Jens Hagen

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Jens Hagen (* 12. March 1944 in Steinhöring , † 11. June 2004 in Mechernich ) was a German journalist , photographer , radio playwright , writer , poet , visual artist and political activist with living and working focus in Cologne .

Life

Jens Hagen was born as the son of Herbert Hagen in Steinhöring in Upper Bavaria and grew up in Dinslaken ; since 1964 he lived in Cologne. In Dinslaken he had already started his journalistic work as a local reporter as a teenager; During his studies in theater studies , philosophy and German studies in Cologne, he worked a. a. for the Cologne Express as a court and police reporter.

As part of the 1968 movement , he took part in his work against loyalty to the authorities and oppression, including in several actions together with Günter Wallraff , which he documented in photos. Together with Wallraff, he wrote a report about police exercises in action during demonstrations in the training center in Bork , which was specifically published in the left-wing magazine .

Together with his partner Dorothee Joachim  and others he founded the first alternative Cologne city newspaper ANA & BELA and the socialist self-help Cologne ; He was also involved in the WDR youth radio broadcast Panoptikum . In addition, he wrote for magazines such as concrete , Spontan , Underground and DVZ .

In the 1960s, Hagen dived into the music scene as a "chronicler of the underground in the Rhineland", photographing Jimi Hendrix , Frank Zappa , Steppenwolf and others, writing texts for record covers and writing a Beatles biography. In addition, he documented actions of the 1968 movement such as the occupation of Cologne University. As a co-author of the report volume What do you want, you're still alive (with Günter Wallraff), he established himself as a writer in 1973.

Since 1980 Hagen has worked as a freelance writer and radio play author. In addition to volumes of poetry, satires and short stories, he wrote around 20 radio plays that were broadcast on the ARD broadcasters. 1990 totally real was chosen as radio play of the month . His collection of satires, The Day on which Grandma was arrested for insulting the national team, is the second most cited literary work in football reports because of its imposing title (after The Goaly's Fear at the Penalty ).

The artist documented his long hospital stay in 2002 in photographs that were published posthumously in 2007.

In 2004 Jens Hagen died in Mechernich ; he was buried in Cologne's southern cemetery.

Hagen's estate was taken over in the historical archive of the city of Cologne in 2004 and was recorded by the social scientist Hans Burbaum from spring 2006 to the end of 2008 , the finding aid comprises 350 pages. Five years after the collapse of the city archives, a large part of the estate from the holdings was made accessible again for research and the series of events, Never Arriving, held for the 70th birthday in 2014. The events included an exhibition in the Cologne City Library and a “performative live audio play” based on Jens Hagen's Cologne Poem in public space.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • Literature Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1977
  • Scholarship from the city of Cologne for literature, 1980
  • Radio play of the month (for Total real ), 1990

Publications

Stories, stories, reports

  • Paths to the Neighbors , Frankfurt / Main 1971
  • The horny public prosecutor , Frankfurt / Main 1971
  • The day Grandma was arrested for insulting the national team. City stories and stories on the way , with drawings by Dorothee Joachim (1980) ISBN 3-88521-003-7
  • What do you want, you're still alive. Chronicle of an industrial settlement , according to with Günter Wallraff (1974) ISBN 3-453-43066-2
  • What a day to dream, Sensual stories; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988 (under the pseudonym Jean Lotter ); ISBN 3-499-12419-X

Radio plays

  • Sold like corn flakes. Audio images from the market of rebellion ; WDR 1971; 59 min.
  • The power plant or “What do you want, you're still alive”; Original sound; with Günter Wallraff ; WDR / NDR / RIAS 1973; 80 min.
  • Good bye, GI - A song for Frank; with Gerd Wollschon ; HR / WDR; 1975 min.
  • Villon, a rough servant who also enjoys writing poetry; HR 1976; 85 min.
  • Nice dreams or all good things come from below; Science fiction; HR 1977; 47 min.
  • Truck drivers; with Christian Gebert ; HR 1979; approx. 20 min.
  • Checkmate; Science fiction; WDR 1981; 17 min.
  • Brunx; Crime thriller; WDR 1983; 52 min.
  • Siebenrübens new case; Crime thriller; WDR 1984; 45 min; Director: Dieter Carls .
  • Tarzan gets wet; with Gerd Wollschon; SWF 1984; 65 min.
  • You have honest skin. What a shame; Crime thriller; SDR 1986; 24 min.
  • But hope; WDR 1986; 25 min.
  • Karin or The Dangers of the Big City; RB 1986; 12 min.
  • Highwayman; Crime thriller; WDR 1987; 55 min.
  • The reward; Crime thriller; with Elmar Nettekoven , Volker Thieme , Edelgard Hansen ; WDR 1990; 54 min. ISBN 3-442-70070-1 (1996)
  • Totally real; Science fiction; RB 1990; 32 min.
  • Hands off my grave; Crime thriller; SDR 1992; 34 min.
  • Bill with Brunx; Crime thriller; WDR 1993; 54 min.
  • No jump without a run-up; Crime thriller; NDR 1994; 32 min.
  • The Libero; Crime thriller; with Jochen Kolenda , Reinhart Firchow , Paul Faßnacht , Achim Sonderhoff ; WDR 1995; 55 min .; ISBN 3-442-70081-7 (1999)
  • No Brunx for Meier Zwo; Crime thriller; with Michael Mendl , Harald Dietl , Frank Hübner; WDR 1996; 55 min .; ISBN 3-442-70090-6 (1999)
  • The 52nd weekend; Crime thriller; with Uwe Erichsen ; BR 1997; 48 min.

Source for audio play list, unless otherwise stated:

Photographs

Poems

  • Sometimes it just grabs you, Literarischer Verlag Braun, Bergisch Gladbach, 1980; ISBN 978-3885210139
  • Pumpkin Seed Time Poems; Damnitz-Verlag, Neuss and Munich 1984, ISBN 3-88501-039-9
  • Haiku Criminals , 1997, ISBN 3-93013757-7
  • Haiku. At the edge of the words. edition fundamental, Cologne 2000
  • Haiku 2. The sentence island. edition fundamental, Cologne 2002
  • Haiku 3rd point point comma line. edition fundamental, Cologne 2005 (posthumous)
  • Never arrive - Cologne Poem. Sprungturm Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3981506181 (posthumous)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in the estate, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Best. 1753
  2. ↑ Insa Wilke (Ed.): Report on fire. Conversations, emails and phone calls about the work of Christoph Ransmayr E-Book, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-400689-5 ( preview without page number )
  3. ↑ a b Anneliese Fikentscher: In love with Jens Hagen - about the current exhibition in the photo boarding house in Cologne. “Total real” nrhz.de, online flyer no. 143 from April 23, 2008, accessed on February 23, 2014
  4. ↑ Felix Klopotek : It was of course also an attitude of refusal The painter Dorothee Joachim on the school of renunciation and the sharpening of perception; October 2012, accessed on February 24, 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtrevue.de  
  5. ↑ Cologne writer Jens Hagen dies ddp report via internetcologne.de, June 16, 2004, accessed on February 24, 2014
  6. ^ Ohio Magazine No. 15, 2007
  7. ↑ Jens Hagen died (EvS); Kölner Stadtanzeiger , cultural section; June 17, 2004 (via Genios database)
  8. ↑ Peter Kleinert: Why not all of Jens Hagen's photos were buried in the city archive. Rescue by the Cologne 68 project nrhz.de, May 6, 2009, accessed on February 24, 2014
  9. ^ Exhibition announcement Dorothee Joachim, January 20, 2014
  10. ↑ Drama Cologne: CITY POEM - a place becomes a poem
  11. ↑ Events for the 70th birthday and 10th anniversary of the death of the Cologne writer and artist never arrive
  12. ↑ a b Jens Hagen , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de
  13. ↑ 21 radio plays with author = "hagen" and author first name = "jens". In: hoerdat.in-berlin.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Extensive book review by Stan Lafleur
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinhöring
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2004
Place of death Cologne