi Haikuist Network 08-2004

bright winter night
my head
made of glass

The Heron’s Nest 06-2011

Ramona Linke is a poetess, born in 1960, and lives with her family in Salzatal/Beesenstedt (Saxony-Anhalt) – haiku since 2003. She is a member of the German Haiku Society.

www.haiku-art.de
haiku-art-rl.blogspot.com

Dietmar Tauchner – Author and Traveller

2011-07-18T10:41:00.000+02:00

march morning

the holocaust of dreams

in Fukushima

old city walls

we are shadows

passing by

battlefield

soldiers sharing

the gene pool

Notes from the Gean, 2/4, March 2011

Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives and works in Puchberg and Vienna, as social-worker, author and passionate traveller and trekker. His work has been published in various magazines and anthologies worldwide. He received some awards as the First Price at the International Haiku Contest Ludbreg in Croatia in 2004, and the Third Prize at the Kusamakura International Haiku Competition 2005, 2009 and 2010, the Naji Naaman "Creativity Prize" in Lebanon 2009 as well as twice the "Scorpion Prize" for the best haiku published in Roadrunner and the First Price of the Haiku International Association (HIA) in Tokyo 2008 . He attended the First and the Second European Haiku Conference, The Haiku North America Conference in 2005, as well as the World Haiku Association Conference 2009 in Lituania, where he held lectures and readings. Co-Director of four short haiku films. He is editor of the Austrian based international haiku webmagazine "Chrysanthemum".

www.bregengemme.net
www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net

Welcome Co-Editor Heike Stehr!

2011-07-05T12:01:00.000+02:00

Heike Stehr, German haikuist from Moers, has agreed to be a co-editor of this blog. I am looking forward to this teamwork!

The Idea Concerning this Blog ...

2011-07-01T10:12:00.000+02:00

Many authors write haiku in German, some of them publish world wide. But there seems to be no place to get an overview of this community in English. This is why this blog would like to present haiku in English from authors, who come from a German speaking origin.

To show the width of haiku from German tongues to an international audience, I ask haijin to send three haiku in English, a short biography and a link to their homepage, blog or haiku-organization. If haiku have been published before, I will be pleased to set up a link to the primary publication.

Selected entries will be published here every two weeks.

Yours
Ralf Bröker
germanhaiku(at)freenet.de