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First Name

Christian

Last Name

Kaiser

Country

Switzerland

City/Town/Village

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Email

christian.kaiser@gmx.ch

Statement

I am a walker and a poet. In 2011 I finished my M.A. in Creative and Biographic Writing in Berlin. During my studies I found out that my own writing stands in a long tradition of peripatetic writers – writers that used the walk as a means to their artistic process and/or as a means to “come to themselves” (Thoreau). My master’s thesis deals with the question how the peripatetic process can be a way to find oneself. I present my own poetry as “Gehdichte” (which is a mix of the words “gedicht” for “poem” and “gehen” for “to walk”): these poems are condensed long walks. Walking has become an important part of my identity as an artist and a human being.