Helmut Krausser

Helmut Krausser at a reading in 2009

Helmut Krausser (born July 11, 1964 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German writer , poet , playwright and composer .

Life

His writing career began in 1980 at the age of 16 when he presented 13 pessimistic poems on the BR series Pop Sunday . Several programs followed in this forum for young authors.

Since 1989 he has published numerous novels, short stories and volumes of poetry, as well as radio plays and stage works. Novel licenses from Helmut Krausser were sold in other European countries, Brazil, the USA and South Korea. Krausser also publishes articles and publications in newspapers and magazines and has also worked as a composer since 2010. His novels The Big Bagarozy and Fette Welt were made into films. Since 2015 he has been writing a regular column for the Berlin city newspaper ZITTY . Helmut Krausser now lives in Rome and Potsdam . He has been married to Beatrice Renauer since 1991.

In the 2007/2008 winter semester he was professor of poetry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Chess player

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Krausser is also a strong chess player (e.g. Oberbayerischer Meister 2001). His highest Elo rating was 2330 in 1990. In the same year he discovered the strong opening innovation 19. Qd1 – d4 in one of his correspondence chess games in the Botvinnik system of the semi-Slavic defense , which he analyzed in Chess Informator 49. In recent years he has increasingly turned to backgammon. In 2011 Krausser became the German backgammon champion in the team competition.

honors and awards

• 1993 Tukan Prize of the City of Munich for his novel Melodien
• 1998 "Radio Play of the Year" ( diptych )
• 1998 scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
• 2000 with the " Prix ​​Italia " (for Denotation Babel )
• 2017 nominated for the German Film Award in the category “Best Screenplay” for the film Loneliness and Sex and Compassion (directed by Lars Montag ), which is based on one of his own books.

Works

The castrato Marc'Antonio Pasqualini is the protagonist in Krausser's melodies . Painting by Andrea Sacchi , 1641. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Novels

• Kings over the ocean. Knaus, Munich 1989
• Fat world. List, Munich 1992
• Melodies or additions to the age of mercury. List, Munich 1993. New version: DuMont, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-6291-7
• Thanatos. Luchterhand, Munich 1996
• The great Bagarozy. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-499-22479-9 .
• Pigs and elephants. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-499-22898-8 .
• UC (Ultrachronos). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-499-23695-2 .
• Eros. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-8321-7988-5 .
• The little gardens of Maestro Puccini. DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8631-9 .
• Loneliness and sex and compassion. DuMont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-8092-8 .
• The last nice days. DuMont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9619-6 .
• Sorted out. Detective novel. DuMont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-6166-8 .
• Not very bad people. DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9682-0 .
• All is well. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1202-9 .
• Events during the World Cup . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8270-1203-6 .
• Separations, burns. Berlin Verlag, Munich / Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8270-1393-4 .

Novellas

• Pain novella. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001

stories

• Play money. Kirchheim, Munich 1990
• The destruction of European cities. List, Munich 1994
• The wild dogs of Pompeii. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004
• Cardboard history. Marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2007 (accidentally labeled as a novel by the publisher)

Poetry

• Poems 79-99. Belleville, Munich 1999
• Electricity. Poems 99-03. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2003
• Plasma. Poems 03-07. DuMont, Cologne 2007
• On white deserts. The best poems. Luchterhand, Munich 2009
• William Shakespeare : Sonnets I-III. Selected and retouched by Helmut Krausser. hochroth, Berlin 2012

Part I: Sonnets about instinct and love. My love is as a fever

Part II: Sonnets of the Young Poet. I am what I am

Part III: Sonnets to Him with Approaching Age. All in was with time for love

• Understanding & Shortening DuMont, Cologne 2014

Stage works

• Pieces 93-03. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, contains:

• Leather face . The piece was played in over 300 productions worldwide, including a. in Buenos Aires, Beijing, London, Los Angeles, Burkina Faso and almost all of Europe.
• Late, far away
• Diptych. Tuesday Wednesday
• Thursday - The princes.
• Denotation Babel
• Bus stop. Geister (world premiere at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 1999)
• The tragedy of the life and death of Julius Caesar (free translation of the play by William Shakespeare ; world premiere at the Burgtheater Vienna, 2007)
• Monday. About lot
• Our song. Nibelung distillate (premiere at Schauspielhaus Bonn, 2005)

• Africa (Friday) (world premiere at Theater Oberhausen, 2007)
• "Eyjafjallayöküll-Tam-Tam" (world premiere at the Residenztheater Munich, 2011)

Krausser also wrote the libretti for the operas Bright Nights , based on motifs by Knut Hamsun and stories from Thousand and One Nights (premiere: Prinzregententheater Munich, 1997; revised version: Theater Hagen, 2006) and Wir sind at home (chamber opera, premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, 1998) by Moritz Eggert and for the opera Theater of the World by Louis Andriessen (premiere: Nationale Opera Amsterdam 2016) and I.th.AkA by Sam Penderbayne (premiere: Opera stable Hamburg 2018.)

Radio plays

• Tuesday (first part of the diptych), awarded the prize for the best radio play of 1998.
• Pain novella . Radio play version of the novel of the same name.
• Denotation Babel , awarded the Prix ​​Italia for the best European radio play 2000.
• Food intake during the time emergency , third place in the election for the best radio play of 2006.
• Loud and quiet female screams , director: Leonhard Koppelmann , 16th episode of the Radio Tatort series , produced by HR in 2009.

Diaries

• Diaries May 1992 - April 2004 , one month per year:
  • May: Diary of May 1992, June: Diary of June 1993 (= rororo 13716). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-13716-X .
  • July [Diary of July 1994]. Belleville, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-923646-46-1 .
  • August [diary of August 1995]. Belleville, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-923646-90-9 .
  • September [September 1996 diary]. Belleville, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-923646-91-7 .
  • July: Diary of July 1994, August: Diary of August 1995, September: Diary of September 1996 (= rororo 22335). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-22335-X .
  • October [Diary of October 1997]. Belleville, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-923646-92-5 .
  • November 1998
  • December 1999
  • January 2001
  • February 2002
  • March 2003
  • April [April 2004 diary]. Belleville, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-936298-20-3 .
• Substance - The best of the diaries. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-8093-5 .
• Germany travel. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-8094-2 (travel journals and three poetics lectures sorted by city).

CDs

• Genius & Craft. Bootleg. Belleville, Munich 1996.
• Denotation Babel. Belleville, Munich 1999.
• Chamber music. Belleville, Munich 2001.
• Genius & Craft Reunion. Belleville, Munich 2002.

Setting of poems to music

• Moritz Eggert : Die Kriegsirre , for mezzo-soprano and piano (premiered at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken 2001, Nathalie Senf, Mezzo)
• Moritz Eggert: Krausseriana. 12 songs based on poems by Helmut Krausser (Premiere Nationaltheater Mannheim 1999, Thomas Berau, baritone, Moritz Eggert, piano)
• Moritz Eggert: Sonnet to the lazy pen friend from Neue Dichter Lieben ( WP Expo 2000 Hanover, Yaron Windmüller, baritone, Moritz Eggert, piano)
• Arno Lücker : Don't you feel it , song based on a poem by Helmut Krausser (WP A • DEvantgarde Munich, 2001, Thomas Berau, baritone, Moritz Eggert, piano)

Others

• Together with Marcel Hartges: The rabbit that shot the hunter - and other bizarre deaths. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1999.
• When Gwendolin went to sleep at night. Verses on collages by Susanne Straßer. Kunstmann, Munich 2002.
• The hunt for Corinna. Documentation of research on the Puccini novel. Belleville, Munich 2007. In this book, after more than 100 years, the identity of the Puccini lover "Corinna" (alias Maria-Anna Coriasco) was uncovered, a riddle in music history that had hitherto been considered unsolvable.
• Two unequal rivals. Puccini and Franchetti (= Edition Elke Heidenreich ). C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-58011-0 (A parallel biography of the composers Alberto Franchetti and Giacomo Puccini , also a prequel to "The Little Gardens of Maestro Puccini").
• The erotic Pepys , selected by Helmut Krausser. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-0772-0 .
• Instructions for use for FC Bayern , Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-27648-1 .

literature

• "Not every intoxication you have fits every project you do". An open conversation with Helmut Krausser. In: Critical Edition - Journal for German Studies & Literature . 11th year, summer 2007: Werkstatt , pp. 34–41, ISSN  1617-1357 ( PDF ).
• Claude D. Conter , Oliver Jahraus (Ed.): Sex - Death - Genius. Contributions to the work of Helmut Krausser (= Poiesis. Standpunkte der Gegenwartsliteratur, Volume 4), Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0532-8 .
• Tom Kindt: Helmut Krausser (= TEXT + KRITIK , Heft 187), Edition Text + Criticism in Richard-Boorberg-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86916-080-1 , ISSN  0040-5329 .
• Torsten Pätzold: Text structures and narrative worlds. Narratological studies on multiperspectivity using the example of Bodo Kirchhoff's Infanta and Helmut Krausser's Melodien (= European University Writings , Volume 1779). Lang, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-631-36901-8 (dissertation University Paderborn 2000, 379 pages).

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Krausser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Krausser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and information on the work of Helmut Krausser at Literaturport
• Helmut Krausser in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Homepage of the poetry professorship at LMU Munich
• To Krausser's poetry lectures at the LMU Munich
• Fan page of Bernd Pleis (catalog raisonné / interviews / portrait)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Helmut Krausser at perlentaucher.de
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Ulrich Goerdten )
• Helmut Krausser at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sequence of moves: 1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. c2 – c4 e7 – e6 3. Nb1 – c3 c7 – c6 4. Ng1 – f3 Ng8 – f6 5. Bc1 – g5 d5xc4 6. e2 – e4 b7 – b5 7 e4 – e5 h7 – h6 8. Bg5 – h4 g7 – g5 9. Nf3xg5 h7xg5 10. Bh4xg5 Nb8 – d7 11. g2 – g3 Bc8 – b7 12. Bf1 – g2 Qd8 – b6 13. e5xf6 0–0–0 14 0-0 c6-c5 15. d4-d5 b5-b4 16. Nc3-a4 Qb6-b5 17. a2-a3 Nd7-b8 18. a3xb4 c5xb4
2. ↑ Villa Massimo | Helmut Krausser. Retrieved August 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Moving chamber opera "We are at home" by Moritz Eggert