Christoph Klimke

Christoph Klimke (born November 22, 1959 in Oberhausen ) is a German writer .

Life

Christoph Klimke grew up in Kleve . From 1980 to 1982 he studied German and Italian in Bonn and Florence . Since 1984 he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . He is the author of stories , essays , poems , plays and libretti ; he also translates from Italian . Klimke is a member of the Association of German Writers . He received u. a. In 1990 the advancement award for literature of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and a working grant from the Berlin Senate and in 1995 an Alfred Döblin grant and the Ernst Barlach award for literature . His collection of poems Bernsteinherz is the 602nd and last title of the small bibliophile Düsseldorf publisher Eremiten-Presse , founded in 1949 , which ceased its publishing activities in 2010 due to financial difficulties. In 2016 he became the 44th town clerk in Rheinsberg . In the Deutsches Theater Göttingen became his musical "America First" premiered in December 2017th

Book publications

• Dreams of a black time. Bonn 1981 (together with Göntje Winter ).
• Blue dreams. St. Michael 1983.
• The sinner. Berlin 1985.
• Power of the past. On motifs from Pier Paolo Pasolini's films . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1988.
• City dreamer. Floor plans: Berlin / Rome. Story, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek near Hamburg 1989.
• Sand alphabet. Poems Nuremberg 1991 (together with Jürgen Brodwolf ).
• The test or chronicle of an embezzled soul. Narrative. Radius-Verlag Stuttgart 1992.
• Where the dark is dark enough. Radius-Verlag Stuttgart 1994.
• We are all in danger. Essay. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1995.
• Federico García Lorca or honey is sweeter than blood. Essay, Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1998.
• Everything is a dream. Poems, Oberbaum Verlag Berlin 2000.
• Janus city. Story, Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 2001.
• Angels are not killed. Poems, Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2002.
• Hotel Macondo. Poems. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 2004.
• Flapping wings. Poems. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2005.
• Amber heart. Poems. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2008.
• News from the beloved. Stories (with Mario Wirz ), Querverlag Berlin 2009.
• Not without my paws: cats, dogs, lesbians, gays. (with Sarah Mondegrin ), Querverlag Berlin 2011.
• Poetry album 308 : Christoph Klimke , selection of poems and graphics by Günter Kunert . MärkischerVerlag Wilhelmshorst 2013. ISBN 978-3-943708-08-0 .
• Wanderlust. Poems. With an afterword by Günter Kunert. Elfenbein Verlag , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941184-26-8 .
• Face the scandal. Pier Paolo Pasolini . A biographical essay. Elfenbein Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-941184-49-7 .

Plays

• The Blood Brothers , premier March 1st, 1997, Schauspiel Bonn
• The Siamese Twins , Premiere February 10, 1991, Theater Dortmund
• Leonzek & Woyce , Premiere 1992, Theater am Turm Frankfurt / Main
• Bad blood
• The bare feet (based on Pasolini Teorema ), premiere 1995, Landestheater Tübingen
• Spiegelgrund, WP 4.9.2005, Volkstheater Vienna
• Tiergartenstrasse 4 , WP April 11, 2008, Tribüne Berlin
• Felix Nussbaum . First performance January 30th, 2010 Theater Osnabrück
• Maestro . World premiere November 6, 2009, Landestheater Salzburg Play (about Herbert von Karajan )
• Fürst Pückler Utopia , world premiere October 30, 2010, Staatstheater Cottbus
• The 120 Days of Sodom (based on Pasolini ), world premiere in 2015, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin

Libretti for dance theater productions by Johann Kresnik

• The Ring of the Nibelung I and II , 2006–2008, Bonn Opera
• Supper of love based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's “Teorema”, 1996, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin
• Goya - The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters UA 1999, Volksbühne Berlin
• Don Quixote , WP 27 January 2000, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin
• Brave New World , UA 2000, Volksbühne Berlin
• The 120 Days of Sodom , Premiere 2015, Volksbühne Berlin

Opera libretti

• Oggi stesso . Libretto for the Requiem by Günther Wiesemann , premiere 1997
• The possessed , libretto for the opera by Johannes Kalitzke based on Witold Gombrowicz , premiere: February 19, 2010, Theater an der Wien , Vienna
• Das Holzschiff , libretto for the opera by Detlev Glanert based on Hans Henny Jahnn , premiere: November 9, 2010, Staatstheater Nürnberg
• Tucholskys Spiegel , libretto for the opera by James Reynolds , WP: July 21, 2017, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg

Editing

• Ciao, Italy! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988 (edited together with Alice Franck)
• Power of the Past , Frankfurt am Main 1988
• Love men and women , Reinbek near Hamburg 1989 (published together with Agnes Frei)
• You my me , Reinbek near Hamburg 1991
• Oh Adam! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1993

Translations

• Pier Vittorio Tondelli : Other Freedoms , Reinbek near Hamburg 1990 (translated together with Rüdiger Oetke)
• Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Pao pao - group picture with man , Reinbek near Hamburg 1989 (translated together with Castor Seibel)

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Klimke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Christoph Klimke at Literaturport
• Entry on "Teatrkreatur"
• The wolves have turned gray, in: Die Welt 2009

Single receipts

1. ↑ Christoph Klimke new town clerk. queer, accessed May 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Philip Dingeldey: A Woyzeck in the age of fake news. The German stage, accessed on May 27, 2018 .