Thomas Rosenlöcher

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Thomas Rosenlöcher after a reading in 2013

Thomas Rosenlöcher (born July 29, 1947 in Dresden ) is a German writer and poet .

life and work

Thomas Rosenlöcher studied business administration at the Technical University of Dresden from 1970 to 1974 and worked as a labor economist . During this time he started writing. From 1976 to 1979 he studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . After that, Rosenlöcher worked at the children's and youth theater in Dresden. He has been a freelance writer since 1983 . Rosenlöcher is a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and the Academy of the Arts Berlin . He writes poems, children's books , essays on the state of mind of East Germans and translates into Dutch .

1993 was the first Rosenlöcher Heinrich Heine - Fellow of Literaturbüro Lüneburg e. V. and a few months guest in the Heinrich-Heine-Haus in Lüneburg . At the beginning of June 2008 he traveled to the Tigris , to Diyarbakır in Turkey, for two weeks as a guest of the Turkish-German city scrutiny project Yakın Bakış initiated by the Goethe Institute .

Rosenloch's poetry is characterized by observing nature and devotion to the small. He was praised and suspected for this love of the fragmentary. His poetic visual power, which is influenced by irony and cheerfulness and inquiring seriousness, does not allow any comfort even in the idyll .

In western Germany he only got hold of the paving stones in connection with the fall of the Berlin Wall and his book The Paving Stones sold by Suhrkamp Verlag . A diary attention. In his subsequent literary histories, too, he tells of the transition from East to West. Thomas Rosenlöcher expressed himself in numerous essays and articles on current events. To this day, he is therefore regarded as a critical observer of the present. In 2008, for example, he took a stand against the imminent construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke and in 2012 spoke about the fate of the Suhrkamp Verlag.

Rosenlöcher is married, has three children and lives and writes in Beerwalde / Erzgebirge and Dresden.

Works

Autograph by Thomas Rosenlöcher
  • I was lying in the garden near Kleinzschachwitz. Poems and two notations. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1982.
  • with Albrecht von Bodecker (pictures): Mr. Stock goes over hill and dale. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-358-00149-0 .
  • Snow beer. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-354-00739-7 .
  • The elongated miracle. Illustrated by Karl-Heinz Appelmann . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-358-01355-3 .
  • The paving stones sold. Dresden diary. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-518-11635-5 .
  • The man who was a hippopotamus. With pictures by Karl-Heinz Appelmann. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-357-00337-6 .
  • The rediscovery of walking while hiking. Harz trip. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 3-518-11685-1 .
  • The Dresden Art Practice. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-518-40800-3 .
  • Ostgezeter. Contributions to the culture of abuse. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-518-12023-9 .
  • I sit in Saxony and look at the snow. 77 poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-518-40991-3 .
  • Apollo is on the wayside. Wiepersdorfer diary. Poems. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-19224-7 .
  • Do you love me i love you Stories to read aloud. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-458-19236-0 .
  • The table wonder. Karl Mickel's poem "The Table". Keicher, Warmbronn 2003, ISBN 3-932843-58-4 .
  • See the iron flash. Three chapters on Eduard Mörike. Keicher, Warmbronn 2004, ISBN 3-932843-90-8 .
  • How I disappeared in Ludwig Richter's wedding procession. Two stories from Dresden. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-19266-2 .
  • The elongated miracle. Illustrated by Jacky Gleich . Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01130-8 .
  • The flake carousel. Blossom-angel-snow-poems. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-19296-1 .
  • The man who still believed in the rattle stork. With pictures by Maja Bohn . Hinstorff, Rostock 2007, ISBN 978-3-356-01225-5 .
  • The man who would rather be dead. Illustrated by Jacky Gleich. Hinstorff, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01389-4 .
  • Thomas Rosenlöcher. (= Poetry album. 286). Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2010, ISBN 978-3-931329-86-0 .
  • Brain twinkle. Poems. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-19369-2 .
  • The daisy, the cat & the fence. Illustrated by Verena Hochleitner . Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7022-3437-9 .
  • "You linden trees in Saxony bloom like cedars!" - Like the cantata «Do you sound timpani! Sound out trumpets »was created. Lecture on the Bach cantata BWV 214 on August 14, 2014. JS Bach Foundation , St. Gallen 2015.

Release

Audio book

20th Century Poetry: My 24 Saxon Poets. Edited by Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-935-8 .

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Rosenlöcher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Lüneburg literature office: Heinrich Heine scholarship holders and guests of honor
  2. ↑ Goethe-Institut - Yakın Bakış: German authors in Turkey - Thomas Rosenlöcher with diary (blog)
  3. ↑ Trellis of upright coffins. Thomas Rosenlocher's Wiepersdorf poems. In: FAZ . March 13, 2002.
  4. ↑ KE Reimann: Writing after the turning point - turning point in writing? Literary reflections after 1989/99. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
  5. ↑ You saw up your grandchildren! In: The time . February 7, 2008.
  6. ↑ Thomas Rosenlöcher: Resistance to mental flattening. In: Spiegel Online . December 18, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on May 16, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachstiftung.ch
personal data
SURNAME Rosenlöcher, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden