Hans Löffler (Author)

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Hans Löffler (born January 20, 1946 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German writer , graphic artist , landscape architect and poet .

Life

Löffler first trained as a gardener in the GDR from 1963 to 1965 before working in a tree nursery and green space construction in Potsdam-Bornin. From 1967 to 1971 he studied gardening and landscaping at the engineering school for horticulture in Erfurt . After studying garden architecture, Löffler worked as a garden architect in Berlin for three years .

From 1974 to 1979 he finally studied graphics and design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1982 to 1985 he was a master student of the sculptor Wieland Förster at the Academy of Arts.

Hans Löffler has been working as a freelance author since 1986. On the recommendation of Günter Kunert , he was able to publish in the Aufbau-Verlag .

His graphics are now on file at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Hans Löffler lives in Berlin.

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The first poems were written in the 1970s, and with the advocacy of his mentor Günter Kunert , who inspired and supported him, a first volume of his poems and stories was published in 1979 by the Berlin company Aufbau-Verlag. This was followed at irregular intervals by novellas, short stories, reports and novels. In 1994 he worked as a screenwriter.

His story The Silence Under the Sea was also translated into French in 1995: Le silence des grands fonds Löffler, Hans. - [Paris]: Nadeau, 1995

Die Zeit wrote in 2001: “Hans Löffler is no longer a young talent. Since 1979 he has published six narrow books, four in the GDR with Aufbau-Verlag, two with Hanser then, in 1993 and 1996, a volume of short stories and a collection of poems. Now the first more extensive novel. ”For the last hour of the afternoon Löffler received considerable attention and many positive reviews.

reception

“It is the economy of the means through which the text captivates. The lyrical-expressive tone went through the tough school of the poem: subversive visual power, economical rhetoric and precise timing. In the center of a language that knows how to hold this tone safely, a silent dramaturgy inevitably drives the action forward. Seldom has a text in contemporary German literature made the abyss of silence more audible. ”Stephan Krass, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 15, 2001

  • Stephan Krass: The only one and her property

Hans Löffler's novel "Last Hour of the Afternoon" Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 62, features section, Thursday, March 15, 2001, p. 33

“Hans Löffler's 'Roman', entitled 'Last Hour of the Afternoon', has the sophistication of a psychodrama, the tension of a thriller and the ambiguity of a poem. With its twelve chapters, it is a carefully composed fabric of space and time. What begins in slow motion with meticulous descriptions of tiny gestures, scenes and sequences of movements is almost imperceptibly dragged into a vortex and then turns around at breakneck speed. "Dorothea von Törne, Die Welt, March 17, 2001

  • Dorothea von Törne: I'll get back to you

In the last hour of the afternoon, Hans Löfflers explains the superiority of the dog Die Welt (The literary world), 11, The literary world, Saturday, March 17, 2001, p. 4

"Löffler acts like a mood painter, throws colors and light into situations, reflects states of mind in phenomena of nature." Thomas Kraft, Frankfurter Rundschau, March 21, 2001

Works

  • The Lark and the Silent Ocean of Larks Poems 1976-2008, Berlin BasisDruck Verlag, 2009 in the series / cycle Pamphlete No. 19, 115 pages, ISBN 978-3-86163-103-3
  • In the Stranger Short prose, Berlin BasisDruck Verlag, 2009, 186 pages, ISBN 3861631040 .
  • Last hour of the afternoon novel, Munich Carl Hanser Verlag, 2001, 253 pages, ISBN 3446199845
  • After the war poems, Edition Akzente, Munich Carl Hanser Verlag, 1996, 88 pages, ISBN 3446185399 .
  • The silence under the sea story, Munich Carl Hanser Verlag, 1993, 121 pages, ISBN 3446174036 .
  • Der Philosopher Erzählung, Berlin Aufbau Verlag, 1991, 139 pages, ISBN 3351018673 .
  • Letters about a model of stories, Berlin Aufbau-Verlag, 1987, 130 pages, ISBN 3351003455 .
  • The apparent metamorphoses of a citizen Roman, Berlin Aufbau-Verlag 1984, 139 pages, ISBN 3351012683 .
  • Paths : Poems and Stories, New Texts Edition, Berlin Aufbau-Verlag, 1979. 134 pages

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Arts
  2. ↑ The TIME
  3. ^ Franz Thomas Grob: The Stranger's Friend . in: Cover culture magazine from February 20, 2004
  4. ↑ criticism öbv
  5. ↑ Literaturkritik.de edition 09-2001
personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, graphic artist, landscape architect and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau