Bodo Kirchhoff

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Bodo Kirchhoff at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Bodo Kirchhoff (born July 6, 1948 in Hamburg ) is a German writer and screenwriter who publishes short stories , novels and screenplays . He lives in Frankfurt am Main and on Lake Garda in Italy.

Life

Origin and education

Bodo Kirchhoff's mother was the actress and novelist Evelyn Peters ; his father Heinz Joost owned a small medical equipment factory. He has a younger sister, Tina, geb. 1952. He attended the elementary school in Kirchzarten and after the separation of his parents from 1959 the Protestant boarding school on Lake Constance . There he already wrote poems and small pieces for the school stage. 1968 Abitur and then two years of military service in masses .

After a long stay in the USA, Kirchhoff studied pedagogy , psychology and sociology at the University of Frankfurt from 1972 to 1979 with a diploma in 1975. In 1978 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ( From resistance to resistance ) to Dr. phil. After a brief activity as a curative teacher , he decided to work as a freelance writer and also received his first contract with Suhrkamp Verlag .

Private life

Kirchhoff is married and has two children. In 1988 his son Claudius was born, to whom he dedicated his book The Sandman , and in 1993 his daughter Sophia was born. Together with his wife, he gives courses in creative writing in his house in Torri del Benaco on the east bank of Lake Garda .

Act as an author

Kirchhoff has presented numerous prose works, texts, stage works and scripts since 1979. His literary debut was the play The Child or The Annihilation of New Zealand , the tragedy of an autistic boy in the USA, as well as the novella Without Zeal, Without Anger , in which love is impassively portrayed as a dreary obsession. He made his breakthrough to the general public in 1990 with the novel Infanta , which became a bestseller .

In 1994/95 he was a lecturer at the Frankfurt poetics lectures on legends about one's own body , which was reissued in 2012 as a volume of essays . One of his core statements in it is writing is craft plus one's own abyss, one is nothing without the other . The novel of a son, which revolves around the Oedipus complex , was published under the title Parlando 2001. Another major work was published in 2012 with the novel Die Liebe in Großzuges (2012), the story of an older couple who failed once again in search of love . Kirchhoff's novella Widerfahrnis won the 2016 German Book Prize . In the novella, the protagonist breaks out of his melancholy.

In 2010, Kirchhoff revealed in an article in Spiegel that, as a 12-year-old student, he was sexually abused several times by the cantor of his Protestant boarding school on Lake Constance . He takes up this theme in his 2018 autobiographical novel, Twilight and Riot, dedicated to his sister . Novel from the early years . Without sparing himself, the author traces the influence of his youthful experiences on 480 pages. The relationship to his mother is highlighted in particular and on several narrative levels. The reviewers expressed themselves as follows: Nina Apin notices defensive reflexes when reading Bodo Kirchhoff's review of childhood, youth and early years as a lover and writer (Die Tageszeitung, November 10, 2018). Judith von Sternburg learns once more from Bodo Kirchhoff that writing is the opposite of inventing and lying. The reviewer does not find the way in which the now seventy-year-old Kirchhoff writes the story of his becoming a writer particularly likeable or confident (Frankfurter Rundschau, July 6, 2018). Reviewer Roman Bucheli calls him the master of moderate kitsch - Bodo Kirchhoff, who puts another tome on the market at least every two years and still manages not to get stuck in the power groove called kitsch and sentimentality (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 6th 2018).

According to Kirchhoff, his work is “always about a reconciliation of sexuality and language”. The reason for the Goethe badge of the city of Frankfurt 2018 is the connection with Frankfurt and stated as follows: The now 70-year-old won the German Book Prize in 2016 for his novella 'Widerfahrnis', which takes place every year before the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Kaisersaal des Römers is awarded. His debut, the novel 'Ohne Eifer, ohne Zorn', was published by Suhrkamp-Verlag, which at that time was still based in Frankfurt, at the end of the 1970s. Kirchhoff takes part in the 7th Badenweiler Literature Days in October 2019 on the subject of "Autobiographical matters in literature". (For the context of the event, cf. the glossary [wiel], "Märchenerzähler", FAZ October 12, 2019, No. 237, p. 9)

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Scripts (selection)

literature

  • David-Christopher Assmann: Extrinsic or what? Bodo Kirchhoff and Andreas Maier in the attention market. In: Matthias Beilein et al. (Hrsg.): Canon, evaluation and mediation. Literature in the knowledge society. (= Studies and texts on the social history of literature , 129). De Gruyter, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-11-025994-0 , pp. 239-259
  • David-Christopher Assmann: Poetologies of the literary business. Scenes at Kirchhoff, Maier, Gstrein and traders. (= Studies and texts on the social history of literature , 139) De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035766-0 .
  • Johannes Birgfeld: Possibilities and limits of literary war reporting. Using the example of Bodo Kirchhoff and Peter Handkes . In: Bernd Blöbaum , Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): Literature and journalism. Theory, contexts, case studies. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003 ISBN 3-531-13850-2 , pp. 293-315
  • Anna Sophie Brasch: Eulenspiegelei about a Picasso. Bodo Kirchhoff's trash novel and the ironic game with trash. In: Critical Edition. Journal for German Studies & Literature , 22. Bonn 2012 ISSN  1617-1357 pp. 24-27
  • Carlo Brune, Lena Kraemer: KirchHoffmanns Sandmen. Identity and body constructions in the texts of the same name Der Sandmann by ETA Hoffmann and Bodo Kirchhoff. In: ETA Hoffmann Jahrbuch , 14. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2006 ISSN  0944-5277 pp. 107–123
  • Andrea Geier: "... if you think it through logically, I'll undress myself here". Imaginations of gender swapping and erotic gender confusion in Bodo Kirchhoff's "The announcer of a striptease number does not give up". In: Robert André, Christoph Deupmann (Hrsg.): Paradoxien der repetition. Winter, Heidelberg 2003 ISBN 3-8253-1480-4 , pp. 171-191
  • Torsten Pätzold: Text structures and narrative worlds. Narratological studies on multiperspectivity using the example of Bodo Kirchhoff's "Infanta" and Helmut Krausser's "Melodien". (European university publications, 1779) Peter Lang, Bern 2000 ISBN 3-631-36901-8 Diss. Phil. University of Paderborn 2000
  • Siegfried Steinmann: Language, plot, reality in contemporary German drama: Studies on Thomas Bernhard , Botho Strauss and Bodo Kirchhoff (Trier Studies on Literature, 12) Peter Lang, Bern 1985, ²1986 ISBN 3-8204-8629-1 Diss. Phil. University of Trier 1984
  • Hubert Winkels: Text mania. Bodo Kirchhoff's tricky prose. In: cuts. On the literature of the 80s. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1988 ISBN 3-462-01942-2 , pp. 98-112

Web links

Wikiquote: Bodo Kirchhoff  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Munzinger
  2. ↑ Peter Würth: Lake Garda: A Rustico in Paradise. In: Der Spiegel, 8/2009, p. 148.
  3. ↑ Alexa Hennig von Lange : You are not enough alone. Interview. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , October 9, 2016, p. 47.
  4. ↑ Bodo Kirchhoff: Memories: Speechless Child. In: Der Spiegel, 11/2010, p. 150.
  5. ↑ Twilight and Turmoil. Novel of the early years , Perlentaucher dated June 30, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018
  6. ↑ Love is the most difficult topic , Bodo Kirchhoff in an interview, in: Kölnische Rundschau from February 12, 2015
  7. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Goethe plaque for Bodo Kirchhoff and Effie Rolfs , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of December 12, 2018
  8. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Goethe plaque for Bodo Kirchhoff and Effie Rolfs. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 12, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ The literary quartet , October 10, 2001. Can be viewed on YouTube, as a print from the publisher, special edition
  10. ↑ Christoph Schröder: "Twilight and uproar. Roman of the early years" - "Dunkles Energiezentrum" , review in Deutschlandfunk from July 1, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018
  11. ^ Notices from the ETA Hoffmann Society , 52
personal data
SURNAME Kirchhoff, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg