Jochen Arlt

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Jochen Arlt (born May 6, 1948 in Dinklage ) is a German writer and editor .

Life

Jochen Arlt's family comes from Breslau , from where they were expelled in 1945. Arlt grew up in Langwege / Vechta and Obermendig / Eifel and has lived in / near Cologne since 1957.

After attending a business academy, he worked for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Bayer AG Leverkusen and the Federal Committee for Economic Education in Cologne.

From 1979 to 1991 Arlt was editor of the Kölnische Rundschau. It was there that the Arlt-initiated series of articles, books from Cologne , music from Cologne , artist life in Cologne , appeared for the first time in local print media . Under the pseudonym JW Martin , he wrote further regionally related articles from 1983 to 1992 in the magazines KÖLN IM , StadtRevue , new rheinland , KÖLN or Zwischen Erft und Wupper .

Since 1976 Arlt has published poetry and prose in anthologies by publishers such as Artemis & Winkler, Aufbau, edition chrismon, edition DAS GEDICHT, EVA, Grupello, KBV, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Reclam, Wolkenstein or in yearbooks and literary sheets. He also worked for BR, Radio Cologne, RBB, RPR, SWR and WDR.

Since 1991 Jochen Arlt has been a freelance journalist, writer and editor of numerous books on topics related to the Rhineland (including seven books of poetry under the pseudonym Achim von Langwege , which he used until 2000). Poems were translated into French by Rüdiger Fischer or set to music (by Klaus Graf , Hans Knipp , Peter Sarach, Nadine Maria Schmidt and Andreas Wagner, among others ).

Arlt, who is a member of the Association of German Writers and the German Association of Journalists , writes reviews, interviews, features, essays , and reports. In addition, he is the editor and author of groundbreaking picture / text volumes such as Kölner Stadtrechner or Endstation Ubierring .

In 1996 the anthology Young West was published as the eleventh volume in the series of reading books supervised by Jochen Arlt in the Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag (Pulheim).

Arlt is the founder of the KÖLN IM Prize, the Cologne Literature Prize and the Rheinische Literaturpreis Siegburg , which u. a. Jürgen Becker , Hans Bemmann , Karl Otto Conrady , Ralph Giordano , Gisbert Haefs , Peter Maiwald and Norbert Scheuer . He is also a juror for the German Record Critics' Prize .

Jochen Arlt, who has been widowed since 2010 and has two children, lives in Houverath in the Eifel.

Works

Single track

  • Cologne city talks . Interviews. Horlemann, Unkel / Rhein 1985.
  • The love of the roaring deer . Poems. Illustrations: Charly Pirot . Alfred Beck Verlag, Cologne 1988.
  • oh that is colossal . Poems. edition fundamental, Cologne 1990.
  • The window to the mountain . Country poems. Landpresse, Weilerswist 1993.
  • Cologne City Talks II . Interviews. Horlemann, Unkel 1994.
  • Zigzag egg stone . New Cologne poems. Horlemann Verlag, Unkel and Bad Honnef 1994.
  • Almost 50 years later . Poem. edition prima vista, Gelsenkirchen 1998.
  • In the country . Prosaminiatures and original text Cap Horn . Edition Xylos, Gelsenkirchen 1999.
  • Eifel landscapes . Poems. With Norbert Scheuer. Wolkenstein Verlag, Cologne 2000.
  • Harald K. thinks . Everyday poetry. Roland Reischel Verlag, Cologne 2010.
  • For free . Selected poems. NordPark Verlag, Wuppertal 2014.
  • Free II . More poems, prose, sayings. NordPark Verlag Wuppertal, 2014.

Release

  • Rock magazine scene Cologne . With Konrad Kopper. Arlt & Kopper, Cologne 1981.
  • Toni May: Cologne heads, Cologne sketches . Wienand, Cologne 1984.
  • One hand washes the other . Cologne reading book. With JW Martin. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1987.
  • Left of the cathedral, right of the cathedral . Cologne reading book. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1988.
  • Kölner - mead and without delay . Photos, quotes, interviews. Photographs Hans-G. Meisenberg. Mayerschen Buchhandlung publishing house, Cologne 1989.
  • Cologne Christmas Book . With Richard Griesbach. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1989.
  • City in your stomach . Cologne reading book. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1989.
  • Father's country and mother's earth . Eifel reading book. With Manfred Lang. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1989.
  • Bulbs, coal and Miljöh . Erftkreis Reading Book. With Axel Kutsch. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1990.
  • Between town and village . Rhein-Sieg / Bonn reading book. With Dieter Brockschnieder. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1990.
  • Where we find ourselves ... Bergisches Lesebuch. With Doro Dietsch. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1991.
  • Ubierring terminus . Photos, quotes, interviews, essays. Photographs by Egon Hellfeier and Hans-G. Meisenberg. Mayerschen Buchhandlung publishing house, Cologne 1992.
  • "Part of myself" . Lower Rhine reading book. With Irmgard Bernrieder. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1992.
  • The Rhine flows right at the bottom . 18 Cologne authors on their favorite place. Horlemann Verlag, Unkel and Bad Honnef 1993.
  • Three for Kölle. Pure Levve . Horlemann Verlag, Unkel and Bad Honnef 1994.
  • Life - every day . Eifel Reading Book II. With Manfred Lang. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1994.
  • Young west . Eleventh Rhineland Reader. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1996.

Anthologies (selection)

  • Axel Kutsch (ed.): Word networks (among others). Authors' initiative, Cologne 1988–2007.
  • Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The New Conrady . Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems from the beginning to the present. Artemis & Winkler publishing house, Düsseldorf 2008.
  • Karl Otto Conrady (Ed.): Lauter Lyrik. Listen to Conrady . Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008
  • Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008–2019.

literature

  • Literature Atlas NRW . Kölner Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992.
  • Authors in Cologne . Kölner Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992.
  • The Eifel in literature . Edition Eifel Literature Festival / History Association Prümer Land, Prüm 1994.
  • Lexicon of German-speaking dialect authors . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1997.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1998–.
  • Literature Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate . Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1998.
  • Literary travel guide Rhineland-Palatinate . Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2001.
  • Westphalian author lexicon. Vol. 4: 1900-1950 . Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn 2002.
  • The Cologne authors' lexicon. Vol. 2: 1900-2000 . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This series, in which a total of 680 authors from the Rhineland (and occasionally beyond) are presented, can be described as unique nationwide for the field of regional literature.
personal data
SURNAME Arlt, Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achim von Langwege
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinklage