Nicolas Born

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Nicolas Born in Berlin-Friedenau , around 1972

Nicolas Born (born December 31, 1937 in Duisburg , † December 7, 1979 in Breese in the march near Dannenberg in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district ; actually Klaus Jürgen Born ) was a German writer .

Life

Born grew up on the Lower Rhine in Praest near Emmerich and in Essen , where he initially did an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher . After his first publications in newspapers and magazines, he was invited to the Literary Colloquium in 1964/1965 with the support of Ernst Meister , where, among other things, he co-wrote the community novel Das Gästehaus and reviewed literature for newspapers. In the so-called prose writing course by Walter Höllerer and Hans Werner Richter , young, previously unknown authors such as Hans Christoph Buch , Hermann Peter Piwitt and Peter Bichsel wanted to turn away from the ciphered, metaphor-rich language of the 1950s.

Born published his first novel with Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1965 with The Second Day . The first volume of poetry, Marktlage , was published in 1967 . He took part in the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa and returned from America with new influences from pop and beat lyric after the publication of his second volume of poetry Where My Head Stands . In 1972 Rowohlt published his most famous volume of poetry, Das Auge des Entdeckers , in which he contrasts the “delusional reality” with utopian moments of happiness.

After retreating to Wendland in Lower Saxony , where he campaigned against a planned nuclear repository and a reprocessing plant , Born wrote the novel The Earth-Away Side of History , which was largely greeted by critics as an "event". In 1979 Born was diagnosed with lung cancer, which he succumbed to on December 7, 1979.

Born's most famous novel The Fake , which appeared shortly before his death, was filmed in 1981 by Volker Schlöndorff . In autumn 2004, 25 years after Born's early death, his daughter Katharina Born re-edited the poems from the estate in Wallstein Verlag , which appeared in the Mainzer Series, NF , published by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . The band immediately reached number 1 on the SWR best list . In the following year the volume was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize as the most interesting new publication in the field of poetry .

In June 2007, Wallstein Verlag published the edition of Nicolas Born's letters in the Mainzer Series, NF . In addition to individual letters to Günter Grass , Uwe Johnson , Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , Ernst Meister , Alfred Kolleritsch and Dieter Wellershoff, it also contains the correspondence with Peter Handke , the correspondence with Günter Kunert , Hermann Peter Piwitt , Jürgen Theobaldy and , which has already been published in the literary journal Schreibheft Friedrich Christian Delius . The editor is again Born's youngest daughter Katharina Born, who looks after the author's estate on behalf of the community of heirs.

Born's novels and poetry were assigned to the Cologne School, Natural Poetry and New Innerity . Due to its very own tone and strong development, the work ultimately eludes any classification.

Grave site in Damnatz

In 1999, Axel Kahrs and Christiane Beyer published the memorial book Der Landvermesser , which commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the author's death. The "Nicolas Born Foundation", largely led by Kahrs, promotes literature and literary studies in Schreyahn in Wendland . In memory of Nicolas Born, two Nicolas Born Prizes were donated. His grave is in Damnatz ( Lüchow-Dannenberg district ). A sculpture by the sculptor Klaus Müller-Klug stands on it . The estate is accessible in the archive of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin. In Dannenberg (Elbe) there is a Nicolas Born School (high school, secondary school) and a Nicolas Born library, which has another location in Hitzacker (Elbe) .

honors and awards

Born was a member of the German PEN Center , the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (which played a key role in promoting the publication of the 2004 volume of poetry and the 2007 volume of letters), the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and, from 1975, a member of Jury of the Petrarca Prize .

Quotes

"I admit that I wanted to write beautiful poetry, and to my greatest surprise some turned out beautiful."

- The explorer's eye

"With the help of counter-images, of utopias, literature has to make reality visible as the ghastly mess that it actually is"

- The explorer's eye

"Well, I write that too, but could never write it as it was and is, instead I have to make violent changes, rearranges and inventions, so that I can believe that what has been written has nothing to do with what I have experienced. I didn't say to you that I was doing badly; I'm not feeling bad at all. I secretly enjoy this experience because it changes me in a diffuse, numbing way that is not so uncomfortable. "

- From a letter to Peter Handke , Langendorf, April 4, 1975

“I'm getting more and more nervous because I can't really make a new start. Maybe you just lack the strength to go deep enough and shake your own foundations. Otherwise I keep trying to get rid of all basic understandings. I really have the clear feeling that before something can start again, no stone should stand on the other, because everything has such calm and self-intelligibility deep into the language that I immediately have a feeling of In vain, so that it can make me sick. "

- From a letter to Jürgen Theobaldy , Dannenberg, February 6, 1977

“We don't just have to get poorer, we have to want to get poorer. The need must also be redistributed so that everyone knows what need is, because every meaning that we know in our life comes from the experience of need ... "

- Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Bremen Literature Prize

Works

  • The second day. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1965.
  • Market situation. Poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1967.
  • Where my head is. Poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1970.
  • The explorer's eye. Poems, with drawings by Dieter Masuhr. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972.
  • Oton and Iton. Adventure in the fourth dimension. Children's book with drawings by Dieter Masuhr . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973.
  • with Friedrich Christian Delius and Volker von Törne : Recipes for times of peace. Construction. Berlin / Weimar 1973.
  • The remote side of the story. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-14370-4 .
  • Poems 1967–1978. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978.
  • The fake . Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979, ISBN 3-499-15291-6 .
  • The world of the machine. Essays and Speeches, ed. by Rolf Haufs . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-498-00462-X .
  • Nicolas Born. Poetry album 167. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin (East) 1981.
  • Perpetrator sketches. Stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-498-00481-6 .
  • A song that everyone knows. Poems. Berlin (East): Verlag Volk und Welt, 1989. ISBN 3-353-00533-1 .
  • Poems. Edited by Peter Handke . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-22042-X .
  • Poems . Critical Edition, ed. by Katharina Born . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-824-8 .
  • Letters 1959–1979 . Critical Edition, ed. by Katharina Born. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0106-1 .
  • Self-Portrait (1967)

As translator

  • Wong May: Wannsee poems. Translated from the English by Nicolas Born. LCB editions, Berlin 1975.
  • Kenneth Koch: Thank you very much. Poems and games. German by Nicolas Born. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976.

As editor

  • Rowohlt Literature Magazine 3: The Imagination of Power - Literature as Utopia (1975)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 6: The literature and the sciences (1976; together with Heinz Schlaffer )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 7: Post-war literature (1977; together with Jürgen Manthey )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 8: The language of the big brother (1977; together with Jürgen Manthey)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 9: The new irrationalism (1978; together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt )
  • Rowohlt Literaturmagazin 10: Role Models (1979; together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 11: Writing or Literature (1979; together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
  • Rowohlt Literaturmagazin 12, special volume: Nietzsche (1980; together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)

New translations of poems into English

  • Emergency Exit , False Imagining with Janitor Shit Money Red Wine Etc. , Having Arrived Here . Translated by Eric Torgersen, mpT [ Modern Poetry in Translation , new series] 1, 2014.
  • In the Train, Athens-Patras , Horror, Tuesday . Translated by Eric Torgersen. In: Michigan Quarterly Review , Fall 2011.
  • Good Morning , The Man Who Was Buried Alive , A Song That Everyone Knows , A Single Body . Translated by Eric Torgersen. Zoland Poetry, Spring 2011.
  • For Pasolini. Translated by Eric Torgersen. In: Slope # 47, 2011
  • A Few Notes from the Elbholz. Translated by Eric Torgersen. Field, Fall 2010.
  • Child. Translated by Eric Torgersen. In: Atlanta Review , Spring-Summer 2009.
  • On the Inside of Poems , Landscape with Big Car , Parting for Life and Parting for Death , Before Falling Asleep . Translated by Eric Torgersen. In: Exquisite Corpse , # 15, 2008. / The Exquisite Corpse Annual , 2009.
  • That's Where He Learned What War Is He Says. Translated from Eric Torgersen, Field, Fall 2008.

literature

  • Alo Allkemper: Why shouldn't I get caught up in contradictions? Nicolas Born's problem with utopia , In: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie Vol. 103 (1984), pp. 576-603.
  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Text and criticism Sonderband: Nicolas Born , April 2006.
  • Jan-Pieter Barbian, Erhard Schütz (Ed.): The "Utopia of the Everyday". Thinking about Nicolas Born . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-736-9 ( content ).
  • Christiane Beyer and Axel Kahrs (eds.): The land surveyor. Memorial book for Nicolas Born. To Klampen Verlag, Lüneburg 1999, ISBN 3-93315645-9 .
  • Katharina Born: Escape to the countryside. Nicolas Born's year in Nürtingen. Marbacher series of traces (Ed .: Thomas Scheufelen).
  • Katharina Born: Bad company. A family story. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23628-8 .
  • Jörg Eggerts: The colors slowly returned. On subjectivity in novels, in the lyrical and literary theoretical work of Nicolas Born. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-38262-6 .
  • Matthias Gawlick: Stations in life, occasions for writing: About Nicolas Born. In: Literaturlandschaft Ruhrgebiet. An exhibition. Edited by the Ruhr University Bochum, German Institute. Bochum 1993, pp. 61-72.
  • Harald Hartung : Poetry between Paul Celan and Nicolas Born. Sketch of a poetics of the poem in the 1970s. In: Praxis Deutsch. Zeitschrift für den Deutschunterricht , special issue “Arbeitsbuch Lyrik” (1981), pp. 4–7.
  • Wolfgang Herles: The (double) forgery. Notes on the relationship between literature and journalism using the example of the novel by Nicolas Born. In: Erich Huber-Thoma, Ghemela Adler, Fritz Fenzl (eds.): Romanticism and modernity. New contributions from research and teaching. Festschrift for Helmut Motekat. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 213-223
  • Axel Kahrs: Wendland literary. From Herzog August to Nicolas Born. A journey through the literary history of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. Verlag davids drucke, Göttingen 1985.
  • Jörg-Werner Kremp: We walk alongside in the middle. Nicolas Born: biography, bibliography, interpretations. Publishing house for science and research, Stuttgart 1994.
  • Jürgen Lieskounig: The struggle for the threatened physicality. On body perception in works by Peter Schneider, Verena Stefan and Nicolas Born. In: Discussion German , 19th year (1988). H. 101, pp. 279-291.
  • Ton Naaijkens: Poetry and Subject. Pluralization of the lyrical subject in Nicolas Born, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Paul Celan, Ernst Meister and Peter Rühmkorf. Elinkwijk publishing house. Utrecht 1986.
  • Sound Naaijkens: Nicolas Born. As if he were all at once. In: Peter K. Kirchhof (Ed.): Literary portraits. 163 authors from North Rhine-Westphalia. Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, pp. 88-91.
  • Dieter Saalmann: Affinities and discrepancies between Rainer Maria Rilke and Nicolas Born. The "Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge" and "The remote side of history". Prolegomena to Rilke's aftermath. In: Orbis Litterarum , Vol. 40 (1985), pp. 125-144.
  • Anja Saupe: “The remote side of history”. Nicolas Born's prose. Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1044-2 .
  • Klaus R. Scherpe , Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Living from boredom: Sensitivity and intellectuality as an event with Handke, Born and Strauss , In: Monthly books for German teaching, German language and literature , Vol. 73. No. 2, pp. 187-206 (1981).
  • Volker Schlöndorff , Nicolas Born, Bernd Lepel: Forgery as a film and the war in Lebanon. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt a. M. 1981. (Comment by Schlöndorff: "The book on the film is intended as a supplement to the film, not as a retelling. It contains materials that we have compiled to work out the background.")
  • Irmela Schneider: conflict as a historical experience. Reflections on Georg Büchner's “Lenz”, a story by Peter Schneider and a novel by Nicolas Born. In: Text and Context , H. 1. Jg. 12 (1984), pp. 43-63.
  • Duisburg City Library (ed.): Nicolas Born 1937–1979, A Bibliography.
  • Axel Kahrs (Ed.): “Among friends” - Nicolas Born - life, work and effect. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3118-1 .
  • Jan-Pieter Barbian , Erhard Schütz (ed.): The utopia of everyday reflection on Nicolas Born (1937–1979). Wehrhahn, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-736-9

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Born  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Himmelberg: Emmerich: Famous lyric poet from Praest. In: Rheinische Post . October 14, 2011, accessed September 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ CV: On the biography of Nicolas Born. In: literaturatlas.de. Archived from the original on February 23, 2018 ; accessed on September 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nicolas Born: For Pasolini. translated by Eric Torgersen. In: slope.org. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Born, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Born, Klaus Jürgen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1979
Place of death Breese in the march