Dietmar Scholz

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Dietmar Scholz (born October 15, 1933 in Kunitz , Liegnitz / Silesia district; † February 19, 2016 in Reutlingen ) was a German writer and painter. He was a member of the International PEN Club , the Association of German Writers , the Wangener Kreis and the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

Life

In 1945 he lost his original home through displacement. He then lived in Bad Urach and had his place of residence in Reutlingen since 1964 . There he worked for many years as a teacher in vocational training.

After receiving training in painting and drawing from Professor Denk, he also turned to the fine arts. Scholz lived in the Altenburg district of Reutlingen .

Dietmar Scholz worked as a teaching clerk at the Deutsche Bundespost in vocational training until his retirement.

His literary estate is kept in the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg.

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literature

His literary work includes poetry, books for children and young people, prose and essays as well as a radio play.

The two narrow volumes of poetry between the stones and seams appeared in quick succession in 1974 and 1975. The subject and content of the poetry combined there are - among other existential topics - the loss of home, the processing of the resulting pain and the attempt to cope with it with poems such as with the great current and cast off . “With this circling of the event and the individual consequences, the author offers people of the same fate meaningful processing possibilities. There is no 'disposal of the past'; what is lost remains valuable, but the pain over it becomes productive as it becomes more understandable - whereby its destructive effect is lost. [...] His ego is still 'at the point of intersection between today and yesterday' (Pawel Zimniak). "

The narrative work consists of two collections of short stories, a teacher novel and three longer independent stories. “Scholz writes precise language in his prose, conveys images of events with precise lines, draws people and situations briefly and emphatically. [...] Despite all the realism, he penetrates deeper layers, often only suggestively, in omissions, in apparently unfinished sentences, reports. [...] They are stories of his generation, those who still experienced war and displacement, new approaches and new hardships. But also stories of a generally human nature, of love, meeting, falling apart, abandonment, passing by, with wounds and scars. But also memories of the carefree and still unsuspecting happiness of the youth. ”(Ernst Schremmer, in the foreword to“ A day in October ”)

Visual arts

In the art of painting, Scholz created a work with a variety of techniques, motifs and forms. At Scholz's vernissages, “art can be experienced through art”. In his musical triad , he brought text, image and music together: the voice of the author who reads his texts, images in the listener's field of vision and the pieces of music selected by the music interpreter for texts and images.

Awards

1974: 1st prize for a picture poem
1976: 2nd prize for a picture poem
1978: Sponsorship award for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
1980: 2nd prize for a picture poem
1985: Eichendorff Literature Prize
1987: Scholarship for the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony
1993: Pro Arte medal from the Esslingen Artists' Guild
1994: 3rd Prize from the Society of Lyrikfreunde Salzburg
2014: Edith-Heine-Lyrikpreis 2013 of the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien

Catalog raisonné

Poetry

between the stones (1974)
seams (1975)
in the noon of things (1978)
turning points (1980)
inner ways (1985)
time stamps (1990)
Children of the Wind (1992)
Embassies in October. Texts and pictures.
Heckling (1998)
Insecure proximity. You Poems (1998)
Guitars in Fall (2001)
Under a wide sky. Declaration of love to Burgenland in text and pictures.
Autumn Leaves (2008)
Wild Wine (2008)
Stations (2012)

Epic

Colleagues' Praise and Other Stories (1987)
One day in October. Stories. Pictures by Heribert Losert (1991)
Poldi. Narrative (2004)
Step out of the day. Narration (2011)
Days at the lake. Narration (2012)
Interim balance. Narration (2012)
Radio play the rest

Cheerful / humor

Of Course Easter Bunnies Can Fly (1993)
EinStein im Kasten (2005)
The car and us (2007)
TOOOR !!! (2008)
Rhymed bike slide

essay

With the Word in the Language (1983)
Tightrope walk. Word and image in interplay.
Texts related to art

To pictures

Brotherly ways
Views, Insights, and Prejudices in Art
Through time (picture folder)

Children's books

Tales from the Toy Box (1984)
The Little Man in the Moon (2006)
The frog cock. Stories Before Sleeping (2012)

Youth books

A girl wins ... a competition, a home, a friend (1978)
Kai and the Boys by the Lake (1981)
Pavel and the Clique (1982)

Aphorisms

... a little wink (2003)
In a nutshell (2012)
In Brief (2013)

Translations into Polish

Twoj obraz (Your picture) (29 poems from Wild Wine) (2011)
Wilder Wein / Dzikie wino (bilingual) (2012)
Stations / Stacje (bilingual) (2013)
Setting of individual poem texts by: Veit Erdmann - Wolfram Fürstenau - Georg Lawall - Fei Wang - Erich Robert Sorge - Widmar Hader - Dietmar Gräf.

literature

Specifications / appreciations

Lebert-Hinze, Vera: Poetry in media urgency. Eichendorff Prize Winner 1985 Dietmar
Scholz; in: Der Literat 27 (1985), p. 257.
“To write, that is to suggest a dream”. Dietmar Scholz with his friends on his 60th birthday (1993)
"... as long as friends still understand your language ..." Dietmar Scholz with his friends on his 70th birthday (2003)
Gonschorrek, Ulrich: "Born to see, ordered to look ..." For the poet and painter Dietmar Scholz on his 70th birthday on October 15, 2003 (2003)
Gnädinger, Albert: “one with hope / and longing / and love”. Highlights on Dietmar Scholz. Laudation to celebrate his 75th birthday (2008)

Essays / scientific papers

Hoffbauer, Jochen: Guard the picture - Liegnitz and its poets.
Moderacka, Karolina: Germany - the hard paradise at Dietmar Scholz. Zielona Góra 2002. (Prague master's thesis on the radio play “The Rest”.)
Zimniak, Pawel: Lower Silesia as a space for memory and imagination in the poetry of Dietmar Scholz (Dietmar Scholz on his 70th birthday); in: A Province in Literature. Silesia between reality and imagination. Edited by Edward Bialek, Robert Buczek and Pawel Zimniak. Wrocław-Zielona Góra 2003, pp. 355-370.
Zimniak, Pawel: (1) Dietmar Scholz and Lower Silesian places of remembrance as non-places; (2) Farewell to home with Dietmar Scholz; in: Pawel Zimniak: Lower Silesia as a memory space after 1945. Literary case studies. Habilitation thesis at Justus Liebig University of Gießen. Wrocław-Dresden 2007, pp. 193–214 and 335–347.
Unverricht, Hubert: German-speaking poets and writers from the city and district of Liegnitz after 1945; in: Literary Liegnitz. Edited by Edward Bialek and Hubert Unverricht. Dresden-Wrocław 2008, pp. 203-216.
Zimniak, Pawel: Places of Childhood as 'Non-Places' - On the universalization of home in texts by Dietmar Scholz; in: Literarisches Liegnitz (see above), pp. 233-265.
Gonschorrek, Ulrich: The poet-painter Dietmar Scholz; in: Edward Bialek and Pawel Zimniak (eds.): Silesia in litteris servata. Paradigms of memory in texts by Silesian authors after 1945. Vol. 2. Dresden 2010, pp. 123–169.

Web links

Literature by and about Dietmar Scholz in the catalog of the German National Library
https://www.kulturwerk-schlesien.de/aktuelles/245.Sammlungen-und-Nachlaesse.html

Individual evidence

↑ Dietmar Scholz. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 943, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
↑ ^a ^b Otto Paul Burkhardt : The 2013 Poetry Prize goes to Dietmar Scholz. In: "Swp.de". Reutlinger Nachrichten, April 11, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2014 : “The Edith-Heine-Lyrik-Preis of the Kulturwerk Schlesien goes to the Reutlinger author and painter Dietmar Scholz. The award ceremony is on June 20 in Würzburg. […] The author and painter Scholz, born in 1933 in the Silesian town of Kunitz (today Kunice), came to Baden-Württemberg in 1951 after fleeing in 1945 and to Reutlingen in 1964. He lived in the Altenburg district and writes poetry, books for young people, essays and stories. "
^ His collections in the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation
^ Ulrich Gonschorrek, The poet-painter Dietmar Scholz ; in: Edward Bialek and Pawel Zimniak (eds.): Silesia in litteris servata. Paradigms of memory in texts by Silesian authors after 1945. Vol. 2. Dresden 2010, pp. 123–169.
↑ “There are things that I can only paint, others only write. (...) I can say some things better in painting, some in words ... Why shouldn't the differences in us also meet outside, for example in the work? Those who do not allow the contrast and diversity in themselves will not be encountered in the work either. (...) The dialectic gave important impulses to thinking with the proposition that things have contradictions ”, says Scholz about himself.

personal data
SURNAME	Scholz, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kunitz in the district of Liegnitz, Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	19th February 2016
Place of death	Reutlingen

[1] Dietmar Scholz. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 943, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .

[Burckhardt-2] Otto Paul Burkhardt : The 2013 Poetry Prize goes to Dietmar Scholz. In: "Swp.de". Reutlinger Nachrichten, April 11, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2014 : “The Edith-Heine-Lyrik-Preis of the Kulturwerk Schlesien goes to the Reutlinger author and painter Dietmar Scholz. The award ceremony is on June 20 in Würzburg. […] The author and painter Scholz, born in 1933 in the Silesian town of Kunitz (today Kunice), came to Baden-Württemberg in 1951 after fleeing in 1945 and to Reutlingen in 1964. He lived in the Altenburg district and writes poetry, books for young people, essays and stories. "

[3] His collections in the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation

[4] Ulrich Gonschorrek, The poet-painter Dietmar Scholz ; in: Edward Bialek and Pawel Zimniak (eds.): Silesia in litteris servata. Paradigms of memory in texts by Silesian authors after 1945. Vol. 2. Dresden 2010, pp. 123–169.

[5] “There are things that I can only paint, others only write. (...) I can say some things better in painting, some in words ... Why shouldn't the differences in us also meet outside, for example in the work? Those who do not allow the contrast and diversity in themselves will not be encountered in the work either. (...) The dialectic gave important impulses to thinking with the proposition that things have contradictions ”, says Scholz about himself.