Heinz Stein

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Heinz Stein (2013)

Heinz Stein (born December 27, 1934 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German wood cutter, sculptor and writer.

life and work

Woodcut "The Wheel of Time." by Heinz Stein
Woodcut "The Dawn." by Heinz Stein
Woodcut "Evening over Paris." by Heinz Stein

Heinz Stein has created over 2000 woodcuts and colored woodcuts to date. These have already been issued on all continents. Many small bronze sculptures were also made of stone. The writing activity includes poems, illustrated children's books and aphorisms with which the focus is. Heinz Stein illustrated poems by Reiner Kunze , Günter Grass , Günter Kunert , Heinrich Böll , Ernesto Cardenal , Karl Krolow , Ernst Jünger , Marie-Luise Kaschnitz , Gabriele Wohmann , Benedikt Maria Trappen and numerous other writers.

Stein has now made over 90 individual publications and a CD. Two well-known plays, "Xylos and Petros" and "Leonards Wunderland" by Rolf Gildenast are based on texts by Stein. In 1989 and 1995, art calendars and in 1998 and 2013 drafts of art mugs were created for Amnesty International . 2007 Draft of the Marl Television Prize for Human Rights by ai. Realization Barbara Echelmeyer (ceramic relief).

Heinz Stein lives and works in Gelsenkirchen and is married to the publisher Irmgard Stein (Edition Xylos). They both have two sons and a daughter.

Awards

  • "Woodcut diary", funded by the NRW Minister of Education in 1977
  • Prize in the Jandl poetry competition 1997

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

  • "Wegwarten", Hanover
  • "Die Brücke", Saarbrücken (No. 128 and 130)
  • "Art washes the dust of everyday life from the soul", Reziteater, Cologne 1998
  • "Exhibiting the world", for the world exhibition 2000, Lax Verlag Hildesheim
  • "Do you still know the magic word", W. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2000
  • "Love", SMS literature in the smallest of spaces, Uzzi Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001
  • "Tod", MH Korb Verlag 2002, Frankfurt am Main
  • "My personal Our Father", Publik-Forum, Oberursel 2005
  • "When a turning point comes again ... Reiner Kunze on entering old age", dedicatory poems from 50 years, ed. by Benedikt Maria Trappen with woodcuts by Heinz Stein, private print, Gelsenkirchen 2012

Quotes

  • Silence is difficult to refute.
  • Art is the indispensable counterpoint to barbarism.
  • Faith can move mountains; unbelief explores them.
  • Everyone is the maker of their own fortune, but who wants to be the anvil?
  • The greatest deficiency in our affluent society is hunger.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Stein, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter, sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen