Anton G. Leitner

Anton G. Leitner was born in Munich in 1961. He lives and works in Wessling, Southern Bavaria. So far, he has published fourteen collections of his poems. He is editor in chief of Das Gedicht, one of the main magazines for contemporary German poetry, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. Since 1980, Leitner edited over 40 anthologies for major publishers in the German language, such as Artemis & Winkler, dtv, dtv/Hanser, Goldmann, and Reclam. He was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including the Tassilo Award for developing culture from Süddeutsche Zeitung (2016).

“Leitner’s mode of observation is never cynical but often ironic when casting poetic arrangements. In doing so, he is inherently and strikingly Bavarian: a self-deprecating poet, a gleeful master of the apercu or the surprising right hook, always somewhat at odds with propriety and decorum.”

Paul-Henri Campbell, poet and translator

“Collections of poems by Anton G. Leitner are among the best of what contemporary poetry has to offer."

Matthias Ehlers, WDR – West German Broadcasting