Wolfdietrich Schnurre

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Wolfdietrich Schnurre (born August 22, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 9, 1989 in Kiel ) was a German writer .

Life

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Wolfdietrich Schnurre was the son of Otto Schnurre (1894–1979), a librarian and ornithologist from the environment of Oskar Heinroth . He spent the first years of his life in Frankfurt am Main . In 1928 he moved with his father to Berlin , where he attended a socialist elementary school and then from 1935 a humanistic grammar school.

From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . The later author and director Rainer Schnurre (* 1945) emerged from his first marriage to Edith Ulivalli (also: Ulli Benning, later: Esther Dayan-Ulivalli) . After the war ended, Wolfdietrich Schnurre returned to Berlin from Westphalia, where he had fled in April 1945 . At first he lived in East Berlin and was initially an editorial volunteer at Ullstein-Verlag . After the Soviet cultural officer was banned from publishing in western magazines, however, he moved to West Berlin in 1946 . In the following years he worked as a theater and film critic for the Deutsche Rundschau and other Berlin newspapers.

Since 1950 he has been a freelance writer . Schnurre was a co-founder of Gruppe 47 in 1947 and a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, from which he resigned in 1962 to protest against its silence on the construction of the Berlin Wall . In 1964 Schnurre fell ill with severe polyneuritis . In 1965 his wife Eva, née Mertz, took her own life. In 1966 he married the graphic artist Marina Kamin. Together they adopted a little boy. In the last years of his life he lived in Felde near Kiel. His grave in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery has been an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since November 2010 .

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Wolfdietrich Schnurre was an important narrator of West German post-war literature. In addition to numerous short stories , he also wrote a novel , fables , diaries , poems , radio plays , television plays and, since the mid-1960s, children's books , some of which he illustrated himself. His gypsy story Jenö was my friend from 1958, which broke the public taboo that prevailed in West Germany well into the 1960s with regard to the Porajmos , became very well known ; he also illustrated them himself.

Schnurres best known book When father's beard was still red earned him the reputation of a humorous storyteller. He himself saw his humor as a “tightrope walk”. Above all, he saw himself as a committed, time-critical, in the broadest sense political author and was also perceived as such by critics. Marcel Reich-Ranicki called him a “militant owl” and “troublemaker”. The fictional diary Sternstaub und Länfte published in 1953 . Records of the poodle Ali contain tips against restorative tendencies of the Adenauer era as well as against the literature of the early Federal Republic. In a chronicle titled Parable Collection The fate of our city (1959) intensified Schnurre this criticism. He expressed his concern about the rearmament of the Federal Republic in the short story The Maneuver . Schnurre drew a first stock of his life and writing in the recording tape Der Schattenfotograf , which became a sales success. In addition to memoirs, the volume contains aphorisms , narrative fragments, notes on readings and poetological reflections. While Schnurre was writing this book, he also wrote the dialog collection I Need You , in which he completely dispensed with a narrative instance and only let the characters speak. After decades of preoccupation with Judaism and the German guilt towards the Jews, Schnurre published the extensive and multi-layered novel Ein Unglücksfall in 1981 , with which he worked on the topic of "the unsuccessful German-Jewish symbiosis". The 13-part television series Levin and Gutman , for which Schnurre had written the script , was about Jewish life in (then) contemporary (West) Berlin .

Purr, which since 1959 member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt was, in 1958 received the prize Young Generation for Fontane Prize of the city of Berlin, 1959 Always Mann Prize , the 1962 Georg Mackensen-Literature Prize , 1981, the Federal Cross of Merit , 1982 the Literature Prize of the City of Cologne , 1983 the Georg Büchner Prize and 1989 the Culture Prize of the City of Kiel .

His short story The Burial was the first text that was read at the founding meeting of Group 47 in September 1947 at Bannwaldsee . Schnurre read the same story again in 1977, when Hans Werner Richter officially ended Group 47 in Saulgau.

Works

  • The funeral . 1946
  • To the harper. 1948
  • Trap lifting. 1949
  • Rescue of the German film. Stuttgart 1950
  • The bittern calls every day. Witten 1950
  • The maneuver. 1952
  • Star dust and litter. Berlin-Grunewald 1953
  • The flowers of Mr. Albin. Frankfurt 1955
  • Cash register. Frankfurt 1956
    • therein: backdrop
  • Occident. Munich 1957
  • A serious accident, 1957
  • Protest on the ground floor. Munich 1957
  • When father's beard was still red . Zurich 1958
    • in it: Jenö was my friend.
  • Barefoot creatures . Steinklopfer, Fürstenfeldbruck 1958
  • A calculation that doesn't work out. Olten 1958
  • Anaximander's end. Berlin 1958
  • The betrayal . 1958
  • Steppe head. Bull town 1958
  • The dwarfs. 1958
  • The Flight into Egypt. 1958
    • therein: The loan.
  • The lot of our city. Walter, Olten 1959
  • One should be against it. Olten 1960
    • therein: The return.
  • Poodle Ali's records. Walter Verlag, Olten 1962
  • Berlin - a city is being divided. Olten 1962
  • The wall of August 13th. Berlin 1962
  • Spark in sticks. Olten 1963
  • The transparent ones. Paderborn 1963
  • No game without a stake. Olten 1964
  • Open-air desk. Olten 1964
  • The fact. Lübeck 1964
  • Kalünz is not an island. Zurich 1965
  • The stories. Olten 1966
  • The pig that came back. Zurich 1967
  • Spree room furnished. Munich 1967
  • What I like to do for my life. Neuwied 1967
  • The Zwengel. Baden-Baden 1967
  • Report of the spared. Zurich 1968
  • A snowman for the big brother. Munich 1969 (with Marina Schnurre)
  • Gocko. Munich 1970 (with Marina Schnurre)
  • Richard returns. Zurich 1970
  • The thing with the guinea pigs. Recklinghausen 1970 (with Marina Schnurre)
  • Purr cheerfully. Olten 1970
  • The change of Hippipotamos. Reutlingen 1970
  • More and more guinea pigs. Recklinghausen 1971 (with Marina Schnurre )
  • The sparrow in hand. Munich 1971
  • How the koala bear learned to laugh again. Zurich 1971 (with Marina Schnurre)
  • The guinea pig thief. Recklinghausen 1972
  • I'm just asking. Munich 1973
  • Purring and grumbling. Recklinghausen 1974
  • The real Noah. Zurich 1974
  • Difficult repair. Düsseldorf 1976
  • I need you. Munich 1976
  • Knock sign. Gütersloh 1978
  • The shadow photographer. Roman, Munich 1978
  • Fulfilled existence. Düsseldorf 1979
  • Receipts and new poems. Munich 1979
  • An accident. Munich 1981
  • Learned is learned. Frankfurt 1984
  • Emil and the directives. Frankfurt 1985
  • My life as a contemporary. Stuttgart 1987
  • Gypsy ballad. Berlin 1988
  • Christmas purr. Leipzig 1988
  • Traffic signs. Bamberg 1991 (with Werner Kohn )
  • When father removed his beard. Berlin 1995
  • The princess comes at four. Berlin 2000 (with Rotraut Susanne Berner )
  • Casimir has a bird. Berlin 2000 (with Manfred Bofinger )
  • Doddlmoddl. Berlin 2003 (with Egbert Herfurth )
  • The mouse in the china shop. Berlin 2003
  • Born three times. Selected stories. Edited by Marina Schnurre and Fritz Bremer, with a foreword by Günter Kunert, Paranus Verlag, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-940636-01-0 .
  • The best gifts in the world. A Christmas Story. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-5420-3 .

literature

  • Manfred Durzak : literature on the screen. Analyzes and discussions with Leopold Ahlsen, Rainer Erler, Dieter Forte, Walter Kempowski, Heinar Kipphardt, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Dieter Wellershoff . In: Media in Research and Education. Serie A . tape 28 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-484-34028-2 , chapter "TV series: Conversation with Wolfdietrich Schnurre" and "A tightrope walk between desk and cash desk. On Wolfdietrich Schnurres TV play A case for Mr. Schmidt and his series Levin and Gutman ", S. 277-322 .
  • Mathias Adelhoefer: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: a German post-war author . Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-441-9 .
  • Iris Bauer: “There is no such thing as a guiltless life” - the subject of “guilt” in Wolfdietrich Schnurre's work . Igel, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-041-6 .
  • Katharina Blencke: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: a work history . Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 2003, ISBN 3-631-51259-7 .
  • Katharina Blencke: Wolfdietrich Schnurres estate: cataloging, systematising and presenting the history of the work . Igel, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-927104-51-5 .
  • Katharina Blencke-Dörr:  Schnurre, Wolfdietrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peter Dorp: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: A case for Mr. Schmidt. Short story. Radio play. Television game with materials . Klett, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-12-261350-6 .
  • Günter Helmes : Wolfdietrich Schnurre . In: Harenbergs Lexikon der Weltliteratur, Vol. 5 . Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag, Dortmund 1989, ISBN 3-611-00091-4 , p. 1594 f .
  • Günter Helmes: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: "An accident" . In: Reclams Romanlexikon, Vol. 4 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-018004-X , p. 450 f .
  • Günter Helmes: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: "When father's beard was still red" . In: Reclams Romanlexikon, Vol. 4 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-018004-X , p. 448 f .
  • Günter Helmes: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: "The shadow photographer" . In: Reclams Romanlexikon, Vol. 4 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-018004-X , p. 449 f .
  • Günter Helmes: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: "The Burial" and "The Maneuver" . In: Werner Bellmann (Hrsg.): Classic German short stories . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-017525-9 , pp. 13-22 and 146-150 .
  • Günter Helmes: “Aesthetics of Mind” in “Postism”. Wolfdietrich Schnurres “An accident”. In: Günter Helmes, Marianne Polz (Hrsg.): Sprachbilder, Sprachbildung, Sprachhandeln. Carl Böschen Verlag, Siegen 2008, ISBN 978-3-932212-73-4 , p. 23-29 .
  • Rainer Lambrecht: Wolfdietrich Schnurres " Kassiber " . Bouvier, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-416-01458-8 .
  • Hilke Möller: Tears-seeds and socket snout. Linguistic description of new formations by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg and Wolfdietrich Schnurres . Dissertation. University, Zurich 1975.
  • Ian Roberts: “A calculation that doesn't work out”, Identity and Ideology in the Fiction of Wolfdietrich Schnurre . Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1997, ISBN 3-631-31120-6 .
  • Daniela Schwardt: "Fabelnd think" - to write and intended effect of Wolf Dietrich Schnurre, . Igel, Oldenburg 1999, ISBN 3-89621-094-7 .
  • Ilse-Rose Warg: "But I wriggle around everything that lives" - Wolfdietrich Schnurres lyrical work . Lang, New York [et al.] 1993, ISBN 0-8204-1973-7 .
  • Ilse-Rose Warg (Ed.): He stays with it: Schnurre zum 75 .; Memories and studies . Igel, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-89621-002-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schnurre, Otto in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on November 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Bernd Wähner: Schnurre grew up in the district, but few know the writer here . In: Berlin Week . April 22, 2018 ( berliner-woche.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Jörg Becker: In shadow and guilt . In: Wolf Dietrich Schnurre: Reviews , Munich (Edition text + criticism) 2010 S. 75th
  4. ↑ a b Blencke-Dörr, Katharina: Schnurre, Wolfdietrich. In: German biography. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Marina Schnurre in conversation with Dieter Kassel: "He was political through and through" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 20, 2010 ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Again in: Jenö was my friend. Stories. With 3 drawings. Hirschgraben, Frankfurt 1960; frequent new editions in school anthologies; also in Adalbert Keil (ed.): Die Prophezeiung. Gypsy stories. (= Goldmann's Yellow TB . 1622). Munich 1965, pp. 9-12. (Anthology, first Kurt Desch, ibid. 1964)
  7. ↑ Wolfdietrich Schnurre: Interview with Mathias Adelhoefer and Andreas Wendt. In: Mathias Adelhoefer: Wolfdietrich Schnurre a German post-war author . With a preliminary remark by Marina Schnurre , Pfaffenweiler (Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft) 1990, p. 96.
  8. ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki: German Literature in West and East , new edition, Stuttgart (DVA) 1983, p. 159.
  9. ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Afterword . In: Wolfdietrich Schnurre: Die Erzählungen , Olten (Walter-Verlag) 1966, p. 429.
  10. ↑ Wolfdietrich Schnurre: Der Schattenfotograf , Munich (Paul List Verlag) 1978 p. 127.
  11. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Awards - Georg Büchner Prize - Wolfdietrich Schnurre. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Hans Werner Richter: A buzzard that fell from the sky . In: Ders .: In the Establishment of Butterflies: twenty-one portraits from Group 47 , Munich (Hanser Verlag) 1986, p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Schnurre, Wolfdietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1989
Place of death Kiel