Friedrich Christian Delius

Friedrich Christian Delius (1992)

Friedrich Christian Delius (born February 13, 1943 in Rome ) is a German writer .

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Childhood and youth

Friedrich Christian Delius was born in Rome in 1943, where his father was a pastor at the German Evangelical Church . He is the oldest of four siblings and grew up in Wehrda, Hesse, from 1944 to 1958 . He obtained his Abitur in 1963 at the Alte Landesschule in Korbach .

Professional background

From 1963 to 1970 he studied literature at the Free University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Berlin , where he at Höllerer 1971 with a thesis on "The hero and his Weather" Doctor of Philosophy PhD was. From 1970 to 1973 he worked as an editor at Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , from 1973 to 1978 in the same position at Rotbuch Verlag . He has been a freelance writer since 1978.

Delius began in the 1960s with socially critical poetry and documentary, usually strongly satirical texts. From 1964 to 1967 he attended the last four meetings of Group 47 . Through contact with Klaus Wagenbach , his first book was published in 1965. Since the 1970s he has mainly been writing novels , often on topics from the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, e.g. B. for the German autumn .

Friedrich Christian Delius is a member of the PEN Center Germany and since 1998 of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and since 1997 a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg . Delius is also a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Friedrich Christian Delius (2012)

In 2011 he was honored with the Georg Büchner Prize , the most important literary prize in the German-speaking area. The German Academy for Language and Poetry justified this. a. with the fact that as a "critical, resourceful and inventive observer [...] he explored the history of German consciousness in the 20th century in his novels and stories".

Others

Delius was initially married to Gisela Klann-Delius , with whom he has two daughters. He has been married to Ursula Bongaerts since 2003. He lives in Berlin and Rome.

Works

Autograph

Authorship

• Kerbholz. Berlin 1965
• We entrepreneurs. Berlin 1966 (together with Karl-Heinz Stanzick)
• If we, at Rot. Berlin 1969
• The hero and his weather. Munich 1971
• Our Siemens world. Berlin 1972
• Recipes for peacetime. Berlin / Weimar 1973 (together with Nicolas Born and Volker von Törne )
• A banker on the run. Berlin 1975
• A hero of internal security. Reinbek near Hamburg 1981
• The invisible lightning. Berlin 1981
• Adenauerplatz. Reinbek near Hamburg 1984
• Some arguments in defense of the vegetable eater. Berlin 1985
• Mogadishu window seat. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
• Japanese escalators. Reinbek near Hamburg 1989
• Ribbeck pears . Reinbek near Hamburg 1991
• Assumption of an enemy of the state. Reinbek near Hamburg 1992
• Self-portrait with airlift. Reinbek near Hamburg 1993
• The Sunday on which I became world champion . Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
• The walk from Rostock to Syracuse . Narrative. 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-498-01302-5 (as paperback: 1998, ISBN 978-3-499-22278-8 ).
• The future of words. Paderborn 1995
• The Lure of Words or Why I'm Still Not a Cynic. Berlin 1996
• America House and the dance around women. Reinbek near Hamburg 1997
• The flutter tongue. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-498-01310-6 .
• Transit West Berlin. Berlin 1999 (together with Peter Joachim Lapp )
• The kingmaker. Berlin 2001
• Why I've always been right - and other errors. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87134-466-4 .
• My year as a murderer . Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87134-458-3 . (see also Georg Groscurth )
• The minute with Paul McCartney. Berlin 2005
• Prospero. Opera. Music: Luca Lombardi . WP 2006
• Portrait of the mother as a young woman . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-556-3 .
• The woman I invented the computer for. Reinbek near Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-642-2 .
• The hero and his weather. An artistic device and its ideological use in the novel of bourgeois realism. With a foreword by Wolf Haas . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-1028-5 .
• When the books still helped. Biographical sketches. Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-735-1 .
• The Pope's left hand. Rowohlt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-770-2 .
• Dance through the city. From my Berlin album. Transit, Berlin 2014 (together with Renate von Mangoldt and Rainer Nitsche), ISBN 978-3-88747-309-9
• The love storyteller. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-823-5 .
• Why Luther messed up the Reformation. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-61054-7 .
• The future of beauty. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7371-0040-3 .
• When the Chinese buy Rügen, think of me. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0076-2 .
• Ribbeck pears. Work edition in individual volumes. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0077-9 .

Editing

• Conservative in 30 days. Reinbek near Hamburg 1988

Awards

• 1967: Price Junge Generation for Berlin Art Prize
• 1971: Villa Massimo grant
• 1989: Gerrit Engelke Prize
• 1996: Residence scholarship Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 1997: Mainz town clerk
• 2001: Daimler-Chrysler scholarship from Casa di Goethe
• 2002: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize
• 2004: Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
• 2004: Fontane Prize for Literature from the city of Neuruppin
• 2004: Brothers Grimm Professorship
• 2007: Schubart Literature Prize
• 2007: German Critics' Prize
• 2007: Joseph Breitbach Prize
• 2008/2009: City Clerk of Bergen
• 2009: Evangelical Book Prize for Portrait of Mother as a Young Woman
• 2011: Georg Büchner Prize
• 2012: Gerty Spies Literature Prize
• 2014: Silver Haunetaler from the city of Wehrda
• 2017: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

literature

• David-Christopher Assmann: "Not fiction, but action". FC Delius' “The King Makers” or Does the literary business damage contemporary literature? In: Maik Bierwirth et al. (Ed.): Doing Contemporary Literature. Practices, valuations, automatisms. Fink, Munich 2012, pp. 241–262.
• Wilfried F. Schoeller: A little retrospect on the virtue of decomposition. Talk to Friedrich Christian Delius. In: June. Magazine for culture and politics on the Lower Rhine. No. 2/88. Juni-Verlag, Viersen 1988, ISSN  0931-2854
• Karin Graf (Ed.): Friedrich Christian Delius. Munich 1990, ISBN 3-89129-067-5 .
• Special issue FC Delius of the magazine literature for readers. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
• Manfred Durzak and Hartmut Steinecke (eds.): FC Delius - studies about his literary work. Tübingen 1997.
• Thomas Hoeps : Working on the contradiction. "Terrorism" in German novels and short stories (1837–1992). Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-933592-24-0 .
• Irmela von der Lühe (Hrsg.): Text + Critique 197. Friedrich Christian Delius, edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-239-3 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Christian Delius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Christian Delius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Friedrich Christian Delius at Literaturport
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Friedrich Christian Delius at perlentaucher.de
• FC Delius website
• Friedrich Christian Delius in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Christian Delius: Short biography. Retrieved May 18, 2011 . 
2. ^ Friedrich Christian Delius: 40 years "Kerbholz" . In: Renatus Deckert (ed.): The first book. Writer on her literary debut . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45864-8 , pp. 84-87 .
3. ^ Friedrich Christian Delius. Biography on the website of the German Academy for Football Culture , accessed on August 17, 2018.
4. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry: Friedrich Christian Delius receives the Georg Büchner Prize 2011. (PDF; 61 kB) (No longer available online.) May 18, 2011, archived from the original on July 2, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Friedrich Christian Delius: “The future of beauty” / Review , Spex from March 9, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018