Hajo Steinert

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Hajo Steinert in Ascona, literature festival monte verità, 2015

Hajo Steinert (* 1952 in Goslar ) is a German writer , radio journalist and literary critic.

Life

Steinert grew up in Düsseldorf and Gummersbach , studied from 1974 to 1977 at the University of Siegen and from 1977 to 1980 at the University of Houston German and comparative literature. He made his 1980 graduation as Master of Arts in Houston and completed his doctorate in 1983, Dr. phil. with Professor Helmut Kreuzer in Siegen. He has lived in Cologne since 1984.

Professional activity

From 1975 to 1980 Steinert worked as a research assistant and research assistant at the universities in Siegen and Houston. From 1980 on he wrote regularly film and literary reviews for the Siegener Zeitung , the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (until 1988). From 1986 to 2016 he worked as a literature editor, author and presenter at Deutschlandfunk . From 1999 he also headed the “Cultural Word” department.

In 1990 he founded the monthly series of events and programs “Studio LCB. From the Literary Colloquium Berlin, “which still takes place regularly today (as of February 2019). In 1994 he launched the DLF best list for children's and young people's literature, " The best 7 books for young readers ", compiled monthly by 30 jurors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and broadcast under his moderation (until 2016) . Between 1986 and 2001 he wrote a. a. for Die Zeit , Weltwoche in Zurich and the Basler Zeitung reviews . From 2001 to 2014 also for the literary world .

From 1990 to 2000 he appeared with portraits of writers ( John Irving , Louis Begley , Paul Auster , Colum McCann , Lily Brett , James Salter , Martin Walser , Ingo Schulze and many others) as a film author and studio guest in literary programs of various broadcasters of the ARD ("books, books" , “Reading time”, “ Kulturweltspiegel ”, “Literature in the foyer”) in appearance. On June 13, 1996 he was Marcel Reich-Ranicki's guest in the ZDF “ Literary Quartet ” .

Steinert was a lecturer at universities in Zurich and Hildesheim and visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis / Missouri (2006). As a moderator and program adviser, he has been involved in the Erlangen Poetenfest every year since 1991 (as of 2019) . His jury activities include a. from the SWR best list (since 1988), the aspects literature prize of the ZDF (since 1990) to the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (since 2000), the Peter Huchel Prize (2003-2005), the Heinrich Böll Prize (since 2006), the German Book Prize (2007) to the Ulla Hahn Prize founded in 2012 and the Darmstadt jury Book of the Month.

Since 1984 Steinert has written books, book chapters and lexicon articles on literature , football and photography . He edited anthologies and audio books on German literature and is the author of literary prose. His first novel was published in 2015. "Der Liebesidiot" tells the turbulent, tragic and comical story of a man who, after years of erotic experimentation, longs for one thing above all: the return of love. In his novel "Blumenspiel", published in 2019, Steinert tells of a blacksmith and a seamstress who flee the noisy city of Cologne on the Rhine in 1909 and end up in the drop-out colony on Monte Verità in Ascona.

Steinert is a member of the PEN .

Fonts (selection)

  • Return passports. The primer for football romantics. Ellert & Richter publishing house. Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8319-0621-5 .
  • 686.4 The Rheinauhafen Cologne. Metamorphosis of an urban landscape. Klaus Kuschek (photos) / Hajo Steinert (text). Greven Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7743-0605-9 .
  • Chargesheimer in the zoo. Photographs from the fifties. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0437-6 .
  • Podolski's ancestors. Memories of football. DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-8321-7954-0 .
  • Our stadium. Stories, legends, fates. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03549-5 .
  • Crash course football. DuMont literature and art publishing house. Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7800-7 .
  • Writing about death. From Thomas Bernhard's novel "Disturbance" to the narrative prose of the seventies. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1984.

