Background
Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf.
Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf.
He studied philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for a certain period.
Since 1983 he presented his poems on public performances – first in Vienna, than in the Rhineland. Later he performed together with the jazz percussionist Frank Köllges. In 2005 he died in Dormagen of lung cancer.
He was buried in Neuss-Holzheim.
Friederike Mayröcker: Benachbarte Metalle, Frankfurt am Main 1998 Sabine Scho: Thomas Kling entdeckt Sabine Scho, Hamburg 2001 Sprachspeicher. 200 Gedichte auf deutsch vom achten bis zum zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, Köln 2001.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung]
He was member of the German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association-centre and of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and ).