Arnfrid Astel

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Arnfrid Astel (2007)

Hans Arnfrid Astel (born July 9, 1933 in Munich ; † March 12, 2018 in Trier ) was a German poet and journalist . From 1967 he was head of the literature department of the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation. Originally his name was just Arnfrid Astel , but he took the first name Hans in 1985 after his son's suicide . Astel's pseudonym is Hanns Ramus.

Life

Arnfrid Astel was the son of the National Socialist race researcher and Rector of the University of Jena , Karl Astel . Astel spent his childhood in Weimar . He received his education at the Windsbach high school in Bavaria , where he graduated from high school in 1953. Astel then studied biology and literature in Freiburg and Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he worked as a tutor in a boarding school from 1966.

From 1958 to 1966 Astel was married to the writer Eva Vargas . In 1959 Astel founded the "Lyrische Hefte - Zeitschrift für Gedichte", which he was in charge of until 1971. From the end of the 1950s, he mainly published observations of nature in this magazine under the pseudonym Hanns Ramus . From 1966 Astel worked as a publisher's editor in Cologne , in 1967 he also became a literary editor at Saarländischer Rundfunk in Saarbrücken, where he was also a member of the staff council.

Under the impact of the student protest movement of the first policy-oriented book of poetry Astels, appeared in 1968 emergency . After he had published political epigrams on the station in 1971, he was dismissed without notice by director Franz Mai . However, he won the subsequent trial before the labor court in third instance and returned in 1973 to his position as head of the literary editorial office, where he remained until his retirement in 1998.

From 1969 to 1985 Astel was a member of the Rundfunk-Fernseh-Film-Union (RFFU), and from 1969 also of the Association of German Writers (VS) .

In her novel Klasseliebe in 1973 the author Karin Struck presented Arnfrid Astel as the protagonist Z.

For sixteen years, from the 1979/80 winter semester to the 1995/96 winter semester, Arnfrid Astel offered a writing workshop at the Saarland University, which became known as the Saarbrücker Schule . From this, among other things, the only Saarland literary period runner developed , in which he himself published frequently.

From December 1988 to September 1989 he was a member of the provisional federal board of the Association of German Writers (VS) for Saarland , today in ver.di , which was transferred to IG Medien in April 1989 . In September 1989 he was elected deputy federal chairman and held this office until 1991. Astel had success with political epigrams in the 1970s , but by the end of the decade wrote mostly landscape and love poetry.

Quote

“Poetry cannot be taught. Literature is what you write against everyone's advice. "

He became a member of the German PEN Center in 1970 .

Awards

  • 1980: Art Prize of the City of Saarbrücken
  • 1994: Villa Massimo guest of honor
  • 2000: Saarland Art Prize
  • 2018: By resolution of the state government, Astel was to be appointed honorary professor in April 2018

Works

  • from 1959: as publisher: Lyrische Hefte. Poetry magazine . 1959 ff.
  • 1967: as co-editor: Letters from Litzmannstadt - report from the Lodz ghetto .
  • 1968: State of Emergency - Epigrams .
  • 1969: sewage treatment plant - epigrams .
  • 1970: as publisher: Ho Tschi Minh - prison diaries / poems .
  • 1971: Ottweiler texts - literature from a juvenile detention center .
  • 1974: The liberal sits on his armchair between the chairs - epigrams .
  • 1978: News (& old) from the rule of law & from me . All epigrams. Two thousand and one, Obertshausen 1978.
  • 1979: My grandfather's fist and other calisthenics . Poems.
  • 1982: The blackbird flies up. The branch waves after her . Poems.
  • 1988: Without guitar .
  • 1992: Where the hare goes .
  • 1993: Jambe (n) and Schmetterling (e) or: Amor and Psyche .
  • since 1994: Sand am Meer (poetry published on the Internet).
  • 1999: constellations .
  • 2010: The spectrum spurs the moment on . Poems. Vol. 12. Gutleut Verlag , Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-936826-68-5 .

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Arnfrid Astel  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Bimesdörfer: Arnfrid Astel is dead . sr.de , March 12, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Astel, Arnfrid. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Astel, Arnfrid. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Michael Buselmeier : Arnfrid Astel . Critical Lexicon of German Literature, accessed on March 14, 2018 (beginning of article freely available).
  5. ↑ Who we are: History of the VS, part 5. Association of German Writers in Bavaria, archived from the original on July 24, 2007 ; accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  6. ^ Arnfrid Astel (Hans Arnfrid Astel, pseudonym: Hanns Ramus) . Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV, February 2, 2017, accessed on July 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Writer Arnfried Astel becomes honorary professor. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, November 30, 2017, page B5.
personal data
SURNAME Astel, Arnfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Astel, Hans Arnfrid; Ramus, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2018
Place of death trier