Edwin Wolfram Dahl

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Edwin Wolfram Dahl (born June 17, 1928 in Solingen ; † October 17, 2015 ) was a German writer . He is best known for his poetry .

Live and act

Edwin Wolfram Dahl attended a business school and then completed a commercial apprenticeship . He was a senior executive in an insurance company . In addition, he attended academic lectures on philosophy , psychology, and literary and art history, and went on extensive study trips. He lived in Solingen until 1980 and then moved to Munich .

Edwin Wolfram Dahl's work consists of poems , lyrical prose , essays and radio plays . He began to write in his youth, but it was not until 1966 that a poem appeared in the Neue Deutsche Hefte and in 1967 he had his debut published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Since then he has been able to place poems in renowned daily newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung or the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In addition, poems found their way into the prominent poetry anthologies Post War and Unfrieden (edited by Hilde Domin with five poems by Dahl scattered in the volume), the Frankfurt anthology (here Fontana di Trevi was printed and interpreted in volume 1 ), in Karl Otto Conrady's poetry Editions (three poems, see The great German poetry book from 1500 to the present , p. 748 f / The great Conrady. The book of German poems , p. 933 f) and in 1000 German poems and their interpretations (edited by Marcel Reich- Ranicki ). There are a total of around 50 anthologies in which Dahl is represented.

For his literary work, the author received the Culture Prize of the Baden Community Foundation “Solingen 600” in 1992 and the Federal Cross of Merit in 2002 .

Dahl, who died on October 17, 2015, was buried in the Bayreuth city cemetery.

style

As a rule, his poems are not rhyming , have free rhythms and irregular stanzas . In the short lines of verse there is a "precise scarcity of language". To this end, there are often associations to form cycles . The Solinger Tageblatt described this scarcity: “In its abstract form, Dahl creates the linguistic balancing act between word and silence; like a sculptor, he symbolically chisels away everything that could disturb his personal view of the world. While having motifs and metaphors stock. Ice, blood, war, breath, death are the constants of the cosmos he describes. This poetry deserves its readers: It creates a quiet, power-giving counter-world. "

Dahl also referred to the symbolic figures of Greek mythology , as well as to the “magical- mystical images of women in European poetry”, and he was familiar with the “tradition of high German poems from Holderlin to Celan ”.

Overall, the verses demand a lot of attention from the reader despite their clarity. Joachim Günther wrote in the Berlin Tagesspiegel : “The logic of the verses is often suddenly interrupted. Images flash into it. The language adheres to a style that cannot be reduced to the usual grammatical rules and syntax . On the other hand, however, little that is 'incomprehensible' appears in verse, as long as one has adjusted to tone and rhythm with ear and head. "

Works

  • Between one and two thousand (= Bechtle-Lyrik ; Volume 20). Bechtle-Druck, Munich / Esslingen 1970.
  • We are looking for Amfortas (= Bechtle-Lyrik ; Volume 21). Bechtle-Druck, Esslingen 1974, ISBN 3-7628-0352-8 .
  • Outside of office hours. Poems (= Bechtle-Lyrik ; Volume 27). Bechtle-Druck, Esslingen 1978, ISBN 3-7628-0380-3 .
  • There is still time to breathe. Poems (= Munich Edition ). Schneekluth, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7951-0914-0 .
  • A remnant of amazement. Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1989, ISBN 3-7013-0752-0 .
  • In a single day. Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-7013-0811-X .
  • Early pictures, late mirrors. Poems. Bechtle-Druck, Esslingen 1995 (private print).
  • Zweiseelenhaus. Selected prose. Bechtle-Druck, Esslingen 1996 (private print).
  • Light dust. Poems. Bechtle-Druck, Esslingen 1998 (private print).
  • And nobody is a witness. Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7013-0967-1 .
  • Watermarks in eyes. Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 20088, ISBN 978-3-7013-1146-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d pm: Edwin Wolfram Dahl. Obituary. Solingen poet was honored above all for his lyrical work. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. B. Boll, Verlag des Solinger Tageblattes GmbH & Co. KG, November 23, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2019 (only by entering keywords in search engines).
  3. ↑ a b c d Cornelius Hell: "Mary on the Holy Line". Edwin Wolfram Dahl and the religious component in his work . In: University of Innsbruck, Vice Rector for Research (Ed.): Messages from the Brenner Archive . 1st edition. No. 30/2010 . Innsbruck University Press, 2011, ISSN  1027-5649 , articles - for Wolfgang Wiesmüller, p. 79–87 ([] [PDF; 466 kB ; accessed on May 28, 2019]).
  4. ^ Paul Konrad Kurz: Swimming near Schwabing. Edwin Wolfram Dahl's poems . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich March 20, 1985, literature.
  5. ↑ Joachim Günther: Shadow of Death. A selection from Edwin Wolfram Dahl's lyrical work . In: Der Tagesspiegel . Berlin September 8th 1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Dahl, Edwin Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2015