Klaus Ramm
Klaus Ramm (born November 15, 1939 in Hamburg- Altona) is a German literary scholar and publisher.
Life
Klaus Ramm studied German, philosophy, and psychology in Graz, Tübingen, Berlin, Kiel and Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1969 with a dissertation on Franz Kafka. From 1969 to 1972 he was lecturer for German-language literature at Hermann Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied and Darmstadt, where, in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, he expanded the program to include a record series with readings, radio plays and phonetic poetry. After working as a research assistant at the newly founded University of Bielefeld, he taught there from 1976 to 2003 as a professor of literary studies, literary criticism and media studies; The focus of his work was the German literature of the 20th century, the visual and acoustic literature as well as the aesthetics and history of the radio play. He also worked as a literary critic for radio and television.
Ramm has been running a one-man publishing house with advanced literature since 1974 ( Carlfriedrich Claus , Gunter Falk , Hartmut Geerken , Jochen Gerz , Ludwig Harig , Franz Mon , Oskar Pastior ); For the program and the book design he received the ZEIT Prize for small publishers endowed with 50,000 DM in 1985.
Together with Jörg Drews and Hartmut Geerken, Ramm published the series Early Texts of Modernism from 1977 to 2012 with works by forgotten and lost authors of the early 20th century.
From 1978 to 2002 Ramm headed the Bielefeld Colloquium Neue Poesie (alternating with Jörg Drews) . From 1977 to 2009 he was a member and (from 1999) chairman of the jury of the Karl Sczuka Prize .
In 1992 he was a founding member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig. Klaus Ramm has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2012 . Until 2014 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Oskar Pastior Foundation , which he had set up from 2006 to 2008 based on a will from Oskar Pastior.
Selected bibliography
Books / audio books
- Reduction as a narrative principle in Kafka. Frankfurt a. M .: Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1971
- Franz Jung : God overslept the time. Early prose. Ed. V. Klaus Ramm. Munich: edition text + kritik 1976 (= early modern texts)
- Oskar Pastior: Open the blinds. A reader. Ed. V. Klaus Ramm. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 1987
- Oskar Pastior: Speckturm. 12 × 5 intonations to poems by Charles Baudelaire. From the estate ed. v. Klaus Ramm. Munich: The Hörverlag 2007
- Oskar Pastior: The last reading . A reconstruction of the Büchner Prize reading with interim texts by Klaus Ramm. Munich: The Hörverlag 2007
- The voice is all ears. A radio essay on the sound processes by Carlfriedrich Claus. Munich: intermedium records 2009 (= Carlfriedrich Claus: Basale Speech Operationsräjume CD 2)
- Helmut Heißenbüttel : To loosen up the perspective . 5 x 13 literary reviews. Selected and ed. v. Klaus Ramm. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2013 (= 92nd publication of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt)
TV films (selection)
"the a, the e, the i, the o, the u." Listening and reading samples from Concrete Poetry. HR 1971
Lars Gustafsson portrait. ARD 1971
The dependent résumés of an independent writer . Dieter Kühn . HR 1974
Football and literature. ARD 1974
Paul Wühr's speech. HR 1979
Radio essays (selection)
story from hearing. WDR 1977
About the connection between literary criticism and the literary market using the example of Herbert Achternbusch . SDR 1977
radio play is a double imperative. Simple request to listen to Jandl / Mayröcker. NDR 1977
Radio play maker Paul Wühr . WDR 1978
Like telling against a final limit. Action and thought guidance with Franz Kafka . SDR 1979
Consume the ear from the ear that consumes. About the intricate acoustics in Oskar Pastior's poetry. WDR 1988
1968 radio plays. NDR 1988
Back then before Graz. The rattle of the Mona Lisa. Authors from Austria at the beginning of the new radio play. ORF 1988
Positions of the literary radio play. 8 episodes. WDR 1989
Kikakoku ekoralaps. An evening of phonetic poetry. RB 1990
The audible and the sayable and vice versa. Thoughts of opportunity for Helmut Heißenbüttel's radio plays on the radio. BR 1991
Flurry of images in front of changing ears. A radio essay on the radio plays by Friederike Mayröcker . BR 1994
under the hand over the ear under the skin. A radio essay on the radio plays by Franz Mon. BR 1996
Magical journeys around the radio. Ror Wolf - portrait of the author as a radio play maker. SWF 1997
"that starts somewhere has no goal gets lost and circles does not want to arrive anywhere & ends at any point". Hartmut Geerken's paths into radio art and his disappearance in it. BR 1999
"do you feel me penetrate your ear". Gerhard Rühm - portrait of the author as a radio play maker. SWR 2000
On the sense of reality in radio art. A memory of the literary critic Heinrich Vormweg and his commitment to the radio play. SWR 2005
Speaking is alien to what is spoken. Small memory of a stepchild in radio play history. BR 2011
About the extraordinary genesis of the "Two or Three Portraits" by Helmut Heißenbüttel. BR 2016
Discover the world in the word. Helmut Heißenbüttel - the author as a reviewer. BR 2016
System and sensuality. A sideways glance at Gerhard Rühm's collected radio plays. BR 2017
proof
- ^ Hans Peter Willberg: Book Art in Transition. The development of book design in the Federal Republic of Germany. Book Art Foundation, Frankfurt a. M. 1984, p. 174-175 .
- ^ Rolf Michaelis: ZEIT Prize to Klaus Ramm . In: The time . No. 42/1985 , October 11, 1985.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ramm, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |