Hans van Ooyen

Hans van Ooyen (* February 23, 1954 as Hansgeorg van Ooyen in Duisburg-Rheinhausen ) is a German writer , editor-in-chief and photo artist .

Life

Hans van Ooyen was born on February 23, 1954 as the son of an engineer and painter in the Rheinhausen district of Duisburg. As a schoolboy he won several literary competitions. After graduating from high school and military service, he studied German and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1975 . Reading of Bertolt Brecht's works shaped van Ooyen's first lyrical attempts. As early as 1974 there was a first publication under the title That we want to know . With his texts for the radio , van Ooyen also found international resonance from 1979. The radio play The Last Case , set in neo-Nazi circles , was first broadcast in the ČSSR and the GDR and only then on Südwestfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk . His 1980 radio play The Bloody Erika , which deals with the Düsseldorf Majdanek trial , was first broadcast in the ČSSR and in France . In addition to other radio plays, van Ooyen published his first volume of prose, Die Schrift an der Wand , in 1981 , which contains satires and short stories and won him a work grant from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1980 he joined the Association of German Writers and later took on a role in the NRW state board.

Van Ooyen's leadership as a left-wing political activist in the 1980s is documented in his non-fiction books The Reagan Report and To the Stars - Where Else? (both published in 1982 by the DKP -near Weltkreis-Verlag), which deal with the militarization of space . In 1983 his book Today belongs to us Germany , which deals with the history of the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Professionally, van Ooyen initially worked as a lecturer and editor-in-chief of a publishing house and then in marketing management in Dortmund . From 1991 to 2001 he worked as an authorized signatory and partner in an agency for marketing and advertising in Dortmund, Berlin and Potsdam . Van Ooyen has been a freelance writer and ghostwriter since 2001 . His ongoing political commitment is also reflected in his numerous readings in schools. In his children's book The Return of the Water Men and in the detective radio play Die Tote in der Emscher as well as in his participation in the creation of the travel guide Mensch. Emscher! An expedition through the New Emscher Valley showed van Ooyen his close ties to this region, which had to cope with the environmentally damaging influences of early industrialization. In addition, he is involved in the "Association of Emscher Friends eV (Bottrop)" for the renaturation of the Emscher.

In addition to other volumes of prose, poetry and reportage as well as travel guides, van Ooyen has increasingly turned to photographic art in recent years, which has interested him since his early youth and which has meanwhile been reflected in numerous of his own photo volumes and has led to the establishment of his own publishing house.

Works

prose

• 1981: The writing on the wall. Short stories and satires . Asso Verlag, Oberhausen.
• 1985: breaths. Poetry and prose . Gelsdruck, Gelsenkirchen (as a member of the "Gelsenkirchen Authors Group").
• 1987: True story from my city. With 1 linocut by Hansgeorg van Ooyen . Fuchstaler press, Denklingen.
• 1989: catch shot. Short prose .
• 2002: The picture on her skin. Narratives . Edition photo art and literature, Recklinghausen.
• 2008: A load of love. 14 shameless stories . wtv Weimarer Taschenbuch Verlag, Weimar.
• 2016: The Return of the Aquarians. With Emscherneckjunior through the New Emschertal. A documentary fairy tale . Publishing house Peter Pomp, Bottrop.

Poetry

• 1984: the end of humility. Poems . Foreword by Max von der Grün . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1987: The words also change color when they touch each other. Erotic poems . (With etchings by Klaus Eberlein ). Fuchstaler press, Denklingen.
• 2004: Whispers of love. Erotic poems . (With watercolors and drawings by Jost Heyder ). Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar.

Non-fiction

• 1983: Today Germany belongs to us. The long history of the fascist seizure of power . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1988: Life in front of the Pütt. Texts and pictures from a workers' settlement . (Together with Jürgen Betz). Klartext-Verlag, Essen.
• 2004: A guest in the castle. Spend the night in palaces, castles, manors and monasteries in Germany . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.

Photo books and calendars

• 2002: Close to You. Erotic moments . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Munich / Osnabrück.
• 2003: heavenly bodies. Celestial Bodies. Bodyart under the sign of the stars . Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar (calendar).
• 2004: Strip Sessions. Fine Art Nude Photography . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.
• 2004: Erotic Colors. 10 Years Fine Art Photography . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.
• 2004: CityLights . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.
• 2005: Nudes of Women. Twelve art prints . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.
• 2005: Bodypaintings . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar.
• 2005: Art: Work: Nature . ReiseArt publishing group, Erfurt / Weimar (calendar).

Radio plays

• 1979: the last case . SWF . 1980: GDR .
• 1982: wolves . SWF .
• 2010: A clear case . WDR .
• 2013: The dead in the Emscher . WDR.

(Co-) editing

• 1982 together with Norbert Kühne : Those who die early are longer dead . Texts on the peace movement. The desk 64/1982. St. Pölten (Austria); Editor: Klaus Sandler .
• 1982: The Reagan Report. World power USA in distress . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1982: To the stars - where else to go? Space and rocket technology . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1984: Madness USA. From someone who set out to invent the freedom . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1984: occupy your place on earth. Poems and stories of protest and resistance . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main.
• 1985: Beyond Hate. Texts for May 8, 1945 . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund.
• 1986: Who should change something if not us? Poems and stories of protest and resistance . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main.
• 1987: Eight minutes left to live. New peace poems from the FRG . New Life Publishing House, Berlin.
• 1988: My tender island. New texts about love . Gelsdruck, Gelsenkirchen.
• 1996: untitled . Gelsdruck, Gelsenkirchen.
• 2008: human. Emscher! An expedition through the new Emschertal . Asso Verlag, Oberhausen.

Awards

• 1967, 1969: Prize of the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia
• 1974: Award of the working group literature in the world of work
• 1978: Awarded the Georg Weerth Prize
• 1980: 1st prize of the Bulgarian Radio Sofia
• 1981: Awarded the Youth Theater Prize of the Baden State Theaters
• 1984: Grand Prize of the ČSSR Broadcasting Company
• 1984: Awarded the Poetry Prize of the Ruhr Area Municipal Association
• 1986: Alfred Kitzig Prize for Realistic Literature from the city of Ahlen (Westphalia)
• 1987: Literature Prize of the City of Aachen
• 1987: German Short Story Prize Arnsberg
• [?]: Grand Prix of the Cremona La Musa dell'Arte
• 2008: Menantes Prize for Erotic Literature
• 2009: Humanity Photo Award (for Men from Sahara )
• 2011: Children's and young people's literature prize “Eberhard and Bernadette” from the Barnim district
• 2011: 2nd Prize Quo Vadis Short Stories Prize (for Der Dekadenring von Konstanz )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hans van Ooyen. German writer . In: Munzinger-Archiv GmbH (Ed.): Internationales Biographisches Archiv . No. 28/1983 , July 4, 1983, ISSN  0020-9457 , Wirken.
2. ↑ Hans van Ooyen: End of Modesty. Poems . Foreword by Max von der Grün. 1st edition. No. 314 . Weltkreis-Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88142-314-1 , The author: Hans van Ooyen, p. 4 .
3. ↑ Ooyen . In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015 . 1 A - O. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033714-3 , p. 756 f .
4. ↑ Klaus Körner: Against War and Fascism. The Frankfurt Röderberg publishing house and Reclam Leipzig . In: Ingrid Sonntag (Ed.): At the limits of the possible. Reclam Leipzig 1945–1991 . 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-931-5 , p. 142–156 , here p. 156 .
5. ↑ Short biography. In: van-ooyen.de. Retrieved on August 18, 2017 (link “short bio”). 
6. ↑ Hans Van Ooyen. Resume. In: Kulturserver-nrw.de. Kulturserver.de gGmbH foundation, accessed on August 18, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Hans van Ooyen, photo artist, writer, journalist from Recklinghausen. Skills, knowledge, experience of Hans van Ooyen. (No longer available online.) In: freelancermap.de. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017 ; accessed on August 18, 2017 . 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.  
8. ↑ Ooyen . In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015 . 1 A - O. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033714-3 , p. 756 f .
9. ↑ Sustainably different: 2-day regional inspection on the Emscher in Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund with Peter Strege and Klaus Vatter. In: boell-nrw.de. Heinrich Böll Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia, September 14, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Imprint. Board members. In: emscherfreunde.eu. Emscher-Freunde eV, accessed on August 18, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Hans van Ooyen - About the person. (No longer available online.) In: fotografieren.com. Peter Roskothen, archived from the original on August 22, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2017 . 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.  

Web links

• Official website
• Hans van Ooyen in the audio game database