Kurt Kusenberg

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Kurt Kusenberg ( pseudonyms : Hans Ohl and Simplex ) (born June 24, 1904 in Gothenburg ; † October 3, 1983 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and art critic .

Life

Kusenberg was the son of the German engineer Carl Kusenberg and his wife Emmy. He spent his childhood in Lisbon and from 1911 attended the German citizens' school there. At the beginning of the First World War , the family returned to Germany and settled in Wiesbaden , where Kurt attended the municipal high school.

From 1922 he first studied art history in Munich . In 1925 he moved to Berlin and in the winter semester of 1926 to Freiburg im Breisgau . There he received his doctorate in December 1928 with a thesis on Rosso Fiorentino . Already during his studies he traveled through Italy , Spain and France . In 1929 he worked temporarily in the Berlin art trade. He later remarked ironically about this that he was probably "of no use in the art trade".

In 1930 he wrote as a critic for Weltkunst and the Vossische Zeitung . Then he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Koralle . From 1947 Kusenberg lived as a freelance writer and lecturer in Munich and Hamburg. As early as the early 1950s, Kusenberg introduced the French cartoonists Raymond Peynet , Jean Effel and Albert Dubout , the Swedish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson and the American humorist James Thurber as editor of the Rowohlt Verlag in Germany by publishing their illustrated books with specially written prefaces and introductions . As a post-poet he made a name for himself by broadcasting the chansons of Jacques Prévert . From 1958 he published the series Rowohlt's monographs , later rororo picture monographs , at Rowohlt.

His short stories are still remarkable today . With rather sober language, they often lead into grotesque, whimsical worlds in which fantasy and reality are mixed up.

Sten Nadolny is one of Kusenberg's admirers .

bibliography

stories

  • 1940: La Botella and other strange stories, Rowohlt, Stuttgart
  • 1942: The blue dream and other strange stories. Rowohlt, Stuttgart
  • 1948: Mr. Crispin rides out and other stories, Der Quell, Münster
  • 1951: The sunflowers and other strange stories, Rowohlt, Hamburg
  • 1954: Something different! A selection of strange stories. Rowohlt, Hamburg, ISBN 3-498-09223-5 (1983 edition)
  • 1955: Wine for life and other curious stories, Rowohlt, Hamburg
  • 1956: “Something different.” Fantastic stories. Rowohlt TB, Hamburg
  • 1956: Where is Uncle Bertram? Stories. Reclam, Stuttgart
  • 1956: Praise to the bed . Stories, Rowohlt, Hamburg
  • 1958: The forgotten life . Bertelsmann , Gütersloh
  • 1960: unbelievable . Selection of curious stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 1960: On the wrong train and other strange stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 1964: Between below and above and other stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 1969: Collected stories , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg; Selected as rororo paperback 1972, ISBN 3-499-11513-1 .
  • 1972: You never know Selection of strange stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 1974: Cheerful to treacherous 13 stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 1984: A beautiful wedding party 35 Stories, People and World, Berlin
  • 1998: Dispute among magicians . Stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek
  • 2004: Wine for life . The most beautiful stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek

Audiobooks (selection)

  • 2004: Wine for life , read by Hannes Wader, Plans-Verlag, Dortmund
  • 2005: The Glass City , Duo Pianoforte, Querstand, Kamprad Publishing House

Features (selection)

  • 1932: Speaking of which: complicated existence , world art, Berlin
  • 1956: as editor with the pseudonym Hans Ohl: Lob des Bettes , with 26 pictures by Raymond Peynet Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg
  • 1966: Praise of the bed - a clinophile anthology , with 26 pictures by Raymond Peynet , 1 - 20 thousand August 1966, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburg [1]
  • 1965: The honorable drinker , Rowohlt, Hamburg

Writings on art (selection)

  • 1931: Le Rosso . Rosso Fiorentino, St Albin, Paris
  • 1949: The crib booklet , Hatje, Stuttgart
  • 1955: Living with Pictures , Piper, Munich
  • 1971: That's how it is with painting , Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg

Radio stories, radio plays and more

  • The Sultan's Dream , unprinted. Radio play production: BR / SWF 1963, 60 min.– original radio play , director: Hans Dieter Schwarze. With: Hans Carl Friedrich as Sultan
  • Jacques Prévert: poems and chansons , adaptations by Kurt Kusenberg, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg; First edition 1950, later under ISBN 3-499-11421-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. derstandard.de
  2. ^ New edition TB ibid., Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-498-09223-5 ; New edition udT "Glück für others." ... Ed. & Nachw. Matthias Wegner. RM Book and Media, Rheda 2007