A huge collection of letters and manuscripts by modernist poet Rainer Maria Rilke has been handed over to the public German Literature Archive (DLA), the archive said Thursday.

Though reading Rilke would be a bad reason to learn German, if you have done so, he rewards you by proving, especially in such short lyrics as “Das Karrussel,” that he really was a wonderful poet.

This week, for a change, I'm doing a German poem, "Herbst" ("Autumn") by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), a poem that was published as part of Rilke's collection "Das Buch der Bilder" ("The Book of ...

The great German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was remembered at a function in Dhaka Monday.

Rainer Maria Rilke and our columnist, Ulrike Almut Sandig, have both translated poetry from various languages into German. Sandig now takes it to the next level by “transadapting” two of ...

Here, using a Rilke poem, Oliver Reynolds, a youngish Welsh poet, has done what all translators should: create a new poem in English.

Sandra Richter was born in Kassel and studied German, political science, art history, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg. Having completed her PhD at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen ...

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 into a German-speaking family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in Switzerland in 1926.