Joseph von Westphalen

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Joseph Graf von Westphalen (born June 26, 1945 in Schwandorf ) is a German writer who is best known as a satirist .

Joseph von Westphalen 2017

Life

Joseph Graf von Westphalen comes from the ancient Westphalen family . He grew up in Munich and, after graduating from high school, studied literature and art history at the Munich University there from 1966 . In 1978 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy on a Germanic subject. Doctoral supervisor was Professor Werner Vordtriede . From 1979 to 1981 he worked for the collecting society Wort . He then worked as an editor for the cultural magazine " Westermanns Monatshefte ". Since 1987 he has lived as a freelance writer in Munich. For years, he wrote over three hundred weekly columns for the evening newspaper under the title Der Flaneur for years until June 2014 . He is married and has two grown children.

Joseph von Westphalen began his writing career as a journalist by writing polemical glosses , which he himself described as "indignation". He quickly became known as a sharp-tongued opponent of all kinds of zeitgeist phenomena. Von Westphalen continued his critical sweeping blows in his novels , in which the figure of Harry von Duckwitz also embodies the other, hedonistic side of the author. In the second half of the nineties, von Westphalen was one of the first authors to use the possibilities of multimedia ( CD-ROM “Mein Kosmos”, 1996) and the Internet to give readers an insight into the literary workshop.

Joseph von Westphalen, who has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1992 , received the Ernst Hoferichter Prize in 1992 .

The book “Sinecure” published in 1989 (under the pseudonym David Elphinstone) was reprinted in 2008 and converted into an art installation in the Landsdorf manor (near Tribsees ).

Works

  • On the creation of the poet figure , Munich 1978
  • Why I became a monarchist , Zurich 1985
  • In the temples of bathing pleasure , Munich [u. a.] 1986 (together with Gerhard P. Müller)
  • Why I still do infidelities , Zurich 1987
  • Nevertheless warm greetings , Frankfurt am Main 1988 (together with Monika Maron )
  • Modern times , Zurich
    • 1 (1989)
    • 2 (1989)
  • Sinecure , Munich 1989 (under the name David Elphinstone)
  • Why I became a terrorist , Zurich 1989
  • From German bulimia , Munich 1990
  • In the diplomatic service , Hamburg 1991, ISBN 978-3423116145
  • The beautiful life , Hamburg 1993
  • The drama of the certain something , Munich 1994
  • Thirty-three white cotton briefs , Munich 1994
  • High noon , Hamburg 1994
  • Life is hard , Munich 1994
  • The business of love , Munich 1995
  • The bad women , Hamburg 1996
  • Lametta lascivious , Zurich 1996
  • The love copy and other affections from the heart of a yearning stationery dealer , Munich 1997
  • The truth of adoration , Zurich 1999
  • Why the year 2000 will pass my ass or The Age of the Lizard , Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • How to raise your parents , Munich [u. a.] 1999
  • We are not like that! , Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • The love salad , Munich 2002
  • The memoirs of my wife , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3442751020
  • From the Life of a Wage Clerk: Stories , 2009, ISBN 978-3630621494
  • On the phenomenology of the working woman: Stories , 2009

Editing

  • The breastfeeding fathers , Munich 1983 (together with Klaus Konjetzky )
  • Profit , Munich et al. 1991
  • Umarmungen , Munich et al. 1992
  • The summit , Munich 1993
  • The appointment , Munich 1994

literature

  • Silke Wegner: A little tender affair. The letter as a medium of private communication, the object of publication and a means of dispute; illustrated using the example of the correspondence between Monika Maron and Joseph von Westphalen. Dissertation at the University of Münster (Westphalia) 1993.

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. Joseph von Westphalen: That's it. Abendzeitung München, June 27, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2015 (the last column in the Abendzeitung).
  2. Spiegel.de: Wolfgang Höbel: Art from unread books: They spin, the poets. April 19, 2008.