Kurt Neuburger

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Kurt Neuburger 1974
Kurt Neuburger 1974

Kurt Neuburger ( pseudonym Kew Rubugener ; born November 1, 1902 in Berlin ; † March 30, 1996 in Berlin) was a German writer .

Life

Kurt Neuburger was the son of a Jewish businessman . He grew up in Rostock , where he completed a stage training at the city ​​theater . He then worked as a playwright , director and actor at theaters in Lübeck , Wroclaw and Berlin . He also wrote poetry and was from 1924 to 1925 with his brother Carl Neuburger Berlin's gay - magazine The Fanfare out. During the Third Reich he could not work at the theater because of a professional ban imposed on him by the National Socialist rulers. Neuburger withdrew from military service under the pretense of illness and earned his living by founding the "Kurt Neuburger Chapel", with which he performed in seaside resorts.

After 1945 Neuburger lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . He maintained close contacts with the Kreuzberg bohemian . Since the 1950s he has been gathering a circle of literary and artistically like-minded people in his apartment. Neuburger belonged to the circle around the gallery Die Zinke in Berlin-Kreuzberg and founded the literary workshop Kreuzberg in 1960 .

Kurt Neuburger mainly wrote poetry . He created a poem form related to haiku called "Ritning". He also wrote short stories , essays , plays and radio plays . He created a poem form closely related to Japanese haiku: ritning. In 1964 he received the Wieland Prize donated by Harald Wieland . His estate with numerous unprinted manuscripts is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

  • The Turakarki people. Hermit press , Stierstadt im Taunus 1966.
  • with Johannes Vennekamp : The death of Mr. Tarantula. Rixdorfer Drucke workshop , Berlin 1967.
  • This time the other way around. Landscape without Pocahontas. Rixdorfer Drucke workshop, Berlin 1967 (Rixdorfer Drucke 8.)
  • Favorite school reform farm. Kew Rubugener poems, Dagmar von Doetinchem graphics. Berlin 1967.
  • Dandelions. Poems. Graphics by Peter Kaufmann. Berlin 1968.
  • The gateway to the garden of Adam and Eve. Edition of the gallery in the evening , Berlin 1969.
  • Reading book. Rumors of the hearty life. Braun, Cologne et al. 1977, ISBN 3-88097-045-9 .
  • Who feeds the fly in the amber in winter. Braun, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-88097-064-5 .
  • Beginnings. LWK series of publications. Neuburger, Berlin 1982.
  • The water buffalo refused to let the rope be pulled through its nose. East Asian diary sheets. Friday, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88796-016-5 .
  • Conversations before drowning. 23 poems and 2 ritnings. World of Books, Worms, London 1983, ISBN 3-88325-316-2 .
  • Artists or The Race. Ritterverlag, Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-85415-033-4
  • Operations. LWK series of publications. Neuburger, Berlin 1985.
  • Nightingale out of bounds. Ritninge. Herodot, Göttingen 1987. ISBN 3-88694-521-9
  • Boys no less. Verlag Gruppe Vis-à-Vis, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-924040-14-1 .

literature

  • Juliane Neuendorf: In the shadow of the giraffes. Ex libris honors Kurt Neuburger. In: zitty 1982, issue 23 from October 28th.
  • Ernest Wichner : Kurt Neuburger was 85. In: L 80 , 1987, issue 44, pp. 5-8.
  • Hans W. Korfmann: A Kreuzberger Kauz. In: Kreuzberger Chronik , No. 184, November 2016, pp. 6-7.
  • Jens Dobler : From other shores. Gmünder, Berlin 2003, pp. 243–247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans W. Korfmann: A Kreuzberger Kauz. In: Kreuzberger Chronik , No. 184, November 2016
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Volume 58, 1981, p. 1388
personal data
SURNAME Neuburger, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubugener, Kew (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1996
Place of death Berlin