Gerhard Falkner

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the malacologist of the same name, see Gerhard Falkner (malacologist) .

Gerhard Falkner (born March 15, 1951 in Schwabach ) is a German poet , playwright , essayist and literary translator .

Gerhard Falkner will present his novel “Appollokalypse” at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2016.

Life

After completing his training as a bookseller, Gerhard Falkner lived in London for a while . Since the mid-1970s, he has published poems and prose in artist books and magazines, such as B. Bateria and Lettre International . In 1981 he celebrated a debut with the volume of poetry so begin on the body the days , which broke with the experimental and mood poetry of the previous decade and "[created] a thoroughly aesthetic world in which a beautiful soul can become a beautiful topic again" . In wemut (1989) he announced that he would no longer publish independent volumes of poetry and devoted himself increasingly to essayistic, prosaic and dramatic works. His theses On the Unworthiness of the Poem , standing in the tradition of postmodern mixed texts, dealt with the withdrawal from the literary scene and the current constitution of German literature and became one of the central metapoietic texts of recent times. With the book Endogene Gedichte, after a 14-year break, a separate volume of poetry appeared again in 2000, including an “epilogue instead of an epilogue”, in which Falkner revised his earlier decision to withdraw.

Falkner translated a. a. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins , Aleš Šteger , István Kemény , Lavinia Greenlaw , John Ashbery , William Butler Yeats and Charles Olson . Together with his wife Nora Matocza , he most recently worked on the German version of Mark Z. Danielewski's cult novel Only Revolutions , which was published by Klett-Cotta in 2012 .

In 2012 it was also announced that Falkner was commissioning the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to write poems on the gigantomachy depicted on the frieze of the Pergamon Altar , five of which were filmed by Felix von Boehm and Constantin Lieb with actors from the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz . The corresponding book was published by kookbooks in autumn 2012 . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2016, his debut novel Apollokalypse made it onto the longlist of the German Book Prize . A year later, Falkner's second novel Romeo or Juliet was included in the shortlist of the German Book Prize .

Gerhard Falkner lives in Weigendorf and Berlin .

Works

Poetry and prose

• this is how the days begin on the body (poems, Luchterhand Verlag 1981) ISBN 978-3-630-61521-9
• breath under the earth (poems, Luchterhand Verlag 1984) ISBN 978-3-472-86577-3
• Berlin. Eisenherzbriefe (Luchterhand Verlag 1986) ISBN 3-472-86631-4
• Wemut (poems, Luchterhand Verlag 1989) ISBN 978-3-630-86717-5
• Proë (with Bert Papenfuß-Gorek , S. Anderson , Thomas Kling , Stefan Döring , Peter Waterhouse , Durs Grünbein and illustrations by AR Penck , Druckhaus Galrev ) 1992 ISBN 978-3-910161-26-9
• About the worthlessness of the poem. Fragments and reflections. Structure, Berlin 1993 ISBN 978-3-351-02812-1
• seventeen selected poems. (Druckhaus Galrev 1994) ISBN 978-3-910161-07-8
• Xth person singular (poems, Suhrkamp Verlag 1996) ISBN 978-3-518-11996-9
• Endogenous poems. Land register (DuMont Verlag 2000) ISBN 978-3-7701-5414-2
• Two-way city - ground zero. Poem (with music by David Moss , kookbooks 2005) ISBN 978-3-937445-14-4
• Bruno. A novella (Berlin Verlag 2008) ISBN 978-3-8333-0604-4
• Holderlin repair. Poems . Berlin Verlag 2008 ISBN 978-3-8270-0822-0
• Blumma jug. Poems. ars vivendi 2010 ISBN 978-3-86913-035-4
• The Last Day of the Republic . starfruit publications 2011 ISBN 978-3-922895-22-0
• Pergamon Poems. Poems + clips , translated by Mark Anderson. (Verlag Kookbooks, Berlin 2012) ISBN 978-3-937445-51-9
• Ignatia. Elegies on the verge of a nervous breakdown , with film stills by Yves Netzhammer , translated by Ann Cotten . starfruit publications 2014 ISBN 978-3-922895-26-8
• Deconstructing Gisèle , artist book, in collaboration with the artist Nora Matocza, 2016
• Apollo Calypse . Novel. Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-8270-1336-1
• Romeo or Juliet . Novel. Berlin Verlag, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8270-1358-3
• Schorfheide. Poems en plein air . Berlin Verlag, 2019 ISBN 978-3-8270-1368-2

Stage works

• The torment master. Post-bourgeois tragedy (DuMont Verlag 1998)
• Old heroes. Drama and declamatory farce (DuMont Verlag 1998)
• A Lady Dies (1999). Chamber opera. Music: Stefan Hippe . WP March 11, 2000 Nuremberg ( Tafelhalle )
• Argo (2018). "Dramma in musica". Music: José María Sánchez Verdú . WP April 27, 2018 in the Rokokotheater Schwetzingen

essay

• About the difficulty in reading "broken German" . In: Ulrich Janetzki , Wolfgang Rath (Hrsg.): The tendency towards acquittal: Texts on a poetics of the eighties (Suhrkamp 1992)
• The wretched figure of the poet . In: Joachim Sartorius (Ed.): Minima Poetica. For a poetics of contemporary poetry (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1999)
• To cut a tree. On the phenomenology of making things down in German literary criticism using the example of Michael Braun and the volume Lyrik von Jetzt . In: Deutscher Writerverband (Ed.): Neue Deutsche Literatur , 2, 2004
• The poem and its double. A polemic . In: BELLA triste No. 19, 2007.
• MIND THE GAP. About the gap between the lyrical self and the word . Foreword to: Gottfried Benn : Problems of Poetry. Late speeches and lectures. Stuttgart (Klett-Cotta 2011).
• Translate into pile construction and the foundation walls of the Pergamon Poems . In: Volltext - Zeitung für Literatur , No. 2, Vienna 2012
• Mon Dieuleuze! Translating Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions for upscale, meta-content circles . In: writing booklet - magazine for literature , No. 79, Essen 2012
• Letters of responsibility: essays, speeches, comments, interviews and polemics. Edited by Constantin Lieb, Manfred Rothenberger. Starfruit Publications , 2017

Co-editor of anthologies

• AmLit. New literature from the USA , with Sylvère Lotringer . Druckhaus Galrev , Berlin 1992
• Budapest scenes. Young Hungarian poetry , with Orsolya Kalász . DuMont, Cologne 1999

Scholarships and Awards

• Scholarships and a. in New York (writer in residence, NYU), Amsterdam, Rome ( Villa Massimo ; Olevano Romano), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin , San Francisco and Schloss Wiepersdorf .
• Bavarian Art Prize in the Literature category 1987
• Scholarship Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart 2003
• Town clerk for Rheinsberg 2003
• Dr. Manfred Annual Fair of Honor 2004 from the German Schiller Foundation
• Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize 2006 - together with Gilles Rozier
• Kranichstein Literature Prize 2008
• Peter Huchel Prize 2009
• August Graf von Platen Prize 2009
• Nuremberg City Prize 2010
• German Literature Fund : Translator Grant 2011
• Culture Academy Tarabya Istanbul: Residence grant 2012
• Working grant from the Berlin Senate in 2013
• Villa Aurora Residency Scholarship Los Angeles, 2014
• Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize 2014
• Residence grant at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben , 2015
• Nomination for the German Book Prize with Romeo or Juliet , 2017

Settings

• Stefan Hippe (* 1966): die liebe (2002) for soprano and accordion. Premiere January 2003 Nuremberg (Künstlerhaus K4; Irene Kurka [soprano], Stefan Hippe [accordion])

literature

• Neil H. Donahue: Voice and Void. The poetry of Gerhard Falkner (Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 1997)
• Michael Braun (Ed.): Text + kritik , 198.Special issue: Gerhard Falkner, edition text + kritik , Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-86916-241-6

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Falkner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gerhard Falkner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gerhard Falkner at perlentaucher.de
• The Voices of the Poets - Gerhard Falkner can be heard on lyrikline.org
• Huchel Prize speech by Gerhard Falkner in the poet shop
• Pergamon Poems clips online
• Gerhard Falkner in the literature portal Bavaria
• Essay by Daniel Falb on Falkner's poem “I, please answer” at lyrikkritik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Marquardt in the program for the Lyrikertreffen Münster 1983. Münster 1983. Page 20.
2. ↑ Lemma: Gerhard Falkner ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), André Rudolph on Gerhard Falkner's unworthiness for poetry criticism .
3. ↑ Modern minstrels (PDF; 65 kB), review by Kurt Drawert, NZZ , 17. October 2000
4. ^ Press release from the National Museums in Berlin on the occasion of the 500,000 visitors to the exhibition "Pergamon. Panorama of the ancient metropolis.
5. ↑ kookbooks: publisher preview autumn 2012 .
6. ↑ José Maria Sánchez-Verdú: "Argo" in the SWR2 program , accessed on June 11, 2018.
7. ↑ Culture Department of the City of Nuremberg: Prices for Art and Science of the City of Nuremberg 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 35 kB), press release from July 14, 2010  
8. ↑ Starting shot of the Tarabya Culture Academy ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release from the Goethe Institute.