Johannes Rüber

Johannes Rüber (born January 18, 1928 in Braunschweig ) is a German writer and poet .

Life

Rüber spent his childhood in Düsseldorf and, due to the bombing raids in the countryside near Braunschweig, with his grandparents. In Düsseldorf he attended the humanistic grammar school from 1938 to 1945. The father was a judicial officer in Düsseldorf, the mother died early of cancer. After the war, stays in Rome and Positano follow .

The circle of friends included the philosopher Arnold Keyserling and his wife Wilhelmine, the painter Winfried Gaul and the writer Armin T. Wegner . In 1955 he settled in Munich. 1965 was awarded the Bavarian Literature Prize of the City of Munich .

A mountain farm on the Stummerberg in the Zillertal became a second home. Numerous trips to Italy and Greece followed, where in 1975 he bought and renovated an old village house on an island.

He has been married to the librarian Hedwig Rüber since 1955, the children Isabella and Manuel are born in 1958 and 1960. Johannes Rüber lives today in Munich, Berlin and on the Cycladic island of Tinos .

Works

prose

• The girl Amaryll, Roman, Munich 1953
• The canonization of Johann Sebastian Bach. A pope legend, Munich 1954
• Remain my world, Roman, Munich 1955
• Dark Rome, Roman, Cologne 1962
• The Corrupted Paradise, Roman, Cologne 1963
• Der Landesteg, (Kleist) story in volume 100 of the books of the nineteen, Munich 1963
• Malapa Malapa. The life of the dying Malaparte, Roman, Stuttgart 1972
• Who counts the days, Roman, Starnberg 1974
• The Brass City, Roman, Bayreuth 1976
• The Hohenstaufen in their time, essay in "The Land of the Hohenstaufen in Baden-Württemberg", Stuttgart 1976
• With the eyes of Droste, essay in "Münster, Stadt und Land", an illustrated book Stuttgart 1977
• A fire for Goethe, Roman, Freiburg 1978
• The valley of the pigeons and olives. Records from the Cyclades. With drawings by Richard Seewald , Freiburg 1979
• I drew a falcon, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Roman, Munich 1990
• Beloved Amazon, letters from antiquity, Roman, Munich 1990
• Riccabona, 16 chants from the Tridentine of Viktoria von Montan, Versepos, Stuttgart 2010

Poetry

• The remote side of the island, Gedichte, Staufenberg 1986
• The poet and the cat, ballad in the style of Du Fu, poems, Leipzig 2005
• Stations from the life of an artist. Poems 2004, Leipzig 2007
• New Greek times of day, poems, Leipzig 2007
• The rose garden, poems, Leipzig 2008
• Scroll painting painted on silk, poems, Leipzig 2008
• Drive to Ptoon, Poem in Literature in Bavaria No. 93 2008
• Farewell to Munich, Three Poems 2009, in Literature in Bavaria No. 97 2009
• Lichterfelder Diarium Poems 2010. 2010

Essays

• The valley of pigeons and olives, encounter with the Cyclades, in Neue Deutsche Hefte, 1976
• Goethe in Italy, essay in Neue Deutsche Hefte 1982
• Decision for Munich. In Literatur in Bayern No. 90 2007
• Cyclades tour with Novalis. In Literatur in Bayern No. 99 2010

literature

• Cetina, Nataša: Johannes Rüber, Life and Work of a Munich Writer Saarbrücken, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Rüber in the catalog of the German National Library