Hans Krieger

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Hans Krieger (born March 13, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German poet , essayist , writer , journalist and radio author . He lives and works in Munich .

Life

Hans Krieger studied German and Romance languages in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Dijon . From 1963 to 1998 he was culture editor and head of the feature pages of the Bayerische Staatszeitung . Krieger wrote volumes of poetry, essays critical of culture, theater and art reviews, and book translations from French and taught theater criticism at the University of Munich . He has written numerous radio lectures and journalistic works for Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Sender Freies Berlin and Deutschlandfunk, as well as literary and non-fiction book reviews and others. a. in the Bayerische Staatszeitung , ZEIT , Weltbühne and Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1999 to 2002, Krieger was President of the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature eV, Munich. This awards the Friedrich-Märker-Preis and the silver pen.

Culture editor, theater and art critic

Hans Krieger was the cultural editor of the Bayerische Staatszeitung until 1998. As such, he wrote culture-critical essays, theater and art reviews, also in other newspapers. He continued this activity as a freelance journalist, columnist and essayist. B. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Nürnberger Nachrichten , magazines like Ossietzky and various broadcasters.

In 1997, Hans Krieger was awarded the “Friedrich Märker Prize” for his essays, which also went to Peter Sloterdijk and Rüdiger Safranski . In his laudation, Albert von Schirnding emphasized the essayist's "unambiguously informative", "unaffected differentiated" and "intuitively linguistic" style of writing. Horst-Eberhard Richter praised him as a “language artist” and at the same time “relentless critic” of the decay of language in the foreword to the volume of essays “Word Steps” published in 2003.

Critic of Psychoanalysis

During his many years at the Bavarian State Newspaper, Krieger also spoke in other newspapers. In the early 1970s he wrote a series of essays on the life and work of Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) for ZEIT .

Reich was one of the most successful psychoanalysts in the 1920s , but also the founder of Freudo Marxism and a political activist of the KPD . He was expelled from the KPD in 1933 because of his book Mass Psychology of Fascism and in 1934, at Sigmund Freud's instigation , for unspecified “scientific reasons”, expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association . Since then, Reich has been controversial among the left and is considered persona non grata by psychoanalysts .

Some of Reich's early, e. T. Marxist works were rediscovered in left student circles in the mid-1960s and were very popular as illegal reprints . However, authoritative theorists of the student left and the SDS distanced themselves from Reich, u. a. because of its "undialectical" theory and ostensibly normative conception of sexuality. Reich's later solo naturalist approach with his "discovery of the orgons " was often seen as evidence of his alleged mental illness.

Around 1970, because of his book title “The Sexual Revolution ” (which was usurped by the mass media contrary to his intentions), Reich enjoyed considerable and dubious popularity, but hardly any reputation in academic or serious political circles. In this situation, Krieger took the publication of the first volume of a regular Reich work edition, his "scientific autobiography", as an opportunity to write an essay on Wilhelm Reich. To write the man who touched our deepest fears , in which he gave a factual and concise overview of Reich's life and oeuvre. This essay was in marked contrast to the mostly polemical, banal or superficial articles that had previously appeared on Reich.

In lengthy review essays, Krieger also discussed the other volumes in the edition of the man who was “fought, damned and now slowly rediscovered”. On the other hand, he sharply criticized two books about Reich that appeared in 1971 as "denunciation". Four to five years later, however, there were signs of Krieger's departure from Reich when he gave another review essay, He flew so high ... , the speaking subtitle: Wilhelm Reich: Ingenious spinner - or founder of a new scientific age?

As a reviewer, Krieger then turned to other authors who had a more or less critical relationship to psychoanalysis - but also to Reich - e.g. B. Alice Miller , Arthur Janov or Arno Gruen . At best, Krieger showed a similarly strong commitment as in the Reich case for Otto Mainzer's book Die Sexuelle Zwangswirtschaft. An erotic manifesto .

Engagement against the spelling reform

In the 1980s there was a shift in the focus of Kriegers interests and engagement. It is true that he had already taken part in the discussion about spelling rules just because of his job as a culture editor. But it was not until 1990, when the various plans for the spelling reform pushed into the political implementation phase, that Krieger made a name for himself as a critic of the spelling reform through his articles and public appearances. However, he was unable to bring his ideas to bear to the extent desired, nor could he prevent the “lazy compromise” that led to the adoption of the 1996 spelling reform . In the summer of 1998, Krieger retired from the Bayerische Staatszeitung for reasons of age and continued to criticize the spelling reform as a freelance journalist. On August 22nd, 2004 he founded the association “Council for German Spelling” together with Friedrich Denk and other reform critics in Munich and was elected its chairman. In March 2006, he described the negotiation result of the Council for German Spelling, praised by the ministers of education, as a "pretended spelling peace ".

Lyric poet

Hans Krieger has published ten volumes of poetry since 1993. “Poems are music made of words,” says Hans Krieger. According to the judgment of the Munich critic Alexander Altmann, his poetry makes "the heartbeat of reality tangible in the pulsation of the syllables". His poetry is carried by an energetically pressing rhythm, and sometimes the virtuoso chimes of the rhyme are not spurned. Hans Krieger's poems were characterized in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as "sad and bright" at the same time.

If Krieger has mainly published volumes of his own poems in recent years, this is by no means an expression of a retreat into a sphere that is devoid of the world or even of politics. With the change in literary form, Krieger again became more of a cultural critic in the broader sense. The poetry collection Free as the Fences - A Season in Virginia is a testament to this . It was written during a two-month stay in the USA . According to one reviewer, Krieger deals with a “system of signs and symbols by which [he] establishes a continuity of military US barbarism against the ethnically different - beginning with the extermination of the Indians, through slavery, to the wars of ours Days. ”He conjured up“ Greco-Roman mysticism so that it might help him to take a position against a lack of basic moral values. ”In old age, Krieger seems to be approaching the fundamental cultural-critical position that he assumed as a critic of psychoanalysis would have. As a poet , however, he is not obliged to argue and is less vulnerable to this.

Illustrations and music

His poems inspired the painter and graphic artist Christine Rieck-Sonntag to illustrate them with drawings or picture cycles. The composer Graham Waterhouse set a selection from Das Asphalt-Zebra to music. Animal-alphabetical verses under the title Animalia and Im Gebirg , premiered in 2010 in Gasteig . Krieger wrote the text for a Christmas cantata for the composer , which was performed in Schloss Borbeck on December 4, 2011. The central idea goes back to Angelus Silesius : "If Christ is born a thousand times in Bethlehem / and not in you; you will remain lost forever." (from Der Cherubinische Wandersmann , I, 61). The text is influenced by Klaus-Peter Jörns and David Steindl-Rast .

Award

Fonts

Essays
  • Article series about Wilhelm Reich in Die Zeit :
    • Wilhelm Reich. The man who touched our deepest fears. In: Die Zeit, October 10, 1969
    • Reprint: Wilhelm Reich. The man who touched our deepest fears as a brochure: 34 p., Verlag KN Jürgensen, Munich, undated [approx. 1970]; 3rd, exp. Ed., Undated [approx. 1975], 39 pp.
    • The limits of psychoanalysis . In: Die Zeit, November 27, 1970
    • The collapse of sexual morality . In: Die Zeit, July 14, 1972
    • A denunciation . In: Die Zeit, October 27, 1972
    • He flew so high. Wilhelm Reich: Ingenious weirdo or founder of a new scientific age? In: Die Zeit, April 4, 1975
  • Growth logic and regulatory mania . In: Hans-Werner Eroms; Horst Haider Munske (ed.): The spelling reform. Pro and Contra , Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1997, 264 pp., ISBN 3-503-03786-1 , pp. 117–126.
  • The spelling swindle. Heckling to an absurd reform theater , 1st edition, 1998, 152 pp., 2nd expanded edition, with new texts on current developments . St. Goar: Leibniz-Verlag, 2000, 207 pp., ISBN 3-931155-11-0
  • Word steps - About art and politics, about God and the world . Essay. With a foreword by Horst-Eberhard Richter . [Landshut]: Arcos-Verlag, 2003, 225 pages, ISBN 3-935339-08-9
  • When we built the wall. A self-critical West look at the former GDR . [Berlin]: Edition Bodoni, 2009, 83 pages, ISBN 978-3-940781-03-1
Poems
  • God digest - a babble of voices . Poems. With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Munich: self-published, 1993, IDN 94017524X
  • In the shadow of your hair - day and night of love . Poems. Munich: self-published, 1995
  • Blinking Glances - Spring in Manhattan . Pictures and poems. With a foreword by Wieland Schmied . [Landshut]: Arcos-Verlag, 2000, 69 pages, ISBN 3-935339-05-4
  • Song shady . Poems. Waakirchen: Oreos-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-923657-76-5
  • Free as the fences - a season in Virginia . Poems. With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag and a CD: The author reads. Waakirchen: Oreos-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-923657-82-X
  • The asphalt zebra. Animal alphabetical verses . With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Waakirchen: Oreos-Verlag, 2006, 135 pages, ISBN 978-3-923657-90-2
  • Night wing. Poems. With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Waakirchen: Oreos-Verlag, 2007, 150 pages, ISBN 978-3-923657-87-2
  • Apple case. Poems. With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Waakirchen: Oreos-Verlag, 2010, 112 pp., ISBN 978-3923657-94-0
  • Birch light. Poems. With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Berlin: Elfenbein Verlag , 2015, ISBN 978-3-941184-52-7
  • Name lot. Crossword poems. Berlin: Elfenbein Verlag , 2017, 72 pages, ISBN 978-3-941184-70-1
narrative
  • Kunstbrand With drawings by Christine Rieck-Sonntag. Munich: Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund, 2009, 112 S, ISBN 978-3939905-39-4
Translations
Editions
  • Dorothea-Sophie Buck-Zerchin : On the trail of the morning star - psychosis as self-discovery, an experience report . Edited by Hans Krieger, Munich; Leipzig: List, 1990, 253 pages, ISBN 3-471-78752-6 ; New edition: On the trail of the morning star ... How it went on . Edited by Hans Krieger. Neumünster: Paranus-Verlag, 2005, 305 pp., ISBN 3-926200-65-0 - (Diagnosis: schizophrenia . At nineteen, Sophie is considered incurably insane. But she finds her own way to get well.)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Karl Fallend / Bernd Nitzschke: The "Fall" Wilhelm Reich. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1997
    Bernd A. Laska : Wilhelm Reich. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 6th edition 2008; Excerpts: Sigmund Freud versus Wilhelm Reich
  2. ↑ z. B .: Wilhelm Reich: The function of the orgasm. On psychopathology and the sociology of sex life . Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1927;
    Wilhelm Reich: mass psychology of fascism. On the sex economy of political reaction and on proletarian sexual politics. Copenhagen, Prague, Zurich: Verlag für Sexualpolitik, 1933
    cf. in addition: Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, Christa Gnirß: Handbuch der Raubdrucke . Publishing house documentation, Pullach near Munich 1972, Freiburg / Br. 2002
  3. ^ Reimut Reiche : Sexuality and class struggle. On the criticism of repressive desublimation, Berlin 1968; Ekkehard Ruebsam: The holy Wilhelm Reich and his fetish genitality. In: Das Argument Nr. 60 (1970), pp. 178-191.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Reich: The function of the orgasm. Basic sex-economic problems of biological energy. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1969 (not to be confused with the above-mentioned book of the same title)
  5. ↑ The title of a polemic published at the time by two leading psychoanalysts against Reich is based on this model: Béla Grunberger / Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel: Freud or Reich. Psychoanalysis and Illusion (1976). Frankfurt / Main: Ullstein 1979
  6. ↑ Review of udT Partisan of Love in: Die Zeit, May 28, 1982. - At the invitation of the Otto Mainzer Foundation, Krieger gave a lecture on Otto Mainzer ( Partisan of Love ; source on April 17, 2001 in the German House of New York University) : Construction , New York, March 15, 2001)
  7. ↑ Who is afraid of the "Orthogravieh"? In: Bayerische Staatszeitung, May 3, 1971;
    The reformed fetish. Orthography does not have to be reformed, it has to be taken less seriously. In: Die Zeit, May 17, 1974
  8. ↑ Hans Krieger: Nothing more than a lazy spelling compromise - The German Academy for Language and Poetry has presented a peace plan to loosen hardened fronts. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung, March 21, 2003
  9. ↑ The spelling swindle. Heckling on an absurd reform theater, 1st edition 1998, 152 p., 2nd ext. Ed., 2000, 207 p.
    Hans Krieger, author of "Der Rechtschreibschwindel", in a dispute with Karin Wolff, Hessian minister of education, on Hessen-Fernsehen, on September 9, 2004 - 8:15 pm: (Citizens' forum: End of speech -Chaos! - Must the spelling reform be overturned?)
  10. ↑ The feigned spelling peace ( memento of the original from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Bavarian radio. "Kultur-Journal" of March 12, 2006, Bayern 2 Radio (German language area, Bubenberg Society 3000, Bern) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sprachkreis-deutsch.ch
  11. ↑ Pearl divers
  12. ↑ Light and difficult at the same time: Hans Kriegers poems. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 7, 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buecher.de  
  13. ↑ Martin Droschke: The dark side of the US political soul. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten, Aug. 2, 2005, p. 21
  14. ^ Christine Rieck Sunday
  15. ↑ Composers Matinee: Graham Waterhouse ( Memento of the original of October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gasteig Munich  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gasteig.de
  16. ↑ The beginning of a new time . Graham Waterhouse. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Krieger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, essayist, writer, journalist and radio author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main