Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer

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Autograph Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer

Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer (born August 20, 1934 in Oschatz ; † December 3, 2011 in Neuss ) was a German writer , poet , playwright , translator and musicologist .

Life

1942 move to Sichelberg ( Sierpc ). 1945 escape to Ilmenau . 1952–1957 studied musicology , philosophy and art history in Weimar, Jena and Leipzig, 1958 doctorate, after his escape from the GDR from 1959 in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked in the library of the music college. From 1961–1972 temporarily worked for the Goethe Institute , from 1973 to 1978 for the Murnau Education Center . From 1964 to 2009 journalistic and a. for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Hessischer Rundfunk , the Bayerischer Rundfunk , the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Südwestrundfunk . First literary publications 1959. 1981 and 1983 birth of a daughter and a son. 1987 move to Weilheim in Upper Bavaria , 1993 to Kaarst , 2007 to Neuss .

In 1959 he was commissioned by Klaus Piper (the owner of the publishing house of the same name) to write a novel about the division of Germany. He worked on this work for over ten years and completed The Split in 1974 . Piper had withdrawn the publication promise for the novel due to the long time and Dreyer was unable to find a new publisher. So in 1979 he decided to publish “Die Spaltung” on his own. In 1980 he was awarded the Hermann Hesse Prize for this , the novel was reprinted and received some excellent reviews. In the long run, however, the work was unsuccessful, it took over 20 years for the next edition to be published. It was not until 2001 that a new publisher took up the novel and published it again, re-set and provided with a detailed volume of material.

In the meantime, Dreyer and his wife Geraldine Gabor began work on a translation of Petrarch's “ Canzoniere ” from 1980 , which was just as highly praised when it was published as the translations by Guido Cavalcanti , Mihai Eminescu and Gabriele d'Annunzio , which the couple did subsequently made. Dreyer also began with dramatic works and received the prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation in 1982 for his first dramatic work Die goldene Brücke . a. played in Munich, Münster, Berlin and Innsbruck. Apart from smaller lyrical publications (mostly sonnets ), his translations and a radio play, he has hardly appeared in literary terms since the early 1990s, instead he turned back to musicology. He mainly worked on the composers Robert Gund , Leopold Schefer and Robert von Hornstein .

Works

prose

Poetry

Dramas

  • The golden bridge. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-88661-066-7 (first performance: Münchner Kammerspiele, April 12, 1985, director: Harald Clemen ).
  • The double. Frankfurt am Main 1987 (world premiere: Staatstheater Kassel, Kammertheater, May 14, 1987, director: Matthias Fontheim ).
  • The iron bridge. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • The night before the trip to Bucharest. Frankfurt am Main 1988 (world premiere: Städtische Bühnen Münster, October 8, 1988, director: Jürgen Kloth).
  • Double bottom. Frankfurt am Main 1990 (world premiere: Freie Bühne Wieden, Vienna, March 11, 2015, director: Michaela Ehrenstein).
  • Language course Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Radio plays

  • Squint meat. Palindromic radio play. Deutschlandradio, April 14, 1994.

Translations

Musicology

  • Attempt to establish a morphology of music with an introduction to Goethe's theory of music . Bonn 1976, ISBN 3-416-01305-0 .
  • Draft of a coherent theory of harmony. Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-416-01401-4 .
  • Goethe's sound science. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-548-35217-0 .
  • Robert Gund, 1865-1927. A forgotten master of the song. Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-416-02023-5 .
  • Two letters from Richard Wagner to the composer Robert von Hornstein in the EW Bonsels publishing house. With a monograph on Robert von Hornstein and an appendix on Robert Gund. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04294-X (= Ambacher Schriften. 10).
  • with Bernd-Ingo Friedrich: "Written with enthusiasm and not for money". The musical work of the poet Leopold Schefer. Oettel, Görlitz, Zittau 2006, ISBN 3-938583-06-1 .

Literary studies

  • Ferdinand von Hornstein, the author of the "Songs to a Goddess". Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04461-6 (= Ambacher Schriften. 11).

Editing

  • Smallest prose in the German language. Texts from eight centuries. Anthology. Munich 1970.
  • Leopold Schefer: Lament and consolation. Chants with piano accompaniment. Bargfeld 1995, ISBN 3-928779-12-5 .
  • Ladislaus Szücs : roll call. As a doctor in the concentration camp. Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12965-6 .
  • Leopold Schefer: Our father. Double canon of 4 voices. Score (CV 23.305) and choral score (CV 23.305 / 05). Stuttgart 1998.
  • Leopold Schefer: Selected songs and chants for the piano. In: The legacy of German music . Volume 122. In it: Dept. of Early Romanticism. Volume 6. Henle, Munich 2004.
  • Poets as composers. Compositions and literary texts from the 13th to the 20th century. Cologne 2005.
  • Twenty-five songs and chants by and after Georg Friedrich Daumer. Accompanied by an essay. Cologne 2006.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Ernst-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright, translator and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2011
Place of death Neuss