Helmut Salzinger

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Helmut Salzinger (born December 27, 1935 in Essen , † December 3, 1993 in Odisheim ) was a German writer, editor and small publisher.

Live and act

Helmut Salzinger (right) with Natias Neutert, 1985

Helmut Salzinger was born as the son of the businessman Helmut Salzinger and his wife Elisabeth, b. Fischer, born in Essen. He started school there in the fall of 1942. Since the evacuation of his parents to Sebexen, Osterode district in the Harz Mountains, he went to the village school there from autumn 1943. In May 1947 he was accepted into the sexta of the high school for boys. After his parents returned to Essen, he went to the Helmholtz Gymnasium in autumn 1948, where he graduated from high school in 1956. After a short study visit at the University of Cologne, where he initially studied economics and business administration in the spirit of his father, he studied from the winter semester 1957/58 at the University of Hamburg in addition to his "final subject combination German literature, German studies, art history" also "theater studies, romance and philosophy lectures and took part in seminars in these subjects." Helmut Salzinger, who has a doctorate in German studies, initially worked as a reviewer and music critic, including for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit , where he joined the pop journalists of Uwe Nettelbeck and Natias Neutert belonged to the first hour. His book Rock Power or How Musical is the Revolution? (1972) is one of the first essential books on the subject of pop culture in the German-speaking area.

With Swinging Benjamin (1973; extended new edition 1990), Salzinger was part of the undogmatic Walter Benjamin reception and became a patron of the International Walter Benjamin Society (1968–1973) founded by Natias Neutert in Hamburg, one of whose aims was to achieve that Walter Benjamin's manuscripts in Theodor W. Adorno's possession are freely available to science. Just as important was the question of how 'rocky' the revolt could or should be. The point of reference for this was provided by the formula, filtered by Neutert from the floor plans of Karl Marx , transferred to pop events and clearly directed against Adorno: "Rock is a use value that satisfies a certain need."

From 1973 onwards, Salzinger wrote columns for the Hamburg music magazine Sounds under the pseudonym Jonas Überohr, which later appeared in a book.

Head Farm Odisheim 1986: Klaus Modick , Theo Köppen, Peer Schröder, Helmut Salzinger, MO Salzinger, Michael Kellner , Stefan Hyner

In the early 80s, Salzinger withdrew radically from the cultural scene and lived until his death in 1993 on a homestead in Odisheim , which was used as a HEAD FARM for meetings of writers, philosophers and artists from the alternative scene (including Bert Brune , Lili Fischer , Hadayatullah Hübsch , Theo Köppen , Jürgen Manthey , Klaus Modick , Natias Neutert, Peer Schröder ). There, Salzinger and his wife, the artist MO Salzinger, as well as changing co-editors edited and created the cult literary magazine FALK (1984–87). With the HEAD FARM ODISHEIM publishing house founded by Salzinger, he made himself independent of the major publishers (with whom he had previously published several books). A number of his volumes of poetry appeared here, which reveal him as an idiosyncratic voice in the poetry of the 70s and 80s.

Cover of the FALK, Thomas Pynchon edition

Works (selection)

Single track

  • Eugen Gottlob Winkler's artistic development. The aesthetic views examined in his poetic and critical work. Diss. Phil. University of Hamburg 1967.
  • Rock Power or How Musical is the Revolution? Fischer Tb, Frankfurt / M. 1972. 281 pp. ISBN 3-43601531-8
  • Swinging Benjamin . Fischer Tb, Frankfurt / M. 1973. 179 pp. ISBN 3-43601717-5
  • Jonas Überohr LIVE . Critical debauchery about culture and cancer. Sounds-Verlag, Hamburg 1976. 176 pp.
  • Go, steps. Texts and pictures . Odisheim: Head Farm, 1979. 61 pp. ISBN 978-3-92244500-5
  • The friendliness of the force. New poems from the region. Head Farm Odisheim
  • Rock around the clock and other little pamphlets on music and counterculture . Head Farm Odisheim 1982. 217 pp. ISBN 978-3-92244502-9
  • The long poem. New edition. With an afterword by the author. Michael Kellner Publishing House, Hamburg 1982.
  • Earthly home. Poems. With an afterword by the author. Michael Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1983. ISBN 3-922035-14-0
  • Sheer madness. Reality and the search for it between consensus and nonsense. Minima maxima. Basis for a criticism of all existing conditions . Michael Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1984. ISBN 978-3922035237
  • Against the newest illiterate people. A pamphlet by Helmut Salzinger . Annual gift from Verlag Michael Kellner to the friends of the publishing house and Head Farm Odisheim, 1985.
  • Quiet waters. Poems . Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 1987. 100 pp. ISBN 978-3929375459
  • Without people - narratives of a landscape . Die Grüne Kraft, Löhrbach 1988. 113 pp. ISBN 978-3-92581726-7
  • Shhhh ... six tries to pee in the oven . Paria, Frankfurt / M. 1989. 58 pp. ISBN 978-3922952145
  • Swinging Benjamin. Extended new edition . With an afterword by Klaus Modick . Publisher Michael Kellner. Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-927623-05-9
  • The gardener in the jungle . Head Farm Odisheim 1992. 61 pp. ISBN 3-922445-09-8
  • The gardener in the jungle . Hamburg: Kellner 1992. 165 pp. ISBN 3-927623-24-5
  • The sparrow's two hands. New poems . Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 1993. 24 pp. ISBN 3-929375-03-6
  • Bird's eye view. Poems from the estate . Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 1995. 32 pp. ISBN 3-929375-08-7
  • Moor - an attempt not to tell anything . From the estate, ed. by Mo Salzinger and Klaus Modick . Head Farm Odisheim 1996. 135 pp. ISBN 3-922445-08-X
  • Best of Jonas Überohr. Pop criticism 1966–1982 . Edited by Frank Schäfer . Fundus 187, Hamburg 2010. 350 pp. ISBN 978-3-86572-575-2

Anthology (selection)

  • The long poem In: Supergarde . Prose of the beat and pop generation. Edited by Vagelis Tsakiridis . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969.
  • Trees. In: Boa Vista 6, Zeitschrift für Neue Literatur, ed. by Natias Neutert, Peter Waldheim Manfred Hennig. Edition Boa Vista, Hamburg 1978, pp. 88-95.
  • Over the edge. Nine metaphysical digressions . In: Boa Vista 7, Edition Boa Vista, Hamburg 1980, pp. 41-49.
  • Fragments on the topicality of the mythical . In: Myth & Ritual - in the art of the 70s. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Zurich, designed and realized by Erika Billeter. Kunstverein in Hamburg 1982, pp. 67–77.

Translations

  • The Rolling Stones half: - German. In: The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 924-953.

Literature (selection)

  • Hadayatullah Pretty, swinging over-ear . Obituary for Helmut Salzinger. In: SPEX 02/1994 (1994)
  • Klaus Modick , MO Salzinger and Michael Kellner (eds.), "Humus." Homage to Helmut Salzinger (1996). Anthology*
  • Natias Neutert, where he stepped grass grew again . In: Klaus Modick, MO Salzinger and Michael Kellner (eds.): Humus. Homage to Helmut Salzinger , Hamburg 1996
  • Natias Neutert, good-bye, old raven! Obituary for Helmut Salzinger. In: Krachkultur 6/1996
  • Caroline Hartge / Ralf Zühlke (eds.), QuerFALK . Book about a magazine (2007)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Helmut Salzinger: Eugen Gottlob Winkler's artistic development. The aesthetic views examined in his poetic and critical work. Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1967, p. 442.
  2. ^ Helmut Salzinger: Eugen Gottlob Winkler's artistic development. The aesthetic views examined in his poetic and critical work. Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1967, p. 442.
  3. ^ Helmut Salzinger: Eugen Gottlob Winkler's artistic development. The aesthetic views examined in his poetic and critical work. Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1967, p. 442.
  4. ↑ See http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/uebervater-der-popkritik.700.de.html?dram:article_id=84740
  5. ↑ Cf. Natias Neutert: Wherever he stepped, grass grew again. In: Klaus Modick, MO Salzinger and Michael Kellner (eds.): Humus. Homage à Helmut Salzinger , Hamburg 1996, p. 99.
  6. ↑ Natias Neutert: "Let It Rock!" In: Frankfurter Rundschau No. 228, October 2, 1970
  7. ↑ See how Salzinger refers to this sentence by Neutert: Helmut Salzinger: Rock Power or How musical is the revolution? . Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, pp. 16, 19, 247
  8. ↑ See Helmut Salzinger: Best of Jonas Überohr . Pop criticism 1966–1982. Edited by Frank Schäfer, Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2010 (Fundus 187), 367 pages. ISBN 9783865725752
personal data
SURNAME Salzinger, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Überohr, Jonas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1993
Place of death Odisheim