Education
After training in surveying and graphic design, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig, where he was strongly influenced by Georg Maurer and the Saxon school.
After training in surveying and graphic design, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig, where he was strongly influenced by Georg Maurer and the Saxon school.
At the age of ten, Czechowski survived the highly destructive bombing of his birthplace of Dresden. His first published poems appeared in 1957 in an issue of Neue Deutsche Literatur. From 1961 to 1965, he worked at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag publishing house in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.
Between 1971 and 1973, he wrote plays for the city of Magdeburg, after which he became a freelance writer
Czechowski produced free translations of the work of foreign poets (eg Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Lermontov, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Yiannis Ritsos). 1961: Kunstpreis der Stadt Halle.
He was a founding member of the Leipzig Free Academy of the Arts.