Andrzej Pańta

Andrzej Pańta (also Andreas Johannes Painta,[1] born April 10, 1954, in Bytom, Poland, died February 8, 2024 in Görlitz, Germany) is a Polish-German poet and translator of German literature.

Painta studied Polish philology and biology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and made his debut in 1973 with poetry in the magazine Poglądy.

He has published in Polish literary journals such as Arkadia, Portret, Śląsk, Kresy, Poezja, Integracja, Kultura and Nowy wyraz, Fa Style, List oceaniczny, Wyrazy, format[2] and Fraza.

[3] He took part in the German-Polish poets steamer (Deutsch-Polnischer Poetendampfer) in 1998 and 1999, the festival Fortalicje in Zamość, the German-Polish Poetry Festival "wortlust" in Lublin 1997[4] and the Uniwersytet poezjii in Zielona Góra.

[5] He translated German writers and philosophers into Polish, among them Friedrich Hölderlin, Horst Bienek, Arthur Schopenhauer, Rose Ausländer, Jakob Böhme, Erik Blumenthal, Dieter Kalka and Alfred Georg Seidel.