Bernd Fischle

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Bernd "HARLEM" Fischle (* 1951 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer and poet .

Life

Bernd Fischle grew up in the working-class districts of Gaisburg and Ostheim in the east of Stuttgart . After completing school and training, he later worked in the juvenile justice department . In addition, he was involved in the Stuttgart culture and art scene , including in the vicinity of the Stuttgart Künstlerhaus , which was founded in 1978 by artists from Stuttgart.

Fischle writes short prose texts and especially poems , from which he published selected works in several volumes of poetry from the early 1980s. In 1981 Manfred Esser and Wolfgang Kiwus published the first collection of Fischle's poems, which was published under the title From the hip comes the swing in the edition of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. In 1986, Fischle spent an extended period in New York City , USA , where he completed a nine-month scholarship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York's Harlem district . Since then Fischle has been using the pseudonym "HARLEM".

He is often out and about in the bar scene and the working class in the east of Stuttgart, where he gets topics and ideas for his “backyard poems”. In 2009, Asperger Verlag Killroy Media published his volume of poems The Heroes of Retreat , in which he published a selection of 37 poems from 1992 to 2009. Fischle provides inside and outside views of his acquaintances in pubs, each of which he presents with a photo alienated by a rough grid; next to it the poem that tells of the everyday life of the “heroes of retreat” and tells of a social class that “never thought of advancement, at most about who will throw the next round”.

The volume of poetry received some attention from the critics and the public for poetry and was even recommended to be read in company newspapers of IG Metall Stuttgart . The writer Peter O. Chotjewitz  - with the Fischle to Chotjewitz's death in December 2010 maintained a years of correspondence - characterized in its early 2010 in the journal actually published review of the poetry collection The heroes of retreat the poet Bernd "HARLEM" Fischle as follows:

“[...] HARLEM is not only the homeland poet of the» Negro Province «, about which he writes, he is also a true word acrobat. His ferments are not irony, contemplation and black humor, but anger […]. HARLEM goes one step further, which makes him an experimental language author. He doesn't just throw words at us, more or less nicely arranged, and doesn't trample them by misusing them as a means of conveying story and message. He cuts the bellies of the words and presents the words they contain. He unveils their double meanings, paradoxes and contradictions. So the sentences begin to shimmer. The stories remain in HARLEMS »Negro circles«, as he calls his social environment, but their linguistic form moves them into the museum of modern poetry. "

- Peter O. Chotjewitz : On the existence of a braggart. In: specifically , issue 2/2010

A reprint of the Fischle portrait and the book review by Chotjewitz from 2010 appeared in 2013 in the literary magazine DreckSack - Lesbare Zeitschrift für Literatur , edited by Florian Günther, and published in Günther's own edition Lükk Nösens in Berlin.

In 2010, Fischle's collection of poems, Lied der Straße , was published by MaroVerlag in Augsburg , which the publisher brought out in its annual edition ... series for the friends of MaroVerlag . Fischle also published numerous poems in the art magazine Der Mongolewart - magazine for literature and art , which was published by Michael Arenz and which was published irregularly by Zenon-Verlag in Düsseldorf until it was discontinued in 2013.

Bernd Fischle is married. The couple lives in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt .

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See information on Bernd HARLEM Fischle ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Killroy Media publishing house (www.killroy-media.de); accessed on February 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.killroy-media.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Peter O. Chotjewitz : Vom Dasein einer Aufschneider. Portrait of Bernd HARLEM Fischle and book review of the volume of poetry The Heroes of Retreat , in: specifically , Issue 2/2010, ISSN  0023-3528 ( online ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. from Killroy Media , Asperg / Ludwigsburg; accessed on February 21, 2014). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.killroy-media.de
  3. ↑ See culture. "Lyrik and jazz" or "jazz & lyric". In: IGM sommer Info , July 2010 edition, company newspaper of IG Metall Stuttgart for the employees of Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG , p. 7 ( information on "Alcatel Info July 2010"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. And download offer as PDF with 1.40 MB; accessed on February 22, 2014).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgart.igm.de  
  4. ↑ Peter O. Chotjewitz: Vom Dasein eines Aufschneiders (book review). In: DreckSack - Lesbare Zeitschrift für Literatur , Volume 4, October 2013, Issue 14, ISSN  2195-4410 ( table of contents ; accessed on February 22, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Fischle, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES HARLEM (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart