Artur K. Fuehrer

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Artur K. Führer (born October 12, 1929 in Großensee (Thuringia); † July 6, 2016 in Bottrop ) was a German artist and author .

Life

Artur Führer was born in 1929 in the village of Großensee in Thuringia, the son of a farmer. At the age of 15 he was drafted for military service and was therefore only able to take his Abitur in 1948 . The mother worked as a village poet and the guide began to be interested in poetry as a child. He began to study German and philosophy in Halle , was arrested on suspicion of espionage , but was released after 74 days. Fearing further reprisals in the Soviet-occupied zone , Fuehrer moved to the Ruhr area and continued his studies in Cologne. It was there that Artur Führer met his future wife in 1953; the marriage resulted in a son.

From the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, he took part in various art exhibitions in Germany with his black and white objects and graphics. Influenced by his youth under National Socialism and the beginning of the SED dictatorship, Führer was a politically thinking and committed artist throughout his life. His literary work mainly comprised poems and eyewitness stories - in which he stood up as a warning against violence and for human rights. In addition to his artistic work, he also worked as a gallery owner. With a partner he founded the Kunst- und Literatur-Kontor Bottrop in 1961 - also known as Galerie-7, in which he curated over 200 exhibitions. Josef "Biby" Wintjes distributed his cultural magazine "Ulcus Molle", which was devoted to German and American underground literature, above the gallery. At the same time, Führer organized and moderated well over 500 literary events on behalf of the VHS, with well-known and less well-known authors from North Rhine-Westphalia, but also from other federal states, whom he invited to Bottrop for readings and discussions. He has received several awards; Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit. Artur K. Führer died in 2016 at the age of 85 in Bottrop / Ruhr area of ​​cancer.

Publications

  • Danger at the zenith. Critical poetry. 1958 - diagnoses. Poetry. 1965 - issa. Bottrop 1969 - haiku, haiku, haiku. [Ed. and preface by G. Pratschke.] Vienna: Europ. 1970 publisher
  • Gogo 50221, 50221 more 50221, gogo 50221, 50221 more 50221. Short prose, poetry, aphorisms [coded texts for the first lit. Happening]. Berlin: Omnia 1971
  • Lane change. Aphorisms. Essen 1975
  • The magic sack. Essen 1978
  • Am with you. Short poetry. Bottrop 1987
  • Caribou Kilimanjaro. Experience prose. Gladbeck 1991
  • I'm going to space. Dream, wish, reality. Edited by the Ruhr Area Literature Office, Bottrop. Essen: Runzheimer [1992]
  • Between farewell and return. Poeme (1945-93). A selection. Edited by the Ruhr Area Literature Office, Bottrop. Ibid. 1994
  • Ring free. Round A ... to round Z. Small paperback boxes. Lexiconoid. Ibid. 1997
  • On Texas death row. Experience prose. Ibid. 1999
  • That's it! A novel-oide contemporary witness publication. Eftalogy. Ibid. no year
  • Return to Halle. Runzheimer 2000
  • ... only flying is more beautiful. Ibid. 2000
  • Thinking keeps you young ... aforisms 1968-1999. Ibid. 2000.

Awards

  • Object grant Scene Rhein-Ruhr (Folkwang Essen) (1974)
  • Mona Lisa Prize (Duisburg, with Hans Stilett)
  • Gold coin of the city of Bottrop (1979)
  • Border clerk for the Hesse / Thuringia border section (1977–1989)
  • Culture prize (Ruhr area of ​​the Ph-Industrie-Stiftung) and stay in Mexico
  • Federal Cross of Merit for the Order of Merit (1987)
  • Luftikus Prize for sports prose (1987)
  • Village clerk of the community and cultural association Großensee (1989–1999)
  • Hafiz Literature Prize (1992)
  • Appointment as boxing poet for exciting boxer prose (1993)
  • Ingeborg Drewitz TK Prize
  • "International Award for Human Rights"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Ute Hildebrand-Schute: Bottrop writer Artur K. Führer is 85 years old. In: The West. April 11, 2014, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Aschendorf: Initiative revitalizes the old gallery 7 in Bottrop. In: WAZ. December 16, 2016, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Artur K. Führer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
personal data
SURNAME Fuehrer, Artur K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Großensee , (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2016
Place of death Bottrop