Anton G. Leitner
- January 9, 2024
- Poet
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Anton G. Leitner Biography
| Name | Anton G. Leitner |
| Birthday | Jun 16 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Place Of Birth | Munich |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Anton G. Leitner is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 16, 1961 in Munich, Germany. Anton G. Leitner (born June 16th 1961) is a German writer and editor.
In the present there are eight volumes of poetry that are prominent in Leitner’s overall work in the field of art that includes more than 30 poetry anthologies, plus over 20 volumes of DAS GEDICHT. The poems of Leitner are also featured in newspapers, magazines as well as radio and television broadcasts (e.g. Brigitte, mare, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Bayerischer Rundfunk, etc.). A large number of his poems have appeared in anthologies that concentrate on the latest poetry written in German. Leitner’s poetry has always been in direct with his editorial work. This does not just inform and influence his writing as an writer, but also puts his poetry in a distinct position in terms of artistic creation, as many critics have observed. When trying to identify the Anton G. Leitner’s personality in the landscape that is contemporary in the year 1986 Manfred Lange wrote: “He’s hard to classify, and that makes him likeable. He doesn’t give you ready-to-use worldviews, but thoughts, perspectives, and a strong plea for new departures.”
In 1993, Anton G. Leitner and Ludwig Steinherr founded the literary magazine DAS GEDICHT, which is today one of the largest literary magazine exclusively dedicated to poetry. From 1994 to 2007 he was its sole editor. Since 2008, Leitner invites a new co-editor each year. The magazine is published annually. It ranks among the most sold literary magazines in the German language.
Noteworthy is Leitner’s innovative energy in constituting poetic formats by centering a body of texts around a common principle – for example, his anthology SMS-Lyrik, on poetry in the text message format (SMS: 170 characters per message) or texts associated with the cultural sphere of Bavaria in Ois is Easy. In such projects, Leitner’s editorial work has defined many formal parameters in the art form under real market conditions. In its review of the Bavarian anthology Ois is Easy, the Bayerischer Rundfunk said: “Here’s a collection of texts from Bavaria, in many registers, in High German and in Dialect, from every cultural and linguistic region of Bavaria. The poets lined up in this anthology range from Friedrich Ani to Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Krüger, Reiner Kunze, and many more to Ludwig Steinherr. This book is a fresh sounding out of the present-day literary scene in Bavaria.”
Leitner is a native of Munich. After graduating in 1981 from the Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium in Munich (a secondary school with a strong humanistic tradition), he studied law and philosophy from 1982 to 1988 at the Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich. After passing the bar exam on the 29th of September 1989, he finished its legal clerkship with the Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court) Munich from 1990-1993. In 1993, Leitner has lived and is employed as an editor, writer, critic and editor at Wessling (County of Starnberg) as “he prefers dealing with poems rather than sitting around at courts.” When he was high school students, Leitner published, parallel to his former acquaintance Helmut Krausser, private prints that already showed a exceptional talent in the creation of publishing and editorial projects, as the early works Fullhorn as well as Nachboen (1980/1981) illustrate.
Anton G. Leitner Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Anton G. Leitner is one of the richest Poet from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anton G. Leitner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Between 1980 and the year 2018, Leitner edited more than 35 anthologies for renowned German publishers, such as Artemis & Winkler, dtv and Hanser, dtv/Hanser Goldmann and Reclam. He was director of the Poetry collection of the series Chrismon between 2007 and 2008. With the Eichborn Verlag, his audio book was released under the name Herzenspoesie and contains love poems by Goethe, Heine, Klabund, Wedekind, and Gernhardt.
He also has earned the reputation of a popular editor, reciter, as well as an organizing literary events. Between the year 1980 and 2018 Leitner edited more than 35 anthologies published by major publishers of the German language, including Artemis & Winkler, dtv as well as dtv/Hanser Goldmann and Reclam. Leitner was the co-founder and editor-in chief of the magazine for poetry DAS GEDICHT that has been published each year since 1993.
In the early 80s, he founded the Initiative of Young Authors (IJA German: “Initiative Junger Autoren”) together with Friedrich Ani, Michael Lentz, Nicola Bardola, and others. He was the chairman of the organization until
- Under Leitner’s aegis, the IJA organized the Festival Interactions / “Young Literature Days” (“Tage junger Literatur”) in cooperation with IBM- Germany at the Gasteig Cultural Center in 1988. It remains to this day the largest literary festival in the Bavarian capital of Munich. The Tagesspiegel, amused by the young and independent organization, wrote: “This young movement does not exhaust its effort in intimate orange tea readings.” One important platform within the IJA was the Munich-based publication, Der Zettel, in which many now widely celebrated writers published their first poems and have frequently been flanked by international authors, such as Vladimir Sorokin. Leitner’s personal reading style has been influenced by the many public performances within the ranks of the Initiative. During his enrollment as a law student, he already edited poetry and prose focused on aspiring authors for Goldmann and was member of the jury for the national competition “Schüler schreiben” at the “Conference of Young Authors” in Berlin.
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Not only around the person of Anton G. Leitner, but particularly in the flow of his work does poetry become the center of public debate, so that Salli Sallmann commented in the RBB cultural program while discussing Leitner’s poetry book, Die Wahrheit über Uncle Spam (German: The Truth about Uncle Spam): “He is somebody who restlessly fights for the public awareness of the literary genre.” The openness of Leitner’s verse makes it possible that “it does not transform into pretentious verse, providing solitary pleasures for a few like-minded souls, but rather, he attempts at developing verse that is capable of reaching a wider public.” It is precisely this characteristic of his poetry—it’s acceptability and accessibility—which transforms Leitner’s person to a crystallization point for public debates on the role of poetry within society. “While many contemporary poets feebly flail their limbs on dry land, Leitner swims sleekly through a turbulent sea of language.”
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