Andreas Rumler

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Andreas Rumler in 2009 at a reading in the Lenau Forum, Cologne

Andreas Rumler (born February 13, 1955 in Bremen ) is a German author and journalist.

Life

Rumler studied German, political science and history in Munich and Tübingen. He then received radio training at Deutsche Welle in Cologne , where he worked as an editor for some time.

Rumler is the author of scientific biographies and essays, travel guides, radio plays, poetry and prose, has worked as a freelance travel journalist, cultural and literary critic for various radio companies and has written articles for lexicons such as the KLG or Harenberg's Lexicon of World Literature and in text + kritik . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the international Goethe Society in Weimar.

In addition to his work as an author, Rumler taught at the vocational college in Alsdorf .

Press reviews

Wilhelm von Sternburg draws this conclusion in his review "The Successful and the Genius" in the "Frankfurt Rundschau" (from January 3, 2017, p. 34):

“However, it is not only the 'working alliance' of these two intellectuals that Rumler reports, but also tells of the drama of exile into which a significant part of the German intellectual elite was forced after 1933. Feuchtwanger and Brecht… have… courageously spoken out against violence. Thomas Mann once spoke of 'Lübeck as a spiritual way of life' in order to underline the after-effects of his growing up in the Hanseatic city on his work and thinking. Rumler chose this thought with care and aptly as the title for his essay. "  

Hans-Joachim Kertscher found in the "Yearbook of the Goethe Society":

"Andreas Rumler has put together a large part of the 'fragments of a great denomination' (poetry and truth) into a part that is easy to read."

- Goethe Yearbook Volume 132, 2015, p. 214

Christa Hagmeyer came to this conclusion:

“Rumler succeeded in touching on Goethe's work in such a way that the connection between the biographical stations and the development of the thematic subject becomes clear. The embedding in current affairs and in current debates at the time is shown using quotes from the history of reception and from correspondence with contemporaries. Pictorial representations of people, landscapes and spaces let the epoch and the personal life of the great poet and civil servant participate in a subtle way. The timetable and list of people allow a quick overview and then it almost automatically happens that as a reader you go to Weimar again and take a 'city tour in Goethe's footsteps' to review this poet's life and certainly reread one or the other work . Perhaps the 'West-Eastern Divan' as a sign of the topicality of Goethe's thinking. "

Hanna Styrie judged the Erft-Land-Splitter in the Kölnische Rundschau on July 17, 2007 :

“Rumler has long since taken a great liking to the poetry and proves in the" Erft-Land-Splittern "an atmospheric feeling and feeling for language. In brief, pictorial lines he describes the destruction of the landscape: "Monstrous giants higher than churches longer than anything / fields all around, trees roll down" and their accompanying phenomena: "Stole the satellite dish that seems useful / finds new owners Street lamps illuminate ruins." (...) Rumler himself gets to feel the effects at close range, because the excavator "shovels sand into our eyes" and "makes my teeth grind and throws coal into the house through all the cracks". Nevertheless, he perceives his poems as a "small declaration of love" for the region. "

The Reutlinger General-Anzeiger wrote in a review on July 11, 2003 about the Tübingen poet walks :

“[The author] studied German, history and political science in Tübingen and worked as a freelance author and journalist for several years. In doing so, he also learned to appreciate the charm of this old city with its striking buildings, alleys and restaurants. So one day a declaration of love for this city had to take shape. However, there is no pathos to be found in Rumler. He was able to convince earlier with his travel guides published by DuMont-Verlag about the Main area and Schleswig-Holstein; Now this professionalism can also be felt in the new Tübingen band. Knowledgeable and yet with an easily readable gesture, Rumler fades from one figure to another, he takes his readers to the places where the thinkers lived, discussed and wrote. Special paths and trend-setting publications and teaching activities are remembered, as are political alternating currents and personal fates. Readable instead of knowledge-heavy: Rumler's journey extends to contemporary authors and gets additional color through his personal impressions and encounters. His goal was "to create a manageable book that is introductory but not too knowledge-heavy". "

Karina Gómez-Montero found out about Goethe's life in the Goethe yearbook:

“In the almost unmanageable abundance of publications on the Goethe Year, a book deserves the reader's attention, which - rich in material and knowledge, at the same time pleasantly unpretentious in style - differs from many other things. [...] The double path taken by Andreas Rumler in this way - to track down evidence of Goethe's presence in the world he has traveled and the images of these regions that have an impact in his work - can be regarded as very successful [...] "

- Goethe yearbook, volume 116 from 1999, p. 421f.

Individual publications

  • Exile as a spiritual way of life. Brecht and Feuchtwanger. A working alliance. Berlin, Edition AB Fischer 2016
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe: poet - statesman - universal genius . Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar 2015.
  • Literary walks through Tübingen. On the trail from Hölderlin to Härtling . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2013.
  • Erft Land Shard. Lyric notations . edition fundamental, Cologne 2007.
  • Tübingen poets walks. In the footsteps of Hölderlin, Hegel and Co. Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 2003.
  • Goethe's way of life. Wanderings through life and work . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1999.
  • Schleswig-Holstein. Culture, history and landscape between the North and Baltic Seas, the Elbe and the Flensburg Fjord . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne (art travel guide; 1997, 2002, 2007, 2010).
  • Main. Bayreuth, Bamberg, Würzburg, Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt: On the "Street of Emperors and Kings" . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1994 (art travel guide).
  • Nicely covered. Tables lovingly arranged . Isis Verlagsgesellschaft, Chur / Switzerland (1993, 1994, 1995).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teacher - BFA Aviation. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Frankfurt Rundschau of January 3, 2017, p. 34
  3. ↑ so read in the newsletter of the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar , No. 1, April 2015, p. 9, about Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Dichter - Staatsmann - Universalgenie .
  4. ↑ Christa Hagmeyer: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet - statesman - universal genius . In: The small - magazine for the best years of life , No. 3/4, March / April 2015, p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Rumler, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen