Jürgen Lodemann

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Jürgen Lodemann (born March 28, 1936 in Essen ) is a German writer and television journalist . In 1975, as literary editor for Südwestfunk, he created a list of bestsellers determined by literary critics , which since then has provided a qualitative alternative to the commercial bestseller lists. His publications focus on novels set in the Ruhr area or in Ireland , opera literature, especially about Albert Lortzing and the Nibelung material , as well as travel reports.

Life

Jürgen Lodemann was born as the third son of the graduate engineer (and National Socialist) Friedrich Lodemann (1894–1973) and his wife Elfriede Siegmann and grew up in Essen . From 1947 to 1956 he attended the Helmholtz grammar school in Essen, which is oriented towards science and mathematics . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy, scientific geography and German at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1956 to 1962 . He received his doctorate in 1961 on the topic of German middle-class. Lortzing and his play operas , a work about the composer and librettist Albert Lortzing who participated in the March Revolution . In 1962 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools.

Lodemann volunteered for the newspapers “ Die Welt ” and “ Welt am Sonntag ” in Essen, Hamburg and Berlin. From 1964 he worked as a freelancer in the culture department of Südwestfunk television , in 1965 he became an editor at the same station and produced numerous television documentaries. At the same time he worked as a freelancer for Zeit , FR , FAZ and later taz . From 1972 to 1982 he was the moderator and editor of the literary show Literaturmagazin on Südwestfunk and from 1983 to 1988 the literary magazine Café Megalomania . In 1975 he initiated the SWR best list as an alternative to the commercial bestseller lists , a monthly recommendation list for the currently published fiction with a 35-member jury of literary critics . After he had withdrawn from moderation and editorial work for health reasons, he continued to work as a writer.

Jürgen Lodemann is a member of the Association of German Writers , was deputy to the federal chairman Bernt Engelmann from 1983 to 1984 and chairman of the state association in Baden-Württemberg from 2007 to 2009. Member of the PEN Center Germany since 1978 . He lives in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Lodemann has been a member of the speakers 'council of the citizens' initiative Pro Culture Capital Freiburg since 2011 .

Publications

  • German middle-class. Lortzing and his play operas. Dissertation in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg 1962.
  • Encounter with the Ruhr area. Image and text with Otto Steinert. Düsseldorf 1967.
  • Memories in the angry ant of the birth, life, views and end of Anita Drögemöller and the peace and quiet of the Ruhr. Roman, Zurich 1975; Klartext , Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-696-6 .
  • Lynch and happiness in the Middle Ages. Ireland novel, Zurich 1976.
  • Fantastic plastic land and rolling family house. USA trip, Zurich 1977.
  • In the German jungle. Stories, essays, poems. Zurich 1978.
  • The vegetable war. Children's novel, Stuttgart 1979.
  • Ahnsberch. Popular piece about the robbers on the Ruhr. Bochum 1980. (In: Theater heute , 1980, No. 5)
  • The supposed boy or me among the others. Autobiographical novel, Zurich 1982.
  • Stubbornness. Story, Pforzheim 1983.
  • The millennium flight. Travelogue from Mars. K. Thienemanns Verlag , Stuttgart 1983.
  • Air and love. Stories, Zurich 1984.
  • Black Forest. - with Eduardo Cebrián -, Munich [u. a.] 1984.
  • Siegfried. Youth book, Stuttgart 1986.
  • The comma or Katharina Botticelli in Gelsenkirchen-Bulmke. Stage play, Essen 1987.
  • Essen, Viehofer Platz or Langensiepen's end. Novel. Diogenes , Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-21613-0 .
  • The Baghdad Railway . History and present of a famous railway line. With Manfred Pohl, Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7758-1189-3 .
  • Hucke Bums and Frauke Butt. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-522-42800-5 , children's book, content from the BSZ .
  • With the Baghdad Railway through unknown Turkey. A film diary. Edition Isele , Eggingen 1990, ISBN 3-925016-62-7 .
  • Everything will be fine. Novel. Edition G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1991, ISBN 3-7650-8093-4 .
  • The fool with the hoe . Radio play about the Wilhelmine railway construction towards Asia, SWF 1991.
  • Kulturkampf finals or unemployed, but fully wired. Media pamphlet. Edition Isele, Eggingen 1991.
  • North Rhine-Westphalia. With Johannes Rau and Herbert Somplatzki , Munich 1992.
  • America over the abyss. Earthquake Country California. A film diary. Edition Isele, Eggingen 1992, ISBN 3-925016-89-9 .
  • The murder. The true people's book from the Germans. Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt am Main 1995, 555 pages, ISBN 3-7632-4317-8 (about Siegfried ; only for members of the book guild).
  • My media memoir. Baden-Baden as a workplace. Edition Isele, Eggingen 1996, ISBN 3-86142-071-6 .
  • Matricide. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-88243-605-0 .
  • 1848 and Regina. A German parallel chronicle in documents. Edited by Schillertheater NRW, Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen 1998.
  • Lortzing. Life and work of the poetic, composing and singing audience favorite, family father and comically tragic game opera world champion from Berlin. Steidl , Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-88243-733-2 .
  • Siegfried and Krimhild. The Nibelungen. Novel. German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2005, 889 pages, ISBN 3-423-13359-7 .
  • Opera - pure nonsense: Albert Lortzing, opera maker. Edition Wuz, Freiberg am Neckar 2005.
  • Nora and the violence and love things. Novel. Assoverlag , Oberhausen 2006, ISBN 3-938834-05-6 .
  • Paradise, irish. Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-940086-21-1 .
  • The big mistake. The memories of the NSDAP man Friedrich Lodemann. With an afterword by Harald Welzer . berlin university press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-48-3 .
  • Salamander. A novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86351-013-8 .
  • Fessenheim. Novella. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86351-057-2 .
  • Siegfried. The real story. 33 scenes. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86351-251-4 .
  • The big KaWumm in the Ruhr area - what your children love about you and what not. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag , Bottrop 2018, ISBN 978-3-942094-80-1
  • Mars to earth. Description of a planet. Novel. Klöpfer Narr Verlag, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-74961-022-8 .

Filmography

  • In the songwriter's waiting room. 1969, u. a. with Dieter Süverkrüp , Degenhardt , Hüsch , Hohler , Schwendter , Mey , Mossmann , Wader , Insterburg . Six episodes for the SWF .
  • Homeland novels. The detective. Women novels. 45 minutes of "trivial" literature, scenic, 1971
  • À la Rossini . Interview with Schopenhauer, Gert Westphal as Schopenhauer, 21 min., 1975
  • Anita Drögemöller and the rest on the Ruhr crime film, 87 min., 1976, as a screenwriter
  • Last interviews. With Erich Fromm , Peter Weiss , Heinrich Böll , Erich Fried . 60 min each, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985
  • In the stone valley. About Lenz , Büchner , Oberlin , Goethe, God and the Germanists. Documentary, 45 min., 1982
  • The main road. Essen's Kettwiger. Documentary, 45 min., 1984
  • Borbeck boys. Why Ernst Schmidt tells different stories. Documentary, 45 min., 1985
  • Regina. The ignored opera from 1848. 60 min., 1987 (special edition of Café Megalomania )
  • The man with the dance step or the juggler as a worker . Hansgünther Heyme in Essen. Documentary, 57 min., 1987
  • The Baghdad Railway . Train ride through unknown Turkey. Documentary, 60 min., 1987
  • Columbus: We saw remarkable things in Galway. Irish stories. Documentary, 90 min., 1988
  • Nobody asks us anymore. Old people in the Ruhr area. Documentary, 45 min., 1989
  • Contaminated sites. About the disappearance of a world of work. Documentary, 45 min., 1989
  • Above the abyss. Earthquake Country California. Documentary, 90 min., 1989
  • Samothrace. The island at the beginning of Europe. Documentary, 45 min., 1990
  • Casus Belli à la Meyerbeer . G. G. Belli's Roman sonnets. Magazine article, 13 min., 1991
  • Spiegelgasse Zurich . Lenin , Dada , Büchner . Documentary, 45 min., 1991
  • Alexandria. The triple sunken. Documentary, 45 min., 1991
  • Klumpehenner or The Baden Revolution . Magazine article, SWF, 1991
  • Izmir. Or: fly me to the moon. Documentary, 45 min., 1992
  • Seven Dwarfs Salem. Another drug therapy. Documentary, 30 min., 1992
  • Bornholm . 45 min., Film portrait for the SWF series Islands , 1993
  • Desert wind. Train ride over the Rocky Mountains to Salt Lake City. Documentary for arte , 90 min., 1993
  • Rhine trip. From Schaffhausen to the Drachenfels. Documentary, 90 min., 1993
  • The man in the mask . TV film, 197 min., 1994, actor Prof. Dr. basement, cellar
  • Juist. Magic land in front of Germany. Documentary for the series Islands , 45 Min., 1994
  • Eroica Place Kléber Strasbourg . Documentary for France 3 , 60 min., 1994

Editorships

  • The best books on the SWF literary magazine leaderboard . Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • You should read this. Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Stories from the Black Forest. Zurich 1985
  • The best books. 20 years of recommendations in German-language literary criticism. The " best list " of the Südwestfunk. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-38992-0 .
  • Black Forest stories. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-940086-77-8 .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Jürgen Lodemann - literary visions of the city, the district and the culture. Iserlohn 1989
  • Philip Stratmann: Jürgen Lodemann. In: Joachim Wittkowski (ed.): Der Krimi im Ruhrgebiet - A guide for readers. Ruhr University Bochum , German Institute, 2006, 47 pp.
  • Jürgen Lodemann. In: Joachim Wittkowski (ed.): Selmer readings 1. Selm 2007
  • The discovery of the Ruhr area in literature. Edited by Jan-Pieter Barbian and Hanneliese Palm. Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute Vol. 18, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0123-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lodemann, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , Germany