Rainer Hesse
Rainer Hesse (born March 28, 1938 in Königsberg, today Kaliningrad) is a German and Dutch poet and author of scholarly publications. As a technical chemist, he was a head of department in various laboratories.
Hesse engages in linguistic research concerning the reform of Chinese characters and he has published four scholarly works on this subject.
He has translated poetry of Belgian writers from Flemish into German. As a poet, he prefers to write Tanka and Haiku but his poetic oeuvre includes also other genres.
Hesse also takes an active interest in the arts and theatre.
2000 up to 2018, Hesse lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 2019 he is living in Hamburg, Germany.
Publications (a selection)
* Umfassend analytisch-synthetisches Referenzwörterbuch moderner chinesischer Schriftzeichen nach der Kolumnen-Methode. Verlag BoD, 2011, ,
* Das Kanji-Netzcode-System: Eine universelle Wörterbuchordnung sino-japanischer Schriftzeichen. Verlag: BoD, 2000, ,
* Han Minwen: Versuch zur Entwicklung einer chinesischen Volksschrift. Verlag Harrassowitz, 1981, ,
* Sternenlicht und unberührter Schnee, Ausgewählte Gedichte. Verlag BUCH&media München, 2011, ,
Hesse engages in linguistic research concerning the reform of Chinese characters and he has published four scholarly works on this subject.
He has translated poetry of Belgian writers from Flemish into German. As a poet, he prefers to write Tanka and Haiku but his poetic oeuvre includes also other genres.
Hesse also takes an active interest in the arts and theatre.
2000 up to 2018, Hesse lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 2019 he is living in Hamburg, Germany.
Publications (a selection)
* Umfassend analytisch-synthetisches Referenzwörterbuch moderner chinesischer Schriftzeichen nach der Kolumnen-Methode. Verlag BoD, 2011, ,
* Das Kanji-Netzcode-System: Eine universelle Wörterbuchordnung sino-japanischer Schriftzeichen. Verlag: BoD, 2000, ,
* Han Minwen: Versuch zur Entwicklung einer chinesischen Volksschrift. Verlag Harrassowitz, 1981, ,
* Sternenlicht und unberührter Schnee, Ausgewählte Gedichte. Verlag BUCH&media München, 2011, ,
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