Karl Günther Hufnagel

Karl Günther Hufnagel (born July 21, 1928 in Munich ; † July 19, 2004 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Günther Hufnagel studied psychology , anthropology and philosophy in Munich and Hamburg, moved to Freiburg University in 1951 to hear Heidegger there, who held lectures for the first time in the 1951 winter semester. 1952 Diploma in Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He gave up his work as a dramaturge for the television play of the Sender Freies Berlin in the early 1960s after his first novel "The Parasite Province" was published. Hufnagel commuted between Munich and Berlin, where some of his works were created. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, film texts and numerous radio plays. Hufnagel stayed away from the literature business; he was often referred to as an outsider in contemporary German-language literature.

His estate is in the Munich Literature Archive, Monacensia .

The French "Nouveau Roman" exerted an important influence on Hufnagel's writing in the 1960s. "He was one of the Munich veterans, between 1960 and 1980 he published novels that were recognized by critics as masterful and placed the author in the context of the works of Julien Green and Witold Gombrowicz." (Ivo Frenzel, NDR, 2002)

At the center of Hufnagel's work is human madness in its grotesque forms: the delirious, political, and religious madness that culminates in fantasies of destruction and the longing for redemption.

Works (selection)

Publications

• The Parasite Province. Novel . DVA, Stuttgart 1960
• Words about roads . DVA, Stuttgart 1961
• "Love is not loved". Novel . Rogner's Edition b. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1979
• Outside in the day. Novel . Residence, Salzburg 1979
• On the open road. Novel . Residence, Salzburg 1980

Trilogy "madness"

• Birth of a poet in the civil war. Novel . Axel Dielmann, Frankfurt / M. 2001
• The revenant . Gemini, Berlin 2001; from 2006 Matthes & Seitz Berlin
• Crapzik's Carnival. Novel . Gemini, Berlin 2002; from 2006 Matthes & Seitz Berlin

• Notes from a fugitive. Instead of an autobiography . Gemini, Berlin 2003; from 2006 Matthes & Seitz Berlin
• Without date , with 5 etchings by Franziska Hufnagel ( [1] ). Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 2006.

Books, radio play, theater, television play, film text / about KGH / reviews / text excerpts

• Homepage: Karl Günther Hufnagel [2]

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Günther Hufnagel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthes & Seitz Berlin
• henschel SCHAUSPIEL theater publisher
• Drei Masken Verlag
• KGH radio plays in the HörDat audio play database
• Karl Günther Hufnagel in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )