Wulf Noll

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Wulf Noll (born September 1, 1944 in Kassel ) is a German writer and essayist .

biography

Wulf Noll studied German literature (literature / linguistics) and philosophy in Göttingen and Berlin / West, completed his master's degree in 1975 at the Free University of Berlin , and received his doctorate in 1993 from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf on the work of Peter Sloterdijk . Wulf Noll has been married to the visual artist Mutsumi Aoki for the second time since 1990 . Two children were born from a first marriage.

Noll worked from 1977 to 1979 as a research assistant in the field of general a. Comparative literature at the University of Essen - comprehensive college, 1982 to 1986 at the Volkshochschule Düsseldorf , 1986 to 1990 as a lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, 1993 to 1997 as associate professor for German language and literature at the University of Okayama in Japan. From 1999 to 2009, Wulf Noll directed integration courses in Düsseldorf and taught predominantly Jewish migrants with academic qualifications from the CIS countries. In September 2009, Noll took over a lectureship for German language and culture at the University of Ningbo on the east coast of China near Shanghai .

Wulf Noll traveled extensively through Japan, India and Southeast Asia, which are reflected in his work.

Noll has been a member of the Association of German Writers since 1984 and of the PEN Center Germany since 2009 .

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Noll's preferred literary fields of work are narrative, novel, poetry, essay and criticism. Noll also wrote numerous literary and art reviews for the feature pages of various newspapers as well as numerous literary and scientific articles in anthologies and periodicals (also abroad). In his literary work he deals with the figure of the strollers and with strolling, in different cultural contexts. The flaneur and the flaneuress become protagonists of numerous travel pictures in which Noll's engagement with the works of Heinrich Heine , Walter Benjamin and Franz Hessel is noticeable.

Individual works / books

Novels / short stories

  • Elsewhere pachinko! A Japanese travel novel, Bensheim 1994
  • Momotarostrasse. Stories from Japan (German and Japanese), Budapest 2003
  • Do you only know the magic word. Spa history, Düsseldorf 2004
  • Crazy in Japan. Stroll in two worlds. Roman, Cologne 2005
  • Trip to India - Then, good night, Madame! (Roman), Düsseldorf 2006
  • Survived the twitching puffer fish. Japanese reading tour, Düsseldorf 2007
  • In the year of Pegasus. Asian impressions (edited by Michael Serrer, Word of Honor, Vol. 10), Düsseldorf 2014
  • Meet beautiful clouds - a travel novel from China, Eutin 2014

Volumes of poetry

  • Subculture Sublimpoeme (poems), Essen 1978
  • A little power for the night (together with Dieter Fohr), Mainz 1985
  • Mephisto source .... political poetry ........., Mainz 1985
  • The fine tip of the Rhine tower sticks to the sky. New German Poetry, Munich 1986
  • Kind regards from the other side. Poems from Japan (with eight drawings by Mutsumi Aoki), Krefeld 1999

Non-fiction

  • Sloterdijk on the 'stage' - On the philosophical and philosophical-critical positioning of Peter Sloterdijk's work in the period from 1978 to 1991, Essen 1993
  • Wortzauber and Parlando in the Salon - Düsseldorf City of Literature (press article), Nyland Documents Vol. 13, ed. v. Walter Gödden on behalf of the Nyland Foundation Cologne, Düsseldorf 2016

Awards

  • 1978: Working grant from the State of Berlin
  • 1982: Working grant from the city of Düsseldorf
  • 1993, 1999 a. 2004: Project funding by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2002 and 2006: Project funding by the Kunststiftung NRW
  • Participation in the Japan-EU Year of Encounters 2005 and Germany in Japan 2005/2006 (reading tour in Japan, State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • 2010: "Eyes on Zhejiang": Honorary Award of the Cultural Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the Zhejiang Daily Media Group, Hangzhou / PR China

Memberships

  • 1984: Association of German Writers (VS)
  • 1986–2004: International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature Studies (IVG)
  • 1986–2004: Japanese Association of Germanists
  • 1990–2004: German Association of Germanists
  • 1991: Heinrich Heine Society
  • 1994–1997: Japanese-German Society Okayama (board member)
  • 1997–2004: German Society for Aesthetics (DgfAe)
  • 2001: International Association for Aesthetics (IAA)
  • 2009: International PEN Club (Center Germany)

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personal data
SURNAME Noll, Wulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel