Dieter Kalka

Dieter Kalka (born 25 June 1957, Altenburg) is a German writer, songwriter, poet, dramatist, musician, editor, translator and speech therapist.

Dieter Kalka started to study electrical engineering and mathematics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau in 1978. In 1980 he had to quit his studies because of the distribution and possession of illegal publications. He was a member of the folk band founded in 1978, "", in 1984 he founded the band (The happy Future of Dieter) with Folksongs and own texts together with Uwe Schimmel (Waldhorn), Uta Mannweiler (Viola) and himself Bandoneon. With this group she organized the illegal artists' meeting "Ringel Folk" in Wurzen where there was no censorship. The unauthorized promotional material for this and other actions he copied at the photo lab of Petra Lux.

Dieter Kalka was "the fiercest among the Leipzig song singers". Since the mid-1980s he has worked as a freelance singer and was repeatedly participant of the Chanson days Kloster Michaelstein (GDR-open Chanson days in Monastery Michaelstein). He made samizdat productions in privat studio at Hubertus Schmidt 1987 and Peter Gläser 1988 and official at Studio Kölling (Leipzig 1989). After collaboration with Werner Bernreuther mentoring in 1987 he received a professional certificate as a songwriter, won a prize at the (Chanson days in Frankfurt/Oder) and a Prize of the Leipzig Songwriter Workshop, which he later publicly returned as they wanted to dictate to him what song he should sing at the final concert. He has received several scholarships of Saxony and was for a time a member of the Independent Writers Association "ASSO" Dresden, the NGL/New Society for Literature, the Writers Association "VS" and the "Förderkreis Freie Literaturgesellschaft Leipzig".

Dieter Kalkas first book publication was entitled "Eine übersensible Regung unterm Schuhabsatz" (An Over Sensitive Motionless Under the Heel) and released in 1987 as samizdat. In 1990 he prepared a project manager before the first . Within the Association of German writers he organized in 1995 in Leipzig, the German-Polish poets festival "". He translated Polish poetry. Sunken GDR reality is the subject of his "Der ungepflückte Apfelbaum" published in 1998. Kalkas texts have been published in German, Polish, Austrian, Canadian and Belarusian literary magazines.

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