Benno Hurt

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Benno Hurt (born April 11, 1941 in Regensburg ) is a German writer , photographer and lawyer .

Life and work

Benno Hurt grew up with three siblings in Regensburg. During his school days he played soccer in the youth team of SSV Jahn . 1961–1965 he studied law in Munich, then worked as a public prosecutor and from 1971–2006 as a judge in Regensburg. Benno Hurt lives in Pettendorf . He has been married to his wife Irene since 1968.

writer

Hurt's first stories were published by Nymphenburger in 1965 and, on the recommendation of Marieluise Fleißer , by Hanser . At the center of Benno Hurt's literary work are socially critical novel cycles in which the history of the Federal Republic of Germany is reflected. The geographical connection point is a “fictitious city of medium size in southern Germany”. It is called "Kolbstadt" in the Christian Kirsch novels and "Kürren" in the Michael Kaltenbrach novels. Both places have certain similarities with Benno Hurt's hometown, without being able to be reduced to them:

I take what I can use from Regensburg and combine it with other things. I'm building my own city [...]. It's not about Regensburg me Augsburg , Paderborn , but German fates at different times.

On this basis, Hurt thematizes the confrontation with the National Socialist past and describes from different perspectives the development from the “ economic miracle ” to the “ 68er movement ”, which he himself experienced as formative. When asked "What do you associate with the student revolt ?" He answered in 2009:

First of all, a row of books one and a half meters long (from Marx to Marcuse ). Seriously: I keep thinking about what fascinated you so much? I was (professionally) “before life”. And then this "consciousness revolution" [...] takes place. It is not the memory of the streets covered with beautiful red flags that seems important to me, but the lonely, secret hope for "Change". [...] This doubting, questioning, believing a lot, everything to be possible, [...] stayed with me. And heroes of the novel have emerged who decorate themselves with what we then called the right consciousness, even today, although they have long since become what we would have insulted as " late capitalists " back then .

Hurt's texts also deal with the continuity between old and new right-wing extremism . Towards the end, the novel Im Nachtzug shows the founding of a right-wing extremist party by old Nazis in the mid-1960s. A German middle runner and angry uncle address the phenomenon of neo-Nazism against the background of family conflicts in which generations are speechless.

In 2009 Benno Hurt discussed the subject of 60 years of FRG - 60 years of political, economic, social and cultural change at the Literaturhaus in Munich with Heribert Prantl . Denis Scheck counts Benno Hurt one of the "important literary chroniclers of the Federal Republic."

photographer

Since the mid-1970s, Benno Hurt has presented an extensive photographic oeuvre. In 1979 he published the programmatic contribution Arguments for Another Photography in the magazine Photo . In it he pleaded for an aesthetic paradigm shift:

I am bored of the photography of beautiful pictures, these long-focal lies of untouched landscapes full of geometry [...]. Sunsets in durable plastic frames are the norm.

Benno Hurt developed his personal visual language in series such as outskirts , still photos and a look into the Federal Republic - a critical memory photograph . Works from it have been shown in exhibitions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, Hurt published regularly in specialist journals and art magazines.

In 1987, Hurt's photo series was acquired by the Bavarian state , adjourned to Monday . The pictures are exhibited in the Regensburg judicial building .

reception

Novels

“Benno Hurt stays on the ground of the reality he is talking about and lands his wordballs safely and precisely. And precisely because it is so superficial with him, because closeness is his stylistic principle [...], because we are constantly forced to look very carefully, the invisible gains weight, the symbolic emerges as if by itself. [...] The contemporary history is combined in this novel with the haunting study of an adolescent who is looking for his identity between sporting ambition and awakening sexuality. "

“Hurt's self-reflective prose resists rapid consumption. Impatient readers might find Christian [Kirsch] 's constant recapitulation to be standing on the spot; it is the attempt to read at a profit to ascertain the shades of things, processes and connections from then and now. "

- The world , 1994

“The development of Hurt's Kirsch family of novels [...] stands for more than a family saga. The biography of the Kirschs is closely and inextricably linked with our republic. Therein lies the lasting value [...] [:] To have documented the 'passing' Federal Republic in literature, not on paper, but photographically [...]. "

- Nikolaus Hansen , 1999

A German championship is [...] an impressively narrated time novel that keeps the tension open until the end. [...] A novel without defects. "

- Walter Hinck , 2006

" A trip to the sea [...] connects [...] aptly and sensitively the longings and experiences of two young adults with German history."

- 3sat , 2007

“Hurt [...] writes in a precise language in which every word fits like a judgment. He dissects characters just as he makes social facades transparent. "

“Benno Hurt is a great German narrator. [...] No vampires, no werewolves, no magic boarding schools - and yet Benno Hurt tells in a magical way. "

- Denis Scheck , 2011

"The eloquent prose writer, the observing photographer [...] Benno Hurt has made a big hit with his latest novel Die Richterin ."

Photo work

“The motifs appear as if by chance. We are surrounded by unsubstantial sights such as telephone booths or parking lots. And yet every picture has personality [...] But that is Benno Hurt's thesis: This unsubstantial reality gets individuality through his pictures. "

"In his [...] photographs, Hurt takes on the classic poses of the new generation of awakening, the unnaturalities that have become symbolic that can be found in every family album [...] There should be no doubt that what is depicted is fictional: the use of artificial light creates two levels of lighting, which correspond to the two time periods. The topicality is bluish-remote like a distant perspective [...]. The actors from back then [...] stand out, very lively and [...] vividly, from the background that is their future. "

- Barbara Rollmann, 1991

Honors

Works

Narrative prose

  • Extended Collection: Seasons . Stories. MZ -buchverlag, Regensburg 1998

Poetry

Dramas

  • Safe conduct (The Adversary) . Langen Müller Verlag , Munich 1987. Premiere April 30, 1987 in Regensburg ( Städtische Bühnen , Theater am Haidplatz). Production: Volkmar Kamm, stage and costumes: Ulrich Hüstebeck. With Anton Schieffer (Horst Kirsch), Iris Atzwanger (Maria Kirsch), Paul Gorden (District Court President), Manfred Kothe (District Court Director Kühn), Hans-Joachim Reineke (District Court Judge Baumer), Christian Fischer (Sebak), Christine Jensen (Margot), Renate Hünlich (Mrs. Ofterle), Michael Heuberger (trainee lawyer Rücker)
  • Compulsion to cry . Publisher Thomas Sessler , Vienna / Munich 1990. Premiere May 27, 1990 Augsburg ( Stadttheater ). Production: Dieter Goertz . Stage design and costumes: Jürgen Waldstein. With Rimbert Spielvogel (Werner Busse), Christel Peschke (Hilde Busse), Thomas Plock (Horst Kirsch), Karla Andrä (Maria Kirsch), Peter Greif (Friedrich), Eva Maria Keller (Magitta), Timothy Peach (Kernbichl), Peter Hanzel (Ruhwandl), Michael Hiller (Uwe), Johanna Schubert (Judy)
  • Who would not love the forest of the Germans . Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1991. Premiere 1991 Regensburg (municipal theaters)

Radio plays

  • A trip to the sea (WDR 2013). Director: Christoph Pragua. With Matti Krause (Michael Kaltenbrach), Marlon Kittel (Eugen Stöber), Anne-Marie Csepe (Möt Hernadi), Ludger Burmann (Dirk Söderling), Regine Vergeen (Rosemarie Söderling), Franz Rampelmann (groundskeeper Moser / loudspeaker voice), Chris Nonnast ( Anita Kirschner), Michaela Klarwein (Mrs. Pfeffer), Martin Reinke (Maximilian Kaltenbrach), Bert Cöll (Mayor), Krista Posch (Madonna), Verena Plangger (waitress), Jakob Poiesz (news anchor), Klaus Wildermuth (stadium announcer / portable radio), Bruno Tendera (radio announcer [Austria]), Michael Lippold (Scheibenpflug), Joachim Berger (chairman), Caroline Pragua (daughter)

Articles in periodicals (selection)

Photo work

Catalogs

  • Städtische Galerie Empty Bag (Ed.): Insights - prospects. Four aspects of subjective documentary photography: Reinhold Hilgering, Axel Hütte , Benno Hurt, Martin Manz . Regensburg 1983
  • Benno Hurt, Reiner Nachtwey, Herbert Schneidler (Ed.): Invented realities. Positions of subjective photography . Städtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg 1991 (contains: View into the Federal Republic - a critical commemorative photograph )
  • Lindemanns Galerie Stuttgart (ed.): 10 years of Lindemanns photo gallery 1981–1991 . Contributions from 43 photographers: Olivio Barbieri, Ulla Haug, Peter Helm, Benno Hurt u. a. Stuttgart 1991
  • Municipal Gallery Empty Pouch / Oswald Zitzelsberger Art and Culture Foundation (ed.): Benno Hurts Regensburg views . Color photographs. Regensburg 2003
  • Municipal Gallery Empty Bag / Gallery Danube Shopping Center (Ed.): Benno Hurt - the photographer . Exhibitions 2011–2012. Regensburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-981-44641-8
  • Kunstkabinett Regensburg / Galerie Donau Shopping Center (Ed.): Benno Hurt - New Pictures . Exhibitions 2013–2014. Regensburg 2013
  • Kunstkabinett Regensburg / Galerie Donau shopping center (ed.): Benno Hurt - The early south. Greece / Italy . Regensburg 2018

Magazine articles

  • Arguments for a different photography . In: Photo . No. 3/79, March 1979, pp. 24-34
  • Outside - pictures by photographer Benno Hurt . In: Westermannsmonthshefte . No. 3/83, March 1983, pp. 60-65
  • Benno Hurt - time sign . In: ColorFoto . No. 4/84, April 1984, pp. 78–83 (on the series outer districts )
  • Portfolio . In: Photography , No. 2/87, February 1987, pp. 47–53 (on the series of still photos )
  • Right and angle . In: Rolf Müller (Ed.): High Quality. Magazine about designing, printing and the printed matter . Issue 10, 1/1988, pp. 40-46
  • Between past and present . In: ColorFoto . No. 2/88, February 1988, pp. 88–92 (for the series postponed until Monday )

Machining

  • Michael Herrschel: On the Night Train (2011). Live radio play based on the novel of the same name by Benno Hurt. Music: Klaus Wenk and Alois Späth (Duo Parkdeck). WP April 12, 2011 Regensburg ( Weinschenk-Villa ). Michael Heuberger (speaker), Klaus Wenk (electric guitar), Alois Späth (keyboard / electronics)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e dtv - Interview with Benno Hurt
  2. Benno Hurt: In the night train . Munich 2011, p. 236f.
  3. dpa : Hurt ends trilogy: "A German middle runner" . Augsburger Allgemeine , August 24, 2009 [1]
  4. ^ Literaturhaus Munich : 60 years of the FRG [2]
  5. Quoted from: Literaturportal Bayern : Benno Hurt
  6. Benno Hurt: Arguments for a different photography . In: Photo . No. 3/79, March 1979, p. 24
  7. Benno Hurt: The early south . Regensburg 2018, p. 54
  8. ^ Albert von Schirnding : From the puberty of the republic. On Benno Hurt's novel “A German Championship”. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 1992
  9. Reinhard Helling, Die Welt , June 3, 1994
  10. Nikolaus Hansen ( Rowohlt Verlag ): Appreciation on the occasion of the award of the Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg to Benno Hurt, 1999
  11. Walter Hinck : Lazy penalty kick. Benno Hurt wins "A German Championship". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 17, 2006
  12. Nina Glutsch: A trip to the sea. Benno Hurt's novel about longing for the south . In: Monument . 3sat , August 27, 2007
  13. Hurt closes the Germany trilogy: “A German middle runner” . In: The Berlin literary criticism . August 25, 2009. Text identical in: Augsburger Allgemeine , August 24, 2009 [3]
  14. Denis Scheck , Deutschlandfunk 2011, quoted from Helmut Hein: Benno Hurt, the precise chronicler [4]
  15. Bernhard M. Baron in: Literaturportal Bayern , September 10, 2014 [5]
  16. Outside - pictures by the photographer Benno Hurt. Westermannsmonthshefte , No. 3, March 1983, p. 65
  17. Barbara Rollmann: The past in the present . In: Invented Realities. Positions of subjective photography . Municipal Gallery Empty Pouch , Regensburg 1991, p. 6