Hans Peter Keller

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Hans Peter Keller (born March 11, 1915 in Rosellerheide / Neuss ; † May 11, 1989 in Büttgen / Neuss) was a German writer .

Life

Hans Peter Keller came from a merchant family. He spent his childhood and youth in Neuss . In 1934, he began at the invitation of a Catholic priest in Leuven , for a semester, a study of theology and philosophy at the Flemish Catholic University of Louvain , which he in Cologne continued. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in the Second World War as a soldier . In 1942 he was released from the Wehrmacht after being seriously wounded. He then continued his studies in Cologne, but finished it without a degree.

After 1945, Keller worked as an external editor for Swiss publishers in Basel and Thun . He went on lecture tours in Germany , Switzerland and France . He lived in different places, u. a. on Heligoland , in Paris and in Palermo (these were all short-term vacation trips). Since his marriage he lived in Büttgen in the house of the house inherited from his wife. From 1955 to 1983 he was a teacher at the Düsseldorf School of Booksellers ; from 1973 he was also head of the adult education center in his home town of Büttgen .

Hans Peter Keller mainly wrote poems and aphorisms . In his lyrical work two phases can be clearly distinguished from one another: While Keller's poems until the end of the 1950s were formally in the tradition of Classical and Romanticism and were strongly influenced by the work of his friend Emil Barth , he later wrote poems that were critical of language and time in one cool, terse tone.

Hans Peter Keller was a member of the Association of German Writers and, since 1966, of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany . He received u. a. The following awards: 1955 an honorary gift from the Thomas Mann Foundation , 1956 the Heinrich Droste Prize , 1958 the Immermann Prize of the City of Düsseldorf and 1975 the Kogge Literature Prize of the City of Minden .

Works

  • The narrow ford , Hamburg 1938
  • Be of good cheer, life needs us , Hamburg 1942
  • Tent by the river , Ratingen 1943
  • Magical landscape , Hamburg 1944
  • The hemlock cup , Düsseldorf 1947
  • The sacrificial pit , Basel 1953
  • The wavering hour , Wiesbaden 1958
  • The bare windows , Wiesbaden 1960
  • Herbstauge , Wiesbaden 1961
  • Gold rusts too , Wiesbaden 1962
  • Groundwater , Wiesbaden 1965
  • Panopticon out of the corner of the eye , Wiesbaden 1967
  • Keywords, patch words , Wiesbaden 1969
  • Light behind the shadow , Duisburg 1970
  • Gibberish , Wiesbaden 1971
  • Extract at 6 p.m. , Wiesbaden 1975
  • Hans Peter Keller , Düsseldorf 1975
  • A self that is painfully reflecting on itself , Düsseldorf 1975

Editing

  • Emil Barth : Letters from 1939 to 1958 . Wiesbaden 1968
  • Confessions . Düsseldorf 1972 (together with Wilhelm Gössmann and Hedwig Walwei-Wiegelmann)
  • Sentence structure . Düsseldorf 1972 (published together with Günter Lanser )

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personal data
SURNAME Keller, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosellerheide
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1989
Place of death Büttgen