Heinrich Vormweg

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Heinrich Vormweg (born March 20, 1928 in Geisweid near Siegen , † July 9, 2004 in Cologne ) was a German literary critic , essayist and radio author .

Life

Vormweg grew up in a working class family. His father was a waltz in a steel mill. He studied German , philosophy and psychology in Bonn from 1948 to 1955 and did his doctorate on Christoph Martin Wieland . After graduation he worked as a dramaturge at the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn. He then worked as an editor , and finally as head of the features section of the Deutsche Zeitung .

From 1963 he worked as a freelance critic and publicist for various newspapers and radio stations, especially for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the WDR. Previously published numerous monographs, including a. about Peter Weiss , Günter Grass , and presented the first major biography of Heinrich Böll , with whom he was friends. In addition, he worked for a long time as a juror on the SWF best list and from 1969 to 2002 as a juror for the Karl Sczuka Prize sponsored by the SWF / SWR .

The sixties and seventies were the heyday of the literary critic Heinrich Vormweg. He was an editor, most recently head of the feature pages of the "Deutsche Zeitung". After that he wrote as a freelance author mainly for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and the WDR. He exchanged letters with Helmut Heißenbüttel, which were published in 1969. He worked for a long time as an editor for the magazine "L 76", which was published by Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass and Carola Stern.

Heinrich Vormweg died in Cologne in 2004.

Awards

  • Honorary Professor of the German Department of the University of Warwick, Coventry (1980)
  • Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Critique and Essay of the Dt. Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt (1986).

Fonts

  • The novels of Christoph Martin Wieland. Bonn 1956 [Diss. phil.]
  • The world and the words. About new literature. Essays. Neuwied, Berlin: Luchterhand
  • The other German: Heinrich Böll; a biography. Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2000. ISBN 3-462-02938-X .
  • Günter Grass. Revised and exp. New edition Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2002 (rororo monograph; 50559). ISBN 3-499-50559-2 .
  • The misery of the Enlightenment: about a dilemma in Germany. Darmstadt; Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1984 (Luchterhand collection; 524). ISBN 3-472-61524-9 .
  • Peter Weiss. Munich: Beck / Verlag Edition Text u. Critique, 1981. (Author's books; 21). ISBN 3-406-07441-3 .
  • Correspondence about literature / Helmut Heissenbüttel; Heinrich Vormweg. Neuwied; Berlin: Luchterhand, 1969.
  • Acoustic forms of play. From radio play music to radio art. The Karl Sczuka Prize 1955–1999. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2000 [with H. Naber and HB Schlichting]
  • Because the city has become so strange ... Conversations. Bornheim-Merten: Lamuv 1985 [with H. Böll]; Munich: dtv 1987, 1991

Release

  • Christoph Martin Wieland: The adventures of Don Sylvio von Rosalva. Novel. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1963 [with note]
  • Heimito from Doderer. Tangents. From a writer's diary 1940–1950. Munich: dtv 1968
  • Blow and stab. German satire in 300 years. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1968
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz: A reading book. 1976
  • Stories since 1960 from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Stuttgart: Reclam 1983, 1984, 1987, [1988], 1990

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personal data
SURNAME First of all, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary critic, essayist and radio author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Geisweid near Siegen
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2004
Place of death Cologne