Horst Tomayer

Horst Tomayer. Still from Cycling to Liberation (2009)

Horst Tomayer (born November 1, 1938 in Asch ; † December 13, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German poet , columnist and actor . His column "Tomayer's honest diary" appeared from 1982 to 2013 in the monthly Konkret .

Life

After an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman , Tomayer described himself as " conscientious objector , plaster painter, IM 'rivet' at the MfS , intern with Wolfgang Neuss , with Stefan Aust columnist for St. Pauli-Nachrichten and actor in many soap operas ".

In the 1970s Tomayer worked for the Berliner Extra-Dienst and was the author of numerous radio contributions, especially in the WDR broadcast Kritisches Tagebuch . As an employee of the monthly magazine concretely he led in the 1980s numerous covert telephone conversations with senior officials, businessmen, dignitaries and drew them by themselves as "typical Bavarian" reactionary spending, amazing utterances that then in the magazine appeared. So he telephoned among other things, with the voice of Luis Trenker with Ernst Junger what this mentioned in his later published diaries - to the end not knowing that it had been a joke Tomayers.

His column "Tomayer's honest diary" appeared in concrete until shortly before his death . With the editor Hermann L. Gremliza he performed as a lecturer in the series “Very mixed double”.

The Federal Constitutional Court ruled last instance in 1990 that Tomayers Germany '86 song , a parody of the Song of the Germans , as a satire had therefore to be considered and as art. Tomayer had been charged with the state and its symbols, etc. a. with the lines "German Turks, German Pershings / German BigMäc, German Punk / Should keep in the world / Your old beautiful sound" to have vilified.

Tomayer continued to play supporting roles in television and cinema films, including the Otto films and the television series Tierarzt Dr. Engel , Der König von Bärenbach and Kir Royal , in the two “7 dwarfs” films Men Alone in the Forest and The Forest is Not Enough , as well as in Wenzel Storch's film Die Reise ins Glück (voice of the white rabbit). In Hans-Christoph Blumenberg's film Rotwang muss weg! In 1994 he played one of the leading roles as "Bruno Ringeltaub".

He died on December 13, 2013 of complications from cancer.

Fonts

• Neuss' will . With Wolfgang Neuss . rororo 891, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1966; NA: edited and documented by Volker Kühn. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-434-46055-1 .
• Laughing to the 80s? VSA, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-87975-091-2 .
• Tomayer's German Conversations . Konkret, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-922144-37-3 .
• At last. Post-revolutionary art in the fourth empire . (With Ernst Kahl , Wiglaf Droste and Max Goldt ). New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926796-13-8 .
• Brain-burned and finely chiseled things . Zinnober, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89315-008-0 .
• The hour of men's tears . Tiamat, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-923118-54-6 .
• Tomayer's honest diary . Konkret, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930786-07-9 .
• German poems . Nautilus, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-89401-341-9 .
• German poems . With drawings by Ernst Kahl, Konkret, Hamburg 2018 (= concrete texts 73), ISBN 978-3-930786-84-8 .

CD

• Are you interested in sexuality? Audio CD , live recordings of performances in the Red Salon Berlin, in Braunschweig and in the Toten Salon at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . Bittermann, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89320-092-4 .

DVD

• The very mixed double. Poetry separately - recite together (with Hermann L. Gremliza ), ISBN 3-930786-48-6 .

Quotes about Tomayer

"Horst Tomayer has rendered outstanding services to the German poem."

- Robert Gernhardt

"For decades the German poet Tomayer has shone through all the darkness."

- Hermann Kant

“Anyone who writes so excellently has forfeited his innate right to high-value literary prizes in Germany. Horst Tomayer seems to have come to terms with the fact that he has been left behind by both literary criticism and the judging mafia. But I tell you that the late Horst Tomayer is not only a giant as a poet, but also as a lecturer. "

- Hans Mentz

Poem for Tomayer

           Sportsmanship

Hotte, Hüh! - We cyclists
Are the ones who adore themselves
Whether sun or rain showers
We cycle against Bergson's duration
Because being here on earth
It's just as being there
Until the exit, until the end
- Smug Sisyphus
already up to over seventy
And tell yourself: Dett loves themselves.
- Natias Neutert

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Tomayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Horst Tomayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Horst Tomayer is dead" , Neues Deutschland , December 14, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2013.
2. ↑ Titanic: Horst Tomayer live: Are you interested in sexuality? , undated, accessed December 14, 2013.
3. ↑ Personal details : Horst Tomayer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1993, pp. 286 ( online - 20 September 1993 ).
4. ↑ BVerfG, decision of March 7, 1990, Az. 1 BvR 1215/87, BVerfGE 81, 298 - National Anthem .
5. ^ "Konkret mourns for Horst Tomayer" , Konkret , December 13, 2013, accessed on December 14, 2013.
6. ↑ Konkret 12/1998, p. 60.
7. ↑ Konkret 12/1998, p. 60.
8. ↑ Titanic 12/2005 "Humor criticism: Tomayer and Rowohlt live" , undated, accessed on January 20, 2014.
9. ↑ Natias Neutert : Sportsmanship. (for Hotte Tomayer) In: Concrete. 4/2012, p. 7 and in: Fahrradspaß. Stories and poems . Selected by Alexander Kluy. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-010976-2 , p. 65.