Kurt Oesterle

Kurt Oesterle (born May 17, 1955 in Oberrot , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German journalist and writer .

Career

Oesterle passed the Abitur in Schwäbisch Hall and then did his community service in a youth home in Stuttgart . From 1976 to 1983 he studied German , philosophy and history at the University of Tübingen . In 1989 he did his doctorate there under Walter Jens with a thesis on Peter Weiss ' The Aesthetics of Resistance .

His journalistic activity began in 1980 at the Tübingen regional studio of Südwestfunk . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as an editor for a local radio station. Since 1988 he has written literary reviews and essays for the Schwäbisches Tagblatt and since 1992 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He also wrote poetry interpretations for the Frankfurter Anthologie of the FAZ .

In 1997 Oesterle received the Theodor Wolff Prize for his essay "The Secret German Hymne" on the song " The Good Comrade " by Ludwig Uhland and Friedrich Silcher . In 2002 his autobiographical novel Der Fernsehgast was published , for which he was awarded the Berthold Auerbach Prize , and in 2003 the Großessay Stammheim. The story of the law enforcement officer Horst Bubeck on the history of the RAF .

In 2007 Oesterle was awarded the Ludwig Uhland Prize and took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt.

He lives in Tübingen .

Fonts

• Home fragments in the world building. 22 essays on German history.
• Democrat without radicalism. The Swabian pastor Johann Gottfried Pahl (1768–1839) , TVT, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-929128-46-8 .
• Murder Wall and Death Curve. Two athlete stories . With a foreword by Hermann Bausinger . Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-940086-24-2 .
• Stammheim. Enforcement officer Horst Bubeck and the RAF prisoners . Revised and supplemented new edition. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-940086-07-5 .
• At the death of the parents . TVT-Medienverlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-929128-40-3 .
• Stammheim. The story of the law enforcement officer Horst Bubeck . Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-421-05766-4 (paperback edition: Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-62007-0 ).
• The TV guest or how I learned to see the world . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-421-05715-X (paperback edition: btv, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8333-0018-3 ).
• Richard Gölz - a light from Wankheim in the German darkness . TVT-Medienverlag, Tübingen 1998.
• North Face and Death Curve. Two stories from post-war German sport . (= Cultural history series of the Institute for Sports History Baden-Württemberg. Volume 3). With an afterword by Hermann Bausinger . Hofmann, 1995, ISBN 3-7780-3123-6 .
• The mythical pattern. Investigations into Peter Weiss ' foundation of an aesthetics of resistance . Schwäbische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Tübingen 1990 (plus Univ.-Diss., Tübingen 1989).
• as editor: dream. Texts and pictures. Edition discord published by Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 1986.
• The desired brother . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86351-081-7 .
• Martha and her sons . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86351-414-3 .

Web links

• Books by Kurt Oesterle in TVT-Verlag with table of contents
• Literature by and about Kurt Oesterle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Oesterle's website
• Portrait of Kurt Oesterle on the Bachmann Prize website
• Essay “The Secret German Hymn” on the website for the Theodor Wolff Prize