Paul Portner

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Paul Pörtner (born January 25, 1925 in Elberfeld , † November 16, 1984 in Munich ) was a German writer , radio play author and translator .

Life

Paul Pörtner - son of a businessman - was seriously wounded in World War II . In 1945 Pörtner founded the artists' association Der Turm in Wuppertal , of which he was director until 1948. From 1947 to 1948 Pörtner worked as an assistant director at the Städtische Bühnen Wuppertal . From 1948 to 1949 Pörtner was in charge of the Junge Bühne in Remscheid . From 1951 he studied German , Romance studies and philosophy in Cologne and above all in France . During his studies he worked as a photographer and tour guide, among other things. In Wuppertal-Elberfeld he ran - together with Klaus Siebecke - a company for advertising photos under the name it copyright . The photographer Abisag Tüllmann worked for this company from 1956 until she moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1957.

From 1958 he lived as a freelance writer, translator and editor in Zumikon (near Zurich ). Since 1976 he has been a permanent editor with directing and dramaturgy tasks in the radio play department of the North German Radio . His two children Milena Moser and Stephan Pörtner are also writers.

After the first volumes of poetry and partly autobiographical stories and novels, he turned to the theater: as theoretician and author of experimental theater - following on from Kurt Schwitters or Jacob Levy Moreno , Erwin Piscator and Antonin Artaud . Paul Pörtner wrote with a silhouette or The Murderer Are You the first play for the audience to play along with. The premiere in 1963 at the Ulm Theater was followed by 75 productions at German-speaking city and state theaters. Under the title Shear Madness is silhouette the most played play in US history. Productions in 18 other countries helped the German play along to international fame: it became the second most played piece in the world. Pörtner also wrote more than 20 radio plays. In 1968 his radio play What do you say about Erwin Mauss? (with music by Walter Baumgartner ) awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize .

Paul Pörtner, together with his wife Marlis (* 1933), translated , among other things, the play King Ubu by Alfred Jarry into German. Through this he came into contact with the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann , who used excerpts from Pörtner's collection of poems Wurzelwerk in his piece Présence .

The Pörtner estate is in the author archive of the Wuppertal City Library .

Works

Book publications

  • Signs of life . Poems. Self-published, Wuppertal 1956
  • Constellation self image . Poems. Self-published, Wuppertal 1958
  • Shadow stones . Poems. With a slate cut by Raoul Ubac . Self-published, Wuppertal 1958
  • Root system . Poems. Self-published, Wuppertal 1960
  • Experiment theater. Chronicle and documents . Arche, Zurich 1960
  • Tobias Evergreen . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1962
  • Sophie Imperator . Play. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1964
  • Silhouette. Detective piece to play along with . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1964
  • Yesterday . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1965
  • Encircling a fat man. Stories, descriptions, grotesques . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1968
  • Spontaneous theater. Experiences, concepts . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1972

Plays

  • Mensch Meier or The Wheel of Fortune , 1959
  • Variations for two actors , 1960
  • Sophie Imperator , 1961
  • Three , 1962
  • Paper cutting or You are the murderer , 1963
  • Make up your mind , 1965
  • Slot machine , 1967
  • Evocations , 1967
  • Mascha, Mischa and Mai , 1968
  • Stock market game , 1970
  • Jerome in the case , 1970
  • Contact program , 1971
  • Interactions , 1971
  • Test Test Test , 1972
  • Police Hour , 1975
  • Stay out of this , 1975
  • Animal game , 1978

Radio plays

  • Mensch Meier , BR / NDR 1961
  • The consultation hour , NDR 1963
  • Sound game study , BR 1964
  • Stock market game WDR / BR 1967.
  • Dialogue with a locked door , WDR 1967
  • Test , HR / BR 1968
  • What do you think of Erwin Mauss? The encirclement of a fat man , NDR 1968
  • The concrete radio play - noise, music, language processed as sound events , WDR 1969
  • Transfer , WDR 1969
  • Meeting points , WDR / BR / SWF 1969
  • Alea , WDR / BR / SDR 1969 (new version 1971)
  • Shards bring luck , WDR 1970
  • Contact program , WDR 1971
  • Hieronymus in the case , NDR 1973
  • Police hour or review of an investigation , WDR 1973
  • Dadaphone. Homage à Dada , WDR 1974
  • Radio games , WDR 1974
  • The animal game , NDR 1975
  • Comeback - portrait of a woman who sings , WDR 1976
  • Radio play as psychodrama or experiments with spontaneous plays , WDR 1978
  • Blitzlicht , HR 1980
  • Radio reminder , NDR 1983

Translations

  • André Frénaud : Indivisible part . With 6 lithographs by Karel Appel . Gallery Der Spiegel , Cologne undated
  • Alfred Jarry: King Ubu. A drama in 5 acts . Arche, Zurich 1959
  • Pablo Picasso , Jean Tardieu : The room and the flute. Variations to 12 drawings . Arche, Zurich 1959
  • Blaise Cendrars : Gold. The life novel General Suters . Arche, Zurich 1959
  • Jean Tardieu: Chamber theater . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1960
  • André Frénaud: Source of the sources . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1962
  • Jean Tardieu: Professor Froeppel . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike May: Subject: Abisag Tüllmann. Biographical Notes . In: Martha Caspers (Ed.): Abisag Tüllmann 1935-1996. Photo reports and theater photography . Exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, p. 243.
  2. ^ Marianne Kesting : Panorama of the contemporary theater. 50 literary portraits. Piper, Munich 1962.
  3. ^ Marianne Kesting: Childhood on the Wupper . In: The time . No. 09/1966 ( online ).
  4. ↑ The revolutionary as an entertainer . Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 16, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Portner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1984
Place of death Munich