Herbert Heckmann

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Herbert Heckmann (born September 25, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 18, 1999 in Bad Vilbel ) was a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Herbert Heckmann grew up in the Kuhwaldsiedlung in Frankfurt am Main. There he attended elementary school and - until it was destroyed by aerial bombs - the Goethe grammar school . He spent the following youth and the last years of the war in Kassel in the Spessart . After graduating from high school in 1951 at the Grimmelshausen Gymnasium in Gelnhausen , he studied philosophy, German and history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He published his first literary work in 1954 in the student literature journal Diskus , of which he headed the feature section for three years. During this time he belonged to the circle around Walter Höllerer , who at the time was assistant to Heckmann's doctoral supervisor Kurt May . He received his doctorate in 1957 with the thesis "Elements of the baroque tragedy based on the example of Papinian by Andreas Gryphius ". phil.

From 1958 onwards, Heckmann was a research assistant with a teaching position at the Universities of Münster and Heidelberg for five years . In 1965 he went to Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) as a visiting professor for two years . He was one of the editors of the literary magazine Die neue Rundschau , published by S. Fischer Verlag , from 1963 to 1979. He also made cultural contributions for television and radio as a freelancer for the Hessischer Rundfunk . From 1980 to 1995 he was professor of language and literature at the Offenbach am Main University of Design . Heckmann had been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 1977 , became its executive vice-president in 1982, and its president from 1984 to 1996. He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and was a member of numerous juries.

Herbert Heckmann wrote short stories, novels and children's books. He was also involved in numerous publications on literary and cultural topics.

In 1959 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo for his prose debut and the sponsorship award of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry, and in 1963 the Bremen Literature Prize for Benjamin and his fathers . In 1986 he was a tower clerk in Deidesheim .

Herbert Heckmann is the father of the composer Moritz Eggert (* 1965).

Works

  • The portrait , Frankfurt am Main 1958
  • Elements of the baroque tragedy using the example of "Papinian" by Andreas Gryphius , Darmstadt 1959
  • Benjamin and his fathers , Frankfurt am Main 1962; New edition 2017 for the reading festival Frankfurt reads a book
  • Black stories , Frankfurt am Main 1964
  • The Seven Deadly Sins , Darmstadt 1964
  • Little Fritz , Cologne 1968
  • Stefan George today , Darmstadt 1969
  • Stories from the spoon , Cologne 1970
  • The big knock-out in seven rounds , Munich 1972
  • Hessian in German , Munich 1973
  • The sawdust spreader or How to become a clown , Cologne 1973
  • Ubuville, the city of the big egg , Düsseldorf 1973
  • The boy from the 10th floor , Hanover 1974
  • Chiron , Homburg-Schwarzenacker 1975 (together with Moede Jansen)
  • Gastronomic fragments of a spoonful dilettante who treats his friends in this way , Verlag Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1975 (with drawings by Hannelore Köhler )
  • The big O , Düsseldorf 1977 (together with Jörg Remé)
  • The library for everyone and some fragments , Leonberg 1979
  • Germany trip , Munich
    • From Würzburg to Bayreuth , 1979
  • Goethe , Munich
    • 1. The genius from the community center , 1979
    • 4. The Sorrows of Young Werther , 1979
    • 8. Seeing and researching - the natural scientist , 1979
    • 10. West-East Divan , 1979
  • Knolle on the advertising pillar , Frauenfeld 1979
  • German poet flora , Munich 1980 (under the pseudonym Fritz Schönborn)
  • A farmer changes clothes and loses his life and other stories from the years nineteen fifty to nineteen eighty , Munich [u. a.] 1980
  • Standing stories , Frauenfeld 1981
  • The other creation , Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • The blue angels , Munich 1983
  • A spice for everything , Scheer Castle 1983
  • From craft to art , Offenbach am Main 1984 (together with Axel Blohm and Wolfgang Sprang)
  • The tin can , Zurich 1985
  • Against forgetting , Darmstadt 1985 (together with Ingulf Radtke)
  • The love of books , Bensheim 1986
  • The fire is an acrobat , Warmbronn 1987
  • Literature and disease , Fernwald 1987
  • "The city - the fate of its citizens, the citizens - the fate of their city" , Rüsselsheim 1987
  • When the wine sits down, the words float up , Landau / Pfalz 1987
  • Harlequin Farewell or The Advantages of Laughing , Ascona 1989
  • Kasperl's uprising , Zurich [a. a.] 1989
  • The Lichtenberg Miniature Collection , Darmstadt 1989 (together with Reinhart Büttner)
  • In praise of the etching , Bensheim 1989
  • Johann Heinrich Merck , Darmstadt 1991
  • Darmstädter Buchlust , Munich 1992
  • Thoughts of a cat while dozing , Landau / Pfalz 1994
  • The grief of my grandfather , Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • The problem of identity , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1997

Editing

  • Come on, children, wipe your eyes, there's something to see here , Munich 1974 (together with Michael Krüger )
  • 80 Baroque poems , Berlin 1976
  • The joy of eating , Munich 1979
  • Typically Hessian , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Johann Christian Günther : Gesammelte Gedichte , Munich [u. a.] 1981
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Frankfurt through the eyes of Goethe , Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Literature from life , Munich [a. a.] 1984
  • Frankfurter Lesebuch , Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • Afraid of entertainment? , Munich [u. a.] 1986
  • We speak differently , Frankfurt am Main 1988 (together with Hans-Martin Gauger )
  • Hiking book with and for Golo Mann , Frankfurt am Main 1989 (together with Hans-Martin Gauger)
  • Old acquaintance? or: Last and Lust of Tradition , Munich [u. a.] 1990
  • The eloquent Bacchus , Landau / Pfalz 1992
  • Experience and Fiction , Frankfurt am Main 1993 (together with Gerhard Dette)
  • Medium and Machine , Göttingen 1994 (together with Gerhard Dette)
  • Hermann Kasack in honor , Göttingen 1996 (together with Bernhard Zeller )
  • Fantasy as an achievement , Göttingen 1996 (together with Gerhard Dette)
  • Enthusiasts and dreamers , Munich [a. a.] 1998
  • Between criticism and confidence. 50 years of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Göttingen 1999 (together with Michael Assmann)
  • French cheery daylight , Edenkoben 2001 (together with Ludwig Harig and Fred Oberhauser)

literature

  • Jörg Weigand : The other creation , in: The Science Fiction Year 1987 (Vol. 2), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-31365-8 , pp. 584-591.
  • Friedrich Friedl (Ed.): This & that. How language makes the most diverse faces. Herbert Heckmann dedicated by Offenbacher, Frankfurter and other contemporaries. Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804510-0-3 .
  • Dirk Baldes: a humorous melancholic. The work of Herbert Heckmann. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 3-86110-410-5 ( Saarbrücker Contributions to Literary Studies 84), (At the same time: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Achim Geisenhanslüke , Michael Peter Hehl: Walter Höllerer and the emergence of the modern literary business. In: Poetics in the Technical Age. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 7–13, here p. 12.
  2. Dirk Baldes: A humorous melancholic. The work of Herbert Heckmann. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2006, p. 14.
  3. Literature committee - projects and award winners since 1953. (PDF; 183 kB) In: kulturkreis.eu. Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI, p. 1 , accessed on October 4, 2016 .
  4. Reading: A Praise of Gluttony. In: fr-online.de . July 12, 2008, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  5. Frankfurt reads a book 2017: "Benjamin and his fathers" by Herbert Heckmann. In: boersenblatt.net . June 21, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .