Alexander Schmidt (born 1949 in Novopokrovka near Semipalatinsk) is a Russian poet and translator. He studied at the Kazakh State University and the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. In 1984 he joined the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 2001 he moved to Germany.\u00a0He published in Russian the poetry volumes “Earth Axis”, “Kinship”, “Refraction of Light”, “Grains of Days”, “Here and There” and “Morning. Noon. Evening.” His poems are published, among others, in the anthologies “Russian Poetry of the 20th Century”, “Liberated Ulysses” and “Anthology of Russian Free Verse”. Schmidt’s poems have been translated into German, Polish and Korean. He translated poems by Gottfried Benn, Erich Fried, Ralph Gr\u00fcnberger, Temirhan Medetbekow, among others, into Russian.\u00a0Alexander Schmidt has lived in Berlin since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alexander Schmidt (born 1949 in Novopokrovka near Semipalatinsk) is a Russian poet and translator. He studied at the Kazakh State University and the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. In 1984 he joined the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 2001 he moved to Germany.\u00a0He published in Russian the poetry volumes “Earth Axis”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16414,"template":"","categories":[7],"class_list":["post-16415","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"\n