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

1. ↑ 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