Carl Heinz Kurz

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Carl Heinz Kurz (born November 26, 1920 in Zellerfeld , † February 11, 1993 in Bovenden ) was a German writer.

Live and act

Kurz studied in Prague and Nottingham , among others . He then worked as a teacher and from the 1950s also worked as a writer, devoting himself particularly to religious topics, which he treated from the perspective of a Reformed Christian. In Brunnen Verlag , he published several biographies of exposed Christian personalities in the series Witnesses of the Living God, which was popular at the time , including the Japanese Kagawa Toyohiko , the clergyman and educator Johann Friedrich Oberlin , the order's founder Francis of Assisi , and the Irish philanthropist Thomas John Barnardo .

From the beginning of the 1970s, the author of Christian subjects increasingly became a travel writer who visited all continents and reported on them in books such as Asian Miniatures, American Impressions , Australian Silhouettes and African Reminiscences .

Carl Heinz Kurz was very interested in questions of contemporary German literature. His book portraits of poets deals with the poets Adolf Georg Bartels , Wilhelm Fredemann and Rudolf Otto Wiemer . The book Poetenbilder is dedicated to Karl Heinz Bolay , Peter Coryllis and Hajo Knebel . In numerous anthologies edited by Kurz, he wanted to introduce new discoveries to the reading public. The first literary publication by Volker Zotz can be found in his anthology Between Alle Gleisen in 1978 .

In 1977, while searching for the theologian and writer Hans Dittmer in Göttingen, he found his son Hans Otfried Dittmer , who, after several joint projects, brought him together with Gauke Verlag , where Kurz published a large number of books and series, mainly as editor.

On his travels and through his studies, Kurz got to know Japanese poetry, whose forms Haiku , Tanka and Haibun he wanted to make fertile for German literature. He presented numerous volumes of poetry in this direction, including 1985 On Shadowed Path . He had a long-standing literary friendship with the literary scholar Yukio Kotani . Kurz was instrumental in setting up the German Haiku Society . The “founder was the writer, scholar and world traveler Carl Heinz Kurz. Choosing the name of his holiday home in the Harz Mountains, he also donated a 'Haiku Prize in the Eulenwinkel'. "

Works (selection)

  • Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. Brother among brothers . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1955.
  • Johan Hus. A champion of the Reformation . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1956.
  • Mallets and irons. The Auersche Chronik. 7-part family story . Gauke Verlag, Hann. Münden 1982, ISBN 978-3-87998-048-2 .
  • Relationship to reality and philosophical tendencies in German-language literature . Alta Napa Press Publ. Calistog 1983, ISBN 978-3-88996-029-0 .
  • ... I tore my shirt and my skirt ...: Reading in Wittlich's synagogue; a German text in 33 languages. Verlag zum Halben Bogen, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 978-3-88996-138-9 .
  • The death of Spirit Rock. Senryu and Tanka series . Verlag Graphicum, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-88996-197-6 .

literature

  • Johannes Lebek : Pappelhof. Visit to Carl Heinz Kurz, writer in Rauschenwasser . Verlag Das Viergespann, Frankfurt (Main) 1974.
  • Ralf Busch : Carl Heinz Kurz. Writer in Rauschenwasser. A documentation . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Das Viergespann 1974
  • Wilhelm Bortenschlager : Islands: From the life and work of Carl Heinz Kurz . Graphic Dr. Mock. 2nd edition, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-921105-98-6 .
  • Margret Buerschaper : Carl Heinz Kurz - a German shark. Biographical and literary considerations. Graphicum, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-88996-198-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source used for this article on life and work: Wilhelm Bortenschlager: Insel aus Leben und Werk des Carl Heinz Kurz . Graphic Dr. Mock. 2nd edition, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-921105-98-6 .
  2. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Toyohiko Kagawa. The samurai of Jesus Christ . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1951.
  3. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Johann Friedrich Oberlin. The patriarch of the stone valley . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1952.
  4. ↑ Carl Heinz Kurz: Franziskus von Assisi: The Herald de great king . Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1952.
  5. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Thomas John Barnardo. A life among no-man's children . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1954.
  6. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Asian miniatures. From my travel sketchbooks . Verlag Graphicum, Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3-921105-28-3 .
  7. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: American Impressions . Graphicum Mock, Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3-921105-27-6 .
  8. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Australian silhouettes . Verlag Graphicum, Munich 1975, ISBN 978-3-921105-35-1 .
  9. ↑ Carl Heinz Kurz: African Reminiscences. From my travel sketchbooks . With drawings by Alfred Pohl . Verlag Graphikum Mock, Munich 1975, ISBN 978-3-921105-32-0 .
  10. ^ Carl Heinz Kurz: Poet portraits . Verlag Das Viergespann, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  11. ↑ Carl Heinz short poets images . Verlag Das Viergespann, Frankfurt am Main 1977.
  12. ↑ Carl Heinz Kurz (Ed.): Between all tracks. Smallest anthology . Ed. Half sheet, Scheden 1978.
  13. ↑ Cf. Friedhelm Köhler , Friederike Migneco , Benedikt Maria Trappen (eds.): Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz for his 60th birthday. Edition Habermann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-96025-009-8 , p. 86.
  14. ↑ Carl Heinz Kurz: Close to the owls and the moon. Tanka (500 copies numbered and signed by hand). Scheden, Dittmer Publications 1978
  15. ↑ Carl Heinz Kurz: On a shadowed path: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Renga . Schlender, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 978-3-88051-117-0 .
  16. ↑ Erika Richter: "High honor for the 'Senryu master'." In: Sauerland . Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund (formerly Trutznachtigall, Heimwacht and Sauerlandruf). Volume 34 • Issue 3 • September 2001 ISSN  0177-8110 , pp. 153–154.
personal data
SURNAME In short, Carl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Zellerfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1993
Place of death Bovenden