Dieter Kühn (writer)

Dieter Kühn, 2011

Dieter Kühn (born February 1, 1935 in Cologne , † July 25, 2015 in Brühl (Rhineland) ) was a German writer .

Life

Dieter Kühn attended elementary school in Herrsching am Ammersee and the grammar school in Munich . After the family moved to Düren in 1949, he passed the Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium there in 1955 and then studied German and English at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Bonn . He then visited the United States and was an assistant at Haverford College for a year . In 1964 he was with a thesis on Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities doctorate . Kühn had been a writer since 1965. In 1993 Kühn held the Frankfurt Poetics Lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Dieter Kühn's extensive work includes novels , stories , biographies , children's books , essays , poems , plays and radio plays , some of which he directed himself. He has also emerged as a translator of Middle High German classics. Me Wolkenstein , his biography of Oswald von Wolkenstein , and his transmissions of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Tristan by Gottfried von Straßburg were "a literary sensation because they opened up a completely new approach to the Middle Ages".

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Dieter Kühn was a member of the PEN Center Germany . He last lived in Brühl near Cologne and was buried on July 31, 2015 in the Melaten cemetery (hallway 28 no. 95) in Cologne.

In July 2016 it became known that Kühn's estate was donated to the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

Books

• Analogy and variation. For the analysis of Robert Musil's novel 'The Man Without Qualities' . Dissertation. Bouvier, Bonn 1965. (= Bonn works on German literature, Volume 13)
• The annoyance. Radio play . Joint production of the Saarland Radio and the Hessian Radio. Saarbrücken u. Frankfurt am Main 1966.
• N . Novel biography. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1970 (paperback edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-06593-9 ).
• Excursions in a captive balloon. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• Boulevard theater or: there must be order. Comedy . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich / Basel / Vienna 1971.
• Music & Society . Tsamas-Verlag, Bad Homburg 1971.
• Limits of Resistance. Essays . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• Siam-Siam. An adventure book . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• With the magic horse to London . Children's novel . Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1973.
• The president. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973.
• Festival for red skins. Narration . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974.
• Company battering ram. Business game study on the effect of socially critical literature . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974.
• Air warfare as an adventure. Martial arts . (Hanser series, 180) Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-446-12000-9 .
• Stanislav the silent . (Roman) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-518-03493-6 .
• Achmed's secret language . With pictures by Kurt Halbritter. Publisher Gertraud Middelhauve, Velber near Hanover 1976.
• Goldberg Variations. [Four] radio play texts with materials . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• Autumn maneuvers. In: SPECTACULUM 27. Nine modern plays. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• Josephine. From the public biography of Josephine Baker . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• Op the park bench . Greven publisher, Cologne 1976.
• A closet is besieged. Acting . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• I Wolkenstein . A biography . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• Ludwigslust. Narratives . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• The ghost hand . With pictures by Dirk Zimmer. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• Separate presentation. Acting . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• The lord of the flying fish. A fairy tale . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
• Lion music. Essays . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979.
• Typefaces, picture writing . Private printing by the Anker carpet factory, Gebrüder Schoeller. Düren 1979.
• And the Sultan of Oman. Narration . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979.
• On the timeline. Four concepts . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Galactic noise. 6 radio plays . Afterword by Heinrich Vormweg. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Mr. Neidhart . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
• Snow and sulfur. Poems . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982.
• The wild song of Empress Elisabeth . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
• The Himalayas in the winter garden. Narratives . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• The Chamber of Black Light. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Message in a bottle for Goethe , Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
• Bettine's last love affairs . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• The Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• Neidhart from the Reuental . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
• Beethoven and the black violinist. Novel . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Tristan and Isolde from Gottfried of Strasbourg. Ulrich von Türheim: Tristan. A continuation . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
• The minute of a butterfly. Narration . Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1992.
• The hay, the woman, the knife . Insel, Frankfurt am Main u. Leipzig 1993.
• A horse flies to the west. Children's novel . With pictures by Margit Pawle. Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Clara Schumann , piano. A book of life . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-10-041503-5 .
• The flying king of fish . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• Prince Achmed and the Sultan's horses . With pictures by Margit Pawle. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• Neidhart and the Reuental. A journey through life . Revised new edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• The King of Greenland. An artist novel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1997.
• The secret of the Dolphin Bay . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• Goethe goes to war. A biographical sketch . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
• On the way to Annemarie Böll . Heinrich Böll Foundation eV, Berlin 2000.
• Mrs. Merian! A life story . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• With wing ears: My radio play book . Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
• Schiller's desk in Buchenwald. Report . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005.
• Secret Agent Marlowe . Novel of a murder . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-041510-3 .
• Gertrud Kolmar . Life and work, time and death . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-041511-0 .
• A Mozart in Galicia. Story told . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-041515-8 .
• I was Hitler's guardian angel. Fictions . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-041515-8 .
• The Musil I blasted into the air. Fake stories? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-041516-5 .
• The magic eye. My book of life . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-041513-4 .
• The seventh wave. My logbook . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002279-0 .
• Late performance. My theater book. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002495-4 .
• Snow and sulfur. Poems . With an afterword by Tilman Spreckelsen. Fischer TB 29934, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29934-8 .

Radio plays (selection)

• 1960: The banner . With Bum Krüger , Hans Müller-Westernhagen , Manfred Heidmann , Heinz von Cleve and others directed by Edward Rothe . Production: WDR .
• 1962: Fairy tales and legends: The golden barrel . With Wolfgang Wahl , Ursula Langrock , Harry Grüneke , Peter Fricke and others directed by Otto Kurth . Production: WDR.
• 1962: The fire angel . With Hanns Ernst Jäger , Friedrich W. Bauschulte , Walter Jokisch , Magda Hennings and others, directed by Edward Rothe. Production: WDR.
• 1965: the nuisance . With Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , Jürgen Goslar , Erla Prollius , Hans Caninenberg and others. Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell. Production: SR / HR .
• 1969: Submarine game . With Martin Held and Günther Lüders . Director: Friedhelm Ortmann . Production: WDR / HR / SR.
• 1969: Op de park bench. With Maria Krahn . Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler . Production: WDR.
• 1970: The spiral . With Vadim Glowna . Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm . Production: BR .
• 1970: Stervenswöötche . With Karl-Maria Schley . Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler . Production: WDR.
• 1972: Et Maachwoot jesproche. Three radio plays in Cologne dialect: (1) image disturbance, (2) Et complaining band, (3) Jesang op der Walz . Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler . Production: WDR.
• 1972: Friday learns to speak . Director: Friedhelm Ortmann, Production: WDR.
• 1973: Lemsomd (bairisch for retirement ). Dieter Kühn wrote the radio play, the monologue of an old woman in the park of a retirement home, under the title Op de Parkbank , later it was translated into Bavarian by the playwright, actor and director Martin Sperr . With Therese Giehse . Director: Martin Sperr. Production: BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
• 1973: Great Opera for Stanislaw the Silent . With Walter Bluhm (coachman), Ernst Jacobi (traveler), Charles Wirths (opera goer), Max Mairich (cook), Dieter Borsche (librarian) a. a. Director: Heinz von Cramer , Production: BR / NDR / WDR.
• 1973: Language regulation . With Hans Korte (functionary), Herbert Fleischmann (teacher 1), Herbert Bötticher (teacher 2) and Marlies Compère , Paul Hoffmann , Walter Schmidinger , Klaus Schwarzkopf , Erro Wacke . Director: Heinz Hostnig , Production: BR.
• 1974: Goldberg Variations . With Ernst Jacobi . Music collage and direction: Heinz von Cramer . Production: BR / HR.
  • Award: Radio Play Prize of the War Blind 1974.
• 1975: Op de park bench . Translation into Low German: Jochen Schütt . With Erika Rumsfeld . Director: Hans Helge Ott . Production: RD .
• 1980: Hello, Mr. Speer. SWF2 , radio essay .
• 2007: Overtaking maneuvers on the sound track . With Hans Peter Korff , Renate Schroeter , Susana Fernandes-Genebra . Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann . Production: SWR .

Audio books

• Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival. Transferred by Dieter Kühn, speakers: Bernt Hahn, Peter Fitz, Bernd Kuschmann, Andreas Pietschmann and Dieter Kühn. WDR-3 radio project (1998). Patmos audio book, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-91231-1 .

Editing

• Johann Most : A socialist in Germany . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974.
• with Ludwig Harig : Netzer came from the depths of the room. Necessary contributions to the World Cup . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974.
• Eduard Pöppig : Near the eternal snow. A trip to the Andes in the 19th century . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
• Bettina von Arnim : From my life . Compiled and commented by Dieter Kühn. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982.

Translations

• Gottfried von Strasbourg : Tristan and Isolde of Gottfried von Strasbourg . Edited by Dieter Kühn, with the assistance of Lambertus Okken. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. Leipzig 1991.
• Neidhart von Reuental : Songbook for Neidhart . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
• Wolfram von Eschenbach : Parzival . Revised and commented on by Eberhard Nellmann after Karl Lachmann's edition. Transferred by Dieter Kühn. Volumes I and II in 2 volumes. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.

Awards

• 1972: Prize of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature
• 1974: Georg Mackensen Literature Prize
• 1975: Radio play award of the war blind
• 1977: Hermann Hesse Prize
• 1980/1981: Bergen town clerk
• 1985: Brothers Grimm Professorship
• 1989: Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1993: Mainzer Stadtschreiber Literature Prize of the ZDF and the city of Mainz
• 2014: Carl Zuckmayer Medal

Movie

• Dieter Kühn - no room with a view of the lake, production: Claus Spahn , WDR, 1994

literature

• Romana Rathmanner: The biography in Dieter Kühn's works. Thesis. Vienna 1988.
• Konstanze Streese: “Cric?” - “Crac!” Four literary attempts to deal with colonialism. (= New York University Ottendorfer series. NF 38). Lang, Bern et al. 1991, ISBN 3-261-04345-8 .
• Werner Klüppelholz, Helmut Scheuer (ed.): Dieter Kühn. (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch; 2113, materials ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-38613-1 .
• Hee-Kwon Jang: Experiment with History. On the narrative form of Dieter Kühn's biographical novels. Univ. Dissertation Bielefeld 2000.
• Ofelia Martí-Peña, Brigitte Eggelte (ed.): Dieter Kühn. A meeting with the writer about his work. Lang, Bern et al. 2001, ISBN 3-906758-35-4 .
• Stephanie Hüncken: Dieter Kühn and the biography. Modern storytelling between art and science. (= Kassel Studies. 8). Carl Böschen Verlag , Siegen 2003, ISBN 3-932212-60-6 .
• Nathalie Jacoby: Possible Lives. For the formal integration of fictional and factual elements in literature using the example of contemporary fictional biography. (= European university publications; series 1, German language and literature. 1851). Lang, Bern et al. 2005, ISBN 3-906770-47-8 .
• Christian Klein: Dieter Kühn. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3. Edition. Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , pp. 478-480.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Kühn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dieter Kühn at perlentaucher.de
• Dieter Kühn: Secret agent Marlowe. ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Book review. at netzine.de, accessed on January 9, 2013.
• Dieter Kühn in the OPAC of the Stadtschreiberarchiv

Individual evidence

1. ^ Writer Dieter Kühn died
2. ↑ Tilman Spreckelsen: He showed us the Middle Ages through a polished pane. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 27, 2015, p. 9.
3. ↑ Donation: Dieter Kühn's estate goes to Marbach , boersenblatt.net, July 13, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016.
4. ↑ Digitized at Google Books (excerpts)
5. ↑ So it was and no different. In: FAZ . November 16, 2011, p. 30.
6. ↑ ARD audio game database. Retrieved November 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ ARD audio game database. Retrieved November 21, 2018 . 
8. ^ BR radio play Pool - Kühn, Lemsomd
9. ↑ ARD audio game database. Retrieved November 21, 2018 . 
10. ↑ 2014 Prize Winner Dieter Kühn receives the Carl Zuckmayer Medal on swr.de on November 14, 2013.