Joachim Werneburg

Joachim Werneburg (born July 15, 1953 in Erfurt ) is a German writer who mainly writes poetry and short prose . His main job was in the public service and lives in Weimar .

Life

Joachim Werneburg is the son of the visual artist Walter Werneburg . His younger brother Ralf Werneburg is a paleontologist . From 1973 to 1977 he studied theoretical electrical engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau , where he gave first readings in student clubs . After 1990 Werneburg was at times the spokesman for the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In his poems he creates a mythology in geology , flora and fauna for Thuringia . He designs poetic excursions into prehistoric and medieval times and discovers this region in the creative conflict between Slavic immigration (the Wends ) and western conquest (by the Merovingians ). He captured the GDR zeitgeist in a few epigrams ( Thuringian Sea ). The lyrical-epic texts that have been created since 1980 form a large cycle; more than four-fifths of the approximately 100 individual poems planned are now available from the project of this world poem.

In later works, Werneburg expanded the Central European approach of the Thuringian Sea to include Bohemian stones, the world of the Scythians ( The Serpentine Goddess ) or - after the fall of the Wall - the landscapes of Provence and Cornwall ( The Age of the Lizard ). In his works since 1997 he has thematized landscapes in ancient central and southern Italy , on Greek islands or in Old Celtic Wales . An Andalusian cycle of poems incorporates Islamic motifs; the journey on the underworld Nile shows ancient Egypt. Natural lyric elegies lead back to the author's living environment ( The Lament of the Gorgons ).

In the years 1988/89 Werneburg approached the work of the Chinese poet Pe-lo-thien ( Bai Juyi , 772-846, Tang dynasty ) and discovered him as his relative, while he came across comparable existential experiences ( Die Reise nach Southeast ). Werneburg's father Walter Werneburg created 21 poetry cycles from 1979 to 1994, which were presented in numerous exhibitions. The joint work was published in full in 2010 in the volume Die Rabenfibel . The cooperation is reported in word and sweep (1997/2010).

While he was navigating the shallows of the “Thuringian Sea”, Werneburg kept a log book in the context of everyday GDR life : The Copper Mine (records from 1977 to 1989). The notes on the rock face come from the post-reunification period (1990 to 1995) and reflect the changed situation of the author under the conditions of real capitalism.

The seals from 2008 to 2013 show a paradise in the Atlantic, Sardinian warriors and a dancing dervish . The Brahmin , the Yellow Dragon, they dream; the dragonfly appears as the director of a Nō game that combines landscapes of Japan, Shintō and Buddha ( The Return of the Dolphin ).

In the poems from 2013 to 2019, a Moorish gate clears the way to Carthage . Europe , the neglected princess, goes into the water. Orpheus , Parmenides and Zarathustra discuss the downfall. She keeps Shiva's dance silent . Buddha ( The Fall of Europe ) shows a way out .

Fonts

Books of poetry:

• Thuringian Sea , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2012
• The snake-footed goddess , Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2009
• The age of the lizard , Goldhelm Verlag, Manebach 2002
• The Lamentation of the Gorgons , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2015
• The Raven Primer , with Walter Werneburg, Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2010
• The return of the dolphin , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2013
• The fall of Europe , Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2019

Poetry cycles (selection):

• Words. Lutheran . In: Leaves from the Baumbachhaus , edited by Walter Werner , Staatliche Museen Meiningen 1985
• Copper mountain . In: Braegen , 1988 Issue 1, Berlin, edited by Vrah Toth (pseudonym for Henryk Gericke ), samizdat publication [1]
• Erfurt legend. An epigram cycle . In: Entry in the land register. Thuringia in poetry , selected by Wulf Kirsten , Hain Verlag Rudolstadt & Jena 1996
• Etruscan tarot . In: Walking over the Abyss. Jacob van Hoddis investigated , edited by Wulf Kirsten, quartus-Verlag, Bucharest in Jena in 1999
• Imagination of the five-petalled rose . In: Palmbaum - literary journal from Thuringia 1 + 2/2003
• The wren's castle . In: Palmbaum - Literary Journal from Thuringia 1/2008
• The aurora butterfly . In: Arnshaugk. A reader , edited by Klaus Gauger, Edition Arnshaugk, Munich 2009
• The Merwigslinde . In: Das Lindenblatt. Annual journal for beautiful literature , Arnshaugk Verlag 2013
• Sardinian fountain . In: Palmbaum - literary journal from Thuringia 1/2014
• Moorish gate , with an introduction to the poetic method Der Spiegel der Leila . In: Palmbaum - Literary Journal from Thuringia 1/2016
• The head of Parmenides . In: Palmbaum - Literary Journal from Thuringia 1/2017
• The fall of Europe . In: Palmbaum - literary journal from Thuringia 1/2018
• The lion rock. A Buddhist fantasy . In: Palmbaum - literary journal from Thuringia 1/2019
• Alara Han , with introduction The Orient is everywhere. An approach to the mysticism of the Persian poet Rumi . In: Palmbaum - Literary Journal from Thuringia 2/2019

Re-seals:

• The trip to the southeast. Poems based on Pe-lo-thien , Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2017

Prose:

• The copper mine. Fragments from 1977 to 1989 , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2011
• Notes on the rock face. From 1990 to 1995 , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2016
• Word and curved line. Notes on the artistic collaboration with Walter Werneburg , Scidinge Hall, Zurich 2010
• The island of Medusa , in: Diktynna. Yearbook for Nature and Myth, Edition Arnshaugk, Munich 2009

Literature (selection)

• Fechner, Dieter & Völkerling, Hedwig (Hrsg.): Thuringian authors of the present . Quartus-Verlag, Bucha 2003.
• Agthe, Kai : The Song of Songs of Myth . In: Palmbaum - Literary Journal from Thuringia 2/2008
• Agthe, Kai: On poems by Joachim Werneburg . In: Schüly, W. Natural language. German poets of the post-war period , Arnshaugk, Munich 2009
• Wolf, Dieter: Word and curved line . In: Das Lindenblatt. Annual journal for beautiful literature 2011 [2]
• Kirsten, Wulf. In: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , Vol. 31, De Gruyter, Berlin / Bosten 2012
• Fried, Jo: The work is growing . In: palm tree. Literary journal from Thuringia 2/2013
• Roewer, Helmut : Books from father and son . In: Das Lindenblatt. Annual journal for beautiful literature 2014
• Geipel, Ines & Walther, Joachim . Locked shelf. Suppressed literary history in East Germany 1945–1989 , Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015
• Dwars, Jens-F. : Wrap notation . In: palm tree. Literary journal from Thuringia 1/2017
• Friedrich, Bernd-Ingo : Notes on the rock face. From 1990 to 1995 . In: Das Lindenblatt. Series of publications for beautiful literature, 7th edition 2018
• Friedrich, Bernd-Ingo: The trip to the southeast. Poems after Pe-lo-thien . In: Das Lindenblatt. Series of publications for beautiful literature, 7th edition 2018
• Fried, Jo: A lyrical trip around the world . In: palm tree. Literary journal from Thuringia 2/2019 [3]

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Werneburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.joachim-werneburg.de