Hartmut Lange (writer)

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Hartmut Lange (born March 31, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Hartmut Lange was born the son of a butcher and a saleswoman in Berlin-Spandau. His family was relocated to Poland when he was two years old; In 1946 his mother returned to Berlin with him. Lange studied dramaturgy from 1957 to 1959 at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg. From 1961 to 1964 he was a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin . Lange used a trip to Yugoslavia in 1965 to flee the GDR to the Federal Republic.

Lange writes dramas, essays and prose, worked as a director at various theaters. The diary of a melancholic , published in 1983, can be understood as a key literary work . Since 1982 he has mainly been writing short stories and novels .

Hartmut Lange has a son (Robert) and lives with his wife Ulrike, geb. Ritter, in Berlin.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Senftenberg stories or expropriation. Drama. 1960.
  • Marski. Drama. 1963.
  • Canine trial. Drama. 1964.
  • Interlude in Heracles. Drama. 1967.
  • The Countess von Rathenow. Drama. 1969.
  • The murder of Aias. 1970.
  • Trotsky in Coyoacan. Drama. 1971.
  • Staschek or the life of Ovid. Drama. 1972.
  • The revolution as a ghost ship. 1973.
  • From the becoming of reason. Drama. 1975.
  • Beyond Good and Evil or The Last Days of the Reich Chancellery. Drama. Three masks, Munich 1975.
  • Mrs. von Kauenhofen . Drama. Three masks, Munich 1977.
  • Pastor Koldehoff. 1979.
  • Gerda Achternach. Drama. Three masks, Munich 1980.
  • Self-immolation. Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-257-21213-5 .
  • Diary of a melancholic. Siedler, Berlin 1983.
  • The Waldstein Sonata. Novellas. 1984, ISBN 3-257-01669-7 .
  • The concert. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-257-01708-1 .
  • The fatigue. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-01763-4 .
  • The trip to Trieste. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-257-01891-6 .
  • The holly. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-257-01948-3 .
  • Schnitzler's choke angel. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-257-06032-7 .
  • The gentleman in the café. Stories. Diogenes, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-257-06113-7 .
  • Italian short stories. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-89561-270-7 .
  • Another form of happiness. Diogenes, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-257-06211-7 .
  • The educational journey. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-23348-5 .
  • The string quartet. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-257-06281-8 .
  • Collected short stories in two volumes. Diogenes, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-257-06293-1 .
  • Error as knowledge. My experience of reality as a writer. Diogenes, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-257-06304-0 .
  • Leptis Magna. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-257-06336-9 .
  • The hiker. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-06480-2 .
  • The therapist. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06596-1 .
  • The abyss of the finite. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06715-6 .
  • In the museum: uncanny encounters. Novella. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-06771-2 .
  • Positive nihilism: my examination of Heidegger. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88221-594-6 .
  • The house on Dorotheenstrasse. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06846-7 .
  • The view from the window. Stories. Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06953-2 .
  • About the poetic. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-482-4 .
  • On the Prorer Wiek and elsewhere. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07013-2 .
  • The atrium. Novellas. Diogenes, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-257-07095-8 .

literature

  • Manfred Durzak (ed.): The playwright and narrator Hartmut Lange. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2405-2 .
  • Ralf Hertling: The literary work of Hartmut Lange. Hope in history and belief in art - drama and prose between 1960 and 1992. (= Bochum writings on German literature. 41). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-47440-7 .
  • Wolfgang Schivelbusch : Socialist drama after Brecht. Three models: Peter Hacks - Heiner Müller - Hartmut Lange. (= Luchterhand collection. 139). Luchterhand, Darmstadt et al. 1974, ISBN 3-472-61139-1 .
  • Ralph Schock : Interview with Hartmut Lange. In: Sense and Form . 3/2008, pp. 329-338.
  • Jan-Heiner Tück : "Art can create images that remain inaccessible to religion". Hartmut Lange on the human desire for transcendence and the consolation of literature. In: Jan-Heiner Tück: "Fire Strike of Heaven". Conversations in the space between literature and religion. (= Poetics lectureship for literature and religion. 3). Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-38184-3 , pp. 91–110.
Charlotte Beckers: Die Künstlernovellen Hartmut Langes Königshausen & Neumann 2020

Walter Schmitz Borderline Experiences German-German Literature Exile Hartmut Lange's work before and after his departure from the GDR University Press Dresden 2009

Herman Dorowin Migration - Journey - Clash of Cultures: New Images of Italy in Contemporary German Literature. Cultures of Reception in Literature and Media History, Vol. 6. Nowhere Italian scenarios in the prose Hartmut Langes Königshausen & Neumann 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation
  2. ↑ bundesregierung.de
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau