Michael Basse (writer)

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Michael Basse

Michael Basse (born April 14, 1957 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German writer .

He has published novels, poems, essays and audio books as well as translated poems from English, French and Bulgarian (including John F. Deane, Blaga Dimitrova , Ljubomir Nikolov ).

Life

Michael Basse grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg due to the frequent relocation of his parents. He passed his Abitur in 1976 at the Evangelical Seminary in Maulbronn / Blaubeuren . From 1977 to 1979 Basse completed a traineeship at the Schwäbische Zeitung . He then moved to SDR in Stuttgart. In the winter semester of 1982 Basse began studying law in Regensburg, in 1984 he moved to Munich and switched to philosophy at the LMU , where he graduated with a master's degree in 1990. In 1984 Basse was one of the co-founders of the Munich Literature Office , of which he was a member of the board for four years. In the 1990s and 2000s, Basse introduced numerous authors to the Lyrik Kabinett in Munich . a. Anise Koltz and Jean Portante , Eva Hesse and Mary de Rachewiltz , daughter and editor of Ezra Pound's works . From 1993 to 2015 Basse worked as a permanent freelancer in the cultural criticism department of Bayerischer Rundfunk . From 1994 to 1999 he regularly wrote literary reviews for the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Michael Basse has been a freelance writer since 2015.

Literary work

As soon as his poetry debut And mornings There Still Message was published (1992, 1994/2), the critics agreed that Basse was not only “a powerful lyric poet”, “who looks at particles of reality as if under a magnifying glass”, but that all of his Texts ground the motif of placelessness, homelessness or non-belonging, to which the lyrical self reacts with the attempt to find something like a temporary linguistic home through poetry "as the only second world in the local" (Jean Paul). Basse's first collection of poems was still strongly influenced by the poetology of his mentor at the time, Johannes Poethen , as explained in his essay Im Labor der Träume in Hans Bender's anthology Mein Gedicht ist mein Messer (1955). Regardless of this, it was positively noted that “in times when harpers and lute players have the singing again” expressly imagines himself as “a man without a lyre”: “Basse does not renounce rhythm and verse form, but always stays on the ground of everyday life Facts. "

Basse's second volume of poetry was rated by the critics as “a kind of poetic cartography”, even though the title of the volume Die Landnahme ist nicht statt (1997) already indicates the impossibility of such an undertaking. In his inspection of imagined spaces in search of the poetry of the places, Basse uses the form of the prose poem for the first time, whose “disciplined parlando” condenses into “bittersweet soundscapes” in the breathless rhythm of the texts. “Elements from painting, dance and music also find their way into the poems again and again. With the listener they develop a suction effect, take you into a world of pure language. ”The reader of Basse's 'Sea in the Head' feels like the viewer of Caspar David Friedrich's painting 'Monk by the Sea':“ As if your eyelids had been cut off. “In literature, Basses second volume was praised for its formal-stylistic stringency -“ prose poems without periods and commas ”.

In search of new means of expression, Basses found a form in his third collection of poems Partisanengefühle (2004), which he called lyrical protocols - texts or speech acts that are rhythmic and merge different levels of discourse and reality. Critics rated Basse's protocols as complex, personal as well as political accounting for the present, especially with the self-sufficient sensitivity of pop literature. The Süddeutsche Zeitung came to the conclusion: “Basses poems have the rhythm of a train on a rarely used track. A gallop of thoughts over the spoil heaps of the linguistic gravel of our days, broken up in everyday talk, interspersed with the angry comment of an impatient contemporary who cannot look away (...) No contemplative cuddly poetry to dream and fall asleep, no dull gliding on the ICE route, but wide awake Racing along the launch pad. Poems like landmines, difficult to convey to a market that only knows digestible entertainment. "

After another volume of prose poems ( Prachtmenschen , 2008), Basse returned to shorter poetry forms in his fifth and so far last volume of poetry skype connected (2010), which, however - like his lyrical protocols - are closely based on everyday spoken language. According to the critics, the core of this love briefing revolves around "the mature love of two people (...) who sometimes question everything that can be questioned at all." The Berlin literary criticism stated: "Today we are male-female No longer generally binding. It is exciting (...) how a traditional, partnership-based we as a counterweight appears all the more clearly. The author succeeds very well in revitalizing this male-female we with young and enlightened accents from Italy, which Basse envisions as a kindred spirit of Pasolini in a radically anti-idyllic way. "

In 2010, Basse's first novel, Career , appeared, in which he critically examines the left during the 1980s and 1990s. According to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , the past of the four protagonists in the formerly left-wing milieu will be examined. “You are between 40 and 50 and live in 1999 (…). But shortly before the turn of the millennium, the world is far from its old ideals. "In the end, everyone" arrived in the New Economy of the 90s, sometimes better, sometimes worse. "

In 2016, Basse's second novel, the American Zone , was published, which uses the example of an officer family in the Swabian provinces to address problematic German-American relations and - as the Stuttgarter Zeitung judged - "an authentic and historically very precise time color for the years 1944 to 2003". The writer Sten Nadolny came to the conclusion after reading it: “The book (...) challenges its readers - aspiration always does - but it rewards them with a reliable inventory of the era of that North American hegemony, which today seems to be losing its strength. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Michael Basse does not get lost in evaluations ex cathedra, he simply delivers an exact moral picture in which we recognize ourselves whether it suits us or not. "

Works (selection)

Poems by Michael Basse have been translated into several languages, including a. into English, Hungarian and Dutch.

Novels

Poetry

  • Skype Connected. A love book. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2010, ISBN 978-3-941037-43-4
  • Splendid people. New poems. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, ISBN 978-3-935221-98-6
  • Ghost encounter. Cavalcanti and / or Ezra Pound. Langgedicht, 2006, in: Sinn und Form , Berlin, issue 3/2006, p. 346 ff
  • Partisan feelings. Lyrical Protocols, Verlag P. Kirchheim, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-87410-098-4
  • The land seizure does not take place. Poems and prose poems, Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-910172-53-1
  • And there is news in the morning. Poems, Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 1992 (2nd edition, 1994), ISBN 3-923313-75-6

Audio books

  • Brave new world prosodic. Literary-musical performance with music by Volker Heyn , composition, Friedrich Gauwerky , cello, Frieder von Ammon, electric guitar, production Michael Basse, co-production Lyrik Kabinett Munich , published by Klanglogo, Munich, Zurich 2007
  • Eva Hesse: Poetry Imports. Production Michael Basse, published by r'Audio (Verlag P. Kirchheim) Munich 2005
  • Partisan feelings. Audio CD for the book of the same name, P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 2004

Translations

  • Over the peat ocean. Poems by John F. Deane, Akzente , Munich 6/2003
  • The risk is the deviation. Poems by Blaga Dimitrova , Neue Sirene , Munich 2/1994
  • Poems by Ljubomir Nikolov in: Karl-Markus Gauß and Ludwig Hartinger (Hrsg.): The book of the edges - poetry. Anthology. Wieser Verlag , Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85129-128-X
  • Just a stone's throw from this side of the hereafter. Poems by Ljubomir Nikolov, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-7017-0795-9
  • Among all heroes. Poems by Boiko Lambovski. Akzente, Munich 4/1990

Essay writing (selection)

  • A single lyrical misunderstanding. Borchardt, Adorno and the new German state of mind. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold and Gerhard Schuster (Hrsg.): Rudolf Borchardt Text and criticism Sonderband München 2007
  • The little orgasms of poetry. Eva Hesse and the literary security service, In: Wespennest 138, Vienna 2005
  • Auschwitz as a world experience. The Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz , In: Merkur , issue 602, June 1999
  • Iceland is the world. About Halldór Laxness , In: Wespennest 112, Vienna 1998
  • I sit on ruins and sketch. Bosnia's literature of unspoken words, In: Wespennest 103, Vienna 1996
  • From heirs and editors. Ingeborg Bachmanns Nachlass, Eine Editionsgeschichte, In: Wespennest 102, Vienna 1996
  • The reunited literature. Pictures of Germany five years after the fall of the Wall, radio essay for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1995
  • For when I'm dead ... Pictures of Germany in Uwe Johnson's work , radio essay for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1994
  • The long way of Johannes Poethen. In: Sirene , Zeitschrift für Literatur, Volume 2, Munich 1988
  • Live in the word. About the search for home in contemporary poetry In: contradiction, Munich magazine for philosophy , issue 14, 1987

Editing

  • Literature workshops and literary offices in the Federal Republic: a manual of the promotion of literature and the literary institutions of the federal states. Michael Basse; Eckard Pfeifer, Hempel Verlag, Lebach 1988, ISBN 3-925192-25-5
  • Milky Way Atlas. Anthology, P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-87410-019-7

literature

  • Theo Breuer : The land will not take place . In: Without point & comma. Poetry in the 90s . Wolkenstein Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-927861-20-0 , pp. 20-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2000/2001, Munich-Leipzig, Vol 62, Volume 1, Page 46, Andreas Klimt, Walter De Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-598-23582-8 .
  2. ↑ Michael Basse was a co-founder of the Munich Literature Office and editor of several anthologies
  3. ^ Graphiti . Anise Koltz and Jean Portante, translation and introduction , May 22, 2001.
  4. ↑ Poetry imports . Eva Hesse reads from her translations. Introduction , October 28, 2003.
  5. ↑ Pound ..? - A full-time job! Mary de Rachewiltz talks about her work. Introduction , October 20, 2005.
  6. ↑ MIchael Basse: Michael Basse: My life before and next to the culture. In: BR-Online.de/bayern2/kulturkritik/ueberuns/basse.html. Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 25, 1999, accessed on January 5, 2019 .
  7. ^ Rainer Wochele: News from the second world. Scholarship holder in the Writer's House: the poet Michael Basse. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. February 27, 1993, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Albert von Schirnding: Man without a lyre. Poems by Michael Basse. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 25, 1993, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
  9. ^ Axel Sanjosé: Michael Basse. A poetic cartographer in search of reality in a world that has become confusing. In: Culture magazine Applaus, Munich, issue 2/1998. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Alexander Altmann: The breathless rhythm of bittersweet texts. In: TZ. Zeitungsverlag tz München GmbH & Co. KG, January 22, 1998, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Nikola Herweg: Approaches to a "fantasized exile". In: Gießener Anzeiger. Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG, October 27, 1997, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
  12. ^ Lutz Hagestedt: Poetic fluid dynamics, natural and cultural poems by Michael Basse. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 23, 1998, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  13. ^ Theo Breuer : Michael Basse. The land grab does not take place (1997) . In: Without point & comma. Poetry in the 90s. Wolkenstein Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-927861-20-0 , p. 20 ff
  14. ↑ Sylvia Stammen: You can be a stranger anywhere . Discussion of partisan feelings in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 20, 2004.
  15. ↑ A common body that fell in half . Interview about skype connected in Fixpoetry.com, March 14, 2010.
  16. ↑ Armin Steigenberger: Love goes through the spirit . Michael Basse's volume of poems skype connected Die Berliner Literaturkritik, February 5, 2010.
  17. ↑ Pia-Elisabeth Leuschner: Lyrical wealth of the 'middle' generation. In: Fromm, Waldemar, Knedlik, Manfred, Schellong, Marcel (ed.): History of literature in Munich . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-3040-0 , pp. 590 f .
  18. ↑ Anne Reinert: Between ideal and reality. Michael Basse writes a novel about the left of the 70s and 80s . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, February 3, 2011.
  19. ↑ Heidi Hechtel: Dirty enough to be happy . Review of the novel American Zone , In: Stuttgarter Zeitung / Stuttgarter Nachrichten v. September 28, 2016.
  20. ↑ Sten Nadolny on American Zone
  21. ↑ Da Capo and other poems. Da Capo and other Poems , in: Dimension . Contemporary German Arts and Letters, Vol 17/2, Austin 1988, pages 172-175, ISSN  0012-2882 . From prehistory III-V / From prehistory / De la Préhistoire : Three poems (German / English / French), in: Europoésie . Journal of the European Academy of Poetry, Vol 1, Dublin 2004, pages 92-98, ISBN 1-904556-23-X
  22. ↑ Moscow-polaroid , in: NAPÚT 2010/3., Pages 125–127 .
  23. ↑ Poëzie - Poetry . Poem of the month / poem van de Maand ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Basse, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen