Andreas Weiland

Andreas Weiland (born October 14, 1944 ) is a bilingual poet who writes in English and German.

His poetry has been praised by fellow poets.

Jürgen Theobaldy was the first poet and editor who published him.

Nicolas Born called him "a born lyrical poet".

Erich Fried considered his poems important.

Many artists and some filmmakers, (including Jean Marie-Straub, Dore O.., and Werner Nekes ) also praised his poetry.

Weiland is also an art and film critic.

Weiland was born on October 14, 1944, north-western Germany.

He studied American literature in Bochum, Germany.

Weiland participated in a poetry reading with the British Beat poet Michael Horovitz in Bochum in the late 1960s.

Since 1966, Weiland has translated poetry from Italian, modern Greek and Portuguese into English and German.

He also translated and published the works of a number of "Angry Young Men", including Pete Brown, Libby Houston, Adrian Mitchell and Frances Horovitz.

In 1967 he founded the poetry magazine Touch with Steven R. Diamant.

The journal is available in the Yale University Library.

Massimo Bacigalupo called it una rivista d'avanguardia ("a journal of the avant-garde").

In the 1970s, he wrote a poetic text inspired by the video film Herman Dances Alone.

During the second half of the 1970s, Weiland worked for several years as a lecturer in the German and English departments of a university in Taiwan.

In Taiwan, he founded a journal called Street (Jie Tou, 街頭).

During this period, there were many street protests against the Kuomintang (KMT) dictatorship.

When Weiland published the work of two writers who had previously been imprisoned by the KMT, the government closed down the journal.

According to Weiland's "List of Publications," he also published articles in Chinese magazines, including Yinxiang and Artist Magazine.

Two articles published in Artist Magazine were later republished in a small book, Day for Night in Taipei, Notes of A Cinéaste.

An article by him originally published in Yinxiang about a film by the Indonesian film director Wim Umboh was republished in Art in Society.

He continued to write poetry and to correspond with poets, among them Jürgen Theobaldy, Erich Fried and perhaps also John Wieners, with whom he was already in touch in 1973 and Cid Corman until Corman died).

In 1975, his poem inspired by Straub-Huillet's film "Moses und Aron" was published in the journal Cahiers du Cinéma.

This poem was translated from German to French by Jean-Marie Straub, and appeared in the Cahiers in both languages, accompanied by the commentary "Il comble à peu tous mes espoirs quant au film" ("It encompasses nearly all my hopes with regard to the film").

The journal mentions that Weiland interviewed Wim Umboh in Taipei when Umboh's film Plastic Flowers, which was scheduled to be screened during the Taipei International Film Festival of 1978, was outlawed by the KMT regime.

Weiland attended a private screening of the forbidden film.

Weiland wrote and published articles about art and cinema in Taiwan; his "List of Publications" also mentions a number of articles he wrote in those years about performances of the Cloud Gate Dance Theater.

Starting in the early 1980s, Weiland worked as a planning historian at the Department of Planning Theory of Aachen Technical University.

As a planning historian, Weiland published a number of articles.

An interdisciplinary article that crossed the boundary between urbanistics and discourse theory appeared in Jürgen Link's journal kultuRRevolution.

This journal also published a number of his poems.

Weiland also participated in the art projects and exhibitions of the Canadian painter and printmaker Angelo Evelyn during the 1980s.

When Weiland read his poetry, it was often in the context of art exhibitions, for example at the Villa Ichon cultural center in Bremen in 1986 in conjunction with Wilfried ("Willi") Seeba's exhibition.

In Aachen, he read his poems in the Karmán Auditory during an event organized for him by Peter Klein of the renowned Buchhandlung Backhaus that also invited such poets as Volker Braun.

And he read his poems in this university town when he was invited to do so during the exhibitions of artists such as Lui Rummler and Peter Lacroix.

In addition to reading his poems during single exhibitions of Evelyn, he wrote the text for Evelyn's catalogue "Burning Cloud and Other Themes" when the artist had a big exhibition in the RhoK (Flemish art academy) in Brussels in 1987.

In 1987, Weiland participated in the feminist art project "Unter einem Himmel" ("Under one and the same sky") at the gallery of Schloss Borbeck, Essen, that was organized and curated by Doris Schoettler-Boll in 1986–1988.

Here, he introduced the female Korean artist Eu-nim Ro to the public and read his poetry.