Hans-Joachim Haecker

Hans-Joachim Haecker (1990)

Hans-Joachim Haecker (born March 25, 1910 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † February 20, 1994 in Hanover ) was a German writer, playwright and teacher.

Life

After graduating from the Hufengymnasium Königsberg, where he was taught and promoted by the poet Ernst Wiechert , among others , he studied German , philosophy and English in Berlin , Munich and Königsberg . During his internship in East Prussia , he became a member of the Confessing Church and befriended the writer Willy Kramp . In 1938 he married his fellow student Irmtraut Krause, with whom he had four children. During this time the first publications and performances of his partly Christian plays (Job; Die Stadt; Segler gegen Westen), which are performed in Leipzig and Bochum , among others , took place. During the Second World War , Hans-Joachim Haecker was a soldier in Brittany and Italy and came to Egypt as a British prisoner of war . During the years of imprisonment, which he perceived as "casual and fair", he worked for the camp newspaper "Der Moascar-Bote" and his drama Death of Odysseus and the Michelangelo sonnets were created . There he met Johannes Agnoli . After the war verschlug him and his family in 1948 to Wilhelmshaven , where he was a teacher working at the high school for boys (Humboldt University). During these years his plays (David before Saul; Oil of the Lamps; Leopard and Dove; Death of Odysseus; Pilate's Dream; Not in the house - not on the street) were successfully performed in several cities, so in Stuttgart, Wuppertal and on of the Landesbühne Lower Saxony North . From 1955 until his retirement in 1972 he was a teacher at the Lutherschule in Hanover. He created the plays Don't Turn Around , Memorial Day and The Postman Comes , and many of his poems and stories were published in well-known newspapers and magazines. In the later years of his life up to his death, several volumes of poetry, short stories, philosophical writings on existentialism and scientific publications about his Stone Age finds in the Hanover area and the Phaistos disc were published .

Reception of the work

While the first dramas were still influenced by Christianity and were often tied to strict meter, the stage plays of the late 1950s and 1960s took on abstract-surrealistic, Kafkaesque features: they were “plays of the stopped time”, reality slipped into the questionable and imaginative (not in the house - not in the street; the postman comes). The play about two Jewish women, translated into many languages, does not turn around (1961) was performed on numerous stages and on television by well-known actors ( Tilla Durieux ; Hilde Körber ; Lucie Mannheim ).

Haecker “In my works, amazement, emotion and skepticism are mixed. I lose myself in the beauty and horror of the world and at the same time doubt its reality. "

Haecker's poetry ranges from sensitive, artful sonnets in classical verse form (carpet of faces; works of Michelangelo) to poems deliberately set in strict, clear form, to oddities (set the case; peculiarity) to haiku .

Haecker himself says: “My poems are no appeals, no accusations, no prophecies, but also no idyll in an ivory tower, but seismographic recordings of events, feelings and problems, always filtered through one's own existence, always against the background of the questionability of reality . In the area of ​​the lyric, I insist on form - with a great deal of formal freedom. I don't believe in poems that are vertically written prose. "

In his few, sometimes bizarre stories, he becomes a seismograph of the apocalyptic, fear, insecurity, and threat. As a lover of modern performing arts, he writes interpretive texts or poems about works by his painters acquaintances, for example by Hans-Ulrich Buchwald , Friedrich Meckseper and Hartmut eing . At the beginning of the 1980s, he dealt intensively with existentialism in his philosophical texts and radically goes beyond Jean-Paul Sartre's view in his interpretation .

To this Haecker: “The existentialism of distance opposes Sartre's demand that the ego should feel responsible not only for its own image of people but also for that of others and that the ego has its idea of ​​the right world for the correct looks. ... Each of these worlds has - as long as it does not break into the world of another against his will - its justification is that it unfolds its existence. "

Awards

• 1961 Gerhart Hauptmann Prize
• 1978 Adolf-Georg-Bartels commemorative honor
• 1979 Lower Saxony artist grant for literature
• 1980 Castle clerk in Plesse
• 1983 Mölle Literature Prize, Sweden
• 1986 Graphics Literature Prize
• 1989 KOGGE honor ring

Works

Dramas, poems, essays, stories

• 1937 Job
• 1938 The city
• 1941 sailors heading west
• 1942 The great carnival
• 1943 The island of life
• 1947 Carpet of Faces; The death of Odysseus
• 1951 David before Saul
• 1953 The oil of the lamps
• 1955 Piavara
• 1962 Don't turn around. Remembrance day. The postman comes; The game from Teufelsstein to Thalussen
• 1963 Not in the house - not on the street
• 1963 deletion of a register
• 1964 The door
• 1967 Put the case
• 1968 specialty
• 1975 works by Michelangelo
• 1977 silent alarm; Encounters
• 1978 The dream of Lazarus' dream
• 1980 Registered in XX. Century; Bought at the flea market
• 1981 In the mirror
• 1982 Limericks; Friedrich Meckseper
• 1984 existentialism of distance
• 1985 poems
• 1986 ... has to be rethought
• 1990 smoke signals
• 1993 haiku poems

Radio, television

• 1952 The dead. Radio play, NDR
• 1960 Don't turn around. Radio play, NDR
• 1961 Don't turn around. TV film, SDR
• 1962 Memorial Day. TV film, SFB
• 1963 deletion of a register. Radio play, WDR

literature

• Bortenschlager, Wilhelm : German history of literature . Vienna: Leitner. Vol. 2, 1978, 3rd extension. Ed .; Pp. 96-97. ISBN 3-85157-025-1
• Gruen, Eckart: No tragedy: theater at and with the Luther school. In: 100 Years of the Luther School in Hanover. 2006, pp. 68-77
• Hans-Joachim Haecker - 80 years: a birthday gift from the circle of Plesse authors . Edited by Carl Heinz Kurz. Göttingen: Graphikum Mock, 1990
• Hans-Joachim Haecker - Burgschreiber zu Plesse: Protocol of an honor . Edited by Carl Heinz Kurz. Göttingen: Goltze, 1980 (Plesse readings; 1980)
• Italiaander, Rolf [ed.]: Beyond the German-German border. Stockach / Bodensee: Weidling, 1981, pp. 17-18. ISBN 3-922095-04-6
• In short, Carl Heinz : Diagonals: from life and. Work d. Hans-Joachim Haecker. Frankfurt a. M .: Verl. Das Viergespann, 1977
• In short, Carl Heinz: Sketches by writers: Hans-Joachim Haecker, Margarete Kubelka, Inge Meidinger-Geise . Frankfurt a. M .: Verl. Das Viergespann, 1977
• Lennartz, Franz: German writers of the present . Stuttgart: Kröner, 11th ext. Ed., [1978], pp. 267-269 (Kröner's pocket edition; vol. 151). ISBN 3-520-15111-1
• Lennartz, Franz: German writers of the 20th century in the mirror of criticism . Stuttgart: * Kröner, Vol. 1–3 a. Regbd., 1984, pp. 644-646 ISBN 3-520-82101-X
• Lower Saxony literary. [Vol. 1]. Bio-bibliographical data, photos and texts from 65 authors from Lower Saxony . Edited by DP Meier-Lenz u. Kurt Morawietz. Bremerhaven: Wirtschaftsverl. NW, 1978, pp. 135-138. ISBN 3-88314-003-1
• Lower Saxony literary. [Vol. 2]. 100 author portraits, bibliographies and texts. Ed. V by DP Meier-Lenz u. Kurt Morawietz. Bremerhaven: Wirtftsverl. NW, 1981, pp. 212-217. ISBN 3-88314-164-X
• Profiles, impulses: Lower Saxony artist scholars from 1979 to 1981; Fine arts, music, literature. Hanover: Lower Saxony. Min. F. Knowledge u. Art, 1981, pp. 186-191
• On the subject: left-right. Siegen: Univ., 2005, pp. 111-125. therein essay by H. Reinhardt: From left to right, inside to outside - H-.J. Haecker's reflections on the Phaistos Disc (Diagonal 2005, 27)

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Haecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Haecker in the catalog of the German National Library