Hermann children

Hermann Kinder ( pseudonyms : Grethi T. Tunnwig, Armand Dessin , born May 18 or June 18, 1944 in Thorn , District Bromberg , Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , German Empire ; † August 31, 2021 in Konstanz ) was a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Hermann Kinder was the son of the theology professor Ernst Kinder and the nephew of Hermann Kinder, a co-editor of the dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte . He grew up in Heilsbronn , Neuendettelsau in Franconia and in Münster (Westphalia). He attended the humanistic branch of the Schillergymnasium Münster and the Melanchthon School Steinatal in the Schwalm , where he graduated from high school in 1964 . He then studied art history and German and Dutch philology in Münster, Amsterdam and Konstanz , supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1968 he received the degree of Magister ; 1972 received his doctorate with a dissertation on the literature of the 19th century.

From 1972 to 1974 he worked as a research assistant in the literary studies department at the University of Konstanz . From 1974 until the end of the summer semester 2008 he was Academic Councilor for German Studies and Literary Sociology at the same university. In the meantime he was repeatedly on leave from this post in order to be able to pursue his activity as a freelance writer . In 1986 he took on teaching assignments in Klagenfurt and Shanghai .

From 1978 on, Kinder was a member of the Association of German Writers and from 1987 a member of the PEN Center Germany .

He died in late August 2021 at the age of 77.

Awards

1977: Hunger Cloth Prize
1981: Lake Constance Literature Prize from the city of Überlingen
1982: Annual scholarship from the German Literature Fund
1991: Annual scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Foundation
1996: Alemannic Literature Prize
1998: Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
2014: Maria Ensle Prize from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
2017: Berthold Auerbach Literature Prize for the novel Portrait of a Young Man from Ancient Times

factories

The relationship between poetry and history in Wilhelm Raabe's “Odfeld” and “Hastenbeck”. Constance 1968.
Poetry as a synthesis. Frankfurt am Main 1973.
The grinding trough. Zurich 1977; New edition: Oktober Verlag, Münster 2007, with the author's current afterword.
You just have to change the direction of travel. Zurich 1978.
Love louder. Memmingen 1980.
From the swine courage of the time. Zurich 1980.
The complete madness. Zurich 1981.
Love and death. Zurich 1983.
Man, me ass. Zurich 1983.
In the eye. Zurich 1987.
Winter by the sea. Bergen 1987 (together with Eric van der Wal ).
Stranger - at home. Eggingen 1988.
Kina, kina. Zurich 1988.
The bohemian sisters. Zurich 1990.
The myth of the group 47. Eggingen 1991.
Alma. Zurich 1994.
From the same hand. Eggingen 1995.
For life and death. Hamburg 1997.
At night with felt-tip pen and ink. Eggingen 1998.
Crows screeching sky high. Lengwil 2000.
Forell's disease. Bordenau [u. a.] 2002. (together with Peter Marggraf ) (Nicole Nelles and Jennifer Hagen)
My Melaten. The Methuselah novel. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
The way of all flesh. Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
Portrait of an old-time young man. Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2016.
Harms selfies. Pictures from the diaries. Imago Mondial, Eggingen 2019.

Editing

Citizen's love. Frankfurt am Main 1981.
The classic pig. Zurich 1986.
Form and history. Festschrift for Wolfgang Preisendanz . Together with Anselm Haverkamp (= German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history . 76.2 (2002))
Stories of Lake Constance. Together with Jochen Kelter . Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2009.
Berthold Auerbach - "Once almost a world famous". A collage. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2011.
Berthold Auerbach: A thousand thoughts. Aphorisms. Edition Alea, Badenweiler 2014.
"Hearts high and high courage". My Lutheran father's family album 1942–1949. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2018.

literature

Jochen Kelter , Jörn Laakmann (Ed.): Thirty to Fifty. For Hermann children. Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1994.
Christof Hamann, Siegmund Kopitzki (ed.): Hermann children. Isele, Eggingen 2008 (portrait, vol. 8).

Web links

Wikiquote: Hermann Kinder - Quotes

Literature by and about Hermann Kinder in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Hermann Kinder in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Hermann Kinder in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Hermann Kind's estate in the Franz Michael Felder archive of the Vorarlberg State Library

Individual evidence

^ Children themselves named June 18 as their date of birth; see Jochen Schimmang : This is not how we imagined aging to be [review], in: FAZ , May 17, 2014, p. 12
↑ Hilmar Klute : Die Komik des Schreckens , sueddeutsche.de, published and accessed on September 1, 2021.
↑ Kinder retired on July 11, 2008. Source: Article Die Wortwelt , Stuttgarter Zeitung No. 160/2008 of July 11, 2008, p. 31.
↑ Alemannic Literature Prize. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, accessed on January 29, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Children, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tunnwig, Grethi T. (pseudonym); Dessin, Armand (pseudonym)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German writer and literary scholar
BIRTH DATE	May 18, 1944 or June 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thorn
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH	Constancy

[1] Children themselves named June 18 as their date of birth; see Jochen Schimmang : This is not how we imagined aging to be [review], in: FAZ , May 17, 2014, p. 12

[2] Hilmar Klute : Die Komik des Schreckens , sueddeutsche.de, published and accessed on September 1, 2021.

[3] Kinder retired on July 11, 2008. Source: Article Die Wortwelt , Stuttgarter Zeitung No. 160/2008 of July 11, 2008, p. 31.

[4] Alemannic Literature Prize. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, accessed on January 29, 2015 .