Edwin Kratschmer
Edwin Kratschmer (born June 9, 1931 in Komotau , Czechoslovakia ) is a German writer , professor of the latest German literature, literary and art scholar .
Life
Edwin Kratschmer was born in 1931 as the fourth child in the family of a telegraph officer in Komotau. His brothers died during the Second World War , and Kratschmer was expelled from his native Bohemia in 1945 at the age of 14 . After completing his Abitur in Bad Frankenhausen , he studied art, literature and psychology in Berlin, Greifswald and Leipzig . He did his doctorate with a thesis on poetogenesis and worked as a teacher in Thuringia .
Together with Margret Kratschmer and Hannes Würtz he gave the youth poetry - Anthologies Open windows out a collection of 100,000 texts that today as a "collection Youth Poetry of the GDR" owned by the University and State Library Jena is. Kratschmer was one of the founders of the GDR-wide movement of young people writing and in 1970 the seminar leader at the very first poetry seminar in Schwerin .
According to his own statements, he gave up the teaching profession in 1983 in order not to have to work for the State Security , which wanted him to work. He ran an art gallery with Margret Kratschmer and built up the Maxhütte art collection together with Maren Kratschmer-Kroneck. This collection is now owned by the Free State of Thuringia .
After 1989 he was the high school director in Saalfeld . He later became a lecturer and professor for the latest German literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he initiated the international Jena Poetics Lectures.
Kratschmer, honorary member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense, lives as a freelance writer in Unterwellenborn .
In 2010 he received the honorary citizenship of Unterwellenborn.
Prof. Kratschmer has been a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad since 2017 .
Works (selection)
Novels / prose
- Habakkuk or shadow in the head. Roman, Weimar 2001 ISBN 3-89739-210-0
- The double neck violin. Roman, Stadtroda 2008 ISBN 978-3-927437-33-3
- Bluish rush. 10 stories, Stadtroda 2008 ISBN 978-3-927437-31-9
- Seven sleep. Novel. Stadtroda 2010 ISBN 978-3-927437-34-0
- Delusional forest. Novel. Stadtroda 2011 ISBN 978-3-927437-42-5
- Warning sign. Short prose from six decades. Stadtroda 2013 ISBN 978-3-927437-59-3
- Shadow dance. Novel. Stadtroda 2015 Stadtroda ISBN 978-3-927437-56-2
- Ink days. Narrative pieces. Stadtroda 2016. ISBN 978-3-927437-57-9
- Scraps. Novel. Stadtroda 2017. ISBN 978-3-927437-58-6
- Couple time. Narrative pieces. Stadtroda 2018 ISBN 978-3-927437-60-9
Essays
- Christophorus from Samos to Sakulowski , Weida 1989
- Anatomy of Violence, Coburg 1994
- Plenzdorf's new suffering, Stuttgart 1996
- The aesthetic monster human. Fragments of an Aesthetics of Violence. 13 essays, Frankfurt 2002 ISBN 3-631-39580-9
- Crime scene home. 21 essays, Unterwellenborn 2002
- Departure with Böll, Unterwellenborn 2004
- Babelturm. 2 essays, Stadtroda 2011 ISBN 978-3-927437-44-9
- Letter days. Letters to artists. Bad Steben 2019. ISBN 978-3-9819546-2-3
Youth poetry anthologies
- And courage belongs to the word (ed.), Unterwellenborn 1964
- Open Windows (Ed.), 9 volumes, Berlin 1967–1990
Publications on youth poetry
- The interest in poetry of high school graduates in Thuringia, Jena 1993
- Poetology of the youth poem. A contribution to poetogenesis, Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1996 ISBN 3-631-49981-7
- On the innocence of plagiarism, Berlin 1998
Publications on art
- Max needs art, Unterwellenborn 1988
- Saku-Art, Unterwellenborn 2001
- Tübkes Super Image Preserve, Erlangen 2001
- Art in a clinch. On art in the GDR, Cologne 2007
- Ali Kurt Baumgarten. Art roulette, Stadtroda 2009 ISBN 978-3-927437-40-1
Publications on literature
- Jürgen Fuchs . Poetry and Decomposition (ed.), Jena 1993
- Poet servant dissidents. Fall of Man in GDR poetry, Jena 1995 ISBN 3-925978-46-1
- Gottfried Meinhold - Poetry and Utopia, Jena 1996 (as editor) ISBN 3-925978-59-3
- Versus dictatorship. Texts for Jürgen Fuchs, Unterwellenborn 2001
- Pegasus & Sisyphus. Texts on Rathenow, Unterwellenborn 2002
- The blue comma. Texts on Reiner Kunze, Weimar 2003
Publications on the International Jena Poetics Lectures
- To provoke remembering (ed.), Cologne 1996
- Poetry and Memory (Ed.), Erlangen / Jena 1998 ISBN 3-7896-0605-7
- Ludvík Kundera. Berlin (ed.), Weimar 2000
- Gottfried Meinhold. The border (ed.), Weimar 2000
- Ulrich Zwiener. Citizen of the world and visionary, Jena 2002 ISBN 3-933159-10-5
Autobiographical
- Tatort Böhmen or Kde domov muj, Essen 1998
- Conflicting face. Stations & reflections, Unterwellenborn 2000
literature
- Edwin Kratschmer: Interviews 1970–2001 , edition mk, 2004
- Christel Fenk (Red.): Edwin Kratschmer, Heat flow in leaden time: On the innocence of plagiarism: On the development of poetic creativity in adolescence. (A commemorative publication for Erwin Kratschmer with further articles on literature in the GDR), Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2006, ISBN 9783933159113
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Axel Reitel : Young poets asked to learn - the central poetry seminars of the FDJ. Feature, DRB 2005 (BR2 2006, MDR 2008); printed in Axel Reitel: Schöne Jugend. Young people in contradiction to the GDR. Five Feature , Köster Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 75–114. ISBN 978-3-89574-627-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Edwin Kratschmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Edwin Kratschmer
- And-Verlag: Reviews of fiction
- Bookable: Interview with Edwin Kratschmer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kratschmer, Edwin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, literary and art scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chomutov , Czechoslovakia |