Manfred Esser

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Manfred Esser (* 1938 in Wormersdorf ; † 1995 in Fuerteventura ) was a German writer .

Life

Born in 1938 in Wormersdorf in the Voreifel, Manfred Esser studied philosophy and languages ​​in Bonn, Dublin and Freiburg. After he published his first novel “Duell” at the age of 23, he came to Stuttgart in 1962, where he was employed as a radio play dramaturge by the then Süddeutsche Rundfunk (SDR) . There he soon belonged to an artist circle with, among others, Max Bense , Reinhard Döhl , Wolfgang Kiwus (with whom he published a volume of poetry by Bernd Fischle in the " Edition Künstlerhaus " in 1981 ) and Wolfgang Dauner . In 1963 Manfred Esser and Reinhard Döhl wrote the manifesto of the “ Stuttgart School ” around Max Bense, which he is considered to have given its name by speaking about the theories of this school in Stuttgart in 1963 at a conference of the French group Tel Quel in Normandy this term was picked up in French and German newspapers.

After the books “Duell”, “Life + Last Insight” and “I Stories”, the “Ostend-Roman” is his central literary work, first published in 1978 in an edition of the March publishing house and re -published in 1983 by Klett-Cotta . In addition, he published poems, radio plays and plays. - In 1981 he was the first to be awarded the Thaddäus-Troll-Preis , a literary prize that has been awarded every year since then by the Förderkreis deutscher Writers in Baden-Württemberg e. V. is publicly awarded. The Stuttgart State Theater brought Manfred Esser's “OSTEND” novel onto the stage in 2007 in its own adaptation.

Manfred Esser and others / in the publishing house for early drama

In 1961 Manfred Esser took part in the stage for sensual perception - KONZIL, which had just been founded by Gerd Hergen Lübben at the University of Bonn , with a "TEXTE" exhibition (designed by the artist Gerhard Finke). In Stuttgart he was involved in founding a “Socialist-Catholic Artists Association” and the Voltaire Club (1964–1971) and in 1966 in founding the “Verlag für zeitige Dramatik”, in which he wrote his own texts alongside pieces by, for example, Apollinaire , Harig , Jarry , Lübben , Mon and Sanguineti and took part in 1993 at the Folkwang University in Essen at the “First Congress of Theater Authors”.

Manfred Esser died on Fuerteventura in 1995 and is buried in Vischel , near his hometown.

Works

  • Duel. Novel. Olten, Freiburg i.Br. 1961.
  • with Jean-Pierre Arend: 1. Scientific Biographia Romancee - Life + Last Knowledge. Melzer Verlag, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Ostend novel. March at two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • with Wolfgang Kiwus (Ed.): In memoriam Helmut Mader. Edition Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart / Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-922702-00-7 .
  • Lines 78/79. Edition Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-922702-05-8 .
  • Ostend novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-95170-9 .
  • First-person stories. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-608-95503-8 .
  • D (i) t. Walter, 1994, ISBN 3-87451-053-0 .
  • Logo poeia early, in front of Stuttgart. (Graphics: Wolfgang Kiwus). Schlack, Stuttgart 1996.
  • with Elger Esser : To Italy: Travelogues and Photographs. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-933257-20-4 .

Appreciation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Jörg-Rössler: Aesthetics at the Technical University - "Stuttgart Impulse - How the" beautiful "found its way into Stuttgart" , University of Stuttgart (accessed on January 28, 2016).
  2. ↑ Stuttgart City Library: Esser, Manfred.
  3. ^ The "Ostend-Roman" by the Stuttgart writer Manfred Esser in: DER SPIEGEL 31/1983 (August 1, 1983).
  4. ↑ MANFRED ESSER AND HIS WORK ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, September 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ The East was relatively rough ... ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Stuttgarter Zeitung. September 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ "OSTEND" based on the novel by Manfred Esser ( memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , World premiere: March 8, 2007, Depot; Publisher Schauspiel Stuttgart. (Accessed January 30, 2016.)
  7. ↑ See also the OSTEND program booklet ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.schauspiel-stuttgart.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Premiere as part of the DEPOT X MEMO festival at the Stuttgart State Theater. (Accessed January 23, 2016.)
  8. ↑ Gerd Hergen Lübben: Stage for sensual perception - KONZIL . Bonn 1961/2012, p. 8 fu 20. (Accessed January 22, 2016.)
  9. ^ Publishing house for contemporary drama, piece by piece im Kommen , Stuttgart o. J. (1966/1967; flyer)
  10. ^ Foundation Art and Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): First Congress of Theater Authors. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-923854-88-9 .
  11. ↑ Cf. MUSE-O (with texts by Helmut Böttiger), exhibition on "Ostend-Roman" author Manfred Esser , funded by the City of Stuttgart Cultural Office, published on September 17, 2013. (Accessed on January 22, 2016.)
  12. ↑ General Anzeiger Bonn. April 23, 2011, "GA Spring Hike: In the Vischeltal ...": Since 1956, only the Wormersdorfer poet Manfred Esser has been buried at the cemetery in Vischel at his own request. (Retrieved January 22, 2016.)
  13. ↑ Manfred Esser's tombstone in the cemetery in Vischel. (Photo credit; accessed April 24, 2016.)
  14. ^ Helmut Salzinger: REVIEW IN BRIEF . In: The time. September 5, 1969. (Retrieved January 22, 2016.)
  15. ↑ Helmut Böttiger , Elger Esser, Wolfgang Kiwus: Wedding Ostend - Manfred Esser . - The exhibition (14 September – 11 November 2011), curated by Helmut Böttiger, shows the author's artistic development (1938–1996) as well as the milieu in which he worked in Stuttgart.
  16. ↑ Villa Massimo scholarship holders 1970/1969 ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved January 22, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de

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personal data
SURNAME Esser, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormersdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1995
Place of death on Fuerteventura