Rainer Hesse (poet)

Rainer Hesse (born March 28, 1938 in Königsberg, today Kaliningrad) is a German and Dutch poet and author of scholarly publications. As a technical chemist, he was a head of department in various laboratories. Hesse engages in linguistic research concerning the reform of Chinese characters and he has published four scholarly works on this subject. He has translated poetry of Belgian writers from Flemish into German. As a poet, he prefers to write Tanka and Haiku but his poetic oeuvre includes also other genres. Hesse also takes an active interest in the arts and theatre.

Since 2000, Hesse and his wife are living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.