Herbert Schuldt

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Herbert Schuldt (born July 19, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German poet , essayist , translator , visual artist and designer of radio plays .

Live and act

Life

Herbert Schuldt is the son of Harald H. Schuldt, the grandson of the founder of the H. Schuldt shipping company . After stints in London, Paris and Vienna, he lived for a long time in Hamburg and New York, since 1999 increasingly residing in China and living in Beijing from 2004 to 2009 and since then in Hamburg. He usually only uses the stage name "Schuldt". He exercised numerous activities, at the age of 19 he was a temporary electronics salesman, worked as a sound engineer and on construction sites, read dictionaries and wrote essays, wrote audio pieces and directed, translated, staged performances and wrote books. Schuldt received the Paul Scheerbart Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2000 for his “artful transcriptions of American poetry and his avant-garde measurements of English and German vocabulary” . Similar to Kurt Schwitters , Oskar Pastior or Gerhard Rühm , Schuldt uses character texts and poetic puns in his thoroughly experimental literature.

In 2014 he was named a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.

writer

His work Mamlukes Answer (1984) consists of acronym poems. From an initial word, for example “dance”, he creates his texts: “Doing deeds out of curiosity”. In Decals Home (1995) he gets to the bottom of the words, examines the reality of language and exposes hidden clichés. In Olga at the Cosmic Door. Bras, perfumes, and bars. Headlines from New York (2000), finally, Schuldt grotesquely concentrates the advertising, glitter and hype of this cosmopolitan city in haiku- like short forms. For him, writing always also means “ imaginative construction, new combination, unbinding, rearrangement of pre-tracked language paths”. Hanns Zischler described him in Die Zeit as the “last Dadaist ”; he is "an unusually clairaudient translator who listens to the sound and the noise, the rhyme and alliteration of the words."

Schuldt transformed Hölderlin's Am Quell der Donau through unusual sound changes.

His radio play version Am Quell der Donau , which was released in 2002 as a media combination (book, leporello folder and CD), received attention. It is named after a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin ; only a fragment of 117 verses of the text is preserved, which Schuldt read to his non-German-speaking American poet colleague Robert Kelly . Kelly translated the strange sounds as he understood them; so the title "Unquell the Dawn Now" came out. The linguist Schuldt then translated back to Kelly's sounds from the American, etc., and finally into a Holderlin German. For example, “But everything goes like this” arose: though all's gate so , and from this “even though everything is a gate like this” and then vainlike. All are so . Schuldt writes in his epilogue: "Sound is the soul of language, while the meanings of words are its body."

Quote

  • “But you season us with nectar the othem / Her ovaries fill with nectar and the ocean, / Your ovaries fill with nectar and the sea, / Here I stoke feelin's mid-neck, tar & hound mare & / Here I stir up feelings with throat , tarry & rush mare &. "

Schuldt also became known not least for his speech collages, which he himself referred to as "audio pieces", with which he enriched the genre , which Klaus Schöning described as "New Radio Play" in 1968, with linguistic music-like sound experiments. Special mention should be made of “Germany recite, repeat Germany”, which in April 1970 had a disturbing effect on the listeners of the first program of the WDR.

Artist

Schuldt has dealt with art all his life. In the 60s he lived and worked in a basement in the Brüderstraße in Hamburg district of Neustadt . On the one hand, he translated art books and wrote texts for exhibition catalogs, on the other hand, he staged himself as an artist. When Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg in 1959 , he and Schuldt, Bazon Brock and others drew a ten kilometer long “Endless Line” that stretched across all parts of a university area, which caused a scandal at the time. As an action artist , Schuldt caused a sensation in 1960 with his “International Exhibition of Nothing”, which took place in a dilapidated Hamburg villa and in which only empty picture frames , unpainted canvases and clumps of clay were exhibited. In 2004 the Hamburger Kunsthalle recalled the art scandal of that time in the exhibition “Art in Hamburg” by recreating the exhibition and completing it with the original excerpts from the press indignation that followed. Schuldt's other exhibitions took place, for example, in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2000: Branded Stairwall ) and in New York (2001: the looks of words ). As a lecturer, he also likes to use performance elements. From 2002 he devoted himself to photography, especially in New York and China.

Exhibitions

Prices

literature

Publications

  • Hamburg School of Life and Work , Berenberg Verlag GmbH, Berlin (2019).
  • Breakups . Parrots, concepts and people - torpedoes and whistling whistles - New York and Cologne around 1970 (including the radio play "Germany recite, Germany recite" on a CD). Published by Schuldt on behalf of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg. Munich (Belleville) 2015.
  • Dayi Express / Da Yi Kuai Bao . Newspaper on the character portraits of Schuldt from Sichuan. Edited by Hans Barlach , Wolfgang Kubin and Schuldt. Hamburg 2003.
  • Olga at the Cosmic Door. Bras, perfumes, and bars. Headlines from New York (postcard pad). OTO house, New York, NY 2000 and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3883754749
  • At the source of the Danube to Friedrich Hölderlin with Robert Kelly. (Book, folder, leporellos, CD, transcript in a slipcase). Steidl, Göttingen 1998, 2002. ISBN 3-88243-521-6
  • The invisible drawings of Stéphane Mallarmé . 68 colored plates by Ernest Fraenkel. Reissued and with an essay No Stuff to the Image of Schuldt. Edition per procura, Lana and Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-901118-36-4
  • Cries of joy in the garden. Headlines in Oxford German (48 postcards). Schuldts Small Library of Poetry and Prose in German Foreign Tongues, Volume 2. Droschl, Graz 1998. ISBN 978-3-85420-488-6
  • Shape pain. Poetry and prose in Oxford German . With a foreword by Harry Mathews , a letter from Kenneth Cox and an afterword by Robert Kelly. Schuldts Small Library of Poetry and Prose in German Foreign Tongues, Volume 1. Edition Plasma, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3926867256
  • Decals, brought home . Together with Robert Kelly and Jacques Roubaud. Literaturverlag Droschl, Vienna 1995. ISBN 3-85420-402-7
  • Glossolalia. Stammelheft takes the place of No. 18 in the literary magazine . (Literary magazine 18th special issue). Editor. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986. ISBN 3-498-06197-6
  • Mamelukes answer (acronyms). Edition New Texts, Linz 1984. ISBN 3-85420-272-5
  • Life and Death in China. 111 fables according to Liu's dictionary (prose). Hanser, Munich and Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-446-13816-1
  • Francis Picabia (exhibition catalog Städt. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthaus Zürich). DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1983.
  • In Togo, dark, and other stories . Duplicate, Hanover 1981
  • A Likely Lad . (Picture book with legends). Walther König, Cologne 1980.
  • Picabia (essay). Michael Werner , Cologne and Berlin 1980.
  • Steel chairs (essay). Walther König, Cologne 1980,
  • Recite Germany, repeat Germany . (Audio cassette). Edition S-Press, Düsseldorf and Munich 1972
  • Sound design . In: Text + Criticism . Munich 1972, issue 35/36
  • Doubt (essay). DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1967
  • Blood of the Metronome (Poetry). With illustrations by Joseph Cornell. Hagar, Brühl 1965
  • Stoning of the night (seals). With illustrations by Hans Platschek . Panderma-Verlag Laszlo, Basel 1960

Radio plays

  • 1970: Recite Germany, repeat Germany . With Gabor Altorjay, Louis Jean Bouchard, Dorothee Brodowskyv u. a. Realization: owed. Author's production 1970. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 1996: Schallgeschwister (At the source of the Danube) . With Jürgen Arndt, Ruth Geiersberger u. a. Director: Schuldt. BR radio play and media art 1996.
  • 2000: Sentimentalno - mood breaker . With Hanns Zischler , Schuldt, Antje Vowinckel u. v. a. Director: Schuldt. SWR 2000

Translations

  • Robert Kelly, Schlaflose Schönheit, edited, translated and with an afterword by Schuldt, Salzburg 1996, RESIDENCE.
  • Robert Kelly, Stories from Russian, edited, translated and with an afterword by Schuldt, Berlin 1995, Edition PLASMA.
  • Horace Walpole, Hieroglyphic Stories (1786), edited, translated and with an afterword by Schuldt. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.
  • Thomas M. Messer: Edvard Munch . DuMont, Cologne 1978. ISBN 3-7701-0718-7
  • Robert Descharnes: Salvador Dali . DuMont, Cologne 1974. ISBN 3-7701-29881
  • Joseph-Émile Müller: DuMont's little lexicon of expressionism . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1974. ISBN 3-7701-0767-5
  • José Pierre : DuMont's little lexicon of surrealism . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1974. ISBN 3-7701-0766-7
  • Dan Flavin : Three installations in fluorescent light . Kölnische-Verlagsdruckerei, Cologne 1974

Secondary literature

  • Jörg Drews : Illuminating a concept. To Schuldt's "doubt" . In: Text + Criticism . Munich 1971. H. 30. Concrete Poetry II
  • Michael Erlhoff: Fables from the Dictionary. Outlines of sentences . In: The time of August 2, 1985
  • Helmut Heißenbüttel : The triumph of the text. Schuldt's acronyms: "Mamelukes answer" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 6, 1984
  • Hans-Horst Henschen : Guilty . In: New manual of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 . Nymphenburger, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-485-03550-5
  • Elfriede Jelinek : War for lightning. Cries of joy in the garden. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 27, 1998, No. 72, p. 13.
  • Rolf Michaelis : shade plants. In: The time . No. 26. 1999
  • Thomas Redl: Schuldt: Living and Dying in China. 111 fables according to Liu's dictionary . In: Wasp's Nest . Magazine for useful texts and images . No. 58, 1985.
  • Hanns Zischler: The last Dadaist. Schuldt: poet, lecturer and translator . In: The time . December 5, 1997, Nº 50 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2014/33906/pdf/Januar_1958.pdf Kehrwieder, 90 years Reederei H. Schuldt , p. 13 (accessed on February 8, 2020)
  2. ↑ z. B. Sentimentalno - mood breaker . Text and direction. Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk . 2000 or cries of lust from Talmi worlds . Performed in the Berlin Philharmonic on January 1, 2000
  3. ^ New manual of contemporary German literature since 1945 . Munich 1990. page 575
  4. ↑ Hanns Zischler: The Last Dadaist. Schuldt: poet, lecturer and translator. In: The time . December 5, 1997, Nº 50 ( online ).
  5. ↑ ZB Rolf Michaelis: shade plants. Hölderlin, Schuldt, Kelly singing . In: The time . No. 26. 1999.
  6. ↑ At the source of the Danube . From the book of the 3-part media combination. Steidl. Göttingen 2002
  7. ↑ Klaus Schöning: Tendenzen im Neuen Hörspiel , Höressay; broadcast on WDR on October 3rd, 1968
  8. ^ Jan-Frederik Bandel Lasse Ole Hempel Theo Janßen. A pub and a novel
  9. ^ For example, in the catalog for the exhibition by Francis Picabia . Cologne 1980
  10. ↑ In 2005 an exhibition in Uelzen “Hundertwasser in Hamburg - The Endless Line” reminded of this incident.
  11. ^ Jan-Frederik Bandel, Lasse Ole Hempel, Theo Janßen: Palette revisited. A pub and a novel. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2005, p. 53: “However, Schuldt is coming too early for the art business. In 1968, when the Fluxus movement became known with similar actions, Schuldt was already calling himself a 'forgotten, former avant-garde celebrity'. "
  12. ^ BR radio play Pool - Schuldt, Deutschland Aufagen, Deutschland nachsagen
personal data
SURNAME Guilty, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Owed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, essayist, translator and artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg