Johannes Kühn (writer)

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Johannes Kühn

Johannes Kühn (born February 3, 1934 in Bergweiler , Tholey municipality , Saarland ) is a German writer .

Life

As the son of a family of miners, Kühn grew up with eight siblings in Hasborn (also in the Tholey community ), where he still lives today. From 1948 he attended the mission school of the Steyler missionaries in St. Wendel , which he left in 1953 due to a protracted illness without a high school diploma. Since he lacked the financial means to make up for the qualification on the second educational path, he attended German studies as a guest student at the universities of Saarbrücken and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1956 to 1961 . He also attended the drama school in Saarbrücken from 1955 to 1958.

From 1963 to 1973 he worked as a laborer in his brother's civil engineering company. On the side he wrote dramas, poems and fairy tales, which initially did not receive a greater response.

In the following years Kühn wandered through his homeland and recorded his impressions in worker's and nature poems, which first received national attention. Nevertheless, at the beginning of the 1980s, he gradually stopped publishing his poems. It is thanks to the persistent efforts of the befriended couple Irmgard and Benno Rech and the Saarland writer Ludwig Harig that Kühn's poetic work was processed and at least partially published during this time. The editions of his poems in the late 1980s met with a broad positive response. Kühn's life is portrayed in the 2018 film Paper, Pen, Coffee and Cigars - The Poet Johannes Kühn by Gabi Heleen Bollinger.

Works

Poems

  • Much wants sound, again and again , poems (1957, Martin Verlag, Buxheim Iller)
  • Saarland anthology , (1958, West-Ost-Verlag, Saarbrücken), therein poems a. a. by Johannes Kühn
  • Voices of Silence , Poems (1970, Verlag "Die Mitte", Saarbrücken)
  • Salty taste , poems (1984, Verlag "Die Mitte", Saarbrücken)
  • Ich Winkelgast , poems (1989, Hanser Verlag)
  • At the Window of Promises , Poems (1989/1992, Hanser Verlag)
  • My hiking circles , poems (1990, Verlag "Die Mitte", Saarbrücken)
  • Blow out the stars , poems (2nd edition 1991, Verlag U. Keicher, Warmbronn)
  • Leaning against air , poems (1992, Hanser Verlag)
  • When the witch plays the flute , poems (1994, Verlag U. Keicher)
  • Leuchtspur , Gedichte (1995, Hanser Verlag)
  • Lark Rise , Poems (1996, Verlag U. Keicher)
  • Water is not enough , poems (1997, Hanser Verlag)
  • Keep an eye out for me , poems (1998, Krüger Verlag)
  • Em Guguck lauschdre , complete edition of the dialect poems with woodcuts by Heinrich Popp (1999, Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel)
  • With the ravens at the table , poems (2000, Hanser Verlag)
  • Poems , with lithographs by Markus Gramer , edited by Günter Scharwath (2001, Staden Verlag)
  • I never left the hill ring , poems (2002, Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel)
  • I don't have to travel , poems, (2004, Verlag U. Keicher, Warmbronn)
  • Gardens without borders , with poems by Johannes Kühn, (2004, Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel)
  • I am not completely unconsoled , poems, (2007, Hanser, Munich)
  • The shift is over , poems, (2013, Gollenstein-Verlag) - ISBN 978-3-95633-015-5
  • And measured my life on the grass , poems (2014, Hanser Verlag) - ISBN 978-3-446-24475-7
  • Without possession, celebrating the butterfly , a retrospective with drawings by Heinrich Popp, (2018, Rubicon Verlag, Munich) - ISBN 978-3-9819578-0-8
  • And float off into a completely different world , poems & drawings, edited by Francis Berrar and Christoph Wagner, (2020) Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich - ISBN 978-3-7774-3516-9

Plays

  • The Totengruft , play (1966)
  • Battle for the furniture , the play (1968 Neipel , Winterbach , Quierschied listed Dautweiler-Hasborn and)

prose

  • Migratory birds told me about fairy tales (1988, Joachim Hempel Verlag, Lebach)
  • An end at the right time , narrative (2004, Hanser Verlag), afterword by Wilhelm Genazino

Audio book

  • Artist encounters , Johannes Kühn reads from his work, Christian Brembeck improvises on the organ, (CD, 2005, Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel)

Awards

literature

  • Irmgard Rech, Benno Rech: Johannes Kühn. In: Clams . Annual journal for literature and graphics. No. 42. Viersen 2002, ISSN  0085-3593 .
  • Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: A lot of friends - a lot of honor. The literary birthday party of Johannes Kühn. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. (Culture), February 5, 2009, p. B4.
  • Klaus Brill, Benno Rech, Thomas Störmer (eds.): EntdeckerMagazin 001 - Johannes Kühn. The poet from the village . Edition Schaumberg, Alsweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-941095-02-1 .
  • Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: 80 years and far from everything that is common. Johannes Kühn on his 80th birthday. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (culture) from 1./2. February 2014, p. B4

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Steinfeld : "Call him shepherd of his villages": The Saarland poet Johannes Kühn is eighty years old . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 3, 2014, p. 12.
  2. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: Premiere of the SR film "Paper, pen, coffee and cigars - The poet Johannes Kühn" . In: SR.de . November 13, 2018 ( sr.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Kühn, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergweiler ( Tholey municipality , Saarland )