Fitzgerald Kusz

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Fitzgerald Kusz, Bayerischer Poetentaler 2017

Fitzgerald Kusz (born November 17, 1944 in Nuremberg ; actually Rüdiger Kusz ) is a German writer .

Life

Kusz grew up in Forth near Nuremberg and studied German and English in Erlangen . After a year as an assistant teacher in Nuneaton , Warwickshire, England, he initially worked for ten years as a teacher at the Peter Vischer School in Nuremberg . He has lived as a freelance writer in Nuremberg since 1982. Kusz is married and has three children. He is a member of the VS, the PEN Center Germany , the Munich Tower Schreiber and the German Academy of Performing Arts.

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He achieved his greatest success with his play “ Schweig, Bub! ” Written in East Franconian dialect . “ , Which premiered on October 6, 1976 at the State Theater in Nuremberg and was played a total of 720 times.

There are also radio versions of the play and numerous transcriptions into other German dialects , e.g. B. Berlin, Hessian, Swabian and Low German. It is one of the most popular German dialect pieces. Numerous other pieces by Kusz were produced as radio plays on Bayerischer Rundfunk .

In addition to several successful plays, Fitzgerald Kusz is best known for his Middle Franconian dialect poems , some of which he wrote in the form of haikus .

Some of his texts were set to music by Heinrich Hartl .

Awards

Plays

  • Keep quiet, boy! (1976)
  • Derhamm is derhamm (1980)
  • Just what (1982)
  • Saupreißn (1983)
  • Burning Love (1984)
  • Last Will (1997)
  • Tinsel (2010)

Books

  • Heart (1968, poems)
  • Schweig, Boy (1976)
  • Wennsdn sixd then saxdersn - the first part of the collected poems (1981)
  • Mä machd hald su weidä - the collected poems second part (1982)
  • Be me o'clock after the moon gäihd - the collected poems third part (1984)
  • Tell me nothing (1985, stories)
  • Irrhain (1987, poems)
  • Bräisälä (1990, poems and haikus)
  • Schdernla (1996, poems)
  • Franconian Everyman (2001)
  • Wouhii (2002)
  • You listen (2004)
  • muggn (2007, New Poems and Haikus)
  • Zwedschgä. ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2012.
  • Guuder Moond. Haikus. ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86913-588-5

Radio plays

  • 1977: Be silent, boy! . With Johannes Bösiger (Fritz), Barbara Thummet (Gretl), Carl Hüls (Hans), Hanswalter Gossmann (Uncle Willi), Sofie Keeser (Aunt Anna), Ute Kilian (Gerda), Horst Roth (Manfred), Gabriele Kastner (Hannelore) . Director: Herbert Lehnert. Production: BR .
  • 1983: The beautiful sides of life. With Jochen Mix . Director: Andreas Weber-Schäfer . Production: HR .
  • 1985: Burning Love . With Max Krückl, Christine Neubauer . Director: Götz Naleppa . Production: RIAS / BR .
  • 1992: Troubled . With Sofie Keeser . Composition: Chris Beier. Musicians: Karsten Nagel, (bassoon); Norbert Nagel, (clarinet). Director: Herbert Lehnert. Production: BR / RIAS .
  • 1992: Schdille bisde - Director: Peter Groeger (Mundarthörspiel - MDR )
  • 1996: The solo entertainer . With Herbert Lehnert (Wüstenschorsch). Director: Michael Peter. Production: BR.

LPs / MCs

  • I mechd ned know… . Three Nuremberg poets read from their own works: Klaus Schamberger , Günter Stössel and Fitzgerald Kusz. Stuttgart: Intercord, 1980, 1 record: 33 rpm, stereo

CDs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.hartl-musik.de/kompositionen_sum.html
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ Musenblätter: Platen Literature Prize 2011 to Fitzgerald Kusz , June 3, 2011
  4. ↑ Michael Bartmann: Heissmann & Rassau and Willy Michl received awards. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 20, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kusz, Fitzgerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kusz, Rüdiger (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg