Georg Oswald Cott

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Georg Oswald Cott (2007)

Georg Oswald Cott (born September 21, 1931 in Salzgitter ) is a German writer .

Life

Georg Oswald Cott completed an apprenticeship as a pastry chef and later passed the master's examination in this profession. After that Cott began a study of the vocational education and German ; After completing this, he worked as a vocational school teacher in various places and later also taught at the University of Hanover . He has been literary since the 1960s . Cott lives today as a freelance writer in Braunschweig .

Georg Oswald Cott has long been committed to the Braunschweig- born German-Israeli writer Werner Kraft , to whom he dedicated numerous radio programs and magazine articles (see publications on Werner Kraft below ).

Georg Oswald Cott is the author of short stories , essays , poems and radio plays .

Georg Oswald Cott is a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany and has participated in the German-Polish Poet Steamer several times .

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Things and counter-things , poems, with colored woodcuts by Herbert Grützner, Braunschweig 1972
  • Dandelion days , poems, with pen drawings by Herbert Grützner, Braunschweig 1975
  • Clay pigeon certainty , poems, Darmstadt 1976
  • inaudible audible , poems, with etchings by Raoul Wüstner, Braunschweig 1977. Changed edition Braunschweig 1983
  • if everything were just , poems, Braunschweig 1981
  • kreuzbrav , poems, hand press printing, with etchings by Raoul Wüstner, Hauzenberg 1987
  • Throwing wood , poems, hand press printing, Bergen / Holland 1991
  • As if you are growing wings , hand press printing, with color etchings and aquatint by Helga Schröder, Bremen, Berlin 1992
  • Pacemaker , poems, hand press printing, Bergen / Holland 1993
  • Blind way to Klötze - poems from West-East Elbe 1986 to 1991 , hand press printing , Bergen / Holland 1996
  • Over twelve body lengths , poems, hand press printing, with zinc engravings by Heinzreiber, Pfaffenweiler 1998
  • Lessing's grave , narrative, with an afterword by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Braunschweig 1998 / Minsk 2007 (bilingual: Russian / German; translated into Russian by Jelena Semjonowa)
  • Stumbling blocks , poems, Hauzenberg 1998
  • Gargantua's cage , scenario, Bremen 1998
  • Tagwerk , Gedichte, Lüneburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-933156-47-1 .
  • Cart track , poems, hand press printing, with woodcuts by Eric van der Wal, Bergen / Holland 2001
  • Transit , poems, with photographs by Bettina Akinro, with a foreword by Axel Kahrs to the poems and a foreword by Rainer Eppelmann to the photographs, exhibition catalog for the special exhibition Transit in the Marienborn memorial from November 9, 2002 to January 19, 2003, Marienborn 2002
  • Read along , poems, with woodcuts by Arno Waldschmidt, Berlin 2002
  • Literature and graphic sheet , poems, with colored woodcuts by Hans Ticha, Witzwort 2002
  • The trajectory of the Elster , poems, Hauzenberg: Pongratz 2006 / Minsk 2010 (bilingual: Russian / German; translated into Russian by Jelena Semjonowa)
  • What is happening nearby , poems, Uetze-Dollbergen 2007
  • Keep a hand free , poems, Hauzenberg: Pongratz 2010
  • Throwing wood and echo , poems, with drawings by Peter K. Kirchhof, with a foreword by Hugo Dittberner and texts by the group Poetry & Everyday Life, Hauzenberg 2011
  • Marienborn. West-East Elbian poems . Hauzenberg: Pongratz 2014 (Edition Toni Pongratz. 119) ISBN 978-3-931883-94-2
  • Poems for a smile . Drawings and an original woodcut by Karl-Georg Hirsch . (Marble paper, design and binding by Bettina Wija-Stein). Leipzig: Solomon Press 2014
  • In time lapse , people and events in the Braunschweiger Land, zu Klampen Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-554-4

Publications on Werner Kraft

  • "What in me thinks of marriage from work and prayer!" Georg Oswald Cott in conversation with Werner Kraft . In: Die Horen . Vol. 35 (1990) No. 159, pp. 187-198.
  • A narrow passage through the evergreen. In 1933 Werner Kraft emigrated from Hanover to Jerusalem. Today the linguist, poet and philosopher remembers the comrades of yore - Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber and Else Lasker-Schüler . In: German General Sunday Gazette . May 3, 1991, p. 26.
  • Werner Kraft. "I bid us hope" . In: Of poet princes and other poets. A short history of literature in Lower Saxony . Vol. 2: Thirty-seven portraits from Stendhal to Arno Schmidt . Edited by Jürgen Peters and Wilhelm Heinrich Pott. Hanover: Revonnah Verlag 1994, pp. 217-221.
  • The condor flies to the Orient. Encounter with Werner Kraft . In: Die Horen . Vol. 41 (1996) issue 181, pp. 104-112.
  • In hope and expectation. Conversation with Werner Kraft . In: stylus. Magazine for literature and criticism . 1996, No. 3 (May), pp. 26-39.
  • The Word Guardian at the Shrine of the Book. Encounter with Werner Kraft . In: Braunschweigischer Kalender . 2005, pp. 59-63.
  • Word from the void. About the poet and linguist Werner Kraft . In: Die Horen . Vol. 54 (2009) Issue 234, pp. 143-162. (Reading version of a radio feature, broadcast on October 29, 1991 in the 3rd program of NDR.)
  • Kraft, Werner . In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . 2., completely revised Ed. By Wilhelm Kühlmann (among others). Vol. 7: Kräm - Marp. Berlin: de Gruyter 2010, pp. 7–9.
  • Werner Kraft (May 4, 1896 - June 14, 1991). Poet, philosopher, librarian . In: Brunswick personalities of the 20th century. Short biographies . Arbeitskreis Other Geschichte eV (Ed.) Researched by: Reinhard Bein (project manager) (among others). Braunschweig: Döring. Vol. 2, 2014, pp. 142-145. ISBN 978-3-925268-49-6
  • Werner Kraft: heart and mind. Collected essays on German literature [review]. In: Braunschweiger Canon of Literature. 100 readers, 100 books, 100 opinions . Edited by Thomas and Joachim Wrensch. Essen: Erste Liga in Edition Schmitz 2014, pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-3-932443-33-6

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.mwk.niedersachsen.de/live/live.php?navigation_id=6257&article_id=95160&_psmand=19
personal data
SURNAME Cott, Georg Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kott, Georg Osvalʹd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter