Ernst Augustin

Ernst Augustin (born October 31, 1927 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge , † November 3, 2019 in Munich ) was a German writer .

Life

Ernst Augustin spent his youth in Schweidnitz and Schwerin , where he attended high school and, according to himself, became a member of the Hitler Youth . After the end of the Second World War , Augustin passed his matriculation examination in 1947. His original career aspiration as an architect failed because of his parents' contradictions. Instead, Augustin studied medicine at the University of Rostock from 1947 to 1950 ; then he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin . Here Augustin received his doctorate in 1952 with a dissertation on the subject of elementary drawing among the schizophrenics . From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a trauma surgeon in Wismar and from 1955 to 1958 as an assistant doctor for neurology and psychiatry at the Charité in what was then East Berlin .

In 1958 he fled the GDR to the Federal Republic . From 1958 to 1961 Augustin managed a hospital in Afghanistan financed by an American construction company . It was 80 km from Kandahar . Augustine toured Pakistan , India , Turkey and the Soviet Union . After his return to Germany he was a ward doctor at the Munich University Psychiatric Clinic. He gave up this post in 1962; but he worked as a psychiatric expert until 1985. In 1966 Augustin was invited by Hans Werner Richter for a reading to the meeting of Group 47 in Princeton , where Peter Handke also formulated his criticism of Group 47.

Ernst Augustin lived in Munich until her death with his wife, the painter and book illustrator Inge Augustin, with whom he had been married since 1953. In 2009 a malpractice occurred during a brain operation due to a benign tumor : the surgeon severed the optic nerve - since then Ernst Augustin had been almost blind.

position

Augustine's literary impulses come from reading Franz Kafka around 1950. He also mentioned the novel Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann in this context . He also sees his work influenced by Jean Paul . Augustine is regarded as a representative of fantastic literature in the succession of the Surrealists . The predominant theme of his novels are manifestations of a split personality .

Memberships

• Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Awards

• 1962: Hermann Hesse Prize
• 1989: Kleist Prize
• 1996: Tukan Prize
• 1999: Literature Prize of the City of Munich
• 2008: Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 2009: Mörike Prize from the city of Fellbach
• 2013: by authors for authors

Works

• The head. Novel. Piper, Munich 1962.
  • New edition: The head . Novel. With an afterword by Lutz Hagestedt . Beck, Munich 2016.
• The bathhouse. Novel. Piper, Munich 1963.
• Mom. Novel in three parts. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • Changed new edition: Schöne Abendland. Beck, Munich 2007.
• Ambient light: The Evelyne B. Roman case. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• East end. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982.
• The American dream. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Mahmud the Butcher or The Fine Way. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • New edition: Mahmud the bastard. Beck, Munich 2003.
• Good money. Novel in three instructions. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• The seven things of the Sikh. A reader - ed. v. Lutz Hagestedt. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997.
• The school of the naked. Novel. Beck, Munich 2003.
• The Künzler at work. A menagerie. Beck, Munich 2004.
• Bathhouse Two . Novel. Beck, Munich 2006.
• Ernst Augustin reads 'Goldene Zeiten' , audio CD, Beck, Munich 2007.
• Robinson's blue house. Autobiographical adventure novel. Beck, Munich 2012.
• The monster of Neuhausen . A protocol. Beck, Munich 2015.

literature

• Sabine Brocher: Adventurous elements in the modern novel. Studies on novels by Italo Calvino , Ernst Augustin, Luigi Malerba , Kurt Vonnegut and Ror Wolf . Dissertation Berlin 1980. Hanser, Munich 1981.
• Hartmut Kasper : Robinson's blue house. In: The Science Fiction Year 2013. Edited by Sascha Mamczak , Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 345–348, ISBN 978-3-453-53444-5 .
• Steffen Martus (Red.): Ernst Augustin (= text + review , vol. 206). Edition Text + Review in Richard-Boorberg-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86916-398-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Augustin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Augustin in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Matthias Kußmann : Protest against death. 80th birthday celebration.
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger : Review of Der Kopf , Der Spiegel , April 4, 1962

Individual evidence

1. ^ Writer Ernst Augustin died at 92. In: ORF.at . November 4, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Johannes Willms : Space . Interview. in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2012, p. V2 / 10
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Malte Herwig, Sven Michaelsen: I write by hand without seeing what I am writing. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, No. 9/2013, pp. 16–23.
4. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht : A mobile spirit. The writer Ernst Augustin turns ninety. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 30, 2017, p. 14.
5. ↑ Matthias Kussmann: Protest against death - Ernst Augustin on the 80th birthday. In: Deutschlandfunk. October 31, 2007, accessed November 6, 2019 .