Ludwig Fels

Ludwig Fels reading from the novel Journey to the Center of the Heart in 2007 in the “Blue Box” of the Nuremberg State Theater

Ludwig Fels (born November 27, 1946 in Treuchtlingen , † January 11, 2021 in Vienna ) was a German writer . From 1983 he lived in Vienna.

Life

Ludwig Fels, who came from a middle-class family and grew up without a father, began after visiting the elementary school a painting apprenticeship, which he broke off. From 1964 he worked in various auxiliary and odd jobs, including as a worker in a brewery, machinist and punch. In 1970 he moved to Nuremberg , where he worked as a packer in a semiconductor factory. He was briefly a member of the “ Working Group on Literature in the Working World ”. From 1973 Fels was a freelance writer. In that year he published his first volume of poetry "Anllauf". After further volumes of prose and poetry collections, his first novel “The Sins of Poverty” followed in 1975. From 1981, Fels was a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 1983 he moved to Vienna. In addition to narrative works and poetry , he also wrote plays and radio plays .

In his younger years Fels saw himself as a “working-class writer” without being attributed to any particular ideological tendency. His often aggressive, eloquent prose and lyric poetry was rather determined by anger and anger over oppression in all forms and the structures of oppression of certain strata of society. The literary criticism also referred to him as a "proletarian writer". Later, Fels rejected the designation "worker writer" for himself.

Ludwig Fels died in Vienna in January 2021 at the age of 74.

Awards and honors

• 1973 Award of the City of Nuremberg
• 1979 Leonce and Lena Prize
• 1979 Prize of the SWR best list
• 1981 City of Nuremberg Prize
• 1983 Hans Fallada Prize from the city of Neumünster
• 1984 radio play of the month
• 1985/86 town clerk of Bergen
• 1987 Villa Massimo scholarship
• 1989 radio play of the month
• 1989 City Clerk of the City of Otterndorf
• 1990 Andreas Reischek Prize
• 1992 Kranichsteiner Literature Prize
• 2000 Elias Canetti Scholarship
• 2000 Otto Braun donation from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2004 Wolfgang Koeppen Prize
• 2009 Literature Prize from the Wilhelm and Christine Hirschmann Foundation
• 2011 Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize
• 2015 Johann Alexander Döderlein Culture Prize

Works

Poetry

• Attempts. Darmstadt et al. 1973
• Disillusionment. Erlangen et al. 1975
• Everything goes on. Darmstadt et al. 1977
• I haven't been to America. Erlangen 1978
• Ludwig Fels. Pumpkin Seed Time Poems, Munich 1979
• From the song of the bellies. Darmstadt et al. 1980
• The beginning of the past. Munich et al. 1984
• Blue avenue, scattered Tatars. Munich et al. 1988
• No matter where the end of the world is. Salzburg, Vienna 2010
• Last attempt to circumnavigate the world. 2012
• Behind the mirror. Bregenz 2013
• Dou di ned o. Dialect poetry. ars vivendi publishing house, Cadolzburg 2020.

Stories and novels

• Claustrophobia. Darmstadt et al. 1974
• The sins of poverty. Darmstadt et al. 1975
• My country. Darmstadt et al. 1978
• An absurdity of love. Darmstadt et al. 1981
• Kanak fauna. Darmstadt et al. 1982
• Concrete fairy tale. Darmstadt et al. 1983
• The conquest of love. Munich et al. 1985
• Roses for Africa. Munich et al. 1987
• Heaven was a great presence. Munich et al. 1990
• Bleeding heart. Munich et al. 1993
• Mister Joe. Munich 1997
• Krum's temptation. Hamburg et al. 2003
• Journey to the center of the heart , Roman, Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2006, ISBN 3-902497-05-X
• The parks of Palilula Jung and Jung, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3902497574
• Die Hottentottenwerft , Roman, Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3990270622
• Moonquake , Roman, Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-99027-241-1

Radio plays

• Broken or an audio piece made of broken pieces. 1973
• The bottomless freedom of Tobias Vierklee or a city tour. 1974
• Clay. 1975
• The guy. 1977
• Shock. 1979
• At lock and bolt. 1980
• Mary. 1980
• Mrs. Zarik. 1984
• Hero life. 1985
• Lambsman. 1985
• I kiss your dog, madame. 1987
• Soliman. 1989
• Black pilot. 1989
• After those cold summers of love. 1997
• The thousand and second day. 1997
• At night by the fires - Calamity Jane. 2000
• Oil on the moon. 2000
• Robot. 2000
• Keiche. 2001
• Rag up! A theater squadronade. 2003
• Jack then comes over to take a picture of us. 2006
• Hello, I'm Glen Sherley. 2006
• Freetown nonstop - A game of confusion with unequal couples. 2009
• Heaven was a great presence - a farewell. 2015, Hessischer Rundfunk, arrangement and direction: Ulrich Lampen

Plays

• Lambsman. 1983
• The monkey killer. 1985
• Lieblieb. 1986
• Soliman. 1991
• Storm warning. 1992
• The wedding of Sarajevo. 1994
• Corpus Christi, Texas, Good Friday. Frankfurt am Main 1996
• Oil on the moon. 2000
• Tilla's day. 2002

The plays have been published by the authors' publishing house .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Fels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Fels in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Further links to Ludwig Fels
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ludwig Fels at perlentaucher.de
• Works by and about Ludwig Fels in the Bergen-Enkheim town recorder archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author Ludwig rock is dead. In: ORF.at . January 11, 2021, accessed January 11, 2021 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Writer Ludwig Fels died. Der Spiegel, January 11, 2021, accessed on January 12, 2021 .