Jochen Missfeldt

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Missfeldt at a reading in Osnabrück in November 2012

Jochen Missfeldt (born January 26, 1941 in Satrup , Schleswig-Flensburg district) is a German writer and journalist . His work includes poems, short stories, novels and a biography of Theodor Storm . He wrote articles for various German daily newspapers and shot the television film Überflug for NDR .

Life

After graduating from high school, Jochen Missfeldt joined the Bundeswehr in 1961 and was trained as a pilot in Uetersen (Schleswig-Holstein) and Phoenix (USA). Until 1982 he served in the Air Force , for the longest time as a pilot, first on the Lockheed F-104 , the "Starfighter", and later on the McDonnell F-4 , the "Phantom". Most recently he was lieutenant colonel and squadron captain in the reconnaissance wing 52 in Leck. At the age of 41 he was retired, as was the custom for jet aircraft pilots at the time. After his retirement he studied musicology , philosophy and folklore in Munich and Kiel. Since 1985 he has been a freelance writer and contributor to various newspapers. In 1998/99 he was a scholarship holder at Künstlerhof Schreyahn , 1999/2000 at the International Artists' House Villa Concordia in Bamberg, and in 2009 he was guest of honor for two months at the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

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In his literary work Missfeldt draws time and again from his experiences as a pilot in the air force. While he was still in the army, he published a volume of poetry with the title Collected Fears (1975), which an officer did not expect .

This was followed in 1977 by the TV film Überflug and, after another volume of poetry, two collections of stories from the aviation environment, Between Above Between Below and Capo Frasca and other aviator stories .

His final breakthrough came with his novel Solsbüll , a family story spanning three generations with strongly autobiographical features. The action takes place in a fictional location in the north of Schleswig-Holstein. Everything that characterizes his later works can be found in this book: the combination of (Schleswig-Holstein) landscape and (German) history, of poetic descriptions of nature and grotesquely parody-like scenes, of precisely and soberly observed everyday reality and surreal dream sequences, of terse, distant language mixed with colloquial expressions and lyrical insertions. The place Solsbüll and Gustav Hasse, Missfeldt's alter ego, reappear in the complex novel Mirrored Heaven , for which he received the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2002 .

In his novel, cliffs , the narrator bears autobiographical, again diving elements of the landscape and history of Solsbüll and Mirrored sky on.

In addition to his narrative work, Missfeldt writes reports, especially on aviation topics. Part of this is summarized in the volume Come Time, Come Space (2012). In these texts, too, Missfeldt is not concerned with the mere reproduction of facts and processes, rather the focus is always on the person who deals with them and their experiences. Here, too, the author combines a brief, precise technical language with brief and poetic descriptions of nature.

Missfeldt's affinity for music is shown by his “opera plays”, which, under the cover name Orpheus, bring together contributions for the programs of the Bavarian State Opera.

In 2013 his comprehensive Storm biography was published, which was positively received by the critics.

In collaboration with the painters Klaus Fußmann and Friedel Anderson, the volumes Schleiland (2012) and Wiedergänger were published . Another story from Sylt (2015). In the first, Missfeldt combines the history, cultural history and landscape of the Schlei region with very personal memories and fantastic sprinkles in three essays. Revenant tells the story of Gregor, a kind of mentor to the first-person narrator, who is interwoven in many ways with contemporary history and the history of the island.

In 2017 Rowohlt Verlag brought out two novels by Missfeldt: a revised edition of Solsbüll and Sturm und Stille . After his comprehensive Storm biography, Missfeldt wrote a largely fictional autobiography of Storm's second wife Dorothea.

Awards

Works

  • Collected fears. Poems . Hohwacht-Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-87353-022-8 .
  • My father was a snow bailiff. Poems. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1979. 3-7846-0108-1
  • Between above, between below. Story in eleven booklets . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1982, ISBN 3-7846-0517-6 .
  • Capo Frasca and other aviation stories . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1984. 3-7846-0124-3
  • Solsbull . Langewiesche-Brandt, Roman, Ebenhausen 1989, ISBN 3-7846-0140-5 .
  • The rapeseed king . Parabelverlag, children's book, Wiesbaden and Zurich 1990.
  • Supermarket . Outskirts, story, Plön 1990.
  • Capo Frasca and other stories, pocket book Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990. 780- ISBN 3-499-12676-1 .
  • Hans and Grete . Libretto for a singing speech game based on Engelbert Humperdinck, based on Adelheid Wette. Bavarian State Opera, laboratory. Directed by Cornel Franz. First performance on December 16, 1993.
  • Twelve new poems . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1996, ISBN 3-7846-0164-2 .
  • Code name Orpheus. Narratives . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1997, ISBN 3-7846-0166-9 .
  • Solsbüll as a serial in the Wiesbadener Kurier from December 1998.
  • Be good to weeds . Verlag Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 2000, ISBN 3-928648-76-4 .
  • Mirrored sky: Titan Bird Days . Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0147-2 .
  • The rapeseed king with pictures by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß . pictus verlag, Halebüll-Schobüll 2005, ISBN 3-927212-52-0 .
  • Cliff . Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-498-04493-1 .
  • Between the top and Capo Frasca . Stories. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2004, ISBN 3-7846-0553-2 .
  • Mirrored sky , novel. Paperback, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-23696-6 .
  • The dream of real life . Story with original etchings by Wolfgang Werkmeister, bibliophile edition in a slipcase, Eichthal 2006.
  • Cliff , Roman. Paperback. Rowohlt. Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-499-24241-9 .
  • My ocean floor . Poems. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7846-0564-7 .
  • Currents . Prose. An aviator's diary. Bibliophile edition. Publishing house "The Project", Groß Quern 2011.
  • Schleiland . Three essays by Jochen Missfeldt, supplemented with 51 sketches (watercolors, pastels and drawings) from the Schleiregion by Klaus Fußmann. Edition Eichthal, Eckernförde 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811115-8-3 .
  • Time comes, space comes . 23 essays and aviator stories. Edited by Kurt Braatz. Twenty-nine six publishing house, 85360 Moosburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811615-9-5 .
  • You gray city by the sea. The poet Theodor Storm in his century. Biography, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24141-1 .
  • On the chronicle of Grieshuus' novella by Theodor Storm, edited and with an afterword by Jochen Missfeldt, CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64707-9 .
  • Klaar Kimming . A photographic journey through northern Germany in the early years of the 20th century. Illustrated book with numerous black and white photographs by the Hamburg hiking photographer Max Broders. Edited by Jochen Missfeldt. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-402-1 .
  • You gray city by the sea. The poet Theodor Storm in his century. Biography, paperback, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-020368-2 .
  • From someone who flew out ... A modern fairy tale. Carl Hanser Publishing House. Hanser Box. ePUB format, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24816-8 .
  • Revenant. Another story of Sylt. Story by Jochen Missfeldt with 29 island pictures by Friedel Anderson. Edition Eichthal, Eckernförde 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817066-1-1 .
  • Theodor Storm in Husum. People and places. In collaboration with Christian Demandt. Edition AB Fischer Verlag, Berlin June 2016, ISBN 978-3-937434-68-1 .
  • Solsbull. Novel. With an afterword by Kristof Wachinger. Revised new edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-04539-5 .
  • Storm and silence . Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-04529-6 .
  • Solsbull . Novel. Paperback. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27332-2 .
  • Storm and silence . Novel. Paperback. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-24253-3 .

TV movie

  • Overflight . NDR, 1977.

In the film overflight , a typical flight with a Phantom RF-4E from the air base of the reconnaissance wing 52 in Leck to the air base of the reconnaissance wing 51 (retired) in Bremgarten was documented. The distance was covered in around 50 minutes. The special thing about the documentation style were the many stories on the ground. All narrative threads had in common that at some point the phantom reconnaissance planes from this formation (mostly) flew low overhead and disappeared from their lives in seconds. It was switched over and over between the perspective of the pilot and the people on the ground.

literature

  • Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Jochen Missfeldt meets Wilhelm Raabe. A literary prize and its consequences. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003.
  • Stephan Opitz: About Jochen Missfeldt and for Jochen Missfeldt. In: literature. Low German in Schleswig-Holstein. (Culture, history, nature. Special, issue 7 and 8). published by SHHB, 2006.
  • Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Jochen Missfeldt: In Littera Borealis. Edition on contemporary literature in the north. Volume 5, Kiel 2006.
  • Volker Hage: Last dances, first steps. Contemporary German literature. The Bay of Dead Ships, p. 32 and p. 230f. Munich 2007.
  • Holger Helbig: Look, that's how it is. On the work of Jochen Missfeldt. In: Language in the Technical Age. H 212, December 2014, pp. 491–497.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews of mirrored sky on perlentaucher .de
  2. ^ Braunschweig.de: Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, Jochen Missfeldt, Prize Winner 2002
  3. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  4. ↑ "impressively distanced ... (a) clever, sensitive, linguistically elegant and extremely easy to read book" (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  5. ↑ "For a long time (will) need a lot of temperament and knowledge to compete with Missfeldt's biography." (Walter Hinck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 4, 2013)
  6. ↑ Review notes on Jochen Missfeldt: You gray city by the sea perlentaucher.de, accessed on June 17, 2015.
  7. ↑ Flyover Part One youtube.com
personal data
SURNAME Missfeldt, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Satrup