Jochen Lobe

Jochen Lobe (born on August 14, 1937 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia Province ) is a German writer.

Life

As a seven-year-old Lobe experienced the expulsion from Silesia , which later became the subject of his poems. From 1945 the family lived in Bayreuth and Hof , where Lobe attended high school. After graduating from high school, he studied German, history and geography for teaching in Erlangen and Frankfurt am Main . From 1968 to 2000 he was a teacher at the Christian-Ernestinum high school in Bayreuth. In 1970 a first booklet with texts was published, since then Lobe has published poems, prose, reviews and essays in monographs, anthologies, newspapers and magazines and has written various radio reports. From the mid-1980s he became known as the author of modern, critical dialect poetry. From 1969 to 1975 Lobe headed the Bayreuth Literary Forum.

Appreciations

• 1964 Award of the Sudermann Society Berlin
• 1978 sponsorship award from the city of Nuremberg
• 1982 Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
• 1984 Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth

Works

• Dissolving thinking stones. Texts. Row of four-dollar bows. Sheets for contemporary literature and graphics , volume 107. Relief-Verlag Eilers, Munich, Würzburg, Vienna 1970.
• Word problems. Demonstrated by mother Montage and her children. publishing house for new literature, Hof / Saale 1970.
• Eye audience. Poems 1970-1977. Series das neue Buch , Vol. 99. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978.
• Ham sa gsoochd soong sa. Poems in Bayreuth dialect. Basilisk Press, Marburg an d. Lahn 1982.
• Wennsd maansd. Poems in Bayreuth dialect. Echter, Würzburg 1983.
• Runners, filter papers, seconds sheets. Basilisk Press, Marburg an d. Lahn 1987.
• Germanys. 60 poems. 1977-1991. Delp, Munich 1992.

As editor:

• Richard Wagner hours delicious. Made from ingredients by Eugen Gomringer [among others] and sweetened by Jochen Lobe. Modeled by Eduard Herrmann. Equipped with a handle and brought out for those with a sweet tooth. publishing house for new literature, Hof / Saale 1970.
• On-site meeting in Bayreuth or 33 personal experiences, city tours, city accusations. Compiled by Jochen Lobe, ed. from the Association of Franconian Writers. Wettin-Verlag, Kirchberg / Jagst 1971.
• Reflections of the political consciousness in poems of the divided Germany. Verlag der Horen, Hanover 1972.
• Breath in, breath out. Publisher Müller Erlangen 1975.

literature

• Ernst Josef Krzywon: On the opposite track between high German and dialect. On the literary bilingualism of the poet Jochen Lobe. In: Oberschlesisches Jahrbuch 12 (1996), pp. 129–135.
• Arno Lubos : History of the literature of Silesia. 3rd volume Munich 1974, p. 419.
• Theodor Pelster: The motif of language difficulty in modern poetry. In: Der Deutschunterricht (1970), Issue 1, pp. 38–58.
• Wolf Rüskamp: Faith in language and literary acrobatics. In: Literatur in Bayern (1991), issue 26, pp. 32–36.
• Christian Schwarz, Ernst Krzywon: Praise, Jochen. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. 7th de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 461.
• Dieter Stoll: self-portrait. Literature in Franconia. Cadolzburg 1999, pp. 118-121.

Web links

• Jochen Lobe in the Upper Franconia Culture Atlas
• Jochen Lobe in the literature portal Bavaria