Albert von Schirnding

Albert von Schirnding at a reading in the Lyrikkabinett 2014

Albert von Schirnding (born April 9, 1935 in Regensburg ) is a German poet , narrator , essayist and literary critic .

Life

Albert von Schirnding grew up in Regensburg as the son of the "boss of the Thurn-und-Taxis general administration" Otto Karl von Schirnding (1892–1979) and his wife Marie Victoire (born Verri della Bosia, 1907–1989). In 1951 he published his first poems. After graduating from high school , he studied classical philology with Rudolf Pfeiffer in Munich and Walter Jens in Tübingen, because he wanted to be both a writer and a teacher . He spent part of the lecture-free time as "vacation secretary" with Ernst Jünger in Wilflingen . After stints in Weiden and Ingolstadt , he taught at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich from 1965 to 1998 . ( Rainald Goetz is one of his former students.) As a freelancer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1970 he was involved in an on humanity and intelligence -oriented education and against a "conservative trend reversal" in education policy. He also became known as a literary critic , as an interpreter of Greek philosophy and as the author of autobiographical prose sketches , which he integrated into his volumes of short stories from the late 1980s .

From 1991 to 2004 Albert von Schirnding headed the literature department at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . Since 2004 he has been Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . As editor and commentator he has supervised works from Lessing and Thomas Mann to Rainer Malkowski ; In 2005 he opened the poetry anthology Der Ewige Brunnen for contemporary texts.

Albert von Schirnding lives with his family at Harmating Castle in the municipality of Egling in Upper Bavaria .

Honors and memberships

• 1980 Honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1982 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay (awarded by the German Academy for Language and Poetry ; laudation: Joachim Kaiser )
• 1982 Schwabing Art Prize
• 1983 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 2000 Critics' Prize of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
• 2004 Full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature
• 2005 Hans Prinzhorn Medal from the German-speaking Society for Art and Psychopathology of Expression
• 2006 Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg
• 2008 Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (laudation: Friedrich Denk )
• 2017 Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation
• Member of the PEN Center Germany ; Member of the jury of the Joseph Breitbach Prize , the Rainer Malkowski Prize a . a.

Works

Poetry

• Folder train . Hanser , Munich 1956 - Dedication: For Georg Britting
• Prosperity and doom . Hanser , Munich 1958
• Eye to eye . Relief, Würzburg 1962 (with graphics by Alfred Darda)
• Reflection time . Poems and little prose. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1977, 2nd edition 1978. ISBN 3-7846-0099-9
• With different eyes . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1986. ISBN 3-7846-0131-6
• Snowman poems . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1992. ISBN 978-3-7846-0152-6
• Twelve new poems . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1995. ISBN 3-7846-0159-6
• Under the name tree . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2000. ISBN 3-7846-0173-1
• Handing over. Eighty poems. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2005. ISBN 978-3-7846-0555-5
• Was i there Poems. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-931883-75-1
• Climb higher . Poems. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2015. ISBN 978-3-931883-98-0

prose

• Come from . Narrative. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1987. ISBN 3-7846-0136-7
• Post horn serenade . Stories. MZ -buchverlag, Regensburg 1992. Foreword: Konrad Maria Färber. ISBN 3-927529-05-2
• Semicircles . Stories. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1997. ISBN 3-7846-0167-7
• Hamlet on the Acropolis . Memories of school. MZ-Buchverlag, Regensburg 2000. Epilogue: Eberhard Dünninger . ISBN 3-931904-76-8
• Alphabet of my life . dtv , Munich 2000 (cover photo by Horst Haubner: Harmating , 1981). ISBN 3-423-24202-7
• After awakening . Records. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2003. ISBN 3-7846-0183-9
• Preliminary arrival . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2010. ISBN 978-3-7846-0201-1
• Youth, yesterday . Years - days - hours. CH Beck , Munich 2015. Epilogue: Rainald Goetz . ISBN 978-3-406-67505-8
• Albergo Sole . Memory of thirty favorite Roman places. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2017. ISBN 978-3-7846-1231-7

Essays

• In the beginning there was astonishment. About the origin of philosophy among the Greeks. Kösel , Munich 1978. ISBN 3-466-40002-3 . New edition: Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2008. ISBN 978-3-7846-0557-9
• Through the labyrinth of time. Articles, essays, reflections. Pfeiffer, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-7904-0310-5
• The wisdom of images. Experiences with the Greek myth . Kösel, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-466-40023-6
• Lines of reading . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1982 (on Boëthius , the Nibelungenlied , Clemens Brentano , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , James Joyce , Werner Bergengruen , Ernst Jünger , Peter Rühmkorf , Hubert Fichte ). ISBN 3-7846-0119-7
• Encounters with Ernst Jünger . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1990. ISBN 3-7846-1211-3
• Mask and Myth. The world of Greek tragedy . Patmos , Düsseldorf 1991. ISBN 3-491-77603-1
• Law and judges in the mirror of literature . Boorberg , Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-415-01580-7
• Literary landscapes . Insel , Frankfurt 1998. ISBN 3-458-33882-9
• Introduction to: What does "really" mean? Our knowledge between perception and science. With contributions by Robert Spaemann , Manfred Frank , Hinderk Emrich , Friedrich Cramer , Hans-Peter Dürr , Raoul Schrott and Michel Henry . Edited by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . Oreos, Waakirchen-Schaftlach 2000, pp. 7-11. ISBN 3-923657-54-4
• The prophets from Martiusstrasse . A Munich chapter in Thomas Mann's “ Doctor Faustus ”. Steiner , Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-515-08307-3
• Incarnation. Essays on Greek Literature. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2005. Epilogue: Franz Peter Waiblinger . ISBN 3-7846-0188-X
• Overcoming the synthesis. On Thomas Mann's political essay writing between the wars . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-515-09060-5
• The 101 most important questions: Thomas Mann . CH Beck, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-406-57364-4
• Return of an expellee. Thomas Mann and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . With a foreword by Dieter Borchmeyer . Wallstein , Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-8353-0962-3
• Authors visit Albert von Schirnding. Presented at the Catholic Academy in Bavaria . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2012 (about Elazar Benyoëtz , Petra Morsbach , Uwe Timm , Claudio Magris , Sigrid Damm , Michael Krüger , Reiner Kunze , Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Dagmar Nick , Thomas Hürlimann , Inge Jens , Tankred Dorst , Angela Krauss , Hans Maier , Arnold Stadler ). Foreword: Michael Krüger. ISBN 978-3-7846-1227-0
• Gallery of good spirits . From Sappho to Beckett . CH Beck, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-406-75013-7

Translations (selection)

• Crane by the sea. Korean poems. Ed .: Peter Hacksoo Lee. Translations: Albert von Schirnding, Franz Wilhelm Huber. Hanser , Munich 1959
• Lukian : Charon or The Contemplation of the World . dtv , Munich 1977. New edition: Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1984. ISBN 978-3-7846-0525-8
• Hesiod : Theogony . Works and days . Artemis & Winkler , Munich and Zurich 1991. New editions 1997, 2002 (introduction and register: Ernst Günther Schmidt ). ISBN 3-7608-1665-7 (first edition of the works and days : Hanser, Munich 1966)
• Plato : symposium . CH Beck , Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-406-63865-7
• Sappho : And I sleep alone . CH Beck, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-406-65323-0

Audio books

• Openings - stations in Greek philosophy . Speaker: Peer Augustinski , Gert Heidenreich , Hans Korte . Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk , Universal Music 2000. ISBN 3-902150-04-1 & ISBN 978-3-902150-04-2
• Truth in the plural - positions of contemporary philosophy. Speaker: Martin Benrath , Charles Brauer , Peter Fricke . Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Universal Music 2001. ISBN 3-902150-11-4 & ISBN 978-3-902150-11-0

Editorships

• Ludwig Reiners : The Eternal Well . A house book of German poetry. Updated and expanded by Albert von Schirnding. Beck, Munich 2005. ISBN 978-3-406-04140-2 & ISBN 978-3-406-53638-0 ( review )
• The Eternal Well of Friendship : Poems. Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-55930-3
• The Eternal Fountain of Joy : Poems. Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-55931-0
• The Eternal Well of Love : Poems. Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-55932-7
• The Eternal Well of Consolation : Poems. Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-55933-4

Settings

Max Beckschäfer :

• Snowman Songs (2003). 14 songs for baritone and piano (texts from the snowman poems ). Premiere May 28, 2003 Munich ( Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts )
• Weightless (2018). Six songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (2018)

Christian Dieck :

• Three chants for soprano, baritone and piano. WP April 17, 2007 Munich. Katrin Silja Kurz (soprano), Henri Bonamy (piano)

1.  Frozen pond - 2.  Elsewhere - 3.  Across the water

Wilfried Hiller :

• Remembering Memories (2004). Songs of Farewell for tenor, bass flute and percussion instruments. Premiere March 8, 2004 Munich (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts). Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö (tenor), Irmela Nolte (bass flute), Stefan Blum (drums)

1.  Perhaps a nobody ("You are getting lighter, light penetrates you") - 2.  Hans im Glück ("Hans im Glück counts his cash") - 3.  On the train ("Once again past the gardens, hills, flaming leaves" ) - 4.  Laotse forgets the names of his pupils ("He sought protection under the name tree")

• Die Himmelsscheibe von Nebra (2007) for mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella and two anvils. Texts: Mimnermos and Albert von Schirnding. WP October 13, 2007 Steingaden ( Wieskirche ). German Youth Chamber Choir , Harald Rüschenbaum (anvil), Karl Zepnik (conductor)
• Metamorphosen (2016/17) for a speaker and two violins, based on pictures and sculptures by Antje Tesche-Mentzen and texts by Hans Christian Andersen , Wilhelm Deinert , Jens Peter Jacobsen , Hans Krieger , Michael Krüger , Paul Konrad Kurz , Friederike Mayröcker , Kevin Perryman, Rainer Maria Rilke , Albert von Schirnding and the Tegernsee letter collection . WP October 16, 2017 Munich (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts). Stefan Hunstein (recitation), Duo ASAP: Almuth Siegel, Ágnes Pusker (violins)

Jens Joneleit :

• Falterzug (1997/98). Four songs for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, horn, bassoon and string quintet

1.  Lavender, wooed by bees - 2.  Awakening - 3.  The return - 4.  We

• Conjuration (1998) for baritone and chamber ensemble (1.0.1.Kbklar.0.Kfg. - 1.0.1.0 - Schl. [1] - Hrf. - Str .: 0.0.1.1.1). Premiere October 25, 2011 Munich ( Museum Brandhorst ; Thomas E. Bauer , ensemble risonanze erranti, conductor: Peter Tilling)
• Bloom and Doom (1999/2000). Seven songs for soprano and orchestra (Picc.2.2.Eh.2.Bklar.2.Kfg. - 4.3.3.1 - Schl. [2] - 4 pk. - Cel. - Hrf. - Str .: 14.14.12.10.8 )

1.  Sometime - 2.  Escape - 3.  Doppelganger - 4.  Summer long - 5.  The tree - 6.  Harmating autumn - 7.  Farewell

• Thirst (2004/05). Three songs for female voice and piano. Premiere October 8, 2005 in Regensburg (Pianohaus Metz). Monika Lichtenegger (soprano), Mizuko Uchida (piano)

1.  Glyptothek - 2.  Thirst - 3.  Green

literature

• Bernhard M. Baron : Albert von Schirnding in Weiden . In: Oberpfälzer Heimat , Vol. 61 (2017), ISBN 978-3-939247-88-3 , pp. 93-102
• Joachim Kaiser : The cheerful passion of wanting to know (laudation on the occasion of the award of the Merck Prize ). In: German Academy for Language and Poetry: Yearbook 1982, 2nd delivery, Heidelberg ( Lambert Schneider ) 1983, pp. 57–60
• Wolfdietrich Rasch: hide and seek . (About Albert von Schirnding's poem Request for Visitation .) In: Frankfurter Anthologie . Poems and interpretations. Edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Vol. 4, Frankfurt (Insel) 1979. ISBN 3-458-15348-9
• Wolf Peter Schnetz : That which is easily vulnerable is constant. Albert von Schirnding: A life for literature . In: clearing. Ostbayerisches Magazin, No. 14, January 2001, pp. 16-19

swell

1. ^ Albert von Schirnding: Alphabet of my life , p. 14
2. ↑ Interview (PDF; 46 kB) in BR-alpha , April 4, 2003
3. ↑ Courage to reason. In: Durchs Labyrinth der Zeit , 1979, pp. 103-114

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert von Schirnding in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albert von Schirnding on Dante's Divine Comedy (PDF; 111 kB) - by ; there also:
• Untimely thoughts on humanistic education (PDF; 74 kB) and a
• Review (PDF; 35 kB) by Werner Beierwaltes : The true self. (Studies on Plotin's Concept of Mind)
• Publisher's information with an early portrait photo
• Reading with Albert v. Schirnding in the grammar school and college St. Matthias Wolfratshausen
• Entry in poetry and prose
• Albert von Schirnding in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )