Karl-Heinz Ott

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Karl-Heinz Ott at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Karl-Heinz Ott (born September 14, 1957 in Ehingen (Danube) near Ulm ) is a German writer , essayist and literary translator .

Live and act

Karl-Heinz Ott was born in Ehingen an der Donau in 1957 and grew up in Oberdischingen . He studied philosophy , German and musicology . From 1986 to 1989 he was director of drama music at the Württemberg state theater in Esslingen and from 1989 to 1993 director of drama music and dramaturge at the Freiburg Municipal Theaters . From 1993 to 1995 he was chief dramaturge at the Opera at the Basel Theater . He has been a freelance writer since 1996. In 1998/99 he mainly worked at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich.

In addition to his novels ( Ins Offene , Endlich Stille , Whether we want or not , Wintzenried , The Resurrection , And Every Morning The Sea ) and books about Georg Friedrich Handel and Beethoven , Ott created stage adaptations of Plato's banquet (together with Stephan Müller ) and Gerhard Meiers Baur and Bindschädler novels. He also wrote several plays with Theresia Walser , an opera libretto ( Arabian horses ) with Yōko Tawada and radio features and essays for the SWR . He publishes reports and essays in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Allmende . There are also numerous contributions to anthologies and theater publications.

With his novel And every Morning the Sea (2018) he "succeeded in creating an extraordinary, very autumnal book," said Wolfgang Schneider . "A deep melancholy is inscribed in the book, but grotesque comedy flashes occasionally," says Schneider.

Ott held a poetics lectureship in Mainz in 2006 ( literature as music of thought turned into form ). Since 2006 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and since 2016 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . He is a member of the jury for the Würth Literature Prize . In the 2011/12 winter semester, he and Theresia Walser held the poetry lectureship at the University of Koblenz-Landau . He is a member of the cultural psychoanalytical workshop of the German Psychoanalytic Association .

Awards, prizes and nominations

Works

Autograph

Literary works

  • In the open . Novel. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1998; New edition by Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006. (French: Que s'ouvre l'horizon. Translated by Françoise Kenk, Phébus, Paris 2010.)
    • For this novel, Ott received the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg and the Thaddäus-Troll-Prize.
  • Finally silence . Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005. (Italian: Finalmente silenzio. Translated by Paolo Scotini, Le Lettere, Florence 2007. French: Enfin le silence. Translated by Françoise Kenk, Phébus, Paris 2008.)
    • For this, Ott received the Alemannic Literature Prize, the Candide Prize and the Prize of the LiteraTour Nord.
    • As an audio book (speaker Bernd Geiling): Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007.
  • If we want to or not. Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008.
  • Wintzenried. Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40311-4 .
  • The resurrection. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2015.
  • And the sea every morning. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2018. (Dutch: Elke ochtend de zee.Translated by Els Snick, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Gent 2019.)

Essayistic works

  • Local history Baden. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007.
  • Tumult and grace - About Georg Friedrich Handel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008.
    • As an audio book (author as speaker): Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009.
  • The many farewells to mimesis. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, 2010 No. 1. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.
  • Intoxication and silence. Beethoven's symphonies. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2019.
  • Holderlin's ghosts. Hanser, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-446-26376-5 .

Stage works

  • Finally guests. Piece in 13 scenes. (World premiere at Theater Freiburg 2002.) Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • The Geierwally. Stage editing, together with Theresia Walser. (World premiere at Staatstheater Karlsruhe 2002.) Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Arab horses. Libretto, with Yoko Tawada. (Composition: Juliane Klein . Performance at Hanover Airport 2003.) Edition Juliane Klein, Berlin 2003.
  • The feast. Stage adaptation of Plato's Symposium , together with Stephan Müller. (World premiere at the Neumarkt Theater Zurich 1998.) Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
  • The whole world. Play, together with Theresia Walser. (World premiere at the National Theater Mannheim 2010.) Rowohlt Theaterverlag 2010.
  • Constance by the sea. Play, together with Theresia Walser. (World premiere at the Konstanz Council Festival 2014). Rowohlt Theaterverlag 2013; Book: Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2014.

Radio essays and features

  • The silence before the applause. (SWR 2003)
  • John Ashbery . (SWR 2003)
  • The damned of this earth. Frantz Fanon and the post-colonial culture . (SWR 2004)
  • The Bible, alligators and other things in life. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore . (SWR 2004)
  • Out of wilderness. The lyricist Bob Dylan . (SWR 2004)
  • Mimesis or imitation? (SWR 2004)
  • Worldviews and iconoclasts. (SWR 2005)
  • Farewell to old Europe. Charles Olson and Robert Creeley at Black Mountain College . (SWR 2005)
  • The pictures behind the landscape. (SWR 2006)
  • In the cinema with Wagner and Hitchcock. (Two lectures by Beat Wyss and Karl-Heinz Ott; SWR 2006)
  • Literature as thought music turned into form. (SWR 2006)
  • Devout enlightenment. (SWR 2010)
  • Shame and abuse. (SWR 2011)
  • The law of the heart and the madness of self-conceit. For the 300th birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau . (SWR 2012)
  • The preserved world. (SWR 2012)
  • The disenchantment of the world. (SWR 2016)

epilogue

Translations

Release

  • Joseph von Eichendorff : And there are faint showers. The most beautiful poems. Ed. U. with an afterword by Karl-Heinz Ott. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011.
  • Walter Benjamin : Berlin childhood around nineteen hundred . With an afterword by Karl-Heinz Ott. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013.
  • Siegfried Lenz : Reader. Selected and with a foreword by Karl-Heinz Ott. Atlantic Books, Hamburg 2017.

literature

  • Christian Droste: Forms and functions of intertextual Spinoza references in “Hoffman's Hunger” by Leon de Winter and “Endlich Stille” by Karl-Heinz Ott. Master thesis. University of Lüneburg 2007.
  • Ellinor Krogmann: The pianist as an author. How music and literature interact. Broadcast manuscript of SWR2 dated December 24, 2008. pp. 6–10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcasts by, with and about Karl-Heinz Ott on Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
  2. ↑ FAZ No. 256, November 3, 2018, p. 10.
  3. ↑ FAZ No. 256, November 3, 2018, p. 10.
  4. ^ Member entry of Karl-Heinz Ott at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ Bringing literature to life. ( Memento of August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Information on the university website, accessed on September 23, 2011.
  6. ^ Alemannic Literature Prize. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 .
  7. ^ Albrecht Puhlmann: Laudation for Karl-Heinz Ott ( Memento from July 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 94 kB) on the occasion of the award ceremony. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ book Portrait ( Memento of 5 September 2011 at the Internet Archive ) on the publisher's website Hoffmann und Campe , accessed on September 4 2011th
  9. ↑ Description of the shipment with access to a text file. At Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on January 13, 2012.
  10. ↑ Description of the program with access to audio and text files. At Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on January 13, 2012.
  11. ↑ Listening and reading version on the SWR2 website, accessed on November 15, 2012.
  12. ^ Publisher's advertisement ( memento of January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 15, 2011.
  13. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: directory of master's theses ) (PDF; 327 kB) at Leuphana University Lüneburg , accessed on January 15, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.leuphana.de
  14. ↑ Transmission manuscript (PDF file; 136 kB) , accessed on January 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Ott, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehingen (Danube)