Klaus Nonnenmann

Klaus Nonnenmann (born August 9, 1922 in Pforzheim ; † December 11, 1993 there ) was a German writer .

Live and act

Klaus Nonnenmann was the son of a businessman. He attended a high school in his hometown and passed his matriculation examination there in 1941. He took part in the Second World War as a radio operator and was taken prisoner by the Americans . After the end of the war, he began studying sociology, Romance studies and German studies at the University of Heidelberg , which he had to drop out because of a tuberculosis disease. From then on he lived as a freelance writer .

Klaus Nonnenmann initially wrote poems and small prose works for various newspapers and radio. He gained some notoriety through his first novel The Seven Letters of Doctor Wambach , a playful and bizarre book, from which he read in front of Group 47 in 1959 . His second novel, Teddy Flesh (1964), is a formally unusually ambitious and again very weird dropout story, which has been compared by critics with works by Sterne and Jean Paul . However, since this novel Nonnenmann did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough among the audience and the suicide of his first wife had shaken the author, he withdrew from the literary business . From 1959 to 1971 he lived in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance , then in Straubenhardt- Feldrennach. Until 1977 he worked almost exclusively as a dramaturge . Attempts to bring Nonnenmann's works closer to the readership in the eighties and nineties and posthumously were largely unsuccessful. As in his lifetime, Nonnenmann is a literary outsider and an insider tip even after his death.

Klaus Nonnenmann has been a member of the Association of German Writers since 1970 and of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1971 . In 1964 he received the Südwestfunk sponsorship award .

Works

• The seven letters from Doctor Wambach. Olten [u. a.] 1959, new edition Tübingen 2007.
• Confidential business report. Olten [u. a.] 1961.
• Teddy Flesh or The Siege of Sagunto. Olten [u. a.] 1964.
• Autumn. Darmstadt [u. a.] 1977.
• Congress of Sorcerers. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• The letter. The death of the Romanist. Uhldingen 1998.
• A smile for tomorrow. Tübingen 2000.

Editing

• German literature. Olten 1963.

literature

• "Teddy Flesh" and Gaienhofen , Gaienhofen 1994
• Klaus Nonnenmann in Pforzheim , Marbach am Neckar 2002
• Gerhard Köpf: The shadow of Kafka's doll. A feature section. epubli, Berlin 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Nonnenmann in the catalog of the German National Library