Curt Hohoff
Curt Hohoff , also Kurt Hohoff , (born March 18, 1913 in Emden , † February 14, 2010 in Munich ) was a German writer, literary critic and essayist.
Life
From 1933 to 1936, Hohoff studied medicine, then German, English, history and philosophy in Munich, Berlin, Münster and Cambridge. With a thesis on comedy and humor in Heinrich von Kleist , he received his doctorate from the University of Muenster in Günther Müller Dr. phil. 1936–39 he wrote a. a. Contributions to the Catholic monthly Hochland as well as to the literary magazine Das Innere Reich . 1939–45 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht . From 1947 he worked as an editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , from 1948 for the Rheinischer Merkur . From 1949 he lived as a freelance writer in Munich. He also wrote articles for the daily newspaper Die Welt . In 1956 he triggered the "Goll Affair" with the reference to a text similarity between two poems by Yvan Goll and Paul Celan , with which he wanted to prove its epigonality . The West German feuilletons discussed lively and sometimes with anti-Semitic undertones about alleged plagiarism of Celan, which hurt him deeply.
Honors, memberships
- 1954: Prize from the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature
- 1956: Member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
- 1966: Tukan Prize
- 1992: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Works (selection)
- Comedy and humor with Heinrich von Kleist . A contribution to clarifying the intellectual structure of a poet . Ebering Verlag, Berlin 1937
- The hop kick . Tales from the war. Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1941
- Flood . Stories. Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 1948
- Adalbert Stifter, his poetic resources and the prose of the 19th century . Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1949
- Woina-Woina . Russian diary. Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf and Cologne 1951
- Fire poppies in the wheat . Novel. Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf and Cologne 1953
- Spirit and origin. To modern literature . Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1954
- Paul in Babylon . Novel. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1956
- Wings of time. German poems 1900-1950 . Selection and Afterword. Fischer library, Frankfurt am Main 1956
- Heinrich von Kleist in personal testimonies and photo documents . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1958
- The forbidden city . Narrative. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1958
- Poetry and poets of the time, from naturalism to the present . Bagel Verlag, Düsseldorf 1961–63 (two-volume work; together with Albert Soergel )
- How do you write literary history? (Lecture). Kutsch Verlag, Aachen 1962
- Gerd Gaiser . Work and shape . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1963
- Intersections . Collected Essays. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1963
- Dangerous transition . Stories. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1964
- The March hares . Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966
- Against the time. Theology - Literature - Politics . Essay. Stuttgart 1970
- Munich. Portrait of a city . Munich 1971
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz in personal testimonies and photo documents . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1977
- Johann Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen in personal testimonies and photo documents . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1978
- Among the fish. Memories of Men, Girls and Books (1934–1939) . Wiesbaden 1982
- Venus in September . Novel. Wiesbaden 1984
- Visit to Kalypso. Landscapes and portraits . Berlin 1988
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Poetry and life . Munich 1989
- Scheda - over in flight. Novel of a youth . Munich 1993
- Veritas Christiana. Essays on literature . Cologne 1994
- Shine of reality . Essay. Vienna, Leipzig 1998
Web links
- Literature by and about Curt Hohoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Curt Hohoff in the German Digital Library
- Search for Curt Hohoff in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curt Hohoff , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1997 from December 1, 1997, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ Tilman Krause: Curt Hohoff is 90. In: welt.de . March 17, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ^ Ute Harbusch: Opposite translations . Paul Celan's Transfers of French Symbolists . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, p. 46.
- ^ Entry in the DNB , accessed on April 3, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hohoff, Curt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hi, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, literary critic and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2010 |
| Place of death | Munich |