Ernst Meister (writer)

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Ernst Meister (born September 3, 1911 in Haspe , today a district of Hagen , † June 15, 1979 in Hagen) was a German poet and writer .

Life

Ernst Meister attended the municipal upper secondary school (meanwhile Reformrealgymnasium) in Haspe and passed his Abitur there in 1930. This school, later renamed Ernst-Meister-Gymnasium , is now the Haspe Comprehensive School.

At his father's request, Meister began studying theology in Marburg in 1930 , but then turned to German studies , philosophy and art history and began studying in Berlin at the end of 1931. The publishing side of Marburger leaflets (Marburg) he published in 1932 his first book of poetry exhibition .

After the National Socialists came to power, his teacher Karl Löwith went into exile, so that Meister could not finish his dissertation. From now on, as an author, too, apart from three smaller publications in the Frankfurter Zeitung , Meister wrote for the drawer.

From 1939 to 1960 he was officially employed as a gardener in his father's factory, but only worked there sporadically and with major interruptions.

Meister took part in World War II as a soldier . He processed the diverse, mainly war-related experiences in lyrical contributions as well as in stories , radio plays and plays . But it was not until the early 1950s that Meister began to publish his texts again, initially with Victor Otto Stomps in the Eremiten-Presse in Stierstadt. There the volumes appeared under the black sheep's fur (1953), the mirror cabinet opposite (1954), the south wind said to me (1955) and Fermate (1957). This was followed by numbers and figures in 1958, the formula and the site in 1960, flood and stone in 1962 and character by character in 1968. In between, the story Der Bluthänfling 1959 and the 1966 drama A House for My Children appeared . The late work, which is also the culmination of Meister's work, includes the volumes of poetry Es came the message (1970), Sage vom Ganzen den Satz (1972), Im Zeitspalt (1976) and Wallless Room (1979). The magazine Westfalenspiegel printed many of his texts and also paid tribute to Meister's abstract artistic work. In 1956, Meister was involved in the " Schmallenberg Poet Dispute ".

The poet and novelist Nicolas Born played a decisive role as a mentor for the poet, who lived in Hagen, from the end of the 1950s. As a member of the Petrarca Prize jury in the mid-1970s, Born ensured that Meisters was rediscovered as hermetically valid, almost forgotten poetry in its essential simplicity and timeless quality. Other younger authors who recognized Meister's importance during this time and who dealt with his work on a lasting basis were Hans Bender , Peter Handke , Michael Krüger , Christoph Meckel , Oskar Pastior , Jan Wagner and Paul Wühr .

Ernst Meister family grave at the Delstern cemetery in Hagen.

Hubertus Heiser wrote about him in the Westfalenpost :

“His poetry was, as it were, an intellectual poetry in the form of a meditative and deeply thought-provoking poetry that asks about the basic forms and basic conditions of human existence in what Meister saw as 'cosmic abandonment'.
Like sparkling crystals, his poems in particular remained the treasures that are still perceived today, about which the Creator once said before the beginning of the verse: 'A poem is an event that has to work through itself in the directness of its existence'. "

Honors

Works

Work editions

Lyric:

In the series All Poems , ed. and each with an afterword by Reinhard Kiefer have appeared:

  • Vol. 1: Exhibition. Poems (1932, reprint) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1985. ISBN 3-89086-984-X .
  • Vol. 2: Under the black sheep's clothing. Opposite the cabinet of mirrors. Poems (1953/1954) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1986. ISBN 3-89086-983-1 .
  • Vol. 3: The south wind said to me. Fermata. Poems (1955/1957) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1986. ISBN 3-89086-982-3 .
  • Vol. 4: … and Ararat. Pythiusa. Light labyrinth. Poems (1956/1958/1959) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1987. ISBN 3-89086-981-5 .
  • Vol. 5: Numbers and Figures. Poems (1958) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1987. ISBN 3-89086-980-7 .
  • Vol. 6: The formula and the place. Poems (1960) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1987. ISBN 3-89086-979-3 .
  • Vol. 7: Flood and Stone. Poems (1962) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1988. ISBN 3-89086-985-8 .
  • Vol. 8: Another stay. Scattered published poems (1932–1964) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1997. ISBN 3-89086-978-5 .
  • Vol. 9: Character by character. Poems (1968) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1999. ISBN 3-89086-977-7 .
  • Vol. 10: The news came. Poems (1970) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1990. ISBN 3-89086-976-9 .
  • Vol. 11: Say the sentence of the whole. Poems (1972) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1996. ISBN 3-89086-975-0 .
  • Vol. 12: In the time gap. Poems (1976) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1994. ISBN 3-89086-974-2 .
  • Vol. 13: Wallless room. Poems (1979) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1996. ISBN 3-89086-973-4 .
  • Vol. 14: Shadows. Scattered published poems (1964–1979) . Aachen, Rimbaud 1998. ISBN 3-89086-972-6 .
  • Vol. 15: Poems from the estate . Aachen, Rimbaud 1999. ISBN 3-89086-971-8 .
  • Supplement Volume 1: Message for Friends . Aachen, Rimbaud 2000. ISBN 3-89086-805-3 .
  • Supplement volume 2: From a child's song of time. Poems . Aachen, Rimbaud 2007. ISBN 3-89086-757-X .

Prose:

  • Prose 1931-1979 . Edited by Andreas Lohr-Jasperneite. Preface by Beda Allemann . Heidelberg, Lambert Schneider 1989. (= 60th publication by the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt .) ISBN 3-89086-848-7 .

Reader:

  • Ernst Meister reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Harald Hartung. Cologne 2005 (= Nylands Small Westphalian Library. 9.) ISBN 3-936235-10-4 [1]

Radio plays:

Media:

  • Ernst Meister ... attempt to get closer. A film documentary from 1979. Münster 2001 (= Westphalia in historical films.) (VHS cassette, 45 min., WDR documentary from 1979 by Brigitta Ashoff; content: EM reads poems and conversations with Hans Bender , Nicolas Born and Christoph Meckel )
  • Eleusis is far away. Ernst Meister reads his own poems. Edit v. Walter Gödden u. Reinhard Kiefer . Münster 2001 (= audio testimonials on Westphalian literature. 2.) (audio CD, 54:34 min.)

literature

periodical

Monographs and Articles

  • Bernhard Albers u. Reinhard Kiefer (Ed.): Ernst Meister 1911-1979. Life and work in texts, images, documents . Aachen, Rimbaud 1991. ISBN 3-89086-950-5 .
  • Helmut Arntzen and Jürgen P. Wallmann (eds.): Ernst Meister. Homage, reflections on the work, texts from the estate. Münster, Aschendorff 1985. ISBN 3-402-03945-1 . 2nd edition, ibid. 1987. ISBN 3-402-03945-1 .
  • Helmut Arntzen: Portrait of Ernst Meister. In: Horst Albert Glaser (Ed.): German literature between 1945 and 1995. A social history . Bern u. a., Haupt 1997 (= UTB . 1981.) ISBN 3-8252-1981-X . Pp. 609-620.
  • Helmut Arntzen (ed.): Second Ernst Meister Colloquium 1993 in Münster: Ernst Meister and the lyrical tradition. The conference contributions . Aachen, Rimbaud 1996. (= Ernst Meister Studien . 4.) ISBN 3-89086-859-2 .
  • Dieter Bänsch: Marburg review of Ernst Meister. In: Jörg Jochen Berns (Hrsg.): Marburg pictures. A matter of opinion. Testimonies from five centuries . Vol. 2. Marburg 1996 (= Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur . 53), pp. 409–425.
  • Theo Buck (ed.): First Ernst Meister Colloquium 1991. The conference contributions. Aachen, Rimbaud 1993. (= Ernst Meister Studies . 2.) ISBN 3-89086-952-1 .
  • Karin Herrmann: Poetology of Remembering. Ernst Meister's late work. Göttingen, Wallstein 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0257-0 .
  • Marc Houben u. Françoise Lartillot: Ernst Meisters reference library. A directory . Aachen, Rimbaud 1995. (= Ernst Meister Studies . 3) ISBN 3-89086-810-X .
  • Hans-Günther Huch: Say the whole thing. Philosophy and Sign Language in the Poetry of Ernst Meister . Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 1999. (= Epistemata. Literary Studies . 263.) ISBN 3-8260-1635-1 .
  • Klaus Johann: Body and Poetry. To a sequence of poems by Ernst Meister . Aachen, Rimbaud 2000. (= Ernst Meister Studien . 6.) ISBN 3-89086-754-5 .
  • Stephanie Jordans: The 'Truth of Pictures'. Time, space and metaphor with Ernst Meister. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2009. (= Epistemata. Literary Studies. 661.) ISBN 978-3-8260-4005-4 .
  • Andreas Kautz: Myth and death in the lyric work of Ernst Meister . Aachen, Rimbaud 1998. (= Ernst Meister Studien . 5.) ISBN 3-89086-830-4 .
  • Reinhard Kiefer: Text without words. The negative theology in the lyric work of Ernst Meister . Aachen, Rimbaud 1992. (= Ernst Meister Studien . 1.), ISBN 3-89086-916-5 .
  • Françoise Lartillot: Le lieu commun du moi. Identité poétique dans l'oeuvre d'Ernst Meister (1911-1979) . Bern u. a., Lang 1998. (= Contacts . 3. Etudes et documents . 42.) ISBN 3-906759-57-1 .
  • Ewout van der Knaap: The Conversation of the Poets. Ernst Meister's Hölderlin and Celan reading . Frankfurt am Main u. a., Lang 1996. (= research on literary and cultural history . 57.) ISBN 3-631-30461-7 .
  • Beate Laudenberg: "Tender Science". On the poetry of Ernst Meister . Cologne, Weimar u. Vienna, Böhlau 1996. (= Cologne German Studies . 38.) ISBN 3-412-07796-8 .
  • Andreas Lohr-Jasperneite:  Master, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 724 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Frank Nöllenburg: dialogue or conflict? Ernst Meister and Martin Heidegger . Aachen, Rimbaud 2004. (= Ernst Meister Studien . 7.) ISBN 3-89086-662-X .
  • Christian Soboth : conjuring up death. Investigations into the lyrical work of Ernst Meister. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Lang 1989. (= Bochum writings on German literature. 11.) ISBN 3-631-40448-4 .
  • Ernst master. - In: Bernhard Albers (Ed.): We outsiders. 33 years of Rimbaud Verlag. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Meister in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Master, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen - Haspe , Westphalia, Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1979
Place of death Hagen , Westphalia, Germany