Jörg Fauser

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Jörg Christian Fauser (born July 16, 1944 in Bad Schwalbach , Taunus , † July 17, 1987 in Munich ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

His parents were the visual artist Arthur Fauser and the actress Maria Razum. While still at school, Fauser published his first journalistic articles in the Frankfurter Neue Presse between 1959 and 1960 . In 1963 Fauser began working as a reviewer for the Frankfurter Hefte . On June 23, 1964, he was recognized as a conscientious objector .

After graduating from the Lessing High School in Frankfurt am Main in 1965, Fauser began studying ethnology and English at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . However, he broke off his studies in 1966.

During the alternative service at the Bethanien Hospital in Heidelberg , Fauser became addicted to heroin . He interrupted his alternative service and stayed in Istanbul for six weeks in early 1967 . In the fall of 1967 he withdrew from alternative service in the Istanbul drug district Tophane . In the autumn of 1968 Fauser returned to Frankfurt and then went to West Berlin .

Around 1971 he was in contact with the squatter scene in Frankfurt's Westend . a. to Joschka Fischer's group . He kept a critical distance from the 1968 movement , whose actors mostly came from Fauser's generation, which is also evident in his works.

In 1971/72 he managed to withdraw from heroin in Frankfurt .

From 1968 to 1974 Fauser lived alternately in West Berlin, Frankfurt and Göttingen ; eventually he moved to Munich permanently. Fauser worked for various literary publications, including the alternative magazines Gasolin 23 , Ufo and Ulcus Molle Info . About his travels, which he u. a. In 1975 he went to Morocco and in 1976 to the USA , he reported in reports for the Basler Nationalzeitung . In the 1970s he published several volumes of poetry and began working as a copywriter with the rock musician Achim Reichel . Fauser and Reichel achieved a great success with the single The Player from the concept album Blues in Blond , through which a Fauser text even got into the ZDF hit parade .

In the 1980s, Fauser moved again to West Berlin, wrote three successful novels and worked as a journalist for the Berlin city magazine tip and the magazines Lui and TransAtlantik . On July 9, 1985, he and Gabriele Oßwald married. The couple moved to Munich again.

death

Fauser died on July 17, 1987, when he was hit by a truck at around 4:10 a.m. on the A 94 between the Munich districts of Zamdorf and Riem in the direction of the Feldkirchen junction . He had previously left his own celebration on his 43rd birthday and apparently tried to cross the road while drunk. Further circumstances remained unresolved. On the occasion of his speech on the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize on July 3, 2013, Michael Köhlmeier expressed the assumption that Fauser's death was not an accident, but had to do with his research on connections between the drug milieu and German politics.

Position and reception

In his early years, Fauser was an underground author who was heavily influenced by American beat literature and who incorporated his own drug experiences in his lyrics. Under the influence of the American hard-boiled authors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler , his subjects changed in the 1980s, but the labeling of Fauser as the author of detective novels from West German reality, which is often used in contemporary literary criticism , in no way does justice to his literary weight .

An example of the lack of understanding often brought towards Fauser by the established literary criticism was the damning assessment by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in the reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1984. Michael Köhlmeier took hold of the jurors at the time in his speech on the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2013, by name Reich-Ranicki, Walter Jens , Gertrud Fussenegger and Peter Härtling sharply. Your criticism was not of Fauser's work, but of his person. At that time, Fauser encountered German literary criticism in its "most insidious and pathetic guise": Fauser, regardless of what he wrote, was always panned and therefore deeply hurt.

Today Fauser is considered to be the great pioneer of the genre in Germany in the circle of underground literature. Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , who read all of Fauser's books as a high school student, prefixed his books Soloalbum , Panikherz and Remix 3 with a quote from Fauser.

Awards

Publications

Single issues

  • 1971: Aqualunge. A report. Udo Breger , Göttingen
  • 1972: Tophane. Maro , Gersthofen
    • New edition 2011: Tophane. Illustrated by Robert Schalinski. Moloko print, Schönebeck
  • 1973: The Harry Yellow Story. Maro, Gersthofen
  • 1977: Open end. Five poems. King Kong Press, Munich
  • 1978: Marlon Brando. The silver-plated rebel. Monika Nüchtern, Munich
  • 1978: The city beach. Eduard Jakobsohn, Berlin
  • 1979: everything will be fine. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich
  • 1979: Requiem for a goldfish. Night machine, Basel
  • 1979: Trotsky, Goethe and happiness. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich
  • 1981: The snowman. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich
  • 1982: man and mouse. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich
  • 1984: blues for blondes. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna
  • 1984: raw material . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna
  • 1985: The snake mouth. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna
  • 1987: Kant. Heyne, Munich
  • 1992: blues in blonde. Songs and ballads. Together with Achim Reichel and Elfi Küster. Luchterhand literature publisher, Hamburg
  • 1993: I have a murderous rage. Letters to parents 1957–1987. Paria, Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • 2003: Reading material. From Joseph Roth to Eric Ambler. New criticism, Frankfurt am Main.

Work edition 1990–1994

Jörg Fauser Edition in eight volumes, a booklet and supplementary volume from Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg:

  • 1990: Volume 1. Novels I.
  • 1990: Volume 2. Novels II
  • 1990: Volume 3. Stories I.
  • 1990: Volume 4. Stories II
  • 1990: Volume 5. Poems
  • 1990: Volume 6. Essays, Reports, Columns I.
  • 1990: Volume 7. Essays, Reports, Columns II
  • 1990: Volume 8. Marlon-Brando-Biography
  • 1990: booklet. Information and pictures
  • 1994: Supplementary volume The quietly smiling No and other texts.

Work edition 2004–2009

New edition of Jörg Fauser's works at Alexander Verlag Berlin , edited by Alexander Wewerka :

  • 2004: Volume I. Marlon-Brando. The silver-plated rebel . Biographical essay. Afterword by Michael Althen and conversation with publisher Monika Nüchtern.
  • 2004: Volume II. Raw Material . Novel. Afterword by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre and conversation with editor Hanna Siehr.
  • 2004: Volume III. The snowman . Novel. Afterword by Feridun Zaimoglu and conversation with publisher Thomas Landshoff.
  • 2005: Volume IV. Trotsky, Goethe and happiness . Collected poems and lyrics. Afterword by Franz Dobler and conversations with the musicians Achim Reichel and Veronika Fischer .
  • 2005: Volume V. Everything will be fine . Collected Stories 1. Foreword by Helmut Krausser and epilogue by Jürgen Ploog .
  • 2006: Volume VI. Man and mouse . Collected Stories 2. Instead of an afterword: Tequila is good today. A drinking tour with Jörg Fauser from Martin Compart.
  • 2006: Volume VII. The snake mouth . Novel. Afterword by Martin Compart.
  • 2009: Volume VIII. The Beach of the Cities. Collected journalistic work 1959–1987 . Essays, reports, columns. Foreword by Matthias Penzel .
  • 2007: Volume IX. The tour . Novel fragment.

Translations

  • John Howlett: James Dean. Monika Nüchtern, Munich 1977
  • The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Joan Baez : Daybreak. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • James Taylor : Songbook. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1978

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1974: Café Nirvana , director: Hein Bruehl, WDR
  • 1974: The one from the reserve bank or When our turn comes, the game is hopefully lost together with Broder Boyksen, directed by Carl Weissner, SR
  • 1977: The Death of the Hippos , Director: Peter Michel Ladiges, SR
  • 1978: For one mark and eight , director: Hermann Treusch, HR
  • 1979: Romance , directed by Werner Klippert, SR
  • 2010: The Snowman , Director: Leonhard Koppelmann , SWR

Discography

  • 1980: no makeup . LP by Achim Reichel , three texts by Fauser
  • 1981: blues in blonde . LP by Achim Reichel, all texts by Fauser
  • 1983: Night express . LP by Achim Reichel, six texts by Fauser
  • 1984: longing for warmth . LP by Veronika Fischer , a text by Fauser
  • 1987: An eternity on the road . LP by Achim Reichel, seven texts by Fauser
  • 1987: mirror images . LP by Veronika Fischer, a text by Fauser
  • 1989: Veronika Fischer . LP by Veronika Fischer, three texts by Fauser
  • 1997: Fauser interview . Double CD with texts mainly read by Fauser, publisher: Christian Lyra
  • 2004: raw material . 2-CD audiobook, read by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
  • 2005: Cut City Blues . Franz Dobler reads Fauser's poems
  • 2005: Fausertracks . Mash-up with Fauser's voice to music from LebenDigital
  • 2007: the snowman . 6-CD audiobook, read by Heikko Deutschmann

literature

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Web links

Wikiquote: Jörg Fauser  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johannes Ullmaier: From ACID to ADLON. A journey through German-language pop literature. Ventil-Verlag, Mainz 2001, pp. 77-78.
  2. ^ Matthias Penzel & Ambros Waibel, Rebell im Cola Hinterland , Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2004, p. 72
  3. ↑ Panic Heart . Cologne 2016. p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Fauser, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fauser, Jörg Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schwalbach , Taunus
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1987
Place of death Munich