Oskar Ansull

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Oskar Ansull (real name Uwe Quast; born May 29, 1950 in Celle ) is a German writer , poet and reciter who is best known for his reading programs on the life and work of German authors.

Life

Ansull completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller after school. In 1972 he went to Berlin, was assistant director at the Schillertheater and trained as a beekeeper . Ansull has been a freelance writer and inventor of readings since 1984 . From 1989 to 2002 Ansull lived in Hanover and since then in Berlin-Pankow . Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the celler booklet of the RWLE Möller Foundation in Celle , where he published the Zellesche advertisements and leaflets against the Kurzweil in the 1980s and 1990s .

He produced numerous radio programs for NDR and Radio Bremen as well as recordings of his more than 60 reading programs in which Ansull presented authors, such as Johannes Bobrowski in I only know what I told , Georg Büchner in Wozzeck, Woyzeck or what? , Wilhelm Busch in Say Atoms, Say Dust. Wilhelm Busch looking sideways .

Ansull often works with musicians in his programs, including Michael Griener (percussion), Theo Jörgensmann (clarinet) and Vitold Rek (double bass).

Ansull is a founding and ensemble member of the Hebebühne cabaret theater in Hanover. Together with Bengt Kiene he wrote the play Kinderkleinkriegen for the ensemble and has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2018.

Awards and grants

  • 1986/87: Guest of the Atelierhaus Worpswede
  • 1988: Guest at the Paul-Ernst-Wilke-Haus in Bremerhaven
  • 1990: Residence grant from the State of Lower Saxony for Casa Baldi ( Olevano Romano )
  • 1992: Young artist scholarship for literature from the state of Lower Saxony
  • 1993/94: Working grant from the State of Lower Saxony for the Schreyahn artists' farm
  • 1997: Scholarship from the Herrenhaus Edenkoben
  • 2011: Scholarship from the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture

Works

prose

  • Paper strips. In the series: LIBRIS, Die Libristen, Berlin 2013.
  • That's it ... Gretchen. A little family book. hochufer.com, Hannover 2018, ISBN 978-3-941-513-47-1 .

Poetry

  • Disparates. Radius Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-87173-678-3 .
  • Unsecured time. Postscriptum Verlag, Hanover 1988, ISBN 3-922382-41-X .
  • Take your fingers away, my child. (limited edition). The librist, Uetze-Dollbergen 1992.
  • In the run, yes. (limited edition). Eric van der Wal , Bergen / Holland 1992.
  • Irrelevant. A dozen typographic postcards with texts by Oskar Ansull. Schröder, Berlin 1996.
  • With hands and feet. Three cycles. Revonnah, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-927715-39-5 .
  • Seven poems about Grandma Möcker and me. A cycle of narrative poems and an encore. Revonnah, Hanover 1992, new edition. 2005, ISBN 3-934818-60-9 .
  • Home beautiful strangers. Aphorisms. handmade in Linden by Roland Balzer, Nesting Literature, Hanover 2008.
  • greetings to korf. dedications. (limited edition). Eric van der Wal, Bergen / Holland 2009.
  • You think so. Major and minor matters. (limited edition). The Librist, Berlin 2011.

Publications

  • ... lightly about love and death. A program of German poetry. With Georg Eyring. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-251-00401-8 .
  • ZweiGeist Karl Emil Franzos . A reader. German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-936168-21-0 .
  • Heaven what a country! County & Literature. A sighting. In: celler issues 7–8. Series of publications by the RWLE Möller Foundation, Celle 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813668-3-9 .
  • Yes, I have to stay and I will ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Beneken , philosopher pastor publicist, life and work 1765–1824. Municipality of Nienhagen, Dorfstr. 41, 29336 Nienhagen 2011.
  • Karl Emil Franzos: Name studies / Ètudes de noms. bilingual edition (German / French) translated by Ariane Lüthi, published by highufer.com, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-941513-23-5 (About the compulsory assignment of surnames to the Jewish population in Eastern Europe / Galicia.)
  • With Thorsten Albrecht: Invitation to the world theater. Hannes Razum 1907-1994. Artistic director at the Schlosstheater Celle from 1956–1972. An appreciation. In: celler issues 9–10. Series of publications by the RWLE Möller Foundation, Celle 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813668-4-6 .
  • Carlo Emilio Gadda , Bonaventura Tecchi : The poets' barracks. Italian prisoners of war in the Celle camp in 1918. Translated by Ragni Maria Gschwend and Ulrike Stopfel. To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2014, ISBN 978-3-86674-401-1 .
  • In the arms of love ... Hermann Wilhelm Franz Ueltzen. A poet between enlightenment and sensitivity. Life & Work 1759–1808. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-86525-429-0 .
  • Ernst Schulze : The young euphoria. 1789-1817, diaries and letters. Edited with Joachim Kersten. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3117-4 .
  • Home, beautiful strangers. CELLE town & country. A literary sighting. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-727-7

Articles in anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Re-seals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinz Marecek: Die Dichter , in ders .: Lauter lachende Lyrik , 1st edition, Vienna: Amalthea Signum Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-903083-47-9 , p. 112; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Jürgen Voss: Targetedly sent to the land of nightmares / New lifting platform piece , in the daily newspaper [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] , number 7 of January 9, 1993, p. 12
  3. ↑ Cutting judgments. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 4, 2015, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Ansull, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quast, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, editor, reciter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle