Haiku from German Tongues: 03/2013

3/30/2013

Happy Easter with German Tongues!

The 107thWHA Haiga Contest is online with Beate Conrad, Cezar F. Ciobîcă, Christa Beau, Elke Bonacker, Heike Gewi, Helga Stania, Ramona Linke, Simone K. Busch.

Haiga online 14, issue 1, was contributed by Heike Gewi and Beth McFarland.

The Mainichi published Simone K. Busch, and yesterday it presented Ramona Linke

Haiku by Ramona Linke and Kurt F. Svatek are part of World Haiku 2013, No. 9.

Stella Pierides and Cezar F. Ciobîcă are present with their work in The Shiki Monthly, March 2013.

Good-Friday-issue of Asahi Haikuist Network contains haiku from Beate Conrad, Ramona Linke, Heike Stehr, and Ralf Bröker.

Cezar F. Ciobîcă and Ralf Bröker appear in the 40th issue of Caribbean Kigo Kukai.

3/18/2013

Curtain Up for European Kukai

These authors from Germany or of German speaking origin took part in the first European Quarterly Kukai: Wolfgang Beutke, Silvia Kempen, Christian Michel, Cezar F. Ciobîcă, Sebastian Hengst, Stella Pierides, Ramona Linke, Ralf Bröker, Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Valeria Barouch, Yuko Igarashi, Grazyna Werner, Heike Gewi, Claudius Gottstein, Heinz Schneemann, Margareta Hihn, Sylvia Bacher, Brigitte ten Brink, Lothar M. Kirsch, Brian Robertson, Kenzo Manipitsu (in number of appearance).

Wolfgang Beutke's haiku appeared at Mainichi Daily.

Beate Conrad and Heike Gewi present their works at Daily Haiga.

Asahi Haikuist Network shows haiku from Klemens Antusch and Ralf Bröker.

Dietmar Tauchner and Klaus-Dieter Wirth show their haiku at Ardea Issue 2.

3/11/2013

Two Years After the BIG Earthquake

Gabi Greve collects impressions and expressions two years "after the BIG earthquake" in Japan.

Beate Conrad's haiku has been presented by Mainichi.

Beth McFarland (who lives in Germany and writes in English), Helga Stania, Beate Conrad, and Valeria Barouch are guests at Asahi Haikuist Network.

Renku by Ramona Linke and Helga Stania appear in A Hundred Gourds. And so do haiga by Simone K. Busch and Gerda Förster.

In 2008 a Cologne haiku group was portrayed by Expatica/DPA.

In the end: A very special contest winning threeliner in something like German, promoted by the German Society of Pennsylvania.

You would like to be part of Haiku from German Tongues?

Some authors have been mentioned in our HFGT-news or are haijin of German speaking origin and write in other languages, but do not appear yet in our list of HFGT-portraits. If you are one of these, just mail to haikufromgermantongues (at) freenet (dot) de and send your three published haiku in English. Please add a short biography and up to two links leading to your blog, homepage, or member-side.

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About HFGT

There are many authors in Germany, too, who like to write haiku. Yet it seems to be quite difficult to get a general idea of their works in English. And it is this very objective that we want to achieve by our blog.

In order to give at least a certain impression of the particular range covered by haiku from German tongues to a wider international audience, Heike Stehr and Ralf Bröker present haiku in English.

The both also ask haijin of some good reputation to submit three of their best haiku in English translation, a short biography, and one or two links. If any of the selected haiku was already published before the author is requested to quote its credits.

Other haiku from German tongues written in English: feel free to have a great time with Chrysanthemum, the great biannual German/English online-magazine. And: Many German haiku-writers are presented on DHG-Mitgliederseiten.