Christian Saalberg

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Christian Saalberg, Provence 1983
Summer house in Saalberg (Zachełmie), 1930
Draft of the poem “Tell me not”, undated

Christian Saalberg , actually Christian Udo Rusche (born December 10, 1926 in Hirschberg / Riesengebirge , † May 25, 2006 in Kronshagen ) was a German writer.

life and work

Saalberg studied law in Kiel and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a lawyer and notary. Since 1992 he has lived as a freelance writer in Kronshagen (Schleswig-Holstein). He derived his name as a writer from the place of the same name (today Zachełmie ) in the Giant Mountains , where he spent his summer holidays as a child. Until his death he was a member of the PEN-Club Germany and Austria. For his work, which includes more than 20 volumes of poetry, Saalberg received several prizes and honors. Michael Braun wrote as a reason for choosing the jury for the book of the month : “Born in 1926 as Christian-Udo Rusche in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge, the 17-year-old experienced the horrors of the German war of annihilation in the east as a soldier, with one of the last ships he succeeded Escape across the Baltic Sea. In 1946 in Kiel, which was completely destroyed, he attended lectures on Baudelaire and poetic modernism from Rimbaud to René Char and has since felt obliged to the French intellectual world. From 1953 Saalberg lived a double existence: in his bourgeois life he became a lawyer, his ›second life‹ as a poet he protected by a pseudonym that was associated with the happiest place of his childhood: in Saalberg in the Giant Mountains was his grandparents' summer house. When he died on Ascension Day 2006, Christian Saalberg's work comprised 23 volumes, all of which only reached a tiny public. Under the editorship of Mirko Bonné and Viola Rusche, the poet's daughter, the Schöffling & Co. publishing house has now presented a carefully composed selection of Saalberg's lyrical works. It is the rediscovery of a very great figure in contemporary poetry, unmistakable in its power of imagination and its melodious elegies. "

Single track

  • The beautiful gardener (1963)
  • The Land of Afar (1968)
  • The Day as Voyageur (1971)
  • Husum Castle (1974)
  • The Blue Sky (1976)
  • After the Sirens Visit (1978)
  • Queen of Terror (1980)
  • When I Was Recently On Earth (1982)
  • Farewell to the Bird Men (1983)
  • On the Fan of a Rose (1984)
  • The Old Nights (1987)
  • Beautiful Guadalquivir (1985)
  • Go Dear Dawn (1989)
  • Capturing a Strange City (1991)
  • In front of the statue of Etienne Marcel (1991)
  • Today on Saint Catherine Day (1993)
  • The chirping of the dead birds (1995)
  • Difficult ruins. Prague Poems (1995)
  • Defeated by Life (1997)
  • Nameless Wood (1999)
  • Looking Away (2001)
  • Nobody lives here (2003)
  • Open Waters (2005)
  • On this beautiful day of death in May , Rimbaud Verlag , Aachen 2006
  • The invisible time. Early poems (1963–1985) , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2012
  • In the third minute of the dawn. Selected poems , Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 2019

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Theo Breuer , addicted to the Saalberg sound . In: Pebbles & Chestnut. Of new poems and stories . Monograph on contemporary poetry and prose after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008.

DVD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography on the poet's homepage
  2. ↑ Michael Braun, review of Saalberg's In the Third Minute of Dawn on signaturen-magazin.de, accessed on March 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Saalberg, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rusche, Christian Udo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg / Giant Mountains
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2006
Place of death Kronshagen