Eberhard Hilscher

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Eberhard Hilscher - memorial plaque (family house in background)

Eberhard Hilscher (born April 28, 1927 in Schwiebus ; † December 7, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Eberhard Hilscher was born in 1927 in Schwiebus in the Mark Brandenburg, today's Polish Świebodzin. Hilscher studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since the beginning of the 1950s he worked as a freelance author and writer.

Hilscher initially published on Gerhart Hauptmann , Arnold Zweig and Thomas Mann . In 1961 he became famous with his first novella, the historical story Tierra del Fuego ahoy! via Charles Darwin . In 1962 his short stories The Discovery of Love appeared on Socrates , Michelangelo , Immanuel Kant and Chopin, among others . His best-known work, Die Weltzeituhr , the "novel of an era" appeared in 1983, followed in 1992 by the novel Venus conquers the volcano as well as poetry and thoughts. 30 essays from Goethe to Einstein (2000). In the last years of his life, Hilscher worked on the sequel to the novel Die Weltzeituhr , which was published posthumously in 2008 under the title Gambler and Spoiler . Both books, with their unusual form, reflect contemporary German history from 1927 to the mid-1990s. Since Die Weltzeituhr could originally only appear censored, the "Last Hand Edition" followed in 2017 by Mitteldeutscher Verlag (Halle) on the basis of corrected copies by the author and the original manuscript from the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library.

Quotes

"Critics certified that Hilscher often combined poetry, philosophy, science and politics into an" ironically staged worldview "in his works." (APA / dpa December 12, 2005)

Works

Biographies

  • Arnold Zweig. Life and work . Berlin: People and Knowledge 1987. ISBN 3-06-101187-0 .
  • Thomas Mann. Life and work . Berlin: People and Knowledge 1989. ISBN 3-06-102710-6 .
  • Gerhart Hauptmann. Life and work . With previously unpublished materials from the poet's manuscript estate. Berlin: Verlag der Nation 1990. ISBN 3-373-00444-6 .

prose

  • Tierra del Fuego ahoy! Mister Darwin makes a discovery . Leipzig: List 1961.
  • The morning star or the four metamorphoses of a man, called Walther von der Vogelweide . Berlin: Verlag der Nation 1982.
  • The discovery of love. Historical miniatures . Berlin: Verlag der Nation 1983.
  • The world clock. Novel of an era . Munich: Goldmann 1987. ISBN 3-442-08660-4 .
  • Venus conquers the volcano . Berlin: Edition q 1992. ISBN 3-928024-72-8 .
  • Gamblers and spoilers . With an afterword by Wolfgang Beutin. Stuttgart: Heinz 2008. ISBN 978-3-88099-427-0 .
  • The world clock. Novel of an era. Uncensored "final edition". With an afterword by Volker Oesterreich. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-95462-780-6 .

Essays

  • Poetic worldviews: essays on Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Lion Feuchtwanger . Berlin: Book publisher Der Morgen 1977.
  • New poetic worldviews. Essays: Gerhart Hauptmann, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil, Lion Feuchtwanger, Elias Canetti . Berlin: Edition q 1992. ISBN 3-928024-81-7 .
  • Poetry and Thoughts: 30 essays from Goethe to Einstein . Stuttgart: Heinz 2000. ISBN 3-88099-398-X .
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Secondary literature

Scientific contributions

  • Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk (Ed.): Eberhard Hilscher (1927-2005). Writer and researcher of German literature. Pisarz i badacz literatury niemieckiej. Documentation of the international conference, 3. – 4. April 2009 in Katowice. Materiały z konferencji międzynarodowej - Katowice, 3rd-4th April 2009 . Świebodzin - Katowice: Muzeum Regionalne w Świebodzinie 2010, ISBN 978-83-922814-8-1 .
  • Anna Maria Adamczyk: Wagner, Chopin, Paganini…. [In:] Zbliżenia Polska - Niemcy / Zbliżenia literackie . Czasopismo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1998, No. 3, pp. 93-95.
  • Anna Maria Adamczyk: Neither montage nor experiment? From the literary work of Eberhard Hilscher. [In:] Grucza, Franciszek (red.): Texts, objects of German research and teaching. Materials from the annual meeting of the Association of Polish Germanists, 12.-14. May 2006 . Toruń / Warszawa 2006.
  • Rüdiger Bernhardt: The metamorphoses of a learned poet. Eberhard Hilscher's novels, stories and essays. [In:] Studia Niemcoznawcze , Volume XXVI, Warszawa / Halle (Saale) 2003.
  • Wolfgang Beutin: Aphrodite's return. [In:] Contributions to the history of erotic literature from antiquity to modern times . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2005, pp. 97–98.
  • Malcolm Humble: Eberhard Hilscher's The World Time Clock. GDR literature without inhibitions. [In:] Robert Atkins & Martin Kane (eds.): German Monitor. Retrospect and Review. Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990 . Amsterdam / Atlanta: Rodopi BV 1997, pp. 197-208. ISBN 90-420-0145-3 & 90-420-0167-4.
  • Lech Kolago (Ed.): E. Hilscher, Poetry and Thoughts. [In:] Studia Niemcoznawcze / Studies on German Studies , Volume XXII. Warszawa 2001, pp. 728-729.
  • Jerzy Piotr Majchrzak: Honorowy Obywatel. [In:] Suibusium felix…. Epizody z 700 lat dziejów Świebodzina i okolic . Świebodzin / Zielona Góra: Oficyna Omnibus 2001, pp. 161–165. ISBN 83-915306-1-2 .
  • Volker Oesterreich: On the history of the origins of Eberhard Hilscher's posthumously published novel Glücksspieler und Spielverderber. [In:] Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk (Ed.): Eberhard Hilscher (1927-2005). Writer and researcher of German literature. Pisarz i badacz literatury niemieckiej. Documentation of the international conference, 3. – 4. April 2009 in Katowice. Materiały z konferencji międzynarodowej - Katowice, 3rd – 4th April 2009 . Świebodzin - Katowice: Muzeum Regionalne w Świebodzinie 2010, pp. 1103–116. ISBN 978-83-922814-8-1 .
  • Izabela Taraszczuk: Eberhard Hilscher (1927-2005). Pisarz, poeta i znawca sztuk pięknych z dawnego Schwiebus. [In:] Zapisali się w dziejach Środkowego Nadodrza. Szkice biograficzne . Przemysław Bartkowiak, Jarosław Kuczer, Dawid Kotlarek (eds.). Zielona Góra: Pro Libris 2009, pp. 143–152. ISBN 978-83-88336-72-0 .
  • Izabela Taraszczuk: Eberhard Hilscher among nine muses. [In:] Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk (Ed.): Eberhard Hilscher (1927-2005). Writer and researcher of German literature. Pisarz i badacz literatury niemieckiej. Documentation of the international conference, 3. – 4. April 2009 in Katowice. Materiały z konferencji międzynarodowej - Katowice, 3rd – 4th April 2009 . Świebodzin - Katowice: Muzeum Regionalne w Świebodzinie 2010, pp. 126–141. ISBN 978-83-922814-8-1 .
  • Jürgen Thöming: I give everything for Beethoven . Narrative traces of Eberhard Hilscher's love of music. [In:] Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk (Ed.): Eberhard Hilscher (1927-2005). Writer and researcher of German literature. Pisarz i badacz literatury niemieckiej. Documentation of the international conference, 3. – 4. April 2009 in Katowice. Materiały z konferencji międzynarodowej - Katowice, 3rd – 4th April 2009 . Świebodzin - Katowice: Muzeum Regionalne w Świebodzinie 2010, pp. 145–173. ISBN 978-83-922814-8-1 .

Translations

  • Eberhard Hilscher: My Schwiebuser relatives and the Polish girl. Story and poetry. Moi świebodzińscy krewni i polska dziewczyna. Opowiadanie i wiersze . Translated into Polish by Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk & Jan Goczoł. Collaboration: Włodzimierz Zarzycki, preface: Jerzy Piotr Majchrzak, editor: Marek Nowacki. Świebodzin: Muzeum Regionalne 2002. ISBN 83-905943-6-6 .
  • Eberhard Hilscher: Miniatury. List miłosny do ludzkości . Foreword: Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk. Translated into Polish by Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk & Zbigniew Feliszewski. Editor: Marek Nowacki. Świebodzin: Muzeum Regionalne 2010. ISBN 978-83-930179-5-9 .

Interviews, newspaper articles

  • Anneliese Löffler: Interview with Eberhard Hilscher. [In:] Weimar contributions. Journal for Literary Studies, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory , No. 36 (1990) 6, pp. 928-968.
  • Volker Austria: From house gods, Goethe and Einstein. [In:] "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung", Heidelberg, 10./11. November 2001, p. 33.
  • Volker Austria: Schwiebus pays tribute to Hilscher. [In:] "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung", Heidelberg, September 22, 2012.
  • Izabela Taraszczuk: Gerhart Hauptmann biographer Eberhard Hilscher would have been 85 this year. Izabela Taraszczuk spoke to the widow of the Schwiebus writer and essayist, Ute Hilscher (interview and short article). [In:] "Schlesien heute", No. 9/2012, edited by Senfkorn Verlag Alfred Theisen, p. 57. ISSN  1436-5022 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hilscher, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiebus
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2005
Place of death Berlin