Hartmut Merkt

Hartmut Merkt (born September 8, 1953 in Stuttgart ; † November 19, 2019 ) was a German writer .

Life

Hilda and Eugen Merkt's son spent his childhood and early youth in Heutingsheim, a village near Ludwigsburg, and in the small town of Alpirsbach in the Black Forest. In Heutingsheim he first attended the local elementary school and then switched to the Mörike grammar school (in Ludwigsburg).

He interrupted his school days in 1971 to study mathematics in Finland for several years , where he also kept himself afloat financially in the city of Tampere with various temporary jobs. The encounter with the Finnish culture, landscape and language that he learned had a lasting influence on the literary work he had already started in Germany.

After returning from Finland to Germany, he completed the external high school diploma and began further studies: German, philosophy, history, mathematics and practical journalism at the Universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau , which he completed with a doctorate (with top marks).

After various changes of location, Hartmut Merkt lived in Freiberg am Neckar from 1982. He was married and has a son and a daughter.

Create

During his school days Hartmut Merkt dealt with the poetry of Georg Trakl and Paul Celans as well as with Franz Kafka . These poets also aroused interest in Jewish literature - and especially the German-speaking one of the Jews in Bukovina . As a result, writers such as Rose Ausländer , with whom he later had a letter contact, or Immanuel Weißglas became the focus of his attention. During his school days, Merkt began to write poetry and to experiment with it and edited the magazine Bisbala with Jürgen Turner and Gerhard Ille . He continued this during his studies; As a result, he founded a group in Stuttgart in the early 1980s with other literature enthusiasts and creators under the name "Literateam". This association based on the model of the " Group 47 " also included the writers Alexander Bertsch , Claire Beyer , Wolle Kriwanek and Margarete Hannsmann . After he had previously written a few experimental radio plays, he wrote the play Philemon and Baukis 81 with his close friend, poet and composer Alexander Bertsch, and later two other plays in the early 1980s . With Bertsch and other members of the “Literateam”, Merkt held readings in bookshops, libraries and various organizations, among others. a. on the Stuttgart Literature Telephone, in the Kerner House or at the Baden-Württemberg Literature Days. Further readings in Sweden, Italy, France etc. a. followed.

During this time, Merkt developed the typical style of “disturbed natural poetry”. At the same time he dealt with current affairs in critical political poems and magical-political stories. This examination of current political or social issues can also be found in his later work. In addition, Merkt wrote (often bizarre) love poems and lyrical portraits such as B. via Justinus Kerner , Margarete Hannsmann or Georg Trakl

Awards

• 1978: International Poetry Prize of the Invandrarnas Kulturcentrum of Sweden
• 1987: Invitation to participate in the final selection of the Leonce and Lena Prize of the City of Darmstadt on the occasion of the Literary March 1987 and selected for the political prize for the poem Sein Land
• 1988: Scholarship from the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 1989: Invitation to the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 1991: Scholarship from the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 1993: 1st prize in the poetry competition of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture.
• 2000: Funding as a prize from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior and Art.

Publications (selection)

Poetry (selection)

• "Heleon", poems 1969 - 1975, printed typescript, Bisbala Verlag,
• “Vårt nya land”, (Invandrarnas Kulturtidskrift), Sweden, 1979
• “Just in case I lose my memory and my doubts” - poems in German / French -, Dillmann Verlag, 1995
• "On the impossibility of counting waves", poems (to be published in 2018)

Anthologies

• “Yearbook for Poetry 2”, ed. v. Karl Otto Conrady and Beate Pinkerneil, 1980
• “… And see things through my sentences”, Edition Literateam Volume I Poetry, Lempp Verlag, 1983
• "The time is read ... approximately", Edition Literateam Volume II short prose, Schwenkbeck Verlag, 1985
• “Literary March - Poetry of Our Time, Volume 5”, ed. v. Franz Deppert, Hanne F. Juritz, Karl Krolow, List Verlag, 1987
• “I live with the needles of the rain”, Edition Literateam Volume III Poetry, Dillmann Verlag, 1987
• "The world of inventions and discoveries", Otto Maier Verlag, 1990
• "Flying Sparks", ed. v. Neuss / Spiwoks, Quantenspringer Verlag, 1995
• "Premio Litterario Internazionale", MONS AEGROTORUM, Antologia poetica, Venilia Editrice, 1996
• “God's sound; Das kleine Liederbuch “, Kreuz Verlag, 1999
• “Exempla literary magazine”, year 26, volume 1/2000
• “Until the gentle assertion of darkness”, Literarischer Verein Heilbronn, Verlag Schweikert, 2000
• "SEGNI DI PACE: German-Italian", a cura di Otello Lottini, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, political poems translated into Italian by Dipartimento di Letturatura Comparate, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina, 2001
• In: "Wilhelm Busch Prize for satirical and humorous poetry 2002", ed. v. Schaumburger Landschaft eV, 2002

Prose stories

• "Eye rolls, for example," Stgt. Zeitung and exempla, literary magazine, vol. 26, vol. 1/2000
• "Cannibals", 1997
• “His country”, the time is read ... approximately, Edition Literateam, Vol. 2, short prose, ed. by Literateam, Schwenkbeck, Stuttgart 1985
• "Ferifan", 2002
• "The Ascent", 1996
• "Meeting with C.", 2017

Movie

• "Filming of Poems", project at the University of Stuttgart, produced by Dillmann Verlag, 1984

Theater + radio

• “Philemon and Baukis 81”, play in 18 pictures; together with Alexander Bertsch , first performance in the Zimmertheater Tübingen, 1986
• "Eye rolls for example", Funkerzählung, WDR, 1987
• "Absurd Theater" speech piece based on ... .., typescript 1989, premiered in Stuttgart, 1989
• "The Gentlemen", a play with songs, Stuttgart, 1993
• "Eye rolls for example", literary radio Free German Authors' Association (FDA), Bavarian State Association, 2018
• "Meeting with C.", literary radio Free German Authors' Association (FDA), Bavarian State Association, 2018

scientific publications

• "Scientific publication in the Graz collection of articles" Bukowina ""
• "Manifest / Theory of Modern Poetry" (1975)
• Göttingen work on German studies: Medieval reception. Ed. v. Jürgen Kühnel, Hans Dieter Mück , Ulrich Müller, Kümmerle Verlag, 1979.
• "The role of the lyric self in poems by Paul Celan ", 1980
• “Adaptation of Margarete Hannsmann's volume of poetry“ Rabenflug ””, 1987
• "Poetry in isolation German-speaking Jewish poets in enclave and exile using the example of Bukovinian authors since the 19th century - on poems by Rose Ausländer , Paul Celan and Immanuel Weißglas ", Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999

Didactic publications

• “Reflection on Language and Poetry”, 1983
• Anthology: “I want clouds and stars. Every day ”, poems from the eighties - (together with Rainer Lang ), Klett Verlag, 1985
• "Verseschmiede playful handling of poems" (together with Alexander Bertsch ), ed. v. Rainer Siegle and Jürgen Wolff, Klett Verlag, 1986

Lyrics (selection)

• "4 Songs", in: The Gentlemen: Theater Play
• "Am Kreuz" in: Coronatus - Porta Obscura, Rangalactic Records, 2008
• "Tantalos" in: Coronatus - Fabula Magna, Pangalactic Records, 2009

Web links

• Hartmut Merkt's website
• Literature by and about Hartmut Merkt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries of Hartmut Merkt | Stuttgart-Gedenkt.de. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hartmut Merkt | Authors in Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Great Shorties: “Rolling eyes, for example” by Hartmut Merkt | Free German Association of Authors. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Great Shorties: “Meeting with C” by Hartmut Merkt | Free German Association of Authors. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .