Rainer Hesse (poet)

Rainer Hesse (born March 28, in Königsberg, today Kaliningrad) is a German poet and author of scholarly publications. As a technical chemist, he was a head of department in various laboratories. Hesse engages in linguistic research concerning the reform of Chinese characters and he has published four scholarly works on this subject. He has translated poetry of Belgian writers from Flemish into German. As a poet, he prefers to write Tanka and Haiku but his poetic oeuvre includes also other genres. Hesse also takes an active interest in the arts and theatre.

Since 2000, Hesse and his wife are living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Publications (a selection)

  • Umfassend analytisch-synthetisches Referenzwörterbuch moderner chinesischer Schriftzeichen nach der Kolumnen-Methode. Verlag BoD, 2011, ISBN 3839175143, ISBN 978-3839175149
  • Das Kanji-Netzcode-System: Eine universelle Wörterbuchordnung sino-japanischer Schriftzeichen. Verlag: BoD, 2000, ISBN 3831102074, ISBN 978-3831102075
  • Han Minwen: Versuch zur Entwicklung einer chinesischen Volksschrift. Verlag Harrassowitz, 1981, ISBN 3447022183, ISBN 978-3447022187
  • Sternenlicht und unberührter Schnee, Ausgewählte Gedichte. Verlag BUCH&media München, 2011, ISBN 3869061545, ISBN 978-3869061542

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