Hans Eppendorfer

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Hans Eppendorfer (born June 10, 1942 in Lütjenburg as Hans-Peter Reichelt ; † January 23, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German writer .

Life

In wartime and postwar Germany Hans Eppendorfer grew as an illegitimate child of a hairdresser with his grandmother and aunt, first in Lower Silesia , and later with her at her aunt in Göppingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg , until he at the age of seventeen years for robbery and murder of at befriended elderly lady was sentenced to ten years youth imprisonment. To make matters worse were his previous thefts and the failed attempts of his probation officers to place him in a boarding school and to have him educated or to give him an education.

He began writing poetry and short stories while in detention . After his release, he worked as a warehouse worker in a publishing house, later as an editorial assistant and sought out the Hamburg writer and ethnographer Hubert Fichte , who had already been contacted in prison, in the homosexual scene in Hamburg, with whom he later conducted a cycle of interviews entitled The leather man speaks with Hubert Fichte was published. Although the cycle attracted a great deal of attention because of its sex, violence and descriptions of the committed murder, we now know that large parts of the interview are fictional in nature, often developed by Hans Eppendorfer, who wanted to create a new identity as a writer and were written. The cycle was published in book form and as a stage adaptation and has been translated into six languages. The disputes over the rights to the texts led to a rift between the two protagonists that could no longer be repaired until Fichte's death. Parts of it had already been published in the magazine das there (where the pseudonym Eppendorfers - to the horror of Fichte - was dissolved in a letter to the editor), broadcast as a radio piece and edited as a chapter in Hubert Fichte's novel Attempt on Puberty (1974), which in turn outraged Eppendorfer.

On March 26, 1971, the homosexual Eppendorfer married the then well-known and 25 years older fabric designer Margret Hildebrand , whom one of her students had introduced to him at a party. He moved to live with her in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf , which led to his pseudonym. It gave him economic security. This was followed by numerous trips to the Middle East, the USA, southern Europe and Asia, which today would more likely be called sex tourism, which he glorified as educational trips. For several years he worked as a freelancer for the St. Pauli Nachrichten and the gay magazine him applaus , which appeared every eight weeks and which he headed as editor-in-chief from April 1976 until they were hired in April 1981 .

St. Pauli , where Eppendorfer was the official Hamburg district writer in 1981/1982 , and the experiences in the local neighborhood , were also reflected in his novel Scenes from St. Pauli and the screenplay for Walter Bockmayer's Kiez - Rise and Fall of a Luden (1983) low. Because of the unsanctioned publication of the first-mentioned book and the failure to name the Hamburg cultural authority, which Eppendorfer supported financially, there was a falling out between him and the authority. Together with Dieter Wedel and Alexander Schuller, he wrote the screenplay for the multi-part television series König von St. Pauli with Oliver Hasenfratz and Julia Stemberger ; a book version of it was also published. This was followed by a legal dispute in which Hans Eppendorfer was about his position in the joint work and fee claims. He claimed to have been more than just an idea generator or district guide.

In addition, Eppendorfer, who always equated his own childhood with negative experiences, which, however, cannot be proven, wrote two children's books ( ... and the next one follows immediately. A prank book and ghostly fun ) as well as stories (including Barmbeck's kiss and The Magnolienkaiser. Reflecting on Yukio Mishima ).

From December 1988 to May 1989, Hans Eppendorfer - from February 1989 as editor-in-chief - worked with the author François Maher Presley on the Nord-Magazin for culture, politics and economics, which he initiated and which appeared in Hamburg. This difficult and intensive collaboration, which ended without a rift, resulted in a 9-year contact between the two. Maher Presley processed the sometimes extreme experiences with the also very good-natured and helpful Eppendorfer in the short story Fulfillment , in the novel 17 Life in numerous articles, a very personal obituary in March 1999 and a biography . There the author tries to juxtapose fiction and reality, shows Eppendorf’s socialization, compares Eppendorf’s works with one another, reports on many duplications of publications under different titles, his use of advantages when it came to financing his lifestyle and shows the mechanisms of a literary business that Eppendorfer made his own and was thus supposedly able to obtain partially unjustified sponsorships and awards.

In 1998 and shortly before his death, the director Peter Kern , who was a friend of Eppendorfer, dedicated the film portrait Hans Eppendorfer - Search for Life to him , which premiered during the Hamburg Film Festival on September 25, 1998. According to Presley, it was "probably intended as a kind of legacy and consolidation of his view of his life and understood by him as well as by the director ...". The news magazine Der Spiegel commented on the work: "A bundle of document and drama, partly serious, partly grotesque and occasionally uncomfortably silly."

Only shortly after the production was completed, Hans Eppendorfer died at the age of 56 on January 23, 1999 of a brain tumor in Hamburg. He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of ​​the Anomymen Urnenhains near chapel 2 (grid square XW 19).

Anonymous Urnenhain Friedhof Ohlsdorf

Works

Fiction

  • Kiez , 1982, screenplay for the film of the same name, which was released in 1983 (only proven screenplay)
  • Scenes from St. Pauli . Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-08742-6 .
  • The Magnolia Emperor: Thinking About Yukio Mishima . Vis-a-Vis, Rowohlt, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-924040-08-7 .
  • Ghost fun . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-499-20405-3 .
  • Barmbeker kiss. Scenes from prison . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-14667-3 .
  • ... and the next one follows immediately. A prank book . Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-20384-7 .
  • (Reissue) The Magnolia Emperor. Thinking about Yukio Mishima . Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-15939-2 .
  • Almost a moment of happiness. Stories from the neighborhood . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-442-21020-8 .
  • (Reissue) Barmbeker kiss. Scenes from prison . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-442-21010-0 .
  • (Reissue) The piranha in the bathtub. A prank book . Bertelsmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-20047-7 .
  • New scenes from St. Pauli . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-60339-X .

Holdings

  • The leather man speaks to Hubert Fichte . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-02770-0 .
  • (Repeat) The leather man is talking to Hubert Fichte . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-37080-4 .
  • Spectaculum / Modern Theater Part: 25/2 . Thomas Bernhard , Edward Bond, Hans Eppendorfer, Hubert Fichte , Franz Xaver Kroetz , Gerlind Reinshagen. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-09088-7 .
  • Literaturwerkstatt I . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-12-909410-5 .
  • Reading book . Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt 1979.
  • Men's things . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1979.
  • Sexuality Concrete , Volume I. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt 1980.
  • (Reprint in French) L´homme de cuir / Hans Eppendorfer; Hubert Fichte; Trad. de l'allemand par Louis-Charles Sirjacq . Éditions Libres-Hallier, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-86297-039-5 .
  • Street poems . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982.
  • irrepressibly masculine . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1983.
  • (Repeat) The leather man is talking to Hubert Fichte . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-442-21032-1 .
  • Happiness is a gift . Edited by Rosemarie Fiedler-Winter, Hans Eppendorfer, Ruth Gehe, Eva Jantzen, Walter Kempowski , Gabriel Laub , Siegfried Lenz , Rinnt Neumann, Günter Radtke, Karl-Heinz Söhler, Arno Surminiski and others. a. Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7844-2588-7 .
  • The King of St. Pauli . Dieter Wedel , Hans Eppendorfer, Alexander Schuller. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-19437-6 .
  • Home can be anywhere . Eds. Rosemarie Fiedler-Winter, Hans Eppendorfer, Ruth Gehe, Eva Jantzen, Walter Kempowski, Gabriel Laub, Siegfried Lenz, Rinnt Neumann, Ulrich Schacht, Sybil Countess Schönfeldt, Arno Surminiski and others. a. Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7844-2660-3 .
  • In all friendship . Langen Müller, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7844-2710-3 .

Editing

Edited works

Awards

  • 1986: Literature award for short prose from the Hamburg authors' association
  • 1988: Short prose from the Hamburger Abendblatt

Scholarships

  • 1981: 12-month scholarship from the Hamburg cultural authority as a district clerk in Sankt Pauli
  • 1983: 12-month scholarship from the German Literature Fund
  • 1986: 12-month scholarship from the German Literature Fund

literature

  • François Maher Presley: Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-57-5 .

Documentary film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l François Maher Presley : Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-57-5 .
  2. ↑ Bernhard Rosenkranz , Gottfried Lorenz : Hamburg on other ways: The history of gay life in the Hanseatic city . Hamburg 2005, p. 266ff.
  3. ↑ Annegret Mahler-Bungers: contradictions of gender identity. On Hubert Fichte's "Experiment on Puberty". In: Johannes Cremerius , Gottfried Fischer, Ortrud Gutjahr, Wolfram Mauser , Carl Pietzcker (eds.): Contradictions of gender identity. Bibliography of literary psychology 1992–1996. (= Freiburg literary psychological discussions. Volume 17). Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-8260-1509-6 , pp. 161-171.
  4. ^ François Maher Presley: Work diary - early poetry and prose . Introduced and with an afterword by Matthias H. Rauert. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-23-0 .
  5. ^ François Maher Presley: 17 lives . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8 .
  6. ^ François Maher Presley: With Germany in Transition. Sociopolitical essays, text collection 1999–2011 . Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2 , p. 16 ff.
  7. ↑ Cinema in brief. In: Der Spiegel. 42/1988, p. 234. (magazin.spiegel.de)
  8. ↑ Celebrity Graves

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personal data
SURNAME Eppendorfer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichelt, Hans-Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Luetjenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1999
Place of death Hamburg