Kito Lorenc

Kito Lorenc (2013)

Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938 – 24 September 2017) was a Sorbian writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski.

Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961. He was an employee at the Institute for Sorbian People Research in Bautzen between 1961 and 1972.

From 1972 until 1979, he worked as a dramaturge at the State Ensemble for Sorbian People's Culture. Kito Lorenc was a member of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste and lived as a freelance writer in Wuischke by Hochkirch.

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  1. ↑ Lorenc, Kito (2004). Die wendische Schiffahrt: zwei Dramen (in German). Domowina-Verlag. p. 327. ISBN 978-3-7420-1988-2. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  2. ↑ Zeitung, Sächsische (26 September 2017). "Wie die Welt nach Wuischke kam". Saechsische. (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  3. ↑ Prunitsch, Christian (26 June 2018). "Dr. h.c. Kito Lorenc (1938–2017)". Zeitschrift für Slawistik (in German). 63 (2): 351–354. doi:10.1515/slaw-2018-0024. ISSN 2196-7016. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Biografie von Kito Lorenc (1938-2017) - Sächsische Biografie | ISGV e.V." saebi.isgv.de. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  5. ↑ "Petrarca-Preis". Petrarca Netz (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2024.