Bernhard Widder

Bernhard Widder (1955) is an Austrian poet and architect. Widder has published five books of poems since his debut Liber Tropicus appeared in 1983. Last year, Jaan Malin’s publishing house Luul published Widder’s collection of poems Handgerede / Slang of Hands. The foreword of this collection is written by Austrian poet and critic Christian Teissl who defines Widder as a poet sensitive to landscape and space, ‘a nomadic writer’. Namely, Widder consciously takes inspiration from the places he has travelled to or lived in. Teissl writes that Widder does not degrade the places he visits, circles around or measures with his footsteps to a stage for his role plays, instead, he serves them by depicting them. Since Widder as a poet is a mover, a traveller, it comes as no surprise that his focus is on the immediate experience. Widder has translated American and Spanish poetry.