Hans Pleschinski

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Hans Pleschinski (2018)

Hans Pleschinski (born May 23, 1956 in Celle ) is a German writer who is best known for his novels Portrait of an Invisible Man and Königsallee . He is also active as an author of essays , short stories , short stories , radio plays and editor of French-language sources. He translated the correspondence and memoirs of Frederick the Great , Voltaire , Madame de Pompadour and Else Sohn-Rethel .

Life

Hans Pleschinski grew up in the Lower Saxon town of Wittingen "in the German-German border region" (so the subtitle of his book Ostsucht ). He studied German , Romance studies and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and also worked for galleries, the Bavarian State Opera and film productions. From 1984 to 2020, it was a freelancer of the Bavarian Radio . Pleschinski lives as a freelance writer in Munich . In 2004 he was City Clerk of Amman , Jordan , and in 2008 Writer in Residence at Miami University in Oxford (Ohio) . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . From 2015 to 2018 he was director of the literature department at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Literary work

Hans Pleschinski made his debut in 1984 with three works, the satirical breakfast croissant , the short story Gabi Lenz called "Document" . Werden & Wollen and To Egypt [sic!], According to the subtitle "A modern novel". With these parodies he turned against the then fashionable literature of inwardness . Instead, Pleschinski is committed to literary postmodernism , which is characterized by a lust for storytelling, entertaining and the dissolution of order patterns: “The new tone, which then also shaped me, was perhaps a certain cheek, lust for life and not indulging in German misery. That was new and for me an inner concern not to join this German permanent parliament. You can complain soon enough, but I found it really disgusting when young authors at the age of 20 or 25 see the world as just a black desert and bear witness to it. That is terrible. "

His historical interest first found expression in the medieval novel Pest and Moor (1985). The 1993 novel Ostsucht , which was inspired by his youth in the German-German border region, and the portrait of an invisible man (2002), a work in which Pleschinski describes his personal experiences in the Munich bohemian and gay scene during the first deaths , are autobiographical AIDS and his grief for his then deceased partner Volker Kinnius. Stylistically, the author refers to vanitas motifs from Baroque literature , which life celebrated precisely because of death, which was ubiquitous at the time. The extensive novels Brabant (1995) and Ludwigshöhe (2008) also deal with the apparent contrast between external pomp and internal decay. In Brabant, for example, around fifty people from a European cultural association set out for the USA on board a corvette to set an example against the dominance of the American cultural industry with a cannon shot at the Pentagon in Washington, DC . In Ludwigshöhe , exhausted from life and determined to commit suicide , gather in a villa on the outskirts of Munich to find their way back to life. The large-scale novels Königsallee (2013) and Wiesenstein (2018) deal with episodes from the lives of the two German Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann and Gerhart Hauptmann . In both cases, Pleschinski broadened the perspective of the writers' personal dealings with the glamor and burden of their fame to include German post-war history . In Königsallee, for example, he writes about a fictional reunion of Thomas Mann and Klaus Heuser, the man the famous writer fell in love with on vacation on Sylt in 1927 . In Wiesenstein it comes to the occupation of the same name Silesian Villa of Gerhart Hauptmann by the Red Army in 1945. Despite their different themes can be identified in all novels Pleschinskis the mission statement "a multi-cultural mobility in the best sense of a creative pluralism". According to Jens Bisky, the author is "not only interested in self-centered self, but in an analytical view of our society."

Pleschinski does not put National Socialism and its consequences at the center of his work, but deals with developments in German and European history that go back much further. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, he said: "I do not want to be identified by the Third Reich."

Activity as editor

Hans Pleschinski's intense interest in history and cultural history , the interactions between “spirit and power”, in French culture, which he sees as the epitome of style, esprit and elegance, is evident in his translations. He devoted himself to the correspondence between Frederick the Great and Voltaire (1992), the letters of Madame de Pompadour (1999) and the secret diary of the Duke of Croÿ (2011). In addition, Pleschinski has edited selected stories by the romantic poet ETA Hoffmann and the memoirs of Else Sohn-Rethel.

Works

Authorship

  • Breakfast croissant , Siegen 1984.
  • Gabi Lenz , Zurich 1984.
  • After Egypt , Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-251-00043-8 .
  • Pest and Moor , Zurich 1985.
  • Der Holzvulkan , Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-251-00082-9 .
  • Ostsucht , Munich 1993.
  • The miracles of Glogau , Munich 1993.
  • Brabant , Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Byzantines and other counterfeiters , Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Dispersion , Zurich 2000.
  • Portrait of an Invisible Man , Munich 2002.
  • Leichtes Licht , Munich 2005.
  • Prohibition of sobriety. Small breviary for a better life , Munich 2007.
  • Ludwigshöhe , Roman, Munich 2008.
  • Königsallee , Roman, Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65387-2 .
  • Wiesenstein , Roman, Beck, Munich 2018 (Villa Wiesenstein by Gerhart Hauptmann in Agnetendorf )

Editing

Translations

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Pleschinski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Pleschinski. In: www.badsk.de. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Deutschlandfunk [1] accessed on July 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Friedrich Vollhardt: The Duke, the Arts and the Life. Hans Pleschinski and the German Baroque literature , in: Eleganz und Eigensinn , edited by Laura Schütz and Kay Wolfinger. Munich 2019
  4. ↑ Review in Die Zeit from July 25, 2013 [2] , accessed on July 5, 2018
  5. ↑ cf. [Entry] Pleschinski, Hans. In: Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv , URL: http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000024076 .
  6. ^ Hans-Rüdiger Schwab: Hans Pleschinski . In: KLG .
  7. ↑ Jens Bisky on the occasion of the award of the Munich Literature Prize, quoted from the Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 8, 2014.
  8. ↑ Interview with Deutschlandfunk [3] accessed on July 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Burgdorf: Pardon, but mostly I'm the only king here! Duke von Croÿ: It has never been more wonderful to live. Frankfurter Allgemeine, August 12, 2011, accessed on January 4, 2014 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pleschinski, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle