Kito Lorenc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kito Lorenc

German writer

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1938

Place of Birth: Schleife, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Sep-2017

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kito Lorenc (Schleife by Weißwasser, 4 March 1938 – Bautzen, 24 September 2017) was a Sorbian-German writer, lyric poet and translator.
He was a grandson of the Sorbian writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zaleski. Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 and majored in Slavic studies in Leipzig from 1956 to 1961.
He was an employee at the Institute for Sorbian People Research in Bautzen between 1961 and 1972. From 1972 until 1979, he worked as a dramaturge at the State Ensemble for Sorbian People's Culture.
Kito Lorenc was a member of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste and lived as a freelance writer in Wuischke by Hochkirch.