Durs Gr�nbein is a German poet, living in Rome since 2013. Gr�nbein has been hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-B�chner-Preis, which he won in 1995. That same year, he also won the Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry. In 2005, he held the position of Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. Since 2006, Gr�nbein is a visiting professor at the academy of fine arts at D�sseldorf and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. In 2009 he was a poet in residence at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Gr�nbein is a regular contributor to Frau und Hund - Zeitschrift f�r kursives Denken, edited by the academy's rector, the painter Markus L�pertz. Gr�nbein has also published several essay collections and new translations of plays from antiquity, among them Aeschylus' The Persians, and Seneca's Thyestes. His work, which also includes contributions to catalogues and a libretto for opera, has been translated into many languages. 

October 9th, 1962 in Dresden (Age 61)