Norbert Scheuer

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Norbert Scheuer (2013)

Norbert Scheuer (born December 16, 1951 in Prüm ) is a German writer .

life and work

After graduating from school, Norbert Scheuer completed an apprenticeship as an electrician . At the same time he attended evening secondary school and then took a degree in physical technology at the Märkische Fachhochschule in Iserlohn, which he completed with a thesis on X-ray structure analysis of iron oxides . In a further degree in philosophy he earned at the University of Dusseldorf with a thesis on Kant the master's degree .

Norbert Scheuer's laconic, highly complex novels are characterized by precise descriptions of people, landscapes, weather and other things, as well as technical language presentations. Different places, levels of action and time as well as characters who live outside of society and suffer from wanderlust and homesickness are interwoven in them. The template for the fictional town of Kall, Eifel in Urftland, is always Scheuer's home town of Kall / Eifel .

In 2009 the novel Überm Rauschen , which was preprinted in the FAZ, was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize. In 2015, the novel The Language of the Birds , which deals with the foreign experience of a Bundeswehr medic in a war mission in Afghanistan, where he balances between horror and boredom and only finds inner calm when observing birds, was on the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair price . Überm Rauschen was published in Turkish in 2010 as Uğultu: Ichthys'in Peşinde by Dedalus publishing house in Istanbul , and in Serbian in 2014 as Šum sećanja by Mono i Manjana publishing house in Belgrade . The Language of Birds appeared in Arabic in 2018 as لغة الطيور( Luġat aṭ-ṭuyūr ) at Mahrousa in Cairo and in English, also in 2018, as The Language of Birds at Haus Publishing Ltd. in London .

In 2011, Norbert Scheuer gave poetry lectures at the University of Duisburg-Essen , and in April 2014 he took on a Thomas Kling poetics lectureship at the Kunststiftung NRW at the University of Bonn .

In 2019, Scheuer received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for the novel Winter Bees and was again shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The story is based on fictional diary entries; it takes place in the Eifel in 1944/45. The protagonist is an early retired teacher and epileptic, who uses prepared beehives to help Jews flee to occupied Belgium in order to finance the necessary medication. The book prize jury described the novel as precise and exciting .

Scheuer worked as a system programmer at Deutsche Telekom until 2017 . He lives in Keldenich , a part of the municipality of Kall / Eifel. He is married and has a son named Erasmus, who made the drawings in his novels Überm Rauschen (2009) and Winterbees (2019).

Single track

Awards

literature

  • Theo Breuer: Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.
  • Monika Wolting : And deep down in the water, in the mud and silt, the objects of the stories told are hidden. An interview with Norbert Scheuer. In: literary criticism. 9/2017. (literaturkritik.de)
  • Andreas Erb (Ed.): Norbert Scheuer: Kant, the province and the novel . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89528-943-9 .
  • Theo Breuer: A lyric marginal note or an echo of everything. The lyricist Norbert Scheuer. In: Without point & comma. Poetry in the 90s. Wolkenstein Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-927861-20-0 .

Web links

Commons : Norbert Scheuer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. dpa : Six novels nominated for the German Book Prize at zeit.de, September 16, 2009 (accessed October 12, 2015)
  2. ↑ preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de
  3. ^ Afghanistan novel - The Spatz im Panzerwrack , review by Wolfgang Schneider in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ See review of the book by Elke Brüser: The Language of the Birds. In: fluegelschlag-birding.de. Wings beat and quiet, December 17, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  5. ^ Norbert Scheuer, Marion Poschmann, Esther Kinsky: Speaking of Language II. The Thomas Kling Poetics Lecturer . Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-940357-62-5 .
  6. ↑ Winter bees . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (accessed on September 17, 2019).
  7. ↑ N. Scheuer: Winter bees. Munich 2019. p. 307.
  8. ↑ buchmarkt.de of September 25, 2019: Norbert Scheuer receives the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize , accessed on September 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ The Evangelical Book Prize 2020 goes to Norbert Scheuer. In: buchmarkt.de. February 27, 2020, accessed February 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheuer, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm