Harald Hurst

Harald Hurst (born January 29, 1945 in Buchen (Odenwald) ) is a Karlsruhe dialect poet .

Hurst studied Romance and English in Heidelberg and Mannheim and completed his studies with the first state examination . However , he broke off his traineeship to become a teacher at grammar schools. His first book Lottokönig Paul was published in 1981 . After spending many years in Karlsruhe, Hurst now lives in Ettlingen . There are often readings with him, alone or together with, for example, Gunzi Heil or earlier with the late Kuno Bärenbold . Hurst readings not only take place in Karlsruhe, but in the entire Baden region and sometimes in Swabian as well .

Awards

• Dialect prices
• Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• Scholarship from the Ministry of Art and Science
• 1993 Squidward Troll Prize

Works

• I am so free . New poems in dialect and written German (Karlsruhe: von Loeper, 1986)
• The onion heart. Love stories (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1988)
• De police game box . Dialect stories (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1990)
• That I don't laugh! Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1993)
• So lucky . Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1995)
• The one with the sausage . Audio CD with Gunzi Heil (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1997)
• Forget the bird . Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1998)
• Music and literature - live and pure . Audio CD with Gunzi Heil and Kuno Bärenbold (Karlsruhe: Braun, 2000)
• Fuffzich . Comedy in two acts (Karlsruhe: Braun, 2001)
• Come go away . Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun, 2003)
• rum and num . Live on the klag stage in Gaggenau with Gunzi Heil. Audio CD with bonus video (Karlsruhe: Braun, 2005)
• The wretchedly beautiful life . Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun 2006)
• Of me! . Stories and Poems (Karlsruhe: Braun 2009)
• Mol look . Stories and Poems (Tübingen and Karlsruhe: Silberburg 2015)

Web links

• Harald Hurst in the Karlsruhe City Wiki
• Literature by and about Harald Hurst in the catalog of the German National Library