Peter Wawerzinek

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Peter Wawerzinek

Peter Wawerzinek (birth name Peter Runkel , born September 28, 1954 in Rostock ) is a German writer .

Life

Peter Wawerzinek is the son of a single mother who left him and his one year younger sister in their apartment in Rostock in 1956 and moved to the West. After they found the children in the completely dilapidated apartment, Wawerzinek spent separated from his sister for ten years in state children's homes until it by a teacher couple adopted was and various locations on the Baltic grew up. After attending school, Wawerzinek completed an apprenticeship as a textile draftsman . He did his military service with the NVA ; In 1978 he moved to East Berlin . There he began studying at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , but dropped out after two years. He then worked in various professions, including as a postman and waiter at Mitropa .

In the eighties he was a performance artist and impromptu poet put active and (derived 'bow-wow' from the association of the name Wawerzinek with and the dog food brand under the name "Sc.Happy" Chappi ) in the literary scene in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district known where he appeared in the Hirschhof neighborhood project . From 1988 to 1990 he went on a tour through the GDR together with Matthias Baader Holst . He has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1998 . After the fall of the Wall , he first published a collection of parodies on GDR literature, then bizarre, experimental prose texts about an outsider in GDR society. Other works by Wawerzinek are strongly autobiographical and have the author's home region - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - as their theme. Wawerzinek also writes radio plays and journalistic texts.

Wawerzinek's breakthrough came later with the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2010 for his then unpublished novel Rabenliebe . Wawerzinek et al. Dealt with his alcohol addiction , which he fought therapeutically from 2003 onwards. a. in his novel Schluckspecht (2014). At the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015 the author gave a strongly autobiographical opening speech. He called Klagenfurt his "literary hometown". The name "Wawerzinek" derives from the Polish word 'wawrzynek' ( Daphne ab), a plant that has been used for making paper and derives from the Wawerzinek its relation to the medium literature.

Wawerzinek also writes articles in the daily media, for example in the daily newspapers Berliner Zeitung , Junge Welt and Tagesspiegel .

Prizes and awards

In 1991, Wawerzinek received the Bertelsmann scholarship at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the German Critics' Prize for Literature , in 1993 a scholarship from the German Literature Fund and the radio play prize from the Academy of Arts (Berlin) for Nix . He was also a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll House in Langenbroich (Eifel) and received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Berlin Academy of the Arts in Wewelsfleth . With the text Kleines Seebeben he won the “wolfgang see literature competition” in 2007 and was “Seeschreiber” of the Wolfgangsee for three months . In 2010 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his extract from the novel Rabenliebe . The novel itself was shortlisted for the German Book Prize .

Wawerzinek was the city clerk in Klagenfurt for five months in 2011, Magdeburg city clerk in 2015 and from June 2016 the Dresden city clerk for half a year . For 2019/2020 he was awarded a literary scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Works

Print editions

  • Once upon a time ... - parodies of GDR literature , Berlin 1990
  • Nix , Roman, Berlin 1990
  • The 6th barrel emptying , Berlin 1990
  • Moppel Schappik's tattoos , Berlin 1991
  • The child that I was , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-88747-251-1
  • My Babylon , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1995
  • Fallada I twitch , Berlin 1996 (together with Klaus Zylla )
  • Maybe Peter will come by , Leipzig 1997
  • Café Conspiracy , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1998
  • Olive is arsenic or Beijing desert , Berlin 1998 (together with Klaus Bendler)
  • Scurvy , Augsburg 1998 (together with Moritz Götze )
  • The figurehead carver , Berlin 2000 (together with Tim von Veh)
  • The sea itself is less , prose, Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2000
  • The war is lost, isn't it? , Rheinbach 2001 (together with Bodo Korsig )
  • Exclusion zone pure Germany. Scenes from a summer trip , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2001
  • My Salzkammergut. From voyages and seafaring , essays, Vienna, St. Wolfgang 2008
  • The disinterest , Hasenverlag , Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-939468-53-0
  • Rabenliebe , Galiani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-020-4
    • as audio book: read by Michael Rotschopf , Argon audio book, Berlin 2011, 619 min., 9 CD
  • Parodies. Wawerzinek's forays into German literature . Galiani, Berlin 2011. With CD read by the author. ISBN 978-3-86971-040-2
  • Crash course Klagenfurt. Poetry and Propaganda (together with Karsten Krampitz ), Edition Meerauge, Klagenfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-7084-0421-9
  • Gulping woodpecker . Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-084-6
  • I Dylan i . Verlag Wortreich 2015, ISBN 978-3-903091-01-6
  • The strikingly inconspicuous life of the housekeeper Hannelore Keyn in the Villa Grassimo in Wewelsfleth. Ghost stories (together with Thilo Bock ). Verbrecher Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-9573-2195-4
  • I am a scribe . Transit Buchverlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-88747-341-9
  • Intoxication . Bernstein-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-945426-31-9 (together with Sven Heuchert and 2 poems by MA Littler )
  • Ghost ride through southern Sweden . Edition Outbird, Gera 2019, ISBN 978-3-95915-120-7
  • Love boobies . Cologne 2019.

Radio plays

  • 1993 Nix , director: Barbara Schäfer, production: SFB / DS-Kultur ( radio play award of the Academy of Arts 1993, radio play of the month March 1993)
  • 1998 Fallada, I twitch , director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch , production: SFB-ORB
  • 2000 The sea itself is less - a musical sheet of pictures , director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch, production: DLF
  • 2008 Café Conspiracy , director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch, production: DLF

Radio plays (selection)

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Movies

  • 2019: Lievalleen , director: Peter Wawerzinek, together with Steffen Sebastian

Secondary literature

  • Andreas Erb (Ed.): From Mecklenburg to Prenzlauer Berg: Peter Wawerzinek. Essen: Klartext Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-89861-343-7 .
  • The best 2010. Klagenfurt texts (Piper, Munich. 224 p.) Will be published in September 2010.
  • Janine Ludwig: Lemma "Peter Wawerzinek", in: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., revised. and exp. 11th ed. Wilhelm Kühlmann. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2011, pp. 162–163.
  • Janine Ludwig, Iris Thalhammer: "In the books fadness, chatter - Peter Wawerzinek's view of Prenzlauer Berg in the 1980s", in: Janine Ludwig, Mirjam Meuser: Literature without land? Writing strategies of GDR literature in a united Germany , Volume 1, with a foreword by Frank Hörnigk, Freiburg: FWPF 2009, reissued by BasisDruck Verlag Berlin 2015, pp. 237-254.
  • Julian Preece, '“Was Eigenes Sagen”: The Many Autobiographies of Peter Warwerzinek', in 'Whose Story? Continuities in Contemporary German-language Literature. Oxford, 1998. Eds. Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, and Julian Preece, pp. 67-84.

Web links

Commons : Peter Wawerzinek  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Peter Wawerzinek  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the fate of the siblings. In: Märkische Allgemeine, 21./22. July 2012, p. 8  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de  
  2. ↑ Peter Wawerzinek: I lived in Prenzlauer Berg, but I wasn't incorporated . In: Barbara Felsmann, Annett Gröschner (Ed.): Prenzlauer Berg passage room . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 365 .
  3. ↑ The Secret Garden. History and future of the Hirschhof , interview in Oya 9/2011
  4. ↑ Our short time as BAADER & Sc.Happy and the long time since then. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Peter Wawerzinek: Speech on Literature 2015 , Der Standard from July 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ wolfgang see literature competition ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ List of Bachmann Prize winners
  8. ^ City clerk Magdeburg 2015
  9. ^ Writer Peter Wawerzinek becomes Dresden city clerk. www.lr-online.de, February 6, 2016, accessed on February 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Peter Wawerzinek, On the balcony. From everyday life in the red zone in Rome, in: Junge Welt, March 16, 2020, p. 10; Wawerzinek and Scho invited to Villa Massimo , boersenblatt.net, May 25, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2018
  11. ↑ Axel Seitz: "Lievalleen": Journey back to childhood . NDR , April 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wawerzinek, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Runkel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock