US EditionFounder of Concrete Poetry – Eugen Gomringer Is Dead
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The cradle of concrete poetry stood in Switzerland. Eugen Gomringer died as the »father of concrete poetry«.
The poet Eugen Gomringer died at the age of 100 in Bamberg.
He was one of the most important contemporary lyricians, author Max Frisch called him a »language worker«. Born in Bolivia and raised in Switzerland, Eugen Gomringer has now died in Bamberg.
The poet Eugen Gomringer died at the age of 100. In his poetry one can study the simplicity of the beautiful form. Unfortunately also the carelessness with which his work was misunderstood.
Text as image, image as text: Eugen Gomringer transformed words into works of art. As the founder of concrete poetry, he was one of the most important lyricists of our time.
Eugen Gomringer, the founder of concrete poetry and a Bolivian-born Swiss poet who worked mainly in Germany, has died. He was 100 years old. As his son Stefan Gomringer announced today, according to the German news agency dpa, the poet died on Thursday in the Bavarian city of Bamberg, where he lived.
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