Editions (selection)

  • City-Country-River. An anthology of poetry. Edited by Jürgen Nendza and Hajo Steinert with an afterword by Ulla Hahn. Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-940357-46-5 .
  • Nice prospects. New prose from the GDR. Edited together with Christian Döring . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-11593-6 .
  • First insights. New prose from the Federal Republic. Edited together with Christian Döring. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-11592-8 .

Audiobooks (selection)

  • I, Lukas Podolski. The best scenes! The strongest sayings! All World Cup goals, all live! Original sound collage. Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88897-440-2 .
  • Poets' voices 1. 1960s. With Alfred Andersch, Thomas Bernhard, Jürgen Becker, Heimito von Doderer, Siegfried Lenz, Wolfgang Koeppen, Gisela Elsner and Marie-Luise Kaschnitz. The Hörverlag, Munich, ISBN 3-89940-407-6 .
  • Poets' voices 2. 1970s. With Nicolas Born, Elias Canetti, Wilhelm Genazino, Dieter Wellershoff, Gabriele Wohmann, Peter Handke, Botho Strauss, Angelika Mechtel, Martin Walser and Ror Wolf. The Hörverlag, Munich, ISBN 3-89940-636-2 .

Book chapters (selection)

  • The resolution of the subjunctive in the network. In: The gate of the gates. The greatest moments in German football. Edited by Peter Bizer. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8319-0600-0 .
  • Jurek Becker and the radio. A radio editor reports. In: The Border Crosser. On the life and work of Jurek Becker. Edited by Olaf Kutzmutz. Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel. Wolfenbüttel 2012. ISBN 978-3-929622-53-9 .
  • To lie as close to the truth as possible. Barbara Honigmann's autobiographical writings. In: The ethics of literature. German authors of the present. Edited by Paul Michael Lützeler. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0865-7 .
  • Get to the counter! A pub crawl through the prose of globetrotter Matthias Politycki. In: Critique of the Aesthetic - Aesthetics of Criticism. Edited by Andreas Kirchner u. a. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2010, ISBN 3-89472-566-4 .
  • covered face. About Friederike Mayröcker. In: Women write differently. Edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. and Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-458-16887-7 .
  • Wottka Kalé! Wottka Kalé! About Adolf Endler. In: Krawarnewall. About Adolf Endler. Edited by Gerrit-Jan Berndse. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-379-01599-7 .
  • The man with the suitcase. In: Encounters. Facets of a century. Helmut Kreuzer on his 70th birthday. Edited by Doris Rosenstein. Verlag Carl Böschen, Siegen 1997, ISBN 3-932212-07-X .
  • Doblin. Wanted urgently. Berlin novels of the nineties. In: German-language contemporary literature. Against their despisers. Edited by Christian Döring. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 3-518-11938-9 .
  • The discovery of slowness. In: Dieter Kühn. Edited by Werner Klüppelholz and Helmut Scheuer. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1992, ISBN 3-518-38613-1 .
  • The last literary pope of this century. In: concerns literature. About Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Edited by Peter Wapnewski, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06570-5 .

Narrative prose (selection)

  • Flower game . Novel. Munich 2019, Penguin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-328-60008-4 .
  • The love idiot. Novel. Munich 2015, Knaus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8135-0429-3 .
  • The cashmere sweater 2. In: Sonnenkitten. Edited by Jone Heer. Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-27462-3 .
  • The cashmere sweater I. In: Summer kitten. Edited by Jone Heer. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25842-5 .
  • I am Garrincha. In: Fritz Walter, Kaiser Franz and we. Edited by Frank Goosen. Eichborn, Frankfurt a. M. 2004, ISBN 3-8218-4884-7 .
  • Fidgeting in the net or dying in beauty. In: 3: 2. 20 years of Cordoba. Döcker, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85115-260-3 .
  • Papi, it stinks here. In: Daddy loves you. Illustrated by Jutta Bauer. Verlag Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-89561-053-4 .

Awards

  • Max Kade Critic in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis (2006).
  • Kurt Magnus Prize for Radio Journalism (1987).

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personal data
SURNAME Steinert, Hajo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar