Dieter P. Meier-Lenz

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Dieter Paul Meier-Lenz (born January 24, 1930 in Magdeburg ; † July 1, 2015 in Serralongue , Arrondissement Céret , France ) was a German writer and editor living in France.

life and work

Dieter Paul Meier-Lenz attended the cathedral high school in Magdeburg . From 1969 to 1974 he studied German, political science, sociology and philosophy in Hanover and in 1974 passed the state examination for a higher teaching post. He became a teacher and from 1978 to 1984 headed the Anderten orientation level in Hanover. Since then he has lived as a writer and editor with his wife Ingeborg, until their death in 2012, in Serralongue in the French Eastern Pyrenees.

Meier-Lenz was for many years editor of the magazine for literature, art and criticism which hear , published topics volumes of literature and poetry and essays in anthologies and cultural and literary magazines (among others in form and meaning , NDL , middens and the poem ). He has received numerous awards (including the Alfred Kerr Prize in 1980 and 1988 and the Lower Saxony Art Prize in 1985 ) and was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Meier-Lenz often used stylistic features of Surrealism , for example when he “screwed” terms from technical civilization into surprising neologisms . About his volume of poetry published in 2004, The slow motion of the Salamander, was the opinion of Christoph Leisten that the poet was “at the height of his art. A consistent language style and a consistently original metaphor characterize “the poems there. Thomas Krüger wrote in neue deutsche literature that with his “recourse to Guillaume Apollinaire's poetological procedures , Meier-Lenz [...] was oriented towards the surrealist who understands the dangers of the merely alogical , arbitrary juxtaposition of dream sequences through a poetics of reorganization and strict control of the material knew to avoid ”.

In his essay Im Geschrei des Gedichte , the Saarland writer Ludwig Harig pointed out that Meier-Lenz called his verses “end poems rhyming to death, letter carcinomas”; Harig interpreted it as a "subversive game of poetry that can not be analyzed, argued, or interpreted as cleverly as possible".

Meier-Lenz was the founder and longstanding member of the Poetry group , through which he was in contact with members Joachim Grünhagen and Wulf Hühn .

Quote

" Since yesterday I am holding / an idea trapped // I have not yet given it a / name / because it lives in me restlessly / and regards me as a host / she even started / to speak of symbiosis / [...] "

- Dieter P. Meier-Lenz

Single track

  • Little naked men in the brain . Short stories. Appel, Hamburg 1968
  • Gradient in octaves . Poems. Appel, Hamburg 1968
  • Fishing grounds / Visgronden. German-Dutch poetry. Van der Wal publishing house, Bergen / Netherlands 1972
  • Allowed and prohibited songs . Edition of the Small Roof Gallery Bölke, Hanover 1975
  • Heinrich Heine, Wolf Biermann. Germany, 2 winter fairy tales. A comparison of works . Bouvier, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-416-01378-6
  • The crime scene is in my head . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1983, ISBN 3-88132-067-9
  • The aura between two mouths . éditions trèves, Trier 1990. ISBN 3-88081-274-8
  • Apollinaire emerges from the wall . Poems. / Apollinaire sort du mur. Atelier-Verlag, Andernach 1996, ISBN 3-921042-47-X
  • Mrs. Luna loves the man in the moon . Poems and prose. Ricker'sche university bookstore. Edition Literary Salon. Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-925740-22-8
  • The Sunday murderer . Poems and prose. Ricker'sche university bookstore. Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 2000, ISBN 3-925740-25-2
  • My gun is a sunset . Poems. Ricker'sche university bookstore. Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 2002, ISBN 3-925740-27-9
  • The slow motion of the salamander . Poems. Ricker'sche university bookstore. Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-925740-31-7
  • La Nature dans le Sang. Poemes . Poems french. Translator: Michel and Sigrid Wallon. Les Editions de la Rose de Verre 66, Amelie-les-Bains 2008, ISBN 2-9166-7510-8
  • In the scrub of words . Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2009, ISBN 978-3-933765-42-0
  • brain bird. selected poems 1990–2014 . With 7 drawings by Brigitte Kühlewind Brennenstuhl. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86356-089-8

Publication (selection)

  • Wolf Biermann and tradition. From the Bible to Ernst Bloch . Selection of texts and materials by Dieter P. Meier-Lenz. Klett, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-351210-X
  • Lower Saxony literary. 25 years of the Association of German Writers (VS) . (Together with Kurt Morawietz ). Bremerhaven 1983, ISBN 3-88314-294-8
  • A picture like milk and blood, so to speak, crime stories . editions treves, Trier 1991, ISBN 3-88081-204-7
  • The other Arcadia. Out and about in the universe fantasticum. About the opportunities and risks of a literary genre . (Compiled with Heiko Postma). Edition Die Horen, Bremerhaven 2005, ISBN 3-86509-265-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement in: Lyrikzeitung and Poetry News, July 19, 2015, online .
  2. ↑ after: 10 years of high school in Misburg. Festschrift 1985, excerpts online ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ In: Christoph Leisten : At another place. Dieter P. Meier-Lenz and his poetic world . In: The Other Arcadia . Wirtschaftsverlag NW Verlag für neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 2005, ISBN 3-86509-265-9 , ( Die Horen 217 = Vol. 50, Vol. 1), pp. 211-215.
  4. ↑ In: Thrown at the sound barrier . In: New German Literature (ndl) . No. 2/1997.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Harig: In the cry of the poem. Dieter P. Meier-Lenz for his seventieth . In: the hear. Journal for literature, art and criticism . No. 197.2000, ISSN  0018-4942
  6. ↑ Barbara Macherius, Martina Szymanski: Behüteter Abschied on the page gruppepoesie.de , last accessed on June 21, 2016
  7. ↑ From the poem obsession in: The Salamander's slow motion , page 35
personal data
SURNAME Meier-Lenz, Dieter P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier-Lenz, Dieter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2015
Place of death Serralongue , Arrondissement of Ceret , Languedoc-Roussillon , France