Norbert Wehr

Norbert Wehr

Norbert Wehr (born January 4, 1956 in Aachen ) is a German publicist who lives in Cologne. Since 1982 he has published the literary magazine Schreibheft .

Life

Wehr, the son of a pediatrician, attended a seminar by the writer Nicolas Born at the University of Essen while he was doing community service in 1975/76 . Born, with whom Wehr also exchanged letters, encouraged his enthusiasm for literature. Wehr studied general and comparative literature at the University of Essen, especially with Jürgen Manthey and Erhard Schütz . In 1978 he met Ulrich Homann, one of the founders of the literary magazine Schreibheft , and took part in its editing. It was that issued by military spending in 1998 in the since the 1980s one of the most important organs for quality literature in Germany, which testifies under weir editorship Reprint appeared. “The joy of discovery” also determines his work as a literary critic , author of essays and audio pieces , editor and as organizer and moderator of readings by authors. His efforts to convey difficult literature in particular have received several awards. He is a member of various juries (e.g. the City of Münster Prize for International Poetry ).

Works

editor

• Hanns Grössel : In the labyrinth of the world. Essays and reviews on French literature. Düsseldorf: Lilienfeld 2017 ISBN 978-3-940357-63-2
• Thomas Kling : The burned performance. An audio book. (With Ulrike Janssen). Series of publications by the Kunststiftung NRW, 5th Düsseldorf: Lilienfeld 2015 ISBN 978-3940357496 .
• Thomas Kling: The burning archive. Unpublished poems, letters, manuscripts and photos from the estate as well as remotely published poems, essays and conversations during his lifetime. (With Ute Langanky ). Afterword by Marcel Beyer . Berlin: Suhrkamp 2012. ISBN 978-3-518-46351-2 .
• Reach into the heart of words. For Hanns Grössel . A florilegium. (With Jürgen Ritte ). Essen: Rigodon 2012. ISBN 978-3-924071-35-6 .
• Herman Melville : Moby-Dick; or: the whale. German by Friedhelm Rathjen . Illustrations by Rockwell Kent . With an essay by Jean-Pierre Lefebvre. Frankfurt am Main: Zweiausendeins 2004. ISBN 3-86150-647-5 .
• Copybook. Reprint of issues 22–50. Five volumes. Frankfurt / M .: Two thousand and one 1998.
• Herman Melville: Hunilla, the Chola widow. Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne and a story. Trans. V. Friedhelm Rathjen. Berlin: Friedenauer Presse 1993. ISBN 3-921592-83-6 .

Audio pieces

• Mathias Énard's "Compass". An audio piece. (With Ulrike Janssen ), WDR 3 , 2016, 55 min.
• All past moments. The nervous diaries of Jonas Mekas. An audio piece. (With Ulrike Janssen), SWR , 2014, 55 min.
• Europe Callin ' - Ezra Pound Speakin'. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR , 2012, 55 min.
• There is Copenhagen, there is Copenhagen. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2011, 50 min.
• He who writes cannot kill. A walk in the forest with Reinhard Jirgl . WDR, 2009, 55 min.
• Enemy observation. Dutch volunteers of the Waffen SS tell. (With Ulrike Janssen). Deutschlandfunk , 2009, 50 min.
• From writing on the other side of the ditch. A visit to Anja Utler . (With Ulrike Janssen). SWR, 2008, 55 min.
• Hallucinogenic Realities. Edo Popovic and Ivana Sajko. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2008, 55 min.
• Hunger angel. About a joint novel by Herta Müller and Oskar Pastior . (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2007, 60 min.
• The radio is ready for conversation. Questions to Helmut Heißenbüttel , radio editor. (With Ulrike Janssen). SWR, 2007, 53 min.
• An evening with Peggy Sue. Wolfgang Welt reads in the Schauspielhaus Bochum. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2007, 53 min.
• Schübelbach oral cavity. Visiting Anton Bruhin . (With Ulrike Janssen). SWR, 2006, 57 min.
• Afterimage acceleration. The poet Thomas Kling. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2006, 60 min.
• Persistent flowers, bird calls. Nicolas Born, heard you again. (With Ulrike Janssen). Deutschlandfunk, 2006, 50 min.
• Digression or sentence in speech. Cloudy conversations with Hans Arnfrid Astel . (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2005, 55 min.
• Visiting myself . With Peter Kurzck in Staufenberg. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2005, 60 min.
• Tito's parrot. Brioni - acoustic portrait of an island. (With Ulrike Janssen). Deutschlandfunk, 2005, 50 min.
• Hubert Fichte speaks - does not speak. A radio ceremony. (With Ulrike Janssen). Deutschlandfunk, 2004, 50 min.
• McCarthy speaks. About ventriloquism and other vocal exercises. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2004, 55 min.
• "... and in the words small microphones". Peter Waterhouse on new stories, the father, secret services, agents and double agents, the overflow and the Berlin tunnel. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2004, 55 min.
• Through the thicket of references. With Bodo Hell in search of the whiskers of St. Antonius. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2004, 55 min.
• Ash city, diving language. Uwe Tellkamp's “Nautilus”. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2003, 55 min.
• Take turns narrative fire. The writer Anselm Glück . (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2003, 55 min.
• The heartbreaking reasons of time . Paulus Bohmers Kaddish songs. (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2003, 55 min.
• A planet on its head. The writer, musician and performer Michael Stauffer . (With Ulrike Janssen). WDR, 2002, 55 min.

Awards

• 1988: Promotion award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 1989: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the City of Hamburg
• 1994: Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize
• 1994: Alfred Kerr Prize
• 1998: Literature thaler of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2001: Kurt Wolff Prize (for exercise book )
• 2010: Ruhr Literature Prize
• 2015: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2015: Audiobook of the year (together with Ulrike Janssen for Die burned Performance )
• 2015: Prize of the German Record Critics (together with Ulrike Janssen for the burned performance )

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Wehr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Copybook magazine website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ina Hartwig : “Just don't run into open doors. The explorer-friendly literary journal Schreibheft has existed for 30 years. That's nice and a reason to meet the editor Norbert Wehr ”. Frankfurter Rundschau , April 24, 2007.
2. ↑ Norbert Wehr: Nothing as it really is ... A thank you for the Ruhr Literature Prize 2010 . Hamm, November 12, 2010. (PDF; 34 kB)
3. ^ "Ruhr Literature Prize 2010 for Norbert Wehr. Jens Dierksen in conversation with Norbert Wehr ”, WAZ , November 11, 2010.
4. ^ Press comments on the website of the magazine Schreibheft , accessed on May 19, 2017.
5. ↑ Information see under publications as editor