What is Kito Lorenc?
[[File:Kito Lorenc.JPG|thumb|Kito Lorenc (2013)]] '''Kito Lorenc''' (4 March 1938 – 24 September 2017) was a [[Sorbian languages|Sorbian]]-[[Germany|German]] writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the Sorbian writer and politician [[Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski]]. He was born in [[Schleife]], Germany. Lorenc 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. Lorenc died in [[Bautzen]], Germany on 24 September 2017 of a [[stroke]] at the age of 79.<ref>[https://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/wie-die-welt-nach-wuischke-kam-3781861.html Wie die Welt nach Wuischke kam] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926143429/https://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/wie-die-welt-nach-wuischke-kam-3781861.html |date=2017-09-26 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenc, Kito}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:German historians]] [[Category:German poets]] [[Category:Writers from Brandenburg]]