Helmut Heißenbüttel

Helmut Heißenbüttel (born June 21, 1921 in Rüstringen , † September 19, 1996 in Glückstadt ) was a German writer , critic and essayist .

Life

Helmut Heißenbüttel grew up in Wilhelmshaven; In 1932 he moved with his family to Papenburg . In 1941 he was seriously wounded in the Russian campaign and his left arm had to be amputated. Heißenbüttel studied architecture , German and art history in Dresden, Leipzig and Hamburg . After working as a lecturer in Hamburg, from 1959 to 1981 he headed the “Radio-Essay” editorial team at Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart . From 1981 he lived as a freelance writer in Borsfleth . Among other things, he was a member of Gruppe 47 , the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt, the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg and the Academy of Arts in Berlin . Helmut Heißenbüttel died in Glückstadt in 1996 after a long illness.

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Helmut Heißenbüttel differentiates between invented and found material. He advocates a literature based on quotation. The focus is no longer on the imagination, no longer on creating fictitious levels of reference. The historical developments of the 20th century, according to Heißenbüttel, have fundamentally changed the understanding of the human subject. The individual has been robbed of his independence; there is no longer a personal core in people who could still hierarchically structure the complex world of experience. The subject is broken down into a multitude of individual cores, which for Heißenbüttel are primarily of a linguistic nature. At the center of Heißenbüttel's literature (but also his extensive critical and essayistic work) is the nature of language. The author reviews the most diverse language materials while quoting.

Awards

• 1962 - Promotion prize of the Great Art Prize of Lower Saxony
• 1969 - Georg Büchner Prize
• 1971 - Radio play award of the war blind
• 1979 - Federal Cross of Merit
• 1984 - Literature Prize of the City of Cologne
• 1990 - Art Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
• 1990 - Austrian State Prize for European Literature

Works

Books

• Combinations. Bechtle, Esslingen 1954.
• Topographies. Esslingen 1956.
• Known without further ado. Brief portraits. Hermit Press, Stierstadt i. Taunus 1958.
• Textbook 1. Walter, Olten-Freiburg i. Br. 1960.
• Text book 2nd 1961.
• Textbook 3rd 1962.
• Textbook 4th 1964.
• Textbook 5. 3 × 13 more or less stories. 1965.
• About literature. Walter, Olten 1966. - therein: requirements
• Textbook 6. New Treatises on the Human Mind. Luchterhand, Neuwied-Berlin 1967.
• The text book. Slightly changed complete edition of the textbooks . Walter + Luchterhand, Berlin 1970.
• Textbooks 1-6. New complete edition Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-903450-1
• Project No. 1. D'Alembert's end. Luchterhand, Berlin 1970. (Unabridged new edition, Ullstein, Ffm-Berlin-Wien 1981, ISBN 3-548-39025-0 ) (New edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-95609-3
• Violinist. Hatje, Stuttgart 1972.
• Chopping the head of cabbage. Occasional poems and blurbs . Project No. 2 . Luchterhand, Darmstadt-Neuwied 1973, ISBN 3-472-86381-1 (new edition Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-95689-1 )
• Eichendorff's Downfall and Other Fairy Tales Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978.
• If Adolf Hitler hadn't won the war. Historical novels and true events. Project 3/2 . Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-903580-X
• The end of the alternative. Simple stories. Project 3/3 . 1980, ISBN 3-12-903610-5
• The golden dome of the Comes Arbogast or Lichtenberg in Hamburg. Almost a simple story . Christmas gift from Klett-Cotta-Verl. Klett, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-903600-8
• Oedipus complex made in Germany . Occasional poems Days of Death Landscapes 1965–80 . Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-903590-7
• There is nothing more to say about this: new autumns. With 64 improvisations by Heinz Edelmann . Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-95164-4
• Attempt on Kurt Schwitters' sound sonata . Academy of Sciences, Mainz 1983.
• Textbook 8. 1981-85 . Stuttgart 1985.
• Text book 9. 3x13x13 sentences 1981-84. Stuttgart 1986.
• Text book 10. Of love art . 1986. (different version with drawings by A. Sandig 1985), ISBN 3-921743-30-3
• Textbook 11. In purified language . 1987.
• "New looks through the old holes". Essays on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0130-6
• About Benjamin . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-22430-4
• To loosen up the perspective. 5x13 literary reviews. Selected and edited by Klaus Ramm . Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1219-7
• Commemorating Jean Amérys . Ed. U. with a post-v. Thomas Combrink, Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8498-1201-0 .
• Anthologies:
  • Franz-Ottokar Mürbekapsel's luck and the end. Narratives . Volk + Welt, Berlin 1983, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-95305-1
  • Open the view to what remains open. Reading book . dtv, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-10579-8
  • Say what can be said. Selection by Hubert Arbogast. Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-93428-6

Sound carrier

• Encounter with poems. Polyglotte, Munich undated
• 16 texts. Edition S Press, Hattingen Blankenstein 1971.
• Max just before going to sleep. Deutsche Grammophon / Luchterhand, Hamburg-Neuwied 1973.
• Texts and occasional poems. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978.
• Texts and poems. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988.

Radio plays

• Two or three portraits . With Hanne Wieder , Christoph Quest , Rüdiger Bahr , Paul Hoffmann , Heinz Baumann , Hans Musäus, Michael Lenz, Hannelore Cremer, Imo Heite, Ilse Neubauer , Gert Heidenreich , Wolfgang Hess, Rosemarie Seehofer. Composition: Amon Düül , director: Heinz Hostnig, production: BR / NDR / SWF 1970.
• What should we send anyway? . With Wolfgang Büttner (A, former radio director), Walter Hilsbecher (B, radio play critic), Jutta Villinger (C, opinion poller), Rosemarie Fendel (D, female editor), Rudolf Jürgen Bartsch (E, male editor). Director: Otto Düben , production: SDR / SFB 1970.
• Marlowe's end . With Dieter Borsche ( Ambrose Bierce ), Franz Kutschera ( Christopher Marlowe ). Director: Klaus Schöning . Production: WDR 1971.
• Warts and everything . With Susanne Tremper, Friedhelm Ptok , Reinhard Bülow, Wolfgang Unterzaucher, Joachim Nottke. Director: Ulrich Gerhardt . Production: WDR 1973.
• My name is Ludwig Wittgenstein or The Chimera . With Maria Barring, Dieter Borsche , Ruth Hausmeister , Helmut Heißenbüttel, Franz Kutschera , Peter Lieck. Director: Klaus Schöning, Production: WDR 1975.
• If Adolf Hitler hadn't won the war . With Henning Schlueter . Director: Ulrich Gerhardt . Production: BR radio play and media art 1997.
• Two or three portraits . With Sebastian Blomberg , Wiebke Puls , Udo Samel . Director: Ulrich Lampen . Production: BR radio play and media art 2016. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.

Heißenbüttel published numerous other radio plays .

Contributions

• Interpretation. In: Walter Jens (ed.): The good Samaritan. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-7831-0413-0 , pp. 29-38.

literature

• Carola Gruber : Events in a nutshell. Narratological studies on the eventfulness in the shortest prose by Thomas Bernhard , Ror Wolf and Helmut Heißenbüttel , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2013.
• Klaus Ramm : The audible and the sayable and vice versa. Thoughts of opportunity for Helmut Heißenbüttel's radio plays on the radio. In: Katarina Agathos / Herbert Kapfer : radio play. Authors' talks and portraits. Belleville Verlag, Munich 2009, pp. 15–33, ISBN 978-3-936298-68-0 .
• Armin Stein: Bibliography Helmut Heißenbüttel. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89528-173-5 .
• Text + criticism, issue 69/70: "Helmut Heißenbüttel", edition text + kritik GmbH, 1981, ISBN 3-88377-073-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Heißenbüttel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Helmut Heißenbüttel  in the German Digital Library
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Ulrich Goerdten )
• Helmut Heißenbüttel archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In an essay the literary scholar Klaus Ramm reports on the extraordinary genesis of the "Two or Three Portraits" by Helmut Heißenbüttel . In the BR radio play Pool
2. ^ BR radio play Pool - Heißenbüttel, two or three portraits (2016)