Hanns-Josef Ortheil

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Hanns-Josef Ortheil at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2016)

Hanns-Josef Ortheil (born November 5, 1951 in Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German writer , screenwriter , Germanist and university professor .

Life

Hanns-Josef Ortheil was born as the fifth son of the librarian Maria Katharina Ortheil (1913–1996) and the geodesist and later Federal Railway Director Josef Ortheil (1907–1988) in Cologne. The parents lost two sons during World War II and two sons again in the first few years after the war. In the face of these deaths, Ortheil's mother had become more and more silent and finally mute, so that Ortheil grew up with a speechless mother in his early childhood and stopped speaking for a while at the age of about three. That's why he didn't learn to speak until he was seven. In a television studio talking in the WDR telecast Planet Wissen told Ortheil October 2013, his first sentence was: "Give it to me!" When he wanted to have the ball in the football match between two boys.

A release from the strongly introverted and mutistic child life brought the four-year-old piano lessons, which he initially received from his mother. From 1956 on, Ortheil was taught by pianists and music teachers, such as the pianist and music theorist Erich Forneberg and later by the pianist and Arrau student Daniela Ballek . Ortheil made rapid progress as a pianist and wanted to pursue this career professionally. Massive, recurring tendinitis , during two stays in Rome in the early 1970s, during which he studied at the Roman Conservatory and earned his living as an organist at the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima, forced him to give up this career aspiration.

After childhood and youth in Cologne, the Westerwald, Wuppertal and Mainz, Ortheil graduated from the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz and studied art history first in Rome and later musicology , philosophy, and German at the universities of Mainz, Göttingen, Paris and Rome and comparative literature . During his studies in the seventies he worked as a film and music journalist for the Mainzer " Allgemeine Zeitung " and later (since the eighties) as a columnist and literary critic for the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ", Die Zeit , " Die Welt ", and others . the "Rheinische Merkur", the " Spiegel " and the " Neue Zürcher Zeitung ". In 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the theory of the novel in the age of the French Revolution at the German Institute of the University of Mainz .

From 1976 to 1982 he was a research assistant there and from 1982 to 1988 university assistant. In 1979 he made his debut as a writer with the novel Fermer , for which he received the first “ Aspects ” literature award from ZDF for “the best debut” of the season. In 1983 he married the publisher Imma Klemm, the granddaughter of the expressionist poet Wilhelm Klemm , to whom he dedicated a monograph . From 1988 to 1990 he was a freelance writer. In 1991 he received a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome and since then has been living in Rome more often. During a second stay at Villa Massimo in 1993, Ortheil resumed his previous concert activities and played in private and public settings. In 1990 he was given a lectureship in creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Hildesheim , where in 1999 he founded the course in " Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism ". This resulted in younger writers, such as Mariana Leky , Paul Brodowsky , Thomas Klupp , Sebastian Polmans , Kevin Kuhn and Leif Randt . In 2003 he became professor for creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim; he now successfully continued the course together with colleagues and employees.

In 2008 Ortheil became the first director of the newly founded "Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies" at the University of Hildesheim, which is dedicated to promoting young authors in theory and practice and examining all aspects of writing and writing in research. In addition to teaching at the University of Hildesheim, Ortheil was a poetics lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis / USA and at the universities of Paderborn, Bielefeld, Heidelberg, Zurich and Bamberg. Ortheil is honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg and a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He has been the curator of the Gargonza Arts Award since 2012 .

reception

  • Regarding Die Berlinreise (2014): “For everyone who has something to do with Berlin, the book is a pleasant memory, whereby the view from the child's perspective is definitely a kick that makes the text interesting. The child's point of view also offers a large number of stimuli and suggestions - in some families the book could become a family reading book. ”( Norbert Kühne , Medienhaus Bauer / Marler Zeitung and 5 other issues, Marl, August 13, 2014).

Works

author

Non-fiction

Biographies

Scripts

  • with Christine Soetbeer: Demons of Cities - Georg Heym TV film, ZDF, first broadcast in 1985.
  • with Christine Soetbeer: Ezra Pound - An American high traitor. TV film, ZDF, first broadcast in 1986.

Contemporary history / contemporary novels and autobiographical essays

  • Fermer. (= Collection S. Fischer. Volume 7). Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22307-5 .
  • Hedge. Narrative. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-10-057602-0 .
  • Bait, prey and shadow. Search movements. (= Collection S. Fischer. Volume 43). Essays. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-22343-1 .
  • Serious eraser. Novel. Piper, Munich et al. 1987, ISBN 3-492-03179-X .
  • Agents. Novel. Piper, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-492-03363-6 .
  • Show trials. Contributions to the culture of the 80s. Essays. Piper, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-492-11180-7 .
  • Farewell to the war participants. Novel. Piper, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-492-03596-5 .
  • Roman sequence. Notes. German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome 1993, DNB 941119467 .
  • Family ties. The beginnings of writing. (= Paderborn University Speeches. Volume 40). Rectorate of the university / comprehensive university, Paderborn 1994, DNB 942323009 .
  • The element of the elephant. Piper, Munich et al. 1994.
  • Blue way. Luchterhand, Munich 1996.
  • Description: Erwin Wortelkamp's valley near Hasselbach in the Westerwald. Witten 2000.
  • Lo and Lu . Luchterhand, Munich 2001.
  • The great love. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-630-87147-X .
  • Venice. Luchterhand, Munich 2004.
  • The white islands of time. Places, pictures, readings. Features, speeches, essays, notes. Luchterhand, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-87175-5 .
  • The great festival of writing. Notes on the literary festival "Prosanova". Glück and Schiller, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-938404-05-1 .
  • The secret hours of the night. Luchterhand, Munich 2005.
  • The need for love. Luchterhand, Munich 2007.
  • The invention of life . Luchterhand, Munich 2009.
  • Rome. An ecstasy. Oases for the senses. Luchterhand, Munich 2009.
  • The Moselle trip. A child's novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2010.
  • Closeness to love. Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87303-9 .
  • The child who didn't ask. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87302-2 .
  • The Berlin trip. Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87430-2 .
  • Rome, Villa Massimo. LangenMüller, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7844-3368-4 .
  • The pen and the paper. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87478-4 .
  • What I love - and what not. Luchterhand, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87416-6 .
  • The guy is there . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-05014-1 .
  • Paris, left of the Seine . Insel, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-17721-0 .
  • The Mediterranean voyage: a young man's novel . Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87535-4 .
  • How I learned to play the piano . Insel, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-17789-0 .

Historical novels

editor

Awards

literature

  • Manfred Durzak (ed.): Hanns-Josef Ortheil - inside his texts. Piper, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-492-12037-7 .
  • Volker Wehdeking: Hanns-Josef Ortheil's "Farewell to those who participated in the war". The replacement of German post-war history from the perspective of a new departure. In: Volker Wehdeking: German unity and the writers. Literary processing of the turnaround since 1989. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-17-012723-3 , pp. 64–75.
  • Helmut Schmitz: The surveyor in search of the poetic homeland. Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-88099-348-3 .
  • Stephanie Catani et al. (Ed.): Art of memory, poetics of love. The narrative work of Hanns-Josef Ortheil. (= Poiesis. Volume 3). Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0466-6 .
  • Caroline Kartenbeck: Inventions of Life. Auto-fictional narration by Hanns-Josef Ortheil. (= Contributions to recent literary history [ Volume 3]. Volume 308). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-6118-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The dumb child - Hanns-Josef Ortheil's way to language. In: Planet Knowledge . Scientific TV broadcast, October 29, 2013, 60 min. - Moderation: Andrea Grießmann , book: Britta Schwanenberg, realization: Barbara Garde, editor: Remo Trerotola, co-production by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with BR-alpha
  2. ↑ See PDF ( Memento of March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the publisher's website.
  3. ^ Instead of the sick Hana Blažíková . See evening program ( memento from May 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Anja Hirsch: The colors of the Moselle. Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 30, 2010, accessed April 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ Klagenfurt speech on literature by Hanns-Josef Ortheil ( memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the competition.
  6. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 46 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ m.focus.de
  8. ^ Award: Peter Wust Prize for author Hanns-Josef Ortheil. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. June 8, 2018, accessed February 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ortheil, Hanns-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne