Haiku at Crossroads and Other Places

Chrysanthemum 13 presents many haiku in English and German. These are the published authors, a lot of them speak German: S. M. Abeles, Ramesh Anand, Deb Baker, Gabrielo Banks, Christa Beau, Brad Bennett, Tony Beyer, Tony Böhle, Adrian Bouter, Claudia Brefeld, Brigitte ten Brink, Ralf Bröker, Helen Buckingham, Owen Bullock, Anne-Marie Burrus, Željka Čakan, Steven Carter, Andrea Cecon, Paul Chambers, Charl JF Cilliers, Kirsten Cliff, Ulla Conrad, Bill Cooper, Robert Davey, Susan Diridoni, Patrick Druart, R. Gerry Fabian, Elisabeth McFarland, Michael Gallagher, Patrick Gillet, Kate S. Godsey, Simon Hanson, Gabriele Hartmann, John Hawkhead, Sebastian Hengst, David Jacobs, Silvia Kempen, Noel King, John Kinory, Simone Knierim Busch, Krzysztof Kokot, Chen-ou Liu, Bob Lucky, Horst Ludwig, John McManus, Donco Mishovski, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Elizabeth Moura, Eric G. Müller, Peter Newton, David Oates, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Minh-Triêt Pham, Marija Anđela Pogorilić, Thomas Powell, Nu Quang, Aalix Roake, Brian Robertson, David Rodrigues, Lydia Royen Damhave, Birgit Schaldach-Helmlechner, Adelaide B. Shaw, Angelica Seithe, Boris Semrow, Keith Simmonds, Georg C. Sindermann, John Soules, Craig Steele, Heike Stehr, Gerhard Stein, Diana Teneva, Anusha Tennakoon, Truth Thomas, Steliana Voicu, Branka Vojinovic-Jegdic, Michael West, Steve Wilkinson, Quendryth Young, Romano Zeraschi, J. Zimmerman. We also find Haibun by Steven Carter, Silvia Kempen, Johannes Manjrekar, Peter Newton, Udo Wenzel, John Zheng, J. Zimmerman. Klaus-Dieter Wirth's feature finds "Haiku at Crossroads".

Lothar M. Kirsch, Helga Stania, Ramona Linke and Heike Gewi and their haiku have been shown at Mainichi's.

David McMurray's Asahi Haikuist Network published haiku from Valeria Barouch, Horst Ludwig, Beate Conrad, Ramona Linke, and Helga Stania.

Kuniharu Shimizu presents the results of the 108th WHA HAiga Contest. Among the 35 works are haiga by Christa Beau, Beate Conrad, Elke Bonacker, Heike Gewi, Helga Stania, Ramona Linke, Rudi Pfaller, and Simone K. Busch.

Simone K. Busch (and Bea Bareis), Beate Conrad, Heike Gewi, Ramona Linke, Horst Ludwig, Beth McFarland, and Guntram Porps take part in Daily Haiga. 

Heike Gewi presents a bilingual book called "Den Wind jagen". You will find Haiku in English and their German translation on about 200 pages. The link on this promoted site will lead you to 20 of them ...

Simone K. Busch joined the fourth meeting of Meguro International Haiku Circle.

Cezar F. Ciobica and Ralf Bröker sent haiku to Caribbean Kigo Kukai #41. Ralf also participated in the 13th International Kukai.

Coming soon: World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Right violation is a good place for 420 authors. We will check out, who is speaking with a German tongue.  



 

Walter Mathois writes since his youth

pansies tremble
in the old lady's walker
green traffic light



almond blossoms
whirling around
the dream catcher

The Mainichi, May2nd2012




butterflies rest
on the railway
apple blossoms

The Mainichi, June 2nd 2012

Walter O. Mathois: 1954 born and living in Vienna. Since his youth he writes poems and just can't help it. Because of his interest in the Japanese way of life, he approached the Japanese short lyric forms. 2007 he started to write haiku, tanka, and Japanese linked verse with other Haijin. He is co-author of the book "Urban Story", dedicated to all kinds of linked verse and published in various anthologies, the journals Sommergras, Lotosblüte, Chrysanthemum, Notes from the Gean, Sketchbook, Lynx, JRR, and others.

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook0-0Biographies/Authors_Sketchbook_A_Journal_A_M 

Annual Selection, Sharpened Pencil

The Annual Selection 2012 from The Mainichi is a collection of all haiku being presented during the year. 14 German Tongues and their 40 works have been presented this time (in number of appearance): Heike Gewi (5), Lothar M. Kirsch (7), Elke Bonacker (2), Horst Ludwig (2), Ramona Linke (5), Rudi Pfaller (6), Valeria Barouch, Walter O. Mathois (2), Cezar F. Ciobica (2), Beate Conrad (4), Bernhard Kopf, Gesine Becker, Claudia Brefeld, Helga Stania.

Sharpening the Green Pencil is the name of the contest, organized by the Romanian Kukai Group. This year 15 authors from Austria, Switzerland and Germany participated. Though they have not been mentioned as winners, their 28 haiku were published - and worth reading: Sylvia Bacher, Valeria Barouch, Piotre Bratzki, Frank Dietrich, Volker Friebel, Sebastian Hengst, Silvia Kempen, Wolfgang Rödig, Birgit Schaldach, Angelica Seithe, Georg C. Sindermann, Heike Stehr, Joachim Thiede.

Notes from the Gean, issue 18, publishes haiku from Stella Pierides and Beth McFarland.

Seven years ago, Angelika Wienert wrote about Issa. David Lanoue presented the essay on his haikuguy-homepage.

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.

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.