Gert Jonke

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Gert Jonke (r.) With André Pohl ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2008 )

Gert Friedrich Jonke (born February 8, 1946 in Klagenfurt ; † January 4, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austrian poet , playwright , storyteller and radio play author .

Life

Gert Jonke attended the humanistic grammar school and the Carinthian State Conservatory in his hometown of Klagenfurt. After completing his military service, he studied German , history , philosophy and musicology at the University of Vienna from 1966 and attended the Academy for Film and Television . In 1970 he worked in the radio play department of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1971 he went to West Berlin on a scholarship , where he stayed for five years. This was followed by a year-long stay in London and extensive trips to the Middle East and South America . Since 1978 Jonke stayed in Austria again, he had his residence in Vienna, where he worked as a freelance writer . In 1977 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Literature Prize , and in 1987 the Austrian Prize for Literature .

Jonke's style was - based on the linguistic skepticism of experimental literature - influenced by techniques and writing styles of concrete poetry and socially critical . In his first publication, Geometric Heimatroman (1969), he combined immanent language criticism and content-oriented writing in order to arrive at an adequate analysis of societal relationships as a whole. The story School of Fluency (1977) is more content-oriented within the framework of the aesthetic principle, and goes beyond language criticism and also proceeds from real events. Jonke took up the idea of ​​merging memory and the present: a summer festival is to be staged identical to that of the previous year, thereby canceling out time. The relationship between fiction and reality becomes the actual theme of the narrative, which is repeatedly interrupted by inserted stories .

Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Gert Jonke

Jonke worked as a teacher at the Vienna Poetry Academy / School for Poetry (sfd) and was a member of various interest groups, for example the Graz Authors' Assembly and the Interest Group of Austrian Authors . His work included short stories , novels , essays , plays , screenplays and radio plays .

Jonke is said to have known about his serious cancer since summer 2008, but he kept appointments until his death. So he took on his first acting role in his business farce Burst Suddenly . He succumbed to his illness on January 4, 2009 at the age of 62. On January 19, 2009, he was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33G, No. 41).

In memory of Gert Jonke, the state of Carinthia and the city of Klagenfurt donated a Gert Jonke literature prize in 2010 , which is to be awarded every two years.

Awards

Works

  • Geometric homeland novel . Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-518-03345-X .
  • Desperation begins . Salzburg 1970.
  • Glass house tour . Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • Music history . Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-920392-04-3 .
  • The multiplication of lighthouses . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • The underhandedness of the wind machines or a sip of grass quenches every thirst at home and abroad too . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • At home and abroad too . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-06656-0 .
  • School of Fluency . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-03348-4 .
  • The distant sound . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1979, ISBN 3-7017-0228-4 .
  • The first journey to the unexplored bottom of the silent horizon . Salzburg et al. 1980.
  • Awakening to the great sleep war . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1982, ISBN 3-7017-0287-X .
  • Black book . Klagenfurt 1984 (together with Sepp Schmölzer)
  • The head of George Frideric Handel . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1988, ISBN 3-7017-0534-8 .
  • Gentleness or The Ear Machinist . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7017-0655-7 .
  • Opus 111 . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-88661-142-6 .
  • Fabric storm . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7017-1034-1 .
  • Behavior on sinking ships . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1997 (together with Ilse Aichinger ), ISBN 3-7017-1101-1 .
  • The stones are singing . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1998, ISBN 3-7017-1121-6 .
  • Himmelstrasse - Erdbrustplatz or The System of Vienna . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7017-1172-0 .
  • Insectarium . Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-902144-03-3 .
  • Choral fantasy . Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz et al. 2003, ISBN 3-85420-627-5
  • Speakers around the clock . Jung and Jung, Salzburg et al. 2003, ISBN 3-902144-48-3 .
  • Klagenfurt . (together with Siegfried Gutzelnig), Heyn, Klagenfurt 2004, ISBN 3-7084-0012-7 .
  • Beach concert with surf. Georg Friedrich Handel. Anton Webern. Lorenzo da Ponte. Salzburg: Young and Young, 2006.
  • All pieces Salzburg: Young and Young 2008.
  • All poems Salzburg: Jung und Jung 2010.
  • Awakening to the Sleep War : New edition, Salzburg: Jung und Jung 2011.

Plays

  • Back then in front of Graz , first performance Forum Stadtpark Graz 1989.
  • The underhandedness of the wind machines
  • Sanftwut or The Ears Machinist , Theater Sonata, UA Styriate Graz 1990.
  • Another performance of the 'Theatersonate' Der Ohrmaschinist with Ulrich Wildgruber, Hamburger Kammerspiele 1993/94, TV recording of a guest performance at the Salzburg scene in August 1994 (direction: Felix Breisach) in co-production with ORf, NDR and arte
  • Opus 111 , UA Volkstheater Vienna 1993.
  • Presence of Remembrance , UA Volkstheater Vienna 1995.
  • The stones are singing , UA Stadttheater Klagenfurt 1998.
  • Insectarium , UA Volkstheater Vienna 1999 (Director: Michael Kreihsl )
  • Die Vögel , UA Volkstheater Vienna 2002.
  • Choral Fantasy , World Premiere of European Capital of Culture / Theater Graz, 2003.
  • Speakers around the clock , UA Semper-Depot Vienna, 2004
  • Strange thing , World Premiere Ruhrtriennale September 2005.
  • The Sunken Cathedral , UA Burgtheater September 2005.
  • Sanftwut or The Ears Machinist , first performance in sign language with the deaf actor Werner Mössler by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater in the Theater of the Moment Vienna March 2006

(Frankfurt am Main: publishers of the authors)

libretto

Radio plays

  • The village square , 1969.
  • Back then before Graz , 1970.
  • Glass house tour , 1970.
  • There were narratives, narratives and narratives , 1971.
  • The typewriters , 1972.
  • Repetition of a festival , 1975.
  • School of Fluency , 1976.
  • Piano piece , 1976.
  • Flying radio waves , 1979.
  • In the shadow of the weather vane , 1986.
  • Gentle Fury or The Ears Machinist , 1992.
  • Opus 111 , 1993.

Editing

  • Worldviews . Munich 1970 (together with Leo Navratil)

literature

  • Marina Corrêa: Musical shaping in Gert Jonke's work . Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7069-0484-1 .
  • Robert Hunger-Bühler (Ed.): Presence of Memory . Bonn 1988.
  • Materials for Gert Jonke's theatrical sonata "Sanftwurt oder Der Ohrmaschinist" . Graz 1990.
  • Ulrich Schönherr: The infinite aging of modernity . Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85165-110-3 .
  • Daniela Bartens (Ed.): Gert Jonke . Graz 1996, ISBN 3-85420-434-5 .
  • Klaus Amann (ed.): The suspension of gravity . 1998, ISBN 3-85449-129-8 .
  • Frederik Schneeweiß: Mediality and Musikopoetik. Borderline cases of language in the work of Gert Jonke. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8253-6833-3 .

Movie and TV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Gert Jonke
personal data
SURNAME Jonke, Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonke, Gert Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2009
Place of death Vienna