Michael Schulte (writer)
Michael Schulte (born April 22, 1941 in Munich ; † June 20, 2019 in Satrup ), pseudonym Max Puntila , also Mike McSorley , was a German writer and literary translator .
Life
Michael Schulte spent his youth in Lower Bavaria and Damascus . At the end of the 1950s, he spent a year as an exchange student in the USA . After graduating from high school and an apprenticeship as a bookseller, he studied German , history and philosophy in Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main .
After dropping out of his studies, he lived as a freelance writer in various places in Germany. In 1982 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived in New York and Santa Fe (New Mexico) for a year. From 1984 he ran a coffee house gallery in Bisbee together with his wife . At the end of the 80s he returned to Germany, where he again lived in different places (Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg). At the beginning of the 1990s he went to the USA again for four years.
In 1998 there was a scandal on the occasion of the publication of Schultes' Ambrose-Bierce biography "Alone in Bad Society", which, as it turned out after publication, was largely a plagiarism of an American work and was then withdrawn by the publisher. However, he had made the publisher aware of his source in good time and suggested that the relevant passages be identified by means of footnotes, which the publisher refused. From 2010, Schulte lived with Grünholz / fishing in Schleswig-Holstein . In addition to various scholarships, he received the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1971 and the literary sponsorship award from the city of Hamburg in 1988 . Since 2010 Schulte only wrote for the radio and was a full-time painter.
Michael Schulte was an idiosyncratic exponent of comic contemporary German literature. Important influences for him were Dadaism , the absurd comedy of Karl Valentins , the anarchic humor of the Marx Brothers and the Pataphysicists , the Czech author Ivan Vyskočil and the American author Kurt Vonnegut .
Works
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Editing
- Literary noses , Frankfurt am Main 1969
- Karl Valentin: Swoops in the auditorium , Munich 1969
- The apples of Pegasus , Munich 1972
- Karl Valentin: The great Karl Valentin book , Munich [u. a.] 1973
- The great Sherlock Holmes book , Munich [u. a.] 1977
- Karl Valentins Films , Munich [a. a.] 1978 (together with Peter Syr)
- Hermann Löns: The dogs howl at the Duke's death , Düsseldorf 1981
- Christian Morgenstern: The Morgenstern book , Munich [u. a.] 1985
- Paris was our lover , Munich [a. a.] 1989
Translations
- Tama Janowitz : A cannibal in Manhattan , Munich 1988
- Tim Parks : Doppelleben , Munich 2003
- Elliot Paul : Mickey Finn , Zurich 1993
- Lily Prior : La cucina siciliana or Rosas Erwachen , Hamburg 2002
- Anne Rice : The Prince of Darkness , Munich 2000
- Anne Rice: The Queen of the Damned , Munich 1991
- Hal Sirowitz : ... said mother , Munich 2002
- Christine Sutherland : Monica , Frankfurt am Main 1997
- FX Toole : Champions , Hamburg 2001
- Kurt Vonnegut : Katzenwiege , Munich [a. a.] 1985
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slapstick or Never Lonely Again , Munich 1977
Radio plays
- What Groucho Marx said and the radio play in the radio play (Radio Bremen 1971)
- Fair or by watching alone you can't do it , together with Ulrich Raschke (SDR 1973)
- The Eternal Concert in New York (hr / SachsenRadio 1991)
- The dream of the crossword puzzle solver (hr / MDR 1993)
- The office hours help (MDR / ORF 1994)
- The life of Karl Valentin - a sounding biography in 14 episodes (MDR 1995)
- Supermarket (Radio Bremen 1996)
- Stammtisch of the old men (MDR 1997)
- Doc Holliday or The Melancholy of the Poker Game (DLR 2007)
- Mendelssohn Almanac - Scenes from the life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (MDR 2008)
Features
- "Take over all orders in the application and removal of orders" - The comedian Karl Valentin (SDR 1974)
- It is certainly absurd that I still enjoy being here! - Frankfurt writers about their city (together with Ulrich Raschke - hr 1975)
- From the kingdom of the carnations to the mountains of the water buffalo - minutes of a trip through Sulawesi (HR / SFB 1983)
- No matter what happens, everything has already happened here - Why Germans live in New York (MDR 1994)
- You don't stay here - Chelsea Hotel: Portrait of a legend (MDR 1996)
- The happy second violinist - Henry Meyer's path from Dresden child prodigy to emigrant (MDR 1997)
- With recklessness, everything plunges into pleasure - On the history of the waltz (MDR 1999)
- The man who jumped out the window ... - The adventurous life of the writer Ludwig Lugmeier (NDR 2003)
- The Camel of the West - An audio picture all about the bicycle (MDR 2004)
- The Esperanto of the Kitchen - On the Cultural History of Ketchup (MDR 2005)
- The Favorite Place - A Brief Cultural History of the Toilet (MDR 2005)
- A corner of immortality - the life of Mozart librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (MDR 2006)
- Lirum Larum - The Cutlery (MDR 2007)
- The White Gold - A Salt Kaleidoscope (MDR 2009)
- The swing door never existed - A journey through the history of the American saloon (MDR 2010)
- Pickpockets (MDR 2016)
Radio essay
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literature
- The real fist , Augsburg 1991
Award
- The golden cable 1994 for the radio play The Dream of the Crossword Puzzle Solver (HR / MDR 1993)
Web links
- Michael Schulte's homepage
- Literature by and about Michael Schulte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Schulte (writer) in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Thalheim: "I'm looking forward to hell", obituary in: Berliner Zeitung of June 27, 2019, p. 21
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| SURNAME | Schulte, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puntila, Max (pseudonym); McSorley, Mike (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th June 2019 |
| Place of death | Satrup |