Paul-Hermann Gruner

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Paul-Hermann Gruner (born September 28, 1959 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German political scientist , journalist , writer and visual artist .

Life

Paul-Hermann Gruner was born as the third child of the internist Paul Gruner and the pediatric nurse Gabriele Gruner. He was born in the Opel city of Rüsselsheim and later wrote about it like this: “In this city you either become a car or an author ”.

After graduating from the Immanuel Kant School in Rüsselsheim and doing community service , Gruner studied political science , history and general education from 1981 to 1987 at what is now the Technical University of Darmstadt with the degrees Magister Artium (MA) and Dr. phil. His master's thesis with the main title The Staged Polarization is a language and ideology-critical comparison of the campaign language in the federal election campaigns of 1957 and 1987 and was published as a book in 1990.

Gruner had been writing novels since he was 15. His texts were first published in 1984. Later texts appeared in literary magazines such as Lichtungen (Graz) and New German Literature (ndl, Berlin).

Since 1977 Gruner has also been active as a visual artist (object, assembly, installation). Inspired by the imagery of Dada ( Marcel Duchamp , Max Ernst , Kurt Schwitters ), Polish poster art, the creative experiments in photo journalism and poster design of the Weimar Republic (especially: Heartfield, Umbo), the political caricature of the Federal Republic (especially Horst Haitzinger ) As well as the politically directly involved poster art of the early 1970s ( Klaus Staeck , Ernst Volland , Tomi Ungerer ), Gruner developed works on paper (collage: chiasmage, confrontation, assemblage), through object assembly and ready-made to three-dimensional objects and installations his critical-expressive personal style. In 1981 he went public with his first major solo exhibition. Thematically, however, not only the social is visible in his work (ideology, violence, wealth vs. poverty, technology vs. nature): "Everything is political", he says, "even eat gummy bears"

From 1985 to 1996 Gruner worked as a freelance journalist. He wrote record, CD, concert and book reviews as well as texts on the history of culture and mentality for regional and national newspapers and magazines, including New Political Literature , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Darmstädter Echo , Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung , Mannheimer Morgen , Rheinischer Merkur , Jazz -Thetik, Büchner Kulturmagazin, Vorwärts , seldom also for the radio ( NDR , Hessischer Rundfunk ). From 1996 to 2016 he was editor of the daily Darmstädter Echo.

Gruner's satirical novel Wunderlich und die Logic , published in 2012, and his short stories published in 2014 under the title La Tour du Mariage met with a positive response .

Gruner wrote texts a. a. for the cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt , the Cicero , Deutschlandradio Kultur and the Munzinger archive . He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German Writers (VS). He acts as managing director for the Society of Hessian Literature Friends. Gruner has lived in Darmstadt since the early 1980s.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Wars bring peace. 6 ballads . Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-88323-471-0 .
  • About art . Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-89009-052-4 .
  • The staged polarization. The election campaign language of the parties in the federal election campaigns in 1957 and 1987 . Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-631-41831-0 .
  • Made in Germany. A scenic collage . Play, 1995 (performed several times, not published).
  • Women and children first. Thinking block feminism. A polemic . Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-499-60946-0 .
  • The Pisa solution. Epigrams, poems, short texts . Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935977-13-1 .
  • 25 favorite places. City feuilletons . Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-87390-243-5 .
  • Sweater for penguins. Cross sections, glosses, satires . Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-87390-278-7 .
  • Whimsical and the logic . Roman, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-87390-314-2 .
  • La Tour du Mariage / The Wedding Tower. Seven short stories by the first Darmstadt tower scribe with a photographic homage to Darmstadt's landmark . Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-939855-35-4
  • Cicadas with gear. Cross sections, glosses, satires. Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-87390-357-9
  • The suggestive configuration of "femininity" . Women's magazines, doing gender and the continuity of traditional role stereotypes, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-19396-6
  • The extremely short time of bliss. Ten short stories and a radio play. Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-87390-405-7

As editor or co-editor

  • Step by step. An anthology of the literature group POSEIDON, Otzberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811880-1-1
  • Liberation movement for men. On the way to gender democracy. Essays and analyzes, edited together with Eckhard Kuhla, Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8379-2003-1
  • Stadt-Land-Kuss, an anthology of the literature group POSEIDON, Otzberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811880-8-0
  • From targetrad to quill pen. Eleven physicists from GSI meet nine authors from the POSEIDON literature group. An interactive art project between literature and science, edited together with Eberhard Malwitz and Carola Pomplun, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-87390-391-3

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981 Rüsselsheim City Theater, foyers
  • 1985, 1986, 1987 Perspective Gallery, Darmstadt
  • 1994 Mathildenhöhe exhibition halls, Darmstadt (B)
  • 1994 2nd Federal German Satirical Week, Reinheim (B)
  • 1994 Gallery of the Roman Factory , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995 Exhibition for the Art Prize of the City of Obernburg (B)
  • 1995 Darmstadt Municipal Gallery
  • 1996 Atelierhaus Vahle, Darmstadt
  • 1999 House of Economy and Industry, Düsseldorf (B)
  • 1999 Gallery in the Keller-Klub, Darmstadt
  • 2000 European Youth Circus, Mail Art Project: Wiesbaden and Brussels (B)
  • 2001 Rosenborn Gallery, Kelkheim (B)
  • 2001 Gallery Trigon, Darmstadt
  • 2002 Gallery of the Darmstadt Regional Council
  • 2004 Gallery in the ETA Hoffmann House, Plock, Poland (B)
  • 2004 Inhabited art installation (bki), Darmstadt (B)
  • 2006 Atelierhaus Vahle / Gallery C. Klein, Darmstadt (B)
  • 2006 University Library Frankfurt am Main (B)
  • 2006 3rd International Forest Art Path , Darmstadt (B)
  • 2007 Vogelfrei 7: WintergARTen, Art Biennale, Darmstadt (B)
  • 2007 Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Krumau, Czech Republic (B)
  • 2008 Gallery in the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art (HMWK), Wiesbaden (B)
  • 2009 Darmstadt Art Archive, Darmstadt (B)
  • 2012 Earl-Street Gallery, Darmstadt (B)
  • 2015 Atelier M, Darmstadt (B)

Awards

  • 1990: Prize of the Albert Osswald Foundation ( Technical University of Darmstadt )
  • 2006: Ernst Elias Niebergall Prize for print media journalists
  • 2007: Egon Schiele grant from the Hessian state government / HMWK
  • 2009: Lithuania grant from the Hessian Literature Council
  • 2010: Egon Schiele grant from the Hessian state government / HMWK
  • 2013: Literature scholarship: 1st Darmstadt tower writer
  • 2018: Soltau artist apartment

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul-Hermann Gruner: Sweaters for penguins. Darmstadt 2009, p. 157.
  2. ↑ Art scene AZ. Darmstadt 1997, p. 140.
  3. ↑ Voice Messages , No. 60, IV 2013, p. 23.
  4. ^ "Wittgenstein and the Stubentiger", in: culturmag.de/rubriken/buecher , page accessed November 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ faustkultur.de/2019-0-PH-Gruner-La-Tour-du-Mariage , , pageview November 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 245, October 22, 2014, p. 38.
  7. ↑ Paul-Hermann Gruner appointed first Darmstadt tower clerk . In: Focus . April 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Paul-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, writer, journalist and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim