Jörg Aufenanger

Jörg Aufenanger (born December 16, 1945 in Wuppertal ) is a German writer and director.

Life

Jörg Aufenanger grew up in Wuppertal and Dortmund. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy, literature and theater history in Berlin (Free University), Paris (Sorbonne). From 1969 he was a theater director and actor at Parisian theaters until the end of the 1970s, then at various German theaters, most recently at the Berliner Ensemble and the Teatro Vascello in Rome. He also produced various radio plays, radio and TV features and films. Since the mid-eighties he has also been active as a writer, with essays, biographies, novels and stories. Together with Isabelle Azoulay , he founded the Berlin artist group ImWestenWasNeues. Jörg Aufenanger lives in Berlin.

Works

• A dance madness . Essays (together with Judith Kuckart ). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-22364-4
• Philosophy . Bertelsmann, Munich and Gütersloh 1984, ISBN 3-570-03294-9
• Here was Goethe not - biographical details of Goethe's absence Kowalke, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932191-10-2 , paperback edition: DTV, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-20497-4
• The laughter of despair. Grabbe . One life . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-000120-6 , paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-15238-0
• Friedrich Schiller . Biography . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-538-07190-X (also in the Focus Edition 2006)
• Schiller and the two sisters . dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24446-1
• Heinrich Heine in Paris . dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24518-2
• Silbermann's journey around the world in ninety years. Novel of a life . Parthas, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-86601-040-0
• Richard Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck . An artist's love . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-35010-6
• Forty days in the life of Heinrich von Kleist . Essay. Transit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88747-249-8
• I am now a ruined child ... memories of a post-war childhood . Autobiography. Nordpark, Wuppertal 2012, ISBN 978-3-935421-83-6
• John Höxter. Poet, painter and scrover of the Berlin bohemian , Quintus 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-75-6 ( online )

In anthologies, essays on Gottfried Benn , Günter Anders, Else Lasker-Schüler , Armin T. Wegner , Johannes R. Becher , Antonin Artaud , Herwarth Walden , Lutz Brandt , John Höxter , Heinrich von Kleist , Franz Kafka , Einar Schleef, among others . Furthermore various narratives in anthologies.

Selected publications in newspapers:

• Grabbe and the Theater of Cruelty , Frankfurter Rundschau, December 1, 2001
• Too strong for female nerves , FAZ, December 15, 2001

literature

• Frank Scurla: The dangerous love of wisdom - To Jörg Aufenanger's book "Philosophy" . Westdeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 1984
• Giuseppina Manin: Interview with Jörg Aufenanger on the world premiere of “Judith von Shimoda”, a play by Bert Brecht from the estate, at the Berliner Ensemble and the Teatro Vascello Rome. Corriere della Sera, December 20, 1997; also Le Monde Diplomatique of February 10, 1998

Web links

• Short biography and information on the work of Jörg Aufenanger at Literaturport