Johannes Schenk (writer)

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Johannes Schenk at the Academy of Arts (Berlin) 2004

Johannes Schenk (born June 2, 1941 in Berlin ; † December 4, 2006 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Johannes Schenk was a son of the writer and photographer Gustav Schenk , who moved from Hanover to Worpswede during the Third Reich . At the age of fourteen Johannes Schenk was already hired as a seaman on various cargo ships. He made his last sea voyage in 1962 on a converted lifeboat, with which he came to Casablanca , where he ended his career as a seaman. Since 1964 he was the partner of the painter Natascha Ungeheuer .

After returning from Morocco, he worked occasionally, including a. as gardener, road worker and bookseller. At the end of the 1960s he was employed as a stage worker at the Berlin Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer , where he later took part in theater performances for young workers. In 1969 he and friends founded the Kreuzberg street theater , which performed Schenk's plays. From 1986 to 1993 Johannes Schenk ran the Schenksche Sunday café in a factory building in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg , which became famous primarily for its readings. But there were also readings by fellow writers Kurt Mühlenhaupt and Jurek Becker . The painter AR Penck performed in the café with his Penck band . And Klaus Schlesinger described the café in his book Flying Change .

In 1979 Schenk was Writer-in-Residence at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1989 he received an author's grant from the Prussian Sea Action Foundation and in 1997 the Kester-Heusler Prize from the German Schiller Foundation .

In the 1990s Schenk moved back to Worpswede, where he lived in a circus wagon and also tried his hand at painting. He lived alternately in Worpswede and Berlin.

Grave in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Johannes Schenk is buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg , directly behind the grave of ETA Hoffmann .

position

Johannes Schenk began as a writer of plays and poetry in agitprop style : His sympathy was with the oppressed and underprivileged, to whom he wanted to convey the utopia of a different life in his texts . Influenced by extensive reading, the motifs of longing and the theme of seafaring occupy a broader space in his later poems and prose works.

membership

Works

  • Wooden fish. Game in 11 pictures, drawn by Natascha Ungeheuer . New Rabenpresse , Berlin 1967.
  • Balance sheets and goat cheese. Poems with drawings by Natascha Ungeheuer. New Rabenpresse, Berlin 1968.
  • Onions and presidents. Poems. Wagenbach , Berlin 1969.
  • Transport worker Jakob Kuhn. Theater text (1972). In: Spectaculum 25 / Vol. III. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • The comrade utopia. Poems. Wagenbach, Berlin 1973.
  • The ship. Play. Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Jonah. Poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976.
  • The city in the sea. Children's novel. With drawings by Natascha Ungeheuer. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1977.
  • Tremble. Poems. Wagenbach, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-8031-0086-0 .
  • The ship's head. Stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978.
  • For the friends at the water points. Poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980.
  • Singing by the Bremen private citizen Johann Jakob Daniel Meyer. Athenäum Verlag , Munich a. Koenigstein 1982.
  • The adventures of the inventor Philipp Nobalbo. Together with Natascha Ungeheuer. Hamburg 1984.
  • Cafe Americain. Poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1985.
  • Until the mail steamer leaves. Poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Light in the moor. Memory. Photographs by Hans Saebens . Published by Horst Wöbbeking. Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1990 ISBN 3-88132-165-9 .
  • Spectacle watcher. Poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Under the elder bush. Poems. Linocuts by Wolfgang Jörg. Berlin hand press, Berlin 1991.
  • Village under the wind. A childhood in Worpswede. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1993 ISBN 3421066329
  • Behind the sea. Poems. Donat Verlag , Bremen 1998, ISBN 3931737586
  • Canvas. I think. Gerike, Berlin 1999.
  • Steamer trunk. Poems. Gerike, Berlin 2000.
  • Galionic face. A poem. Self-published , Berlin 2002.
  • Salt in your jacket pocket. Poems. Self-published, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3000167854
  • Jo Schattig. Novel, published from the estate. Wallstein, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3835304994 .
  • Gifts . 14 poems, one story, drawings. With Natascha Ungeheuer : lithographs. Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 2007. ISBN 3-926433-51-5 .
  • The poems. 1964-2006. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3835304437 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Weissmüller: In the lyrical harbor bar . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 286, December 11, 2009, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2006
Place of death Berlin