Heinz Ludwig Arnold

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Heinz Ludwig Arnold (born March 29, 1940 in Essen ; † November 1, 2011 in Göttingen ) was a German publicist and an important mediator of contemporary literature.

Life

Heinz Ludwig Arnold went to school in Bochum and Karlsruhe , where he passed his Abitur in 1960 . In Göttingen, he first studied two semesters Jura , then ten semester Literature , Romance studies and philosophy . During the semester break, from 1961 to 1964, he worked as a private secretary for Ernst Jünger . His dissertation remained unfinished.

While still a student, he founded the magazine for literature text + kritik in 1963 , the first issue of which was dedicated to the writer Günter Grass . Since 1978 he has also been the editor of the Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG), which appears in edition text + kritik , and of the Critical Lexicon for Contemporary Foreign Literature (KLfG) from 1983 to 2008 .

Arnold had been honorary professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen since 1995 . In addition to numerous editions and book publications, he published the eleven-volume anthology The German Literature Since 1945 at dtv from 1995 to 2000 .

From 2004 he worked as editor of the third, completely revised edition of Kindler's Literature Lexicon , which was published by Metzler in September 2009 .

In the course of his life, Arnold had numerous in-depth conversations with writers who have appeared in various book publications, including Heinrich Böll , Max Frisch , Günter Grass , Wolfgang Koeppen , Max von der Grün , Günter Wallraff , Peter Handke , Franz Xaver Kroetz , Gerhard Zwerenz , Walter Jens , Peter Rühmkorf and Friedrich Dürrenmatt . The original recordings of the conversations from 1970 to 1999 with a total length of 62 hours were published in 2011.

Awards and honors

Publications (selection)

author

  • Diary of a trip to China . Verlag der Arche, Zurich 1978.
  • Warriors, forest walkers, anarch: attempt on Ernst Jünger . Wallstein, Göttingen 1990.
  • The three leaps of West German literature: a memory . Wallstein, Göttingen 1993.
  • What am I? About Max Frisch . Wallstein, Göttingen 2002.
  • The group 47 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004.
  • Of the unfinished: literary portraits . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005.

conversations

  • Conversations with writers: Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max von der Grün, Günter Wallraff . CH Beck, Munich 1975.
  • Living as a writer: Conversations with Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Gerhard Zwerenz, Walter Jens, Peter Rühmkorf, Günter Grass . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979.
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Conversations . 4 volumes, Diogenes, Zurich 1996.
  • My conversations with writers 1970–1999 . 3 MP3 CDs with original sound recordings as audio books, Quartino, Munich 2011.
  • Conversations with authors , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-001534-1 ; Review by Wolfgang Schneider on Deutschlandfunk (DLF) from January 20, 2013 Book market - Book of the week : mouthpiece of the spirit of the times [1]

editor

  • Literature business in Germany . edition text + kritik, Munich 1971.
  • German bestsellers, German ideology: Approaches to consumer poetics , Stuttgart: Klett 1975, ISBN 978-3-12-392600-6 .
  • with E.-P. Wieckenberg: authors' books . CH Beck, Munich 1976 ff.
  • Handbook on German workers' literature . 2 volumes, edition text + kritik, Munich 1977.
  • The group 47. A critical floor plan . edition text + kritik, Munich 1980.
  • Karl May (special volume text + criticism) , Munich: edition text + kritik 1987.
  • Sarah Kirsch , Ingo Kühl : Air and Water - Poems and Pictures , Edition Lutz Arnold in Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-88243-096-6 .
  • with Heinrich Detering : Fundamentals of literary studies . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Tumbled sheet metal. Günter Grass in the criticism . Steidl, Göttingen 1997.
  • with A. von Planta and U. Weber: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Meine Schweiz . Diogenes, Zurich 1998.
  • HG Adler . Edition text & kritik, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88377-767-6 (= text + criticism, issue 163).
  • with Andreas C. Knigge : Comics, Mangas, Graphic Novels. Text + criticism Sonderheft. Richard Boorberg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88377-995-9 .
  • An adventurous heart. Ernst-Jünger-Reader. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-93846-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first four volumes of the series were still called: Die deutsche Literatur 1945 - 1960.
  2. ^ Award - Federal Cross of Merit for Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Report to the Börsenblatt , accessed on October 26, 2011.
  3. ↑ Description and audio samples on the publisher's website, accessed on October 25, 2011.
  4. ^ Andreas Langenbacher: An adventurous journey. Book review. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 27, 2011, accessed on August 27, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Heinz Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and an important mediator of contemporary literature
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2011
Place of death Goettingen