Paulus Böhmer

Paulus Böhmer ( pseudonym : Jan Lue Verrou ; born September 20, 1936 as Paul Christoph Böhmer in Berlin ; † December 5, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer .

life and work

Paulus Böhmer grew up in Berlin and from 1943 in Upper Hesse . After graduating from high school, he studied law in Frankfurt am Main, but broke off this course and worked as a construction worker. He began to study architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and literature with Walter Höllerer . After dropping out of these studies, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in Mannheim. From 1967 he lived in Nieder-Ofleiden in Upper Hesse , where he worked as a perennial and ornamental grass breeder. In 1974 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he carried out various activities, writing and painting on the side. From 1985 to 2001 he was head of the Hessian Literature Office in Frankfurt, today's Hessian Literature Forum . Böhmer was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

The poet Paulus Böhmer was an outsider in contemporary German-language literature. He was a representative of the rhythmic-epic long poem , which tries to create an intoxicating effect on the reader with its juxtaposition of elements that seem to be incompatible at first glance. The American beat poets and rock 'n' roll exerted important influences on Boehmer's poetic development .

Böhmer was married to the German-Israeli translator Lydia Böhmer and lived in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , where he died on December 5, 2018 at the age of 82.

Works (selection)

• Songbook of quantity. Poems (under the name Paul Christoph Böhmer), with seven lithographs by Bernhard Jäger , Eremitenpresse , Stierstadt im Taunus 1963.
• Fur flowers under the lids of the jam jars. Poems , Gulliver Press, Bad Homburg 1965.
• Softgirls (under the name Jan Lue Verrou, together with Bettina von Heuenstein). With photos by Gunter Rambow , Zero-Press, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
• Actions on the outer bark , March publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 978-3-873191-01-3 .
• Peter O. Chotjewitz : Itschi has a flea in his ear, Datschi has a tit. with ten colored collages by Paulus Böhmer, Fackelträger, Hanover 1973.
• Peter O. Chotjewitz: Children, children! with nine colored collages by Paulus Böhmer, Torchbearer, Hanover 1973.
• The nobleman's seriousness must be luxury. with preliminary remarks by Uve Schmidt , Bernhard Jäger and Rolf Haubl, Draier-Verlag, Friedberg 1984, ISBN 978-3-923530-08-3 .
• Darwing wheel. Poems 1966-1986 , Anabas-Verlag, Giessen 1987, ISBN 978-3-87038-134-9 .
• My first death , Paria-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-92295215-2 .
• Then said Einstein. Poems 1987-1989 , Anabas-Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 978-3-87038-158-5 .
• Kaddish , Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-922510-62-8 .
• Your black-tiled blood - your blood. Poems 1990–1993 , Anabas-Verlag, Giessen 1993, ISBN 978-3-87038-256-8 .
• Mammal suffering. Kaddish & other poems, 1993-1995 , axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-929232-29-5 .
• Die Ohm , Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 1997, ISBN 978-3-929375-14-5 .
• A little while ago, a long time ago, now / note about monsters [with Klaus Reichert ], axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-929232-59-2 .
• Of which Schnecken (together with Katharina Hacker ). axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-929232-53-0 .
• Palais d'Amorph. Poems , axel dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-929232-28-8 .
• But you're beautiful as a million wagons , Anabas-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-87038-330-5 .
• Lama, Lama Sabachthani , Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2001, ISBN 978-3-929375-28-2 .
• I would be immortal. Poems 1996-1999 , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-423-12892-6 .
• Kaddish I - X. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89561126-1 .
• Fox lights. Schöffling and Co., Frankfurt am Main, 2005 ISBN 978-3-89561127-8 .
• Kaddish XI - XXI. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main, 2007 ISBN 978-3-89561128-5 .
• 21 letters to Froilleins , Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2008, ISBN 978-3-929375-84-8 .
• Near the sea. On land. With me. Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2010, ISBN 978-3-941126-06-0 .
• Pasta on the terrace at night , Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2011, ISBN 978-3-941126-26-8 .
• Everything wants to go with water Water wants to go , Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2014, ISBN 978-3-941126-56-5 .
• Wer.ich.bin - about putting parts together. Poems , Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-945400-01-2 .
• that you exist . Collages, Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2016, ISBN 978-3941126824 .
• No home . Poems (published posthumously), Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2019, ISBN 978-3946685227 .

translation

• Jehuda Amichai : Jerusalem Poems. Zurich [u. a.] 2000 (translated together with Lydia Böhmer)
• Yehuda Amichai: Time. Frankfurt am Main 1998 (translated together with Lydia Böhmer)
• Asher Reich : Tel Aviver impatience. axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (translated together with Lydia Böhmer and Werner Söllner)

Awards

• In 2010, Böhmer was awarded the Hölty Prize for Poetry for his life's work .
• 2011: Goethe plaque from the state of Hesse for his life's work
• 2013: Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main
• 2013: Robert Gernhardt Prize for the poetry project Zum Wasser wants everything Water wants to go
• 2015: Peter Huchel Prize for Zum Wasser wants everything Water wants to go

literature

• Alban Nikolai Herbst , Werner Söllner and Asher Reich: Who I am: Notes on Paulus Böhmer by Paulus Böhmer. axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998 ISBN 978-3-929232-67-7 .
• Theo Breuer : Kaddish IX (2002). In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, pp. 359–360, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 .
• Martin Rector, Jan Volker Röhnert: Dossier. In: Gegenstrophe - sheets for poetry. Wehrhahn, Hanover, ISBN 978-3-86525-244-9 , pp. 71-91.
• Martin Rector: Paulus Böhmer. Large format painter poet and lyric poet (1936–2018) , Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-726-0 .
• Paulus Böhmer, mammal suffering . Review by Alban Nikolai Herbst on Mammalian suffering on The Jungle. Otherworld. January 22, 2015.
• Jan Volker Röhnert, Romina Nikolić (eds.), The Master of Long Breath. In honor of Paulus Böhmer . Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-945400-36-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paulus Böhmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Paulus Böhmer at perlentaucