Gerhard Köpf

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Gerhard Köpf (born September 19, 1948 in Pfronten ) is a German literary scholar and writer .

Life

Gerhard Köpf is the son of a country mailman. He graduated from high school in Füssen and from 1968 studied German and other subjects at the University of Munich . 1974 doctorate he there as a doctor of philosophy. After teaching assignments at various locations, he was appointed professor for contemporary literature and applied literary studies at the University of Duisburg in 1984 , where, in addition to visiting professorships, mainly on behalf of the Goethe Institute abroad, he worked until 2003. Since 2000 he turned increasingly to medicine, u. a. as visiting professor at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and external lecturer at the Chair of Psychiatry at the Technical University of Munich , Klinikum rechts der Isar , with a focus on psychopathology in language and literature.

Gerhard Köpf became known as an author through a series of novels set in the imaginary Allgäu town of Thulsern. In addition, Köpf writes radio plays and columnist articles for newspapers, magazines and medical organs (neurology, neurotransmitters). His literary work has been translated into eight languages.

Gerhard Köpf is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the German-speaking Society for Psychopathology of Expression (DGPA) and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Köpf lives in Munich and occasionally plays smaller roles in film, television and theater, for example in 2017 at the Münchner Kammerspiele No-Theater .

honors and awards

Works

As an author

  • Humanity and Reason , Bern [among others] 1975
  • The ballad , Kronberg / Ts. 1976
  • Skepticism and responsibility , Munich 1977
  • Fairy poetry , Stuttgart 1978
  • Friedrich Schiller, "The criminal from lost honor" , Munich 1978
  • Innerfern , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Threshold corridor , Weingarten 1984
  • The route , Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • The community of heirs , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Dog and cat and mouse, Schnecke, Butt and Ratte , Frankfurt 1987
  • A wonderful example of the power of poetry , Frankfurt 1987
  • Eulensehen , Munich [et al.] 1989
  • Bluff or Das Kreuz des Südens , Weinheim 1991
  • Borges does not exist , Frankfurt 1991
  • From dirt and from the nest , Frankfurt 1991
  • Piranesi's dream , Hamburg [et al.] 1992
  • Papa's suitcase , Hamburg 1993
  • Ezra & Luis or The first ascent of the Ulm Minster , Innsbruck [among others] 1994
  • Reading poison , Gütersloh 1994
  • The way to Eden , Munich [among others] 1994
  • The Cool Monarch , Austin, Tex. 1995
  • Nurmi or Die Reise zu den Troellen , Munich 1996
  • Pre-pictures , Tübingen 1999
  • Package insert for the works of Jorge Luis Borges, in: Jorge Luis Borges zum Hundertsten. Akzente (magazine) , Ed. Michael Krüger H. 4, Carl Hanser, Munich, August 1999, ISBN 3-446-23219-2 ISSN  0002-3957 pp. 318–323 of the year
  • Astrain , The Alzheimer's Language Training . Oberhausen 2001
  • together with Volker Faust: Psychiatry in Literature , Wiesbaden 2003.
  • The advantages of greyhounds , Tübingen 2004.
  • An old man. Novella , Tübingen 2006.
  • together with Hans-Jürgen Möller : ICD-10 literary. A reading book for psychiatry, Wiesbaden 2006.
  • Chews in salt and pepper. Roman , Tübingen 2008.
  • When God's breath got quieter. A story , Munich 2010.
  • The Ballad of the English Miss. Narration , in: The Mongol Waiting No. 21 / January 2011. Zenon, Düsseldorf 2011
  • From doctors and the deranged. Psychopathology in European literature. University of Bayreuth: HAGEL (= booklets for applied literary studies) Vol. 22/23, 2012 ( ISSN  1619-3199 )
  • The time on old clocks. An album. Stories. Oberhausen 2012.
  • The luck in feeding crows. Theater and film stories. CulturBooks Verlag Hamburg 2014.
  • M .: A logbook. Essays. epubli, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-6713-8 (self-published).
  • Of heroic passions. Seven stories. epubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7375-9311-3 (self-published).
  • A little experiment about boredom . epubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-2267-4 (self-published).
  • The dragon elk. A story . epubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-5398-2 (self-published).
  • The tailcoat. Narrative. epubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-741-86230-4 (self-published)
  • The village of 13 villages. Novel. Braumüller, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99200-185-9
  • Trip to Manderley. A feature section . epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-2302-2 (self-published)
  • The shadow of Kafka's doll . A feature section . epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978 - 3 - 7450 - 3110 - 2 (self-published)
  • Smrt . A bow to Romain Gary. epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-4710-3 (self-published)
  • Ottone. A memory of Otto Marchi . epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-5331-9 (self-published)
  • Beyond velvet and silk. A memory of Sandra Paretti. epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-4712-7 (self-published)
  • The sparrowhawk and its price. Notes on Jean Carrière . epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-15275-7 .
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Reichenbachfall Railway. A marginal note. epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7450-7531-1 .
  • The Miriam case. A casuistic . epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-2169-9 .
  • Lues and literature. A brief overview. epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-3224-4 .
  • Inward. Novel. Revised New edition Braumüller, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99200-214-6
  • Except. Novel. Braumüller, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99200212-2
  • Ursina . A fairy tale. epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-748539-77-3
  • The servant . A story. epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-748538-98-1
  • Of dreams and umbrellas. Feature sections. epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-748538-71-4

