Alfons Schweiggert

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Alfons Schweiggert
Alfons Schweiggert at the presentation of the Great Karl Valentin Prize 2010

Alfons Schweiggert (born May 11, 1947 in Altomünster , Upper Bavaria ) is a German writer and illustrator .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1966, Schweiggert studied philosophy, psychology, pedagogy and special education at the Karlsgymnasium in Munich-Pasing . From 1973 to 1979 he held a teaching position at the educational science faculty of the University of Munich . After several years of teaching, he worked from 1993 to 2009 as the rector of the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research in Munich.

From 1974 to 1979 he worked for the satirical monthly magazine Pardon . He has been writing books since 1971. Erich Kästner and the children's book author Janosch campaigned for his first book publications . In addition to a large number of books for children and young people, some of which he illustrated himself, Schweiggert publishes novels, short stories, poetry, biographies, educational books and non-fiction books.

Schweiggert was a member of the executive committee of the writers' association of Munich tower writers from 2000 to 2017 . He is the founder and board member of the “Karl-Valentin-Gesellschaft” and the Valentin-Karlstadt-Förderverein “Saubande”, also initiator of the Great Karl-Valentin Prize - awarded to Gerhard Polt and the Biermösl Blosn (2007), to Fredl Fesl ( 2010), to Helge Schneider (2012) and Sigi Zimmigart (2017).

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“Schweigert's literary works cannot be classified in any drawer,” says journalist Martin A. Klaus. “The variety is surprising: children's books, non-fiction books, biographies, theater, poetry, novels - Alfons Schweiggert, who, as an author, defends himself against all pigeonhole thinking, literarily defends himself against all attempts at classification”, writes Klaus. In a contribution by Münchner Merkur on August 29, 1992, "versatility is described as a trademark of the writer Alfons Schweiggert". “It is due to his keen curiosity. Instead of limiting himself to one genre, he wants to try everything. [...] What actually happens between two book covers and what can be done with language is a question that particularly moves him in his work. [...] A 'stroke of luck', the meeting with Erich Kästner, established his success. [...] He has long since proven that his success is not due to 'luck' alone. "

Professor Hans Gärtner mentions “the many genres, subject areas, preferences, materials and textual 'strategies' of the Munich author. [...] Kinship of soul brings him close to the original Munich creature and original Karl Valentin, who thinks around the corner and about whom Schweiggert has written several books, and he likes the satirical. For five years he worked as a freelancer for 'Pardon', the satirical magazine that everyone who hungered for cheeky things in the sixties and seventies. ”Gärtner rates the novel“ DAS BUCH ”as a highlight in Schweiggerts literary work that overwhelms. In this work he sees a variety of themes addressed at different levels: "Dream transformation, human becoming a book (and vice versa: a book becoming human), magic, being at the mercy of the book author to the literary circus."

Rudi Seitz , President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1982 to 1988, considered it “almost impossible to get a grip on the entire Schweiggert oeuvre, to organize the areas according to focal points, the stories, the Bavarica, the folklore works, the poems, the children's books, the plays, the non-fiction and specialist books. All areas are there like islands. Each in itself beautiful, fantastic, cozy, tingling, exciting. […] Behind such an extensive work there is a person with an iron work discipline and almost inexhaustible creativity. "

His publications since these awards, dated 1995 and earlier, underline the versatility and creativity of the writer Alfons Schweiggert up to the present day.

Publications (excerpt)

Books for children and young readers

  • Black Man , Picture Book (1971)
  • If you ask a lot, you get a lot said , picture book, illustrated by Christoph Meckel (1974)
  • Zwiesel, Zwiedel, Poliwar , Bilderbuch (1975) (Best German Youth Literature Award 1976)
  • Tobis Turm , picture book (1979)
  • Das Locherbuch, picture book with 112 real holes (1980)
  • Tarzan comes from somewhere , children's book (1982)
  • Der Rabe und ich , youth book (1983) (German youth literature award best list 1984)
  • Donna. Stories , book for young people (2001)
  • Viktor half-fool . A winter story by Thomas Bernhard, Ill.A. Schweiggert , picture book (2006)

Fiction and Poetry

  • The book , novel (1989)
  • The Bavarian Easter Legend , Versepos (1989)
  • Behind the eyelash forest , poetry (1990)
  • Whispered bleached grind , poetry (2000)
  • Herzharz , poems (2002)
  • Whoever walks upside down has the sky as an abyss under them , Essays (2004)
  • Franz Kafka. Little soul jumps in the dance , Lyrische Fragmente (2004)
  • Bavarian dives , essays (2013)

Biographies

  • Shadow king. Otto, the brother of King Ludwig II. (1992)
  • Karl Valentin's silent period. Grünwalder and Planegger years 1941 to 1948 (1998)
  • Erich Kaestner. Love letter to Munich (1999)
  • Authors in Bavaria , Lexicon / non-fiction book (2004)
  • Franz Kafka. girl women girl (2005)
  • Franz Kafka's doll story, short story (2007)
  • Karl Valentin, the most Munich resident of all Munich residents (2007)
  • Franz Kafka in Munich. Between lights and darkness (2007)
  • Edgar Allan Poe and King Ludwig II (2008)
  • Karl Valentin and politics . Foreword by Gerhard Polt (2011)
  • Karl Valentin. A pinned Teifi. (2013)
  • Ludwig II. The last days of the King of Bavaria (2014)
  • The man who died with Ludwig II. Dr. Bernhard von Gudden, the reviewer of the Bavarian King (2014)

Satires

  • What Loves Teases Each Other (1993)
  • A Munich resident in Hell (1998)
  • When You Think You Think Dramedies (1999)
  • When Bavaria loves. Satires on Love (2009)
  • Musical delight. Great composers in a cheerful mood (2011)

Regionalica

  • The big book from Munich's Viktualienmarkt , non-fiction book (1987)
  • The maypole. History and stories , non-fiction book (1991)
  • Karl Valentin's Panopticon. How It Was Really (1995)
  • Bavarian fairy tales , fairy tale collection (1995)
  • Winter and Christmas Ghosts in Bavaria , non-fiction book (1996)
  • Poachers and game shooters in Bavaria , non-fiction book (2008)
  • Oktoberfest fever. 200 years Munich Oktoberfest , non-fiction book (2010)

pedagogy

  • German lesson. Tried and tested in practice , student workbook (1986)
  • Having fun with German , student workbook (1990)
  • The little world history , textbook (1991)
  • Everything that students want to know. Info, tips and strategies (1999)
  • Autism, an often misunderstood problem , educational textbook (1999)

Awards

  • 1976 German Youth Literature Award - list of the best
  • 1984 German Youth Literature Award - list of the best
  • 1990 Culture Prize (Munich-West / Pasing)
  • 1995 literary candle of the Schwabing catacomb
  • 1995 Bavarian poet thaler
  • 1997 Exhibition The Crazy World of Alfons Schweiggert in the International Youth Library, Blutenburg Castle, Munich

literature

  • Raphael Bachmann: Alfons Schweiggert. Writer and illustrator. Texts, dates, pictures about life and work. Baumgartner, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-923-11054-7 .
  • Klaus Doderer (ed.): Lexicon of children's and youth literature. Volume 4: Hannelore Daubert et al. (Ed.): Supplementary and register volume . Beltz et al., Weinheim et al. 1982, ISBN 3-407-56514-3 , pp. 499-500 and p. 550.
  • Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Volume 59, 1984, ISSN  0343-0936 , pp. 1124/1125 (and subsequent volumes).
  • Alfons Schweiggert, Hannes S. Macher (Hrsg.): Authors in Bavaria. 20th century. Verlag-Anstalt Bayerland, Dachau 2004, ISBN 3-89251-340-6 , therein: Rudi Seitz about Alfons Schweiggert.
  • Kurt Wilhelm : The true and detailed chronicle of the highly commendable group of authors Turmschreiber zu Munich. Turmschreiber-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1994, ISBN 3-930156-22-9 , pp. 284–287 and pp. 282–283.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Among other things in the Münchner Stadtanzeiger, supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 4th 1995
  2. ↑ Hans Gärtner: Better to read. 8. Almanac of Children's and Youth Literature for 1990, p. 91

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personal data
SURNAME Schweiggert, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Altomünster