Henner Löffler

Henner Löffler- 2006 at the award ceremony of the Heimito von Doderer Prize

Henner Löffler (born July 9, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German author , translator and patron . He lives in Cologne and Toronto .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1962, Henner Löffler began studying economics , sociology and political science in Cologne, which he completed in 1968 with his thesis on the theory of totalitarianism. He broke off his dissertation on territorial behavior in animals and humans in 1969.

He began to work in industry and worked for a medium-sized multinational company until 1984, most recently as director of sales and marketing. After a leveraged buyout , Löffler saw himself since 1988 as a "privateer with a few supervisory board mandates .... Otherwise, reading and writing and working as a silent partner in literary publishers." (Quoted from self-portrayal.)

Since then he has built up an art collection and has been heavily involved as a patron and sponsor in the fields of charity, literature, theater, music and the visual arts. In 1996 Löffler founded the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize , with which he wants to keep alive the memory of the poet Heimito von Doderer on the one hand and to draw the public's attention to contemporary authors on the other. Prize winners included Ror Wolf , Martin Mosebach , Walter Kempowski , Galsan Tschinag , Felicitas Hoppe , Anne Weber , Gerhard Polt , Daniel Kehlmann , Anna Katharina Hahn and Heinrich Steinfest . The prize was awarded for the last time in 2010.

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Löffler wrote about Carl Barks , Charles Dickens , Heimito von Doderer, Arthur Conan Doyle , Vladimir Nabokov and Marcel Proust , among others . His collection of essays Doderer-ABC was published in 2000. Here Löffler guides you through Doderer's work with essays on 100 key words. The volume also contains a complete list of people with comments and shows the various connections in Doderer's complete works. The book was accepted as a dissertation by the University of Vienna in 2002 .

In his 2004 encyclopedia Wie Entenhausen - die Ducks von A - Z he honors Carl Barks as an important writer and illustrator. In articles on over 50 key words, Löffler presents the cosmos of Duckburg with its animal-human staff in detail. Because, according to Löffler, Barks is not only part of the history of comics , but also shaped the history of 20th century literature as a whole.

Publications

Books

• Power and consensus in the classic state utopias. A study on the history of ideas of totalitarianism . (Democracy and Peace, Volume 13). Heymann, Cologne et al. 1972, ISBN 3-452-17448-4 .
• Doderer ABC. A lexicon for home residents . Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46188-3 .
• How ducks live. The Ducks from A - Z . Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51608-4 .

Essays

• Samuel Beckett. Looking for the language . In: Concrete. March 1963, p. 21.
• About Sherlock Holmes' smoking habits . In: From Books & People. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1990, pp. 85-105.
  • Extended reprint in: The great Sherlock Holmes house book. Haffmans, Zurich 1993, pp. 609-624.
  • Another extended reprint in: A Holmes Repertory. Cologne 1997. (private print)
• Fat ladies or: A serious case of breast fetishism . In: From Books & People. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1991, pp. 70–81.
• Sherlock Holmes as an athlete . In: The Soft-Nosed Bullet-In. No. 23, Kempen 1997, pp. 6-21.
• Yes, that was very important. Special situations in literature: text and image as a unit . In: A Holmes Repertory. Cologne 1997.
• "Trethofen" (and other late stories) . In: Gerald Sommer, Kai Luehrs-Kaiser (ed.): Shots into the dark. To Heimito von Doderer's short prose. (Writings of the Heimito von Doderer Society, Volume 2). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, pp. 131–140.
• Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize for five years. A look back . In: shots in the dark. 2001, pp. 199-202.
• Talk to Ror Wolf . In: Kai Jürgens, Oliver Jahn (eds.): Similar things are not the same. A fast revue for Ror Wolf. Ludwig Verlag, Kiel 2002, pp. 325–327.
• Dickens and Doderer . In: Places Discuss. Festschrift for Engelbert Pfeiffer. Self-published, Vienna 2003, pp. 112–118.
• How ducks live. Lecture on the occasion of the 25th DONALD conference in Hamburg, April 12, 2002 . Abridged copy in: The Donaldist. No. 119 (2003) p. 30 ff.
• Joyce in Syracuse? In: literature without compromise. a book for Jörg Drews. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, pp. 249–262.
• Demons and sub-demons . In: Gerald Sommer (Ed.): Alleys and landscapes. Heimito von Doderer's "Demons" viewed from the center and from the edge. (Writings of the Heimito von Doderer Society, Volume 3). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, pp. 293–308.
• Proust ... Beckett. Nabokov ... Doderer . In: Proustiana XXII, communications from the Marcel Proust Society . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2005, pp. 175–198.
• Epilogue . In: Henner Löffler, Kai Luehrs-Kaiser (eds.); Dietrich Weber: Doderer - miniatures. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, pp. 217–220.
• An English Proust. For the 100th birthday of the writer Anthony Powell . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 21, 2005, p. 41.
• Kafka's sentences . In: FAZ. from ...; Unchanged reprint in: Hubert Spiegel (Ed.): Kafka's sentences. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2009, pp. 115-116.
• Unreliable and psychopathic first-person narrators. In: Jörg Drews, Gabi Pahnke (eds.): Weimar is our Athens. With Seume in Weimar. Lectures at the Colloquium on Johann Gottfried Seume in Oßmannstedt 2007. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 37–58.
• On the metaphysics of the problem of the object . In: Christoph Deupmann, Kai Luehrs-Kaiser (Ed.): The anger of the age is deep. The Merovingians and the art of the grotesque in Heimito von Doderer. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, pp. 79–92.
• From Hitchcock via Rodenbach to Doderer? Lecture at the conference of the Heimito von Doderer Society in Berlin. In: Gerald Sommer, Robert Walter (Ed.): Doderer, the criminal and the literary crime novel. To Heimito von Doderer's A murder everyone commits. (Publications of the Doderer Society, Volume 6). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011.
• Anthony Powell as a reviewer . Contribution to the Festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Reiner Speck on July 11, 2011. One copy printed.
• I take vanilla! In: Richard David Precht (Ed.): AGORA. No. 42, 2011, pp. 38-43.
• Foreword . In: Paul Dibble: Big Works. Auckland 2012.
• Seume and Wezel . In: Here I am sitting in my hermitage again. The Saxon Seume and his (adopted) home Leipzig . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 285–308.
• Anthony Powell - The English Proust . In: Reiner Speck, Rainer Moritz, Michael Magnet (eds.): Proustiana XXVII. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 42–81.
• The astronaut learns from the deep sea diver. One of Loriot's most famous skits has its source in John Cleese , in: FAZ from January 6, 2015, p. 9.

Translations

• with Hen Hermanns: Susan Geason: Fish im Trüben. Haffmans, Zurich 1994.
• with Ruth Keen, Gertraude Krüger, Karsten Singelmann: John Cleese, Connie Booth: Fawlty Hotel. All pieces. Haffmans, Zurich 1995.
• PG Wodehouse: From a private detective's notes . In: The raven. Magazine for every kind of literature. Number 48, Haffmans, Zurich 1997, pp. 157-162.
• Susan Geason: Bushfire. Novel. Heyne, Munich 1998.

Reviews

• Gisbert Haefs: Raja . In: Kölner Stadt Anzeiger. January 9, 2000.
• Martin Mosebach: A long night . In: Kölner Stadt Anzeiger. December 22, 200 (title: Paradise in the palm garden).
• Claudia and Michel Girardi: Pre-insights . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 20, 2006.
• The main thing: enthusiasm. In: Bargfelder Bote , ed. by Friedhelm Rathjen, episodes 385–386, 2015, p. 28 f.

Unpublished lectures

• Well finally! Apple . Lecture at the DONALD conference on April 19, 2005 in Aachen
• The Slunj waterfalls as the completion of the Viennese trilogy. Lecture, conference of the Heimito von Doderer Society , April 2008 in Zagreb
• Heimito von Doderer in Usingen . Lecture on the occasion of the Hessian Literature Days, May 31, 2015 (with Reinhard Pabst)
• Carl Barks translate . Introductory lecture, Conference of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, Wolfenbüttel, June 12, 2015 (so-called "Wolfenbüttel Talks")

Web links

• Literature by and about Henner Löffler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Doderer Literature Prize with information about the founder