Matthias Buth

Matthias Buth

Matthias Buth ( pseudonym : Matthias Bucht ; born May 25, 1951 in Wuppertal ) is a German lawyer , poet and writer .

Life

Matthias Buth studied law at the University of Cologne ; 1985 PhD . From 1981 he was cultural advisor at the Rhineland Regional Council , then in the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations , later Ministerialrat in the department "Literature, Music, Fine Arts of the German Cultural Areas in Eastern Europe" in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , from 1998 in the Federal Chancellery at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) Head of Deutsche Welle , international media and finally head of the legal department. Matthias Buth lived in Cologne until 1985 , since then in Rösrath-Hoffnungsthal . He is now a lawyer .

Matthias Buth has published poems , essays , feature sections and reviews since 1973 . He is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) . In 1981 he received the advancement award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature , in 1991 the Amsterdam scholarship of the Berlin Senate . He is one of the founders of the Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft in Wuppertal .

His poems and prose have been translated into Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Turkish and Czech and set to music in chamber music and choral works by Thomas Blomenkamp (Meerbusch), Bernd Hänschke (Duisburg), Abel Ehrlich (Tel Aviv), Wolfgang Hildemann ( Düsseldorf), Hermann Große-Schware (Krefeld) and for the ensemble “Kunstkopf” by Ulrich Heimann (Dortmund).

Since 1986 he has been the organizer and moderator of the “Rösrather Literature Talks” and writes political feature articles for Deutschlandradio Kultur (Berlin). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) presented his poetry several times.

Works

• Gezeitet , Gedichte, Darmstadt 1974
• Without a compass , poems, Düsseldorf 1984
• Rheinblick , poems from "Neues Rheinland", 1956–1984 (ed.), Cologne 1984
• The development of the military right of orders with special consideration of the military criminal law of the GDR , (dissertation), Cologne 1985
• Upside down to Deutz , Gedichte, Krefeld 1989
• The silence after the ax blow , poems, Eisingen 1997
• Linistea de Dupa Lovitura De Secure , (extended version of “The silence after the ax blow”), Bucharest 1998
• The wide coat of Germany , feature pages, Berlin-Brandenburg 2001
• Between me and past , poems, Weilerswist 2007
• Romania behind the lids / Romania Dincolo De Pleoape , poems, Romanian-German, Bucharest 2009
• The Rhine draws a serenade , poems, Weilerswist 2010
• Kaligrafia bliskosci , Wierze, (translation of “Between me and past”), Wrocław 2010
• Round the world , poems from four decades, Weilerswist 2011
• Poets do not tolerate dictators next to them , 40 votes on Reiner Kunze , (edited together with Günter Kunert ), Weilerswist, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944566-05-4 .
• Tanzania Tangents , Poems, 2013
• Wildebeest are born on the run , poems, Weilerswist 2015, ISBN 978-3-944566-36-8
• Paris rains , poems, edited by Jürgen Brôcan , Dortmund 2017, ISBN 978-3-7412-9092-3
• God is the poet - psalms and other love poems , Wuppertal 2017, ISBN 978-3-943940-30-5
• Be entwined - feuilletons on culture and contemporary history, with a foreword by Peter Steinbach , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-940384-92-8 .
• POESIEALBUM 344, selected and edited by Helmut Braun, Wilhelmshorst 2019, GTIN 978-3-943-708-44-8
• White is the leopard skin of the sky, new poems, afterword by Jörg Aufenanger , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96258-035-3 .

Editing

• Rheinblick , poems from the magazine "Neues Rheinland" 1956–1984, Cologne 1984
• Rheinische Kulturpflege 1985–1989, Cologne 1985 (published together with Horst Jansen)
• Poets do not tolerate dictatorships by their side. Reiner Kunze . The wonderful years. From Germany to Germany. A reader on Reiner Kunze's 80th birthday, edited together with Günter Kunert , Weilerswist 2013, ISBN 978-3-944566-05-4 .

Contributions to anthologies

Numerous texts have been published in anthologies, so u. a. in:

• THE POEM - Poets to Nature, Weßling, 2019
• Yearbook for poetry, edited by Christoph Buchwald and Miko Bonné , Schoeffling , Frankfurt 2019
• To travel. Poems. Edited by Vanessa Greiff, Reclam , Ditzingen 2018
• O death, where is thy sting. Fear of death and lust for life in Christianity. Edited by Thomas A. Seidl and Ulrich Schacht , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Berlin 2017
• it stood / Jerusalem around us. Jerusalem poems. Edited by Birgit Lermen and Verena Lenzen , Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 2016
• Due to age. Poems from eight centuries. Edited by Helmut Zwanger , Klöpfer & Meyer , Tübingen 2015
• city-Country-River. 111 poets from North Rhine-Westphalia. Edited by Jürgen Nendza and Hajo Steinert , Lilienfeld, Düsseldorf 2014
• Every verse a leopard bite. Edited by Hajo Jahn , Peter Hammer , Wuppertal 2011
• God poems. A reader on German poetry after 1945. Edited by Helmut Zwanger and Karl-Josef Kuschel , Klöpfer & Meyer , Tübingen 2011
• Versnetze 2–10. Edited by Axel Kutsch , Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist from 2009
• Frankfurter Anthologie Bt. 31. Ed. By Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 2007
• The New Conrady / The Great German Poetry Book. Edited by Karl Otto Conrady , Artemis & Winkler , Düsseldorf-Zurich 2000
• European visits in the 19th century. Edited by Wulf Segebrecht , Ergon , Würzburg 1999
• Großau / Transylvania. In: Europe select. Edited by Georg Aescht , Wieser , Klagenfurt 1999
• Post-war and strife. Edited by Hilde Domin , Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1995
• From one country and from the other. Poems about the German turnaround. Edited by Karl Otto Conrady , Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1993
• German poetry of our century. Edited by Rudolf Helmut Reschke, Bertelsmann , Gütersloh 1992

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Buth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthias Buth at perlentaucher - Das Kulturmagazin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dummy head: beautiful and useless. Songs to contemporary poetry. Aulos-Schallplattenverlag, Viersen-Dülken 1987, AUL 53599. The album of the Herdecker trio Heidrun Reymann (vocals), Siegfried Hiltmann (saxophone, flute, clarinet) and Ulrich Heimann (guitar) contains settings of the works Vorfrühling and Ohne Kompass .