Michael Buselmeier

Michael Buselmeier (2007)

Michael Buselmeier (born October 25, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German author , writer and poet . He lives as a freelance writer in Heidelberg.

life and work

Michael Buselmeier grew up in Heidelberg . He attended the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg until he graduated from high school in 1959 and trained as an actor . Buselmeier became assistant director a. a. at Hansgünther Heyme in Wiesbaden and at the open-air festival in Wunsiedel . He then studied German literature and art history at the University of Heidelberg and completed his studies with the degree of a Master's from. From 1972 to 1976 he had lectureships at various universities for media theory and literary studies. Buselmeier was a co-founder of the Heidelberg city newspaper Communale (1983–1988).

His book Amsterdam. Leidseplein compared Matthias Biskupek with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's material volume Rome. Looks and praised it as "the protocol of an over-honest person who [...] has no desire to behave politically correct."

Buselmeier describes himself as the "spontaneous chief of Heidelberg" and " renegade " at the time.

His house publishing house Das Wunderhorn was named after his suggestion, namely after Brentano and Arnim's collection of songs “ Des Knaben Wunderhorn ”. During the Heidelberg Romanticism the two writers put together this collection of folk songs. Since 1988 Michael Buselmeier has been offering tours through his hometown Heidelberg that are oriented towards the history of ideas and literary, from 1999 together with the former head of the cultural office, Hans-Martin Mumm. Buselmeier is attributed a particularly close connection to Heidelberg from several sides.

Michael Buselmeier has been married to Karin Buselmeier, who has a doctorate in German studies and journalism , since the 1970s ; they have several children and grandchildren.

Publications

As an author

• Nothing should change. Poems. Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 1978
• The return of the swans. New poems. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1980
• The fall of Heidelberg. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1981; New edition: Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88423-442-6
• Bike ride towards the end of winter. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1982
• Monologues about happiness. Little prose. Rigodon, Essen 1984
• Heidelberg myth. In: Karin Buselmeier (ed.), Also a history of the University of Heidelberg , Edition Quadrat, Mannheim 1985, pp. 491–500, table of contents.
• Up, to Lenau! Poems. Rigodon, Essen 1986
• Bottle. A country novel. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 978-3-88423-059-6 .
• Literary tours through Heidelberg. A cultural story on the move. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1991
• Underground. Poems. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1992
• Arbitration Chamber. Stories. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1994
• Literary tours through Heidelberg. A city story on the move. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1996; 2007; 2016 (extended editions), ISBN 978-3-88423-545-4 , table of contents.
• I praise you Heidelberg. Poem in six songs. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-88423-109-8 .
• Between professor circles and literary cafés. The writer Kurt Wildhagen . In: Kurt Wildhagen 1871-1949. The sage from Heidelberg. Edited for the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg by Roland Krischke and Frieder Hepp. HVA, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 978-3-8253-7110-4 , pp. 11-17, table of contents , exhibition volume.
• Bormann's silver spoon. Frankfurt 1998
• Ode to the athletes. Poems. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1998
• A trip to W. M. Max, Weimar (together with Ina Barfuss )
  • Book 1. 1998
  • Book 2. More light. 1999
• The dogs of Plovdiv. Bulgarian Diary (1997). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1999 and 2005, ISBN 978-3-88423-150-0 , (Bulgarian: Kučetata na Plovdiv. Pigmalion, Plovdiv 1998.)
• A story told.
  • 1. 1994 - 1997. Michael Buselmeier in conversation with Raymond Klibansky , Hans Bender , Hermann Lenz , Hilde Domin , Marie Marcks (among others). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 978-3-88423-175-3 .
  • 2. 1998 - 2000. Michael Buselmeier in conversation with Hans-Georg Gadamer , Rolf Rendtorff , Helm Stierlin , Jobst Wellensiek, Reinhold Zundel (among others). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-88423-203-3 .
  • 3. 2000 - 2004. Michael Buselmeier in conversation with Heinrich Schipperges , Hermann W. Lehmann, M. Rainer Lepsius , Harry Pross (among others). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88423-311-5 , table of contents.
  • 4. 2005 - 2010. Michael Buselmeier in conversation with Jan Assmann , Klaus von Beyme , Wilhelm Genazino , Roland Ernst (among others). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-369-6 , table of contents.
• My southern Africa. In: Lettre International 49, summer 2000.
• Amsterdam. Leidseplein. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2003.
• Light ax . Poems. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2006.
• The boy sings in the Wunderhorn - romance today. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88423-256-9 .
• Wunsiedel. Theater novel. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-362-7 .
• Wild Nigeria. Field research and adventure - postcards from a tough country. In: Lettre International 76, spring 2007.
• Days in Egypt. A journey from Cairo via Aswan and Abu Simbel to the Red Sea. In: Lettre International 85, summer 2009.
• Dante German. Poems. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88423-403-7 , (review:).
• End of the birdsong. A childhood. Morio, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-945424-14-8 .
• Middle Ages versus Renaissance. Richard Benz and the love of national culture. Edition Literaturhaus Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-921249-99-4 , (review:).

As editor

• The happy consciousness. Instructions on materialistic media criticism. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1974
• Operativity at Alexander Kluge . Working Group of Left Germanists, Heidelberg 1975
• with Martin Grzimek : New German Poetry. Contributions to Born, Brinkmann, Krechel, Theobaldy, Zahl u. a. Working Group of Left Germanists, Heidelberg 1977
• with Emmanuel Bohn: Heidelberg Reportages. Heidelberg 1984
• Heidelberg reading book. City pictures from 1800 until today. Insel, Frankfurt 1986
• with Michael Braun and Christoph Buchwald : Yearbook of Poetry . Munich 1996
• with Ralph Schock : Since we started talking. A book about Arnfrid Astel . Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2003
• Memories of Wolfgang Hilbig . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008
• »The apricot trees are there«. In memory of Inger Christensen . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-351-1 .
• with Michael Braun: The Yellow Acrobat , (50 German contemporary poems, annotated).
  Volume 1 . poetenladen Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-940691-29-3 ;
  Volume 2 . poetenladen Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-940691-73-6 ;
  Volume 3 . poetenladen Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-940691-99-6 , contents:.

As translator

• Terje Johanssen, from Norwegian: The drowned city . The Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1998

Awards

• 1993: Grant Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
• 1995: Thaddäus-Troll-Preis and Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
• 2000: Palatinate Prize for Literature
• 2003: Richard Benz Medal for Art and Science from the City of Heidelberg.
• 2010: Ben Witter Prize (jury statement: "Deep explorations of German states of mind")
• 2011: The theater novel Wunsiedel was nominated for the 2011 German Book Prize (“Shortlist”) .
• 2014: Gustav-Regulator-Preis of the district town Merzig for his complete works.

literature

• Michael Braun : October song. Heidelberg 1998.
• Henning Ziebritzki : Heimatgraben / biography and history in the poetry of Michael Buselmeier. In: the hear . Journal for literature, art and criticism 1, 54 (2009), pp. 89–99.
• Michael Braun, Ralph Schock (Ed.): Nothing should change. Michael Buselmeier on his 80th birthday. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-88423-595-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Buselmeier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page for Buselmeier. In: The Wunderhorn
• Author portrait. In: Heidelberg City Library
• Entry in the list of authors. In: Online Literature Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate (discontinued)
• Michael Buselmeier: Heidelberg Neo-Romanticism. In: single-generation.de
• Ulrich Greiner : The last anti-authoritarian. Speech on the award of the Ben Witter Prize to Michael Buselmeier. In: Literaturhaus Hamburg , December 2, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} (bo): Michael Buselmeier, German writer. In: Munzinger Archive , October 23, 2012, only beginning of article.
2. ↑ Volker Oesterreich: Buselmeier: "The hatred is productive when writing". In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ( RNZ ), October 25, 2013, conversation.
3. ↑ Portrait of the author: Michael Buselmeier. In: Heidelberg City Library , accessed on August 27, 2019.
4. ^ Encyclopedia: Newspapers. In: Heidelberger Geschichtsverein , accessed on August 27, 2019.
5. ^ Eberhard Reuss: The oldest left-alternative newspaper: died at the zeitgeist. “Communale” no longer appears. In: Die Zeit , October 14, 1988, No. 42.
6. ^ Matthias Biskupek: Leidseplein to Christas Leid . In: Eulenspiegel , 2004, No. 1, 50th year, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 43.
7. ^ Mario Damolin: The pseudo-Joschka from Heidelberg. In: Context: weekly newspaper , July 12, 2014, p. 3.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Greiner : The last anti-authoritarian. Speech on the award of the Ben Witter Prize to Michael Buselmeier. In: Literaturhaus Hamburg , December 2, 2010.
9. ↑ Literary tours. On the trail of the myth. In: Stadt Heidelberg , accessed on August 27, 2019.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Heide Seele: Heidelberg Spiritual Life. Michael Buselmeier introduces Richard Benz. In: RNZ , July 27, 2017.
11. ↑ Mir: On his 80th birthday - Michael Buselmeier: "A local poet in the best sense". UNESCO City of Literature honored Michael Buselmeier - commemorative publication and ceremony for the poet's 80th birthday. In: die-stadtredaktion.de , October 28, 2018: "Hardly any living writer is as connected to Heidelberg as Michael Buselmeier."
12. ↑ Query: Buselmeier, Karin. In: Bavarian Library Association ( BVB ), accessed on May 1, 2020.
13. ^ List of authors: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city. In: heidelberg.mannheim.wiki ; long version: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city , see end of article, accessed on May 1, 2020.
14. ^ Volker Austria: 80th birthday of the Heidelberg writer. I praise you, Buselmeier! In: RNZ , October 26, 2018, ceremony for the 80th birthday - in the large town hall with eulogies and two new books.
15. ↑ Volker Austria: Michael Buselmeier in an interview with RNZ. Heidelberg writer rebel turns 80. In: RNZ , October 25, 2018.
16. ↑ Micha Hörnle: Germany's most famous insolvency administrator Jobst Wellensiek at the RNZ forum in Heidelberg. In: RNZ , November 23, 2016.
17. ^ Biographical data: Hermann Walther Lehmann. In: Heidelberg History Association .
18. ↑ Michael Buselmeier: "Wunsiedel". Review. In: BücherRezensions.org. November 4, 2011, accessed August 27, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Helmuth Kiesel : Frankfurt anthology: Michael Buselmeier: "The Purification (2)". In: FAZ , November 9, 2019, with poetry reading by Thomas Huber .
20. ↑ The yellow acrobat. In: poetenladen - der Verlag , accessed on May 1, 2020.
21. ↑ awarding of the ben-witter prize 2010. Michael Buselmeier receives the award. Ulrich Greiner gives the laudation. In: Literaturhaus Hamburg , December 2, 2010.
22. ↑ Shortlist. In: German Book Prize , 2011.
23. ↑ Portal: Gustav-Regulator-Archive. In: regler.name , accessed on August 27, 2019.
24. ^ Gustav-Regulator Collection and Gustav-Regulator Prize. In: Stadt Merzig , accessed on August 27, 2019.
25. ↑ Michael Braun : An Indian life in secret. Laudation for Michael Buselmeier on the occasion of the awarding of the Gustav Regulator Prize 2014. In: faustkultur.de , 2014.