Barbara Köhler Comments

Barbara Köhler (born April 11,1959, in Burgstädt, East Germany) is a German poet and translator. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was able to publish her first collection, 'Deutsches Roulette' (German Roulette) , in 1991.

After finishing the Abitur, the school system in Germany, she was a textile production worker for a while. Before becoming a poet, she also worked in an elderly home, and was a lighting assistant for the city theater in Karl Marx Stadt. In 1985 she studied at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig for three years, then started publishing work for magazines. Once the Berlin Wall fell, her own poetry and work began being published. [Wikipedia]