As editor

  • Tell a story , Munich
    • Part 1. Narrative Theory , 1978
    • Part 2. Short prose , 1979
    • Part 3rd novel , 1979
  • Reception pragmatics, Munich 1981
  • Love stories , Stuttgart 1982
  • together with Joachim Schultz: The island book of laziness , Frankfurt am Main 1983.
  • Nine chapters of poetry , Paderborn 1984
  • A writer writes a book about a writer who writes two books about two writers ... , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland : The apparent death or collection of the most important facts and remarks about it , Bern [et al.] 1986
  • The book of dragons , Frankfurt 1987
  • together with Herbert Kaiser: Narrating, Recalling , Frankfurt 1992.
  • Messages about Max , Oberhausen 1998.
  • Gregor von Rezzori , Oberhausen 1999.
  • Noblesse, Style & Elegance , Tübingen 1999.
  • Gregor von Rezzori together with Heinz Schumacher and Tilman Spengler:
    • : An ermine in Chernopol , Berlin 2004.
    • : Memories of an Anti-Semite , Berlin 2004.
    • : Oedipus wins at Stalingrad , Berlin 2005.
    • : Greisengemurmel , Berlin 2005.
    • : The swan. Above the cliff. Monkey tusk. Three novellas , Berlin 2005.
    • : A stranger in Lolitaland. An essay. - A Stranger in Lolitaland. An essay . Bilingual edition, Berlin 2006.
    • : Short trip over a long way , Berlin 2007.
    • : Flowers in the Snow , Berlin 2007.
  • Axel Vieregg: Ernst Bloch, Max Frisch and man in the Holocene. An essay. epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-0447-0 .

literature

  • Irmgard Ackermann (Ed.): Gerhard Köpf. Iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-89129-062-4 .
  • Franz Loquai (Ed.): "The blue path of the possible". Materials on Gerhard Köpf's work. Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg 1993 ( footnotes on recent German literature 25, ISSN  0723-2950 ).
  • Franz Loquai (Ed.): Gerhard Köpf. Edition, Isele Eggingen 1993, ISBN 3-86142-007-4 ( portrait 3).
  • Edgar Platen: storytelling as resistance. On Gerhard Köpf's novel “The Line” in the narrative context of the 80s. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-47214-5 ( European university publications . Series 1: German language and literature 1451), (At the same time: Duisburg, Univ., Diss., 1993).
  • Wolfgang-Michael Böttcher: "Appearance of death in the vortex of confetti". Telling between invention and disappearance in Gerhard Köpf's early work. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-35737-0 ( European university publications . Series 1: German language and literature 1737), (At the same time: Duisburg, Univ., Diss., 1999).
  • Hüseyin Kahramanlar: The relationship to time and the "past" in Gerhard Köpf's prose. Diss. Univ. Izmir 2004.
  • Corinna Schlicht, Heinz Schumacher (Ed.): Pen, catheter and stethoscope - From literature to psychiatry. Festschrift for Gerhard Köpf on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57868-1 .
  • Iginia Barretta: On the conception of contemporaneity in the literary essays by Gerhard Köpf . In: Linda Karlsson Hammarfeldt, Edgar Platen, Petra Platen (eds.): Telling contemporary stories. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 2018, pp. 51 - 64, ISBN 978-3-86205-597-5
  • Edgar Platen: "The author as reader increases fiction ..." Intertextuality and transculturality as narrative processes in Gerhard Köpf- In: Edgar Platen: "... across times and borders ..." Transcultural movements in the German-speaking post-war and contemporary literature. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 2019, pp. 143–153

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personal data
SURNAME Köpf, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfronten