Andreas Graf (literary scholar)

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Andreas Graf (born April 19, 1958 in Cologne ) is a German literary scholar , journalist and poet .

Life

Andreas Graf grew up in the Cologne suburb of Sürth , where he attended elementary school. In 1977 he graduated from the Humboldt Gymnasium in Cologne and studied German , history and philosophy at the University of Cologne . His professors were u. a. Volker Neuhaus , Joachim Bumke , Dietz Bering , Otto Dann , Otto Brunn, Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning, Ulrich Wienbruch and Günter Schulte .

In 1985 he completed his studies with the Magister (MA) and a doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on the novelist and America travelers Baldwin Möllhausen Dr. phil. In 2004 he passed the 2nd state examination and completed his habilitation on popular media from 1790 to 1914.

He writes poetry and is active in literary studies. Andreas Graf is a member of VS: Association of German Writers / State Association of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2005 he has been a teacher at a grammar school for German, history, media studies and creative writing.

Andreas Graf is married and has two biological children and two stepchildren.

Scientific work

Andreas Graf was a research associate on the research project CID (computer-aided interpretation of detective novels), lecturer at the Universities of Cologne and Koblenz-Landau , where he also completed his habilitation. The topic of his inaugural lecture was: "Strong Women in Western Films". At the Institute for German Studies at the TU Dresden he created the Halef database on historical adventure literature . He also pursued the free research project 'Calendar as a mass medium'. a. by building up a collection of folk calendars from the period 1780–1918 (approx. 6000 copies), and was a research assistant at the ALEKI (department for reading research and children's and youth media) in Cologne from 1999 to 2004. He has been a member of the scientific Karl May Society since 1972 , for which he has published numerous publications, v. a. in their yearbooks.

Graf published articles in specialist journals on the subjects of adventure, entertainment and women's literature, literary life, narrative research, children's and youth literature, book trade and social history, western film, popular media (e.g. calendar, influenced by folklorist Rudolf Schenda , among others , he sees himself as his pupil) and the authors Günter Grass , Edgar Hilsenrath , Theodor Fontane , Wilhelm Raabe , Adalbert Stifter , Karl May , Friedrich Gerstäcker , Ludwig Ganghofer , E. Werner , E. Marlitt , Hedwig Courths-Mahler , Ilse Frapan , Oskar Höcker , Peter Rosegger , Friedrich von Gagern .

Andreas Graf also worked as an editor , editor , journalist and translator. As editor v. a. for the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch , as editor for the publishers dtv , Bastei , Reclam and Hansa , as a journalist u. a. for WDR , Deutschlandfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk , the magazines Musikexpress , Prinz , Tip as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt . From 1987 to 1989 he wrote the monthly criticism column 'Literaturblick' for the Kölner Illustrierte (today: Kölner ). In 1990 he translated the classic crime novel "Tod im Hexenwinkel" by John Dickson Carr for DuMont Verlag.

In 1993 he developed the idea and conception of "Das Volksliederbuch" published by Heinz Rölleke , which had a circulation of over half a million copies. In 2002 he initiated the picture book Inside Houses by photographer Martin Rosswog , a student of Bernd Becher .

From 1994 to 1998 he was in charge of the media advice series on DEFA films for the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Before that, he was responsible for the concept and editing of the UK country report at BpB. From 1994 to 1999 he was in charge of the newsroom for the program 'Computer & Kommunikation' at Deutschlandfunk.

For the Cologne publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch he edited 22 non-fiction book productions, some of which he initiated, including books by, with and about Rosa von Praunheim , Rio Reiser , Michel Friedman , Die Toten Hosen , Die Fantastischen Vier , Klaus der Geiger , Wolfgang Petersen , Heinrich Breloer , Franz-Josef Antwerpes and Konrad Beikircher .

He publishes a series of stories by Balduin Möllhausen for the Ablit Verlag . He was responsible for reproductions of Möllhausen's works at Olms Verlag .

Poetry

In 1982, Male & Winterfest published the first volume of poetry , accompanied by the poster poem campaign Wall gegen die Wa / ende (together with Jochen Langer ) on Chlodwigplatz in Cologne: A new poem was published every day on a rented billboard, and one quickly gathered to publish poems in the evening enthusiastic crowd. Similar poster poetry campaigns took place later in Siegburg, Erlangen a. a. Key scenes of this action can be found in Jochen Langer's first novel Patrizia says (1989).

Graf's poems were initially primarily time-critical, "committed poetry", often inspired by his own political commitment, etc. a. participation in the activities of the psychiatric complaints center of the SSK Cologne , the occupation of the Cologne Stollwerck factory in 1980 and activities of the peace movement 1982/83, whereby a humorous, self-deprecating accent was always important to him, e.g. B. at anti-nuclear demonstrations such as in Brokdorf (where the Cologne Jecken / don't want to die was heard in the evening on the Tagesschau ) or the student spontaneous group “National Disaster”, for which he (with others) wrote numerous satirical leaflets and with which he belonged to the Cologne student parliament for a few years.

His identity was shaped as a poet u. a. in Walter Hinck's writing seminars , through personal encounters with authors such as Hans Wollschläger , Jochen Langer , Andreas Nohl , Roland Koch , Bettina Hesse, Thomas Kling , Rolf Persch , as well as the Cologne art and music scene, as it is e.g. B. met in the trendy bar Out .

Later his poems became more and more conscious of form and language, numerous sonnets emerged , including experiments with language play such as sound poems (including univocal poems, often wrongly referred to as "monovocalism", see monovocalism ), concrete poetry . Graf claims the invention of his own poetry forms, u. a. Vowelogram and morphogram .

Works

Independent poetry publications

  • sing bridge songs. Poems, with ink drawings by Annika Leese, 3-R-Verlag. Muffendorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-5040-8 .
  • Sea and fairy tale and more. In: Maritime Poems. Poseidon Press 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3526-1 .
  • "Ballaballa" World Cup sonnets . Carl-Walter Kottnik . Hamburg 2013.
  • male & winterproof. About: City life. Poems, photos by Elmar Schmitt, graphics by Jochen Bauer. Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-88735-100-2 .
  • Co-organizer of the " Texts for the City" campaign. Poems on billboards in Cologne, 1984.
  • Poster poem campaign Wall against the Wall (1982). Chlodwigplatz Cologne, 1982.

Individual poetry publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Hedwig Courths-Mahler , biography. dtv, Munich 2000 (new edition in preparation)
  • Adventure and mystery. Balduin Möllhausen's novels . Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-7930-9078-7 .
  • The death of the wolves. The adventurous and the bourgeois life of the novelist and America traveler Balduin Möllhausen (1825–1905) . Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-428-07173-5 .

Scientific articles (selection )

  • Icons: human, analytical, political. About Gaby Kutz's pictures. In: ARS POLITICA Gaby Kutz. Exhibition catalog, ed. Stadtmuseum Siegburg 2019, pp. 4-7
  • Two and a half centuries of popular typeface production: The [calendar] publishers Trowitzsch & Sohn in Frankfurt / Oder and Berlin (1711–1952). In: Leipziger Jahrbuch für Buchgeschichte. Volume 19 (2010), pp. 9-41.
  • Calendar [for children and young people]. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. [Volume 5] From 1850 to 1900. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, Sp. 60–974.
  • Karl May [as a youth writer]. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. [Volume 5] From 1850 to 1900. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, Sp. 95-708.
  • Everyday and environmental stories for 'youth and people'. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. [Volume 5] From 1850 to 1900. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, Sp. 371-434.
  • Wild reading. Karl May's reading experiences and the Winkel lending library in Hohenstein. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 2008, pp. 199–222.
  • Colportage novels - production, distribution and reception of a mass medium. In: Leipziger Jahrbuch für Buchgeschichte. Volume 16 (2007), pp. 29-63.
  • Colportage at Münchmeyer and elsewhere. Dresden and Berlin as production centers of “Volksromanen” 1850–1930 , part 1, in: Mitteilungen der Karl-May-Gesellschaft No. 149 (September 2006), pp. 3–18. Part 2 in: Communications from the Karl May Society No. 150 (December 2006), pp. 8–23. Also online. Part 1 and Part 2
  • From adult periodicals to youth books. Change of media and double addressing in Stifter's "Bunte Steine" (1852/53). In: Yearbook of the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria. Volume 9/10 (2002/2003), published 2006, pp. 69-96.
  • Soul riddle and family secret. Popular literary design of emotional conflicts in Möllhausen's "Pirate Lieutenant" (1870) . Epilogue to: Balduin Möllhausen. The pirate lieutenant, ABLIT, Munich 2003, pp. 391-420.
  • Family and entertainment magazines from the imperial era. In: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Empire 1870–1918. Volume 1, Part 2. Ed. Georg Jäger on behalf of the Historical Commission. MVB Buchhandels GmbH, Frankfurt 2003, pp. 409-447 u. 460-522. Improved and extended version on the net.
  • Feuilleton correspondence (1871–1939). Journalistic beginnings of literary mediation in Germany. In: Book trade history. 2/2002, B55-B64.
  • "Honest brokers" or "exploiters of the world of writers"? The beginnings of literary agencies in Germany. In: Ernst Fischer (ed.) Literary agencies - the secret rulers in the literary business? Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 85-99.
  • Walther Klemm: "Original Sin" (1919). Processes around an etching cycle. In: Book trade history. 2/2001, B58-B65.
  • [with Wolfram Siemann] Law, the state and the public [censorship in the German Empire]. In: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Empire 1870–1918. Volume 1, Part 1. Ed. Georg Jäger in connection with Dieter Langewiesche and Wolfram Siemann . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt 2001, pp. 87–121.
  • Relationship boxes. Role and beginnings of literary agencies in Germany. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade v. 22./23. March 2001, pp. 29-36.
  • Pornography and sensuality. A plea for any kind of literature. In: quadrature . Kulturzeitschrift, 2nd vol. (2000), H. 2, pp. 22-27.
  • The workers of the sea. About Gerstäcker's sea stories. In: Friedrich Gerstäcker: The whale catcher and other sea stories. Husum 2000, pp. 191-217.
  • Article "Calendar [in Cologne]". In: How time flies. (Exhibition catalog City Museum). Dumont, Cologne 1999, pp. 124-127.
  • Literature agencies in Germany (1868 to 1939). In: Book trade history. 1998/4, pp. B170 – B188 (6 fig., 7 tab.)
  • Reading and masturbation. The example of the young Karl May, his stay at the seminar in Plauen (1860/61) - and the fruits of the imagination. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 1998, pp. 84–151. Also online.
  • Murderous me. On the pathology of the narrative perspective in Edgar Hilsenrath's novel "The Nazi and the Barber". In: Thomas Kraft (Ed.), Edgar Hilsenrath. Telling the untold . Piper, Munich-Zurich 1996, pp. 135-149.
  • Oral and literary storytelling, new media and the ban on masturbation. Discontinued speech on the occasion of the new book by Rudolf Schenda. In: Fabula 36/1995, pp. 273-281.
  • Hermann Schönlein's "Illustrated Entertainment Sheet"; and Karl May's "Dukatenhof". On the dissemination of popular literature in the last third of the 19th century. In: Book trade history. 3/1995, B 100-B 107 (11 fig.) In the net as: Early newspaper supplements as media of popular literature. Hermann Schönlein's "Illustrated Entertainment Sheet" and Karl May's Dukatenhof ", also online.
  • Literarization and Colportage novel. Considerations on audience and communication strategy of a mass medium. In: Hear, Say, Read, Learn. Building blocks for a history of communicative culture. Festschrift for Rudolf Schenda for his 65th birthday. Edited by Ursula Brunold-Bigler and Hermann Bausinger . P. Lang, Frankfurt, New York 1995, pp. 277-291. In the net as: Literarization through Colportage novels. Reflections on the audience and communication strategy of a new mass medium in the 19th century. (Example: Karl May's "Prodigal Son")
  • Fontane, Möllhausen and Friedrich Karl in Dreilinden. On the background and structure of the novel “Quitt”. In: Fontane leaves. No. 51 (1991) pp. 156-175.
  • "a quiet, yet '". On the ironic interrelationship between literature and reality in Günter Grass' story "The meeting in Telgte". In: German journal for literary studies and intellectual history. 2/1989, pp. 282-294.
  • "... if my life is not denied by the jury ..." Christian Sommer - radical and democrat in Cologne during the French period. In: Geschichte in Köln , No. 11/1982, pp. 68–120.

Editing

  • Balduin Möllhausen: Collected stories. 8 volumes ABLIT, Munich 2006.
  • Martin Rosswog: Inside Houses. Rural Living in Europe . Cologne 2002.
  • Konrad Beikircher: Et kütt wie't kütt. The Rhenish Basic Law. With a foreword by Johannes Rau. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03516-9 .
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker: The whale catcher and other sea stories . Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-857-3 .
  • "I am against us women demonstratively separating ourselves from men." The correspondence between E. Werner (ie Elisabeth Bürstenbinder) and Joseph Kürschner 1881–1889. In: Archives for the history of the book industry . Volume 47 (1997), pp. 227-247.
  • Wilhelm Raabe: The black galley: historical story. (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 8484). Note and afterword by Andreas Graf. Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-008484-9 .
  • Stories from the Wild West. dtv Klassik, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-02364-3 .
  • "Returning from a month-long journey". New fragments from Karl May's correspondence with Joseph Kürschner and Wilhelm Spemann (1882–1897). In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society . 1992, pp. 109-161.
  • Media Handbook Cologne; The audiovisual media with Steinmetz, Christel. Cologne 1992.

reception

“Graf [...] moves close to nature without falling into pure enthusiasm for nature; because just the city noises sing those bridge songs. […] The reader sometimes feels flooded by the abundance of end rhymes in these poems, which are often written in sonnet form. [...] But there are also tempting rhyming railings. The final poem “Gardasee” in this volume, refined with ink drawings by Annika Leese, is particularly pleasing because it only brings up the theme of soul and beauty in a slightly rhymed manner. "

- Rolf Birkholz on "singing bridge songs" : At the bay window. Journal of Literature, No. 74, 2017.

“An album rich in images, the likes of which has not been published in two generations. A book that you don't borrow, one that you have to own. "

- Rolf Hochhuth on the folk song book : Basler Zeitung , July 7, 1994.

“One could certainly ask cynically whether the billboard advertises the poetry here or the poetry for the billboard. The poem wants to be different from a detergent advertisement. 'A poem is like a hot potato,' writes Andreas Graf. Be that as it may, it is an unfamiliar object on a familiar surface and thus causes irritation. [...] The poem reader on the street doesn't even have to pay a telephone fee. "

- Karl H. Karst : Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , January 20, 1983.

Awards

  • 2012 Winner in the Poetry Slam of the Rodenkirchen City Library
  • 1998 Award of the Karl May Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exot-magazin.de , website of Exot Magazin
  2. ^ Andreas Graf: Colportage at Münchmeyer and elsewhere. Dresden and Berlin as production centers of Folk Novels 1850–1930 - Part 1. Accessed on May 23, 2017 .
  3. ^ Andreas Graf: Colportage at Münchmeyer and elsewhere. Dresden and Berlin as production centers of 'Volksromanen' 1850–1930 - Part 2. Accessed on May 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ zeitschriften.ablit.de , The Origins of the Modern Media Industry: Family and Entertainment Magazines from the Imperial Era (1870-1918)
  5. ^ Andreas Graf: Reading and masturbation. The example of the young Karl May, his stay at the seminar in Plauen. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ zeitschriften.ablit.de , Early newspaper supplements as media of popular literature. Hermann Schönlein's "Illustrated Entertainment Sheet" and Karl May's Dukatenhof "
  7. ↑ ablit.de , Literarisierung through Kolportageromane. Reflections on the audience and communication strategy of a new mass medium in the 19th century. (Example: Karl May's "Prodigal Son")
  8. ↑ Andreas Graf: "Returning from a month-long journey". Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Count, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne