Karl Otto Mühl

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Karl Otto Mühl at the Angel Festival in Wuppertal (2013)

Karl Otto Mühl (born February 16, 1923 in Nuremberg ; † August 21, 2020 in Wuppertal ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Otto Mühl was the son of a foreman who moved to Wuppertal with his family in 1929 . There Mühl attended secondary school up to secondary school leaving certificate and then completed a commercial apprenticeship . From 1941 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . In 1942 he was taken prisoner by the British in North Africa . He spent the next five years in prison camps in Africa , the United States, and Great Britain . After returning to Wuppertal in 1947, he made up his Abitur at the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium in 1948 .

Mühl then worked as an advertising manager in an industrial company. From 1952 to 1960 he was an export clerk, from 1961 to 1968 sales manager and from 1968 to his retirement in 1986 export manager in a company in the Wuppertal metal industry. He was married since 1970; he lived in Wuppertal.

Karl Otto Mühl's literary beginnings go back to the 1930s when the first stories about him appeared in the local press in Wuppertal. He continued to write during his training. During his captivity, he wrote one-act plays and antics for the camp theater, as well as private matters. In 1944 he made the acquaintance of the also prisoner of war writer Tankred Dorst in the USA , with whom he was a member of the Wuppertal artist group Der Turm from 1947 . After returning to work at the end of the 1940s, Mühl paused as a writer for many years; it was not until 1964 that he began again to write literary texts in his spare time. He experienced his breakthrough in 1974 with the play Rheinpromenade , which with its critical-realistic portrayal of a petty-bourgeois fate was in line with the times and saw numerous performances at German theaters. Muehl was primarily a playwright , but he also wrote autobiographical embossed novels , children's books , poems and radio plays .

Karl Otto Mühl had been a member of the Association of German Writers since 1977 and of the PEN Center Germany since 2000 .

Awards

Works

  • Rhine promenade. Carnival Monday. Berlin 1974.
  • Dormouse. Darmstadt [u. a.] 1975.
  • Cure in Bad Wiessee. Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • Wanderlust. Frankfurt am Main 1977.
  • Hoffmann's gifts. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • The journey of the old men. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Trumpeter's mistake. Darmstadt [u. a.] 1981.
  • Thank you very much. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Foreign guest. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • A negro for tea. Wuppertal 1995.
  • High beam. Wuppertal 1997.
  • Jacob's strange clocks. Wuppertal 1999.
  • The privilege. Wuppertal 2001.
  • Amid the riddles . Poems 1997 to 1999. With a foreword by Jörg Aufenanger . 1st edition. Nordpark, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-935421-10-9 .
  • Hungry kings . Novel. 1st edition. NordPark-Verlag, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-935421-05-2 .
  • Naked dogs . Novel. 1st edition. Nordpark, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-935421-06-0 .

Secondary literature

  • Karl Otto Mühl on his 80th birthday . Wuppertal 2003

Web links

Commons : Karl Otto Mühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Linsel: Karl Otto Mühl died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 23, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Karl Otto Mühl. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: A – O. Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 717, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 ( preview on Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Artist Archive Museum European Art , 2015
personal data
SURNAME Mühl, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2020
Place of death Wuppertal