René Possél: Increasing Enthusiasm for Decreasing

sandy beach

so many hourglasses

time

swimming far out

the endless sea

at eye level

waves at the shore

telling excitedly

from distant ships

René Possél, born 1949 in Essen, studies in theology and philosophy in Bochum, Tübingen and Paris, ten years service in the church, actually vocational counselor at the Federal Employment Agency, part-time speaker in funeral services. Besides a reference book he published poems of varying types – grave for grave(-yard)-purposes, hilarious and humorous poems for everything else. Since the end of his fourties he is writing haiku – with increasing enthusiasm for decreasing words.

Simone K. Busch: Awareness Practice and Challenge

thunderstorm

passing carefully

water and salt

Asahi, July 1st, 2011

weighing words

all the way home

crescent moon

Notes from the Gean December 2011

kelp forest

all those creatures

inside me

A Hundred Gourds December 2011

Simone K. Busch, born 1965 in Berlin, currently living in Tokyo (Japan) with her family. She has a university degree in business administrations and is trained as a teacher for creative writing. Haiku and haiga since 2009. Member of the German Haiku Society. Her work is published by Sommergras, Haiku heute, Hamburger Haiku Verlag, Asahi Shimbun, Lynx, World Haiku Association monthly contest (Master Haiga Artist with Bea Bareis), Asahi Haikuist Column, Daily Haiga, Notes from the Gean, Haigaonline, A Hundred Gourds and others.

German Haiku Society: member's page
Simone K. Busch: blog

Horst Ludwig: Haiku and Tanka from Minnesota

The moon is somewhere

rising through the snowy night,

the Nibelung's ring.

Pentecost morning

visiting the eldest son

who's now on his own

Autumnal evening.

The shadow following me

is getting longer.

    "Haiku Wall", Quarterly National HSA Meeting, Bend, Oregon, 2011

Horst Ludwig is em. Professor of German at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, U.S.A. Further biographical notes: 

Simply Haiku 2003

Simply Haiku 2006

Beate Conrad: Combining The Arts

Grass trembling,
trembling under the sickle
of the moon.

Tokusen (Second Prize), 14. International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, 2009

  Just a little spring.
Her pierced belly stretches
between jeans and shirt.

14th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2010

  butterfly
another universe
unfolding 

   
2nd prize, Best of Mainichi 2010

Beate Conrad: born and raised in Northern Germany. In 2000 she moved to the USA.  She writes, paints, takes photographs, and creates her own music. She is especially interested in haiku as literary art and in its analysis. Her essays on aesthetics, on sound and rhythm in haiku, on reading and interpreting haiku have been published in SOMMERGRAS, the quarterly haiku magazine of the German Haiku Society. She is a member of the editorial team of the international haiku-magazine Chrysanthemum. Her haiga have been awarded twice (2007 second prize, 2009 first prize) by the World Haiku Association, Japan. Her projects combining haiku and other arts are so far: "Blicke in ein Jahr/Glances into a Year", a nineteen-piece haiga-portfolio in collaboration with Prof. Horst Ludwig, MN, USA, released in 2009/10. "Ruf der Engel/Call of the Angels", fourteen symphonic sound paintings for seven haiku, released in 2010. "Haiku in Motion" is an ongoing project with a multimedia approach to haiku. "Cherry Blossom Shower", a first haiku-video in HD, has been released on YouTube in 2011.

- all projects are presented on HaikuGlobus
- an Interview with Beate Conrad, Simply Haiku, 2011

Matthias Korn: Haiku from Magdeburg

drunk:

the moon

is staggering

Mainichi, December 24, 2010

Open air concert

a child

counts legs

Mainichi, January 13, 2011

Clouds darken
in the children's room
a clock ticks

Asahi, June 18-19, 2005

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

German Haiku Society: member's page