Wolfgang Hegewald

Wolfgang Hegewald (born March 26, 1952 in Dresden ) is a German writer .

Life

Hegewald studied computer science from 1970 to 1974 at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1977 to 1983 theology at the Theological Seminary in Leipzig . In between he held various activities, including in industry and as a cemetery gardener. Since he was refused publication of his literary works in the GDR , he applied for an exit visa and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983 . There he initially lived in Hamburg . From 1993 he headed the studio for literature and theater at the University of Tübingen. From 1996 until his retirement in early 2018, he was Professor of Rhetoric , Poetics and Creative Writing at the Faculty of Design, Media and Information at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . Today Hegewald lives in Barum (Uelzen district) .

Hegewald is the author of novels , short stories and radio plays .

Hegewald has been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 2014 ; since 2006 he has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and since 1995 of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig . He received u. a. The following awards: 1984 the Prize of the Federation of Industrialists at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt and the Hamburg Literature Prize for short prose, 1987 a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome and in 1990 the Ernst Reuter Prize .

Works

• The opposite of photography , Frankfurt am Main 1984
• Hoffmann, I and parts of the surrounding area , Frankfurt am Main 1985
• Jakob Oberlin or Die Kunst der Heimat , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Appointment in Rome , Frankfurt am Main 1988
• The time of the day thieves , Hildesheim 1993
• A little fire music , Hildesheim 1994
• The hall candidate , Leipzig 1995
• An obscure nest , Leipzig 1997
• What looks like us , Witzwort 2004 (together with Karl-Georg Hirsch)
• Purgatory Afternoon , Berlin 2009
• Our own story , Berlin 2010
• Heart in Sight , Berlin 2014
• Lexicon of Life , Berlin 2017

Editing

• "Against Time" , Bremerhaven 2005

Web links

• Website by Wolfgang Hegewald
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Hegewald in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Ratzmann, Thomas A. Seidel (Ed.): An island in the red sea. Memories of the Theological Seminary in Leipzig . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-04869-4 , pp. 320 (with contributions by Christoph Dieckmann , Wolfgang Hegewald and others).