Dieter Forte

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Dieter Forte (born June 14, 1935 in Düsseldorf ; † April 22, 2019 in Basel ) was a German writer .

life and work

Dieter Forte completed a commercial training after school . In 1960/61 he sat in at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under Karl-Heinz Stroux , in 1962/63 he received an author's grant and worked under Egon Monk (also as assistant director and lecturer ) in the television department of Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg. He then lived as a freelance writer in Düsseldorf. In 1970, Forte took over from Friedrich Dürrenmatt as a resident author at the Basel Theater, where he worked with Werner Düggelin and Hermann Beil . He became known as a playwright , numerous radio plays and television films made him known to a wider audience as a seismograph of West German reality.

Forte made his debut as a playwright with his theater play Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer , which premiered in Basel in 1970, and The Introduction of Bookkeeping , which became a worldwide success. The play was previously not allowed to be premiered by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , as the city of Düsseldorf banned the performance of General Manager Karl-Heinz Stroux . The play was performed by more than fifty stages and translated into nine languages ​​and was the prelude to a theatrical trilogy about European civilization and the beginning of globalization . It was continued in 1978 with Jean Henry Dunant or The Introduction of Civilization and 1983 with The Labyrinth of Dreams or How to Separate the Head from the Body .

Since the late 1980s, Forte worked exclusively on a trilogy of novels. He published the first part of the epic in 1992 under the title Das Muster . In it he tells the story of an Italian-French silk weaver family and a Polish family of miners, who both flee to Germany for political, religious and economic reasons. In the second part, The Boy with the Bloody Shoes (1995), Forte writes about a childhood exposed to Nazi terror and bombing during World War II. In the third part, In Memory (1998), he describes the end of the war and the first years of reconstruction from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy. In summary, the three volumes appeared in 1999 under the title The House on My Shoulders .

In 2004 the novel On the Other Side of the World was published . He reflects on the 1950s in a lung sanatorium on a North Sea island. The seclusion contrasts with the changes that the economic boom brought with it - a Dante journey into death. This tetralogy was widely recognized.

Dieter Forte was married and lived as a freelance writer in Basel, where he died in April 2019 at the age of 83. He was a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German-Swiss PEN Center.

Awards (selection)

  • Since September 26, 2005, the former Düsseldorf comprehensive school Kikweg has been called the Städtische Dieter-Forte-Gesamtschule .

Works

prose

  • Take a guess at the puzzle zoo. Freiburg i. Br. 1970, a children's book (together with Ingrid Mizsenko)
  • The wall. Portrait of an afternoon. Stuttgart 1973
  • Attempts to escape. 4 TV films, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • The pattern. Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-10-022113-3
  • The boy with the bloody shoes. Frankfurt am Main 1995. ISBN 3-10-022115-X
  • In memory. Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 3-10-022114-1
  • The house on my shoulders. Frankfurt am Main 1999. ISBN 3-10-022117-6
  • Keep silent or speak. Essays by Dieter Forte and discussions, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • On the other side of the world. Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-10-022116-8
  • A day begins. Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • The labyrinth of the world. A book . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-022118-6 .
  • When the sky wasn't named . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019

Plays

Television films

  • Neighbors (ZDF 1970)
  • Sunday (ARD 1975)
  • Axis jump (ARD 1977)
  • Health! (ARD 1979)
  • The rise or a man is lost (ARD 1980)

Radio plays

  • The Wall (WDR 1965)
  • Bergerstrasse 8 (RIAS 1967)
  • Portrait of an Afternoon (Radio Bremen 1967)
  • Sprachspiel (WDR 1980)
  • Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer ... (Coproduction SWR, SFB, Radio Basel 1983)
  • Anechoic space (WDR 1984)
  • The conceited healthy or die in front of the woods (Coproduction Radio Basel, WDR 1985)
  • Reise-Gesellschaft or Die Fahrt nach Jerusalem (Coproduction WDR, SWR 1987)
  • The memory. Forgetting. (WDR 1994)

Audio books

literature

  • Dörthe Binkert-Hensel: Audience guidance and audience reaction using the example of Dieter Fortes "Martin Luther and Thomas Münzer or the introduction of accounting". Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • Guy Stern : Dieter Fortes Play "Luther, Münzer, and the Bookkeepers of the Reformation". In: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Ed.): The Martin Luther Quincentennial. Detroit 1985, pp. 205-220
  • Manfred Durzak : literature on the screen. Analyzes and discussions with Leopold Ahlsen, Rainer Erler, Dieter Forte, Walter Kempowski, Heinar Kipphardt, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Dieter Wellershoff . In: Media in Research and Education. Serie A . tape 28 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-484-34028-2 , chapter “The playwright and television: Conversation with Dieter Forte” and “Success is a superstition. About Dieter Forte's television games ”, p. 29-68 .
  • Holger Hof (ed.): From the compression of the world. Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Jürgen Hosemann (Ed.): It's a strange writing ... About Dieter Forte's work. Frankfurt am Main 2007
  • Brigitte Marschall: Dieter Forte . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 616 f.
  • Jürgen Ritte : Finals. History and memory with Dieter Forte, Walter Kempowski and WG Sebald. Berlin 2009
  • Leopoldo Domínguez: La presencia del flâneur en Tetralogy of Memory de Dieter Forte, in: Revista de Filologia Alemana . 2016. Vol. 24. pp. 141-160.

swell

  • Entry by Michael Töteberg in the Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG)
  • Franz Lennartz: German writers of the 20th century in the mirror of criticism . Kröner, Stuttgart 1984.
  • Thomas Kraft: Lexicon of contemporary German-language literature . Nymphenburger, Munich 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author Dieter Forte died. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Kulturnachrichten. April 23, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dieter Forte. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: P-Z. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , pp. 245–246.
  3. ↑ Lothar Schröder : The eternity of the library: News from Dieter Forte. In: RP Online . March 5, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jens Prüss : The Dieter Forte case - a scandal. In: RP Online . May 6, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dieter Forte. Municipal Dieter Forte Comprehensive School, accessed April 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Forte, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2019
Place of death Basel