Dieter Hoffmann (writer)

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Dieter Hoffmann (born August 2, 1934 in Dresden ) is a German writer , poet , essayist and author of modern art .

Live and act

Hoffmann grew up in Dresden and moved to the Federal Republic in 1957 , after he was banned from practicing his profession in the GDR . From 1961 he worked as a features editor in Stuttgart and then in the same position at the Frankfurter Neue Presse in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1979 he has also been a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he wrote under the pseudonym Anton Thormüller . Hoffmann had been a member since 1969 and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz from 1974 to 1981, and in 1998 he held a poetics professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Hoffmann is referred to as the “mediator between poetry and visual arts”. Already in Dresden he made contact with numerous painters such as Hans Körnig , Ernst Hassebrauk and Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein . In southwest Germany he made friends with well-known artists such as Max Ackermann , Eugen Batz and Horst Antes . He is considered a “[…] border crosser between two cultures - East and West.” The numerous works that emerged from the collaboration with artists were shown in 2005 at the exhibitions The word loves pictures. Dieter Hoffmann - Works with artists and presses from 1955 to 2005 in the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig and then shown in the German Library in Frankfurt am Main.

Hoffmann lives and works in Markt Geiselwind . He has been married since 1964.

Works

Fonts

  • Aufz Aufzuchen dich seine Sternenhände , 1953 (private print).
  • Mohnwahn , 1956 (with lithographs by Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein).
  • Poems from the Augustaean GDR , 1977.
  • The Lößnitz and its artists. In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein (ed.): Lößnitz − Radebeul cultural landscape. (= Dresdner Hefte Nr. 54), Verlag Dresdner Geschichtsverein, Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-910055-44-3 , pp. 69-76.
  • Poems from the GDR blessed , 1999.
  • New Nymphs, 50 poems , 2000, edition of the Berlin graphic press, with line etchings by Dieter Goltzsche.
  • Scattered Flower Pattern - A Florilegium , 2001.
  • Berliner Blick , Corvinus Presse, 2012.
  • Beer nomads , with graphics by Kay Voigtmann , Corvinus Presse, 2013.

Selected poems

  • Empire Autumn (The halberds of the plane tree leaves)
  • Brewery (the coat of arms of silence is wreathed with hops)
  • Flight (an aluminum morning)

Exhibitions

  • 1991: Dieter Hoffmann and his artist friends , Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main
  • 1994: Dieter Hoffmann - poet and art lover , Saxon State Library, Dresden
  • 2005: The word loves pictures. Dieter Hoffmann - Working with artists and presses 1955 to 2005 , German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig and German Library, Frankfurt am Main

Prices

literature

  • The word loves pictures. Dieter Hoffmann - Working with Artists and Presses 1955 to 2005 , (exhibition catalog with detailed biography and bibliography), Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, ISBN 3-933641-63-2
  • Ex Libris exhibition catalog. Texts by Karin Weber, Brigitte Rieger-Jaehner, Heiner-Protzmann. With 21 color plates. 1994. 39 p. 4 °. Original brochure. Signed FIRST EDITION First edition. Special edition (ea) with an enclosed signed serigraph in colors. From the library of the poet and art writer Dieter Hoffmann, with a dedication by the artist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Niggemann: Foreword . In: Deutsche Bibliothek (Ed.): The word loves pictures. Dieter Hoffmann - Working with artists and presses 1955 to 2005 . S. 9 ( PDF, 1.6 MB ; limited preview in Google Book Search - exhibition catalog).
  2. ↑ The above three poems are from: Hans Bender (Ed.), Gegenpiel. German poetry since 1945 , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1962, without ISBN
  3. ^ Wilhelm Heinse Medal. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, essayist and art author
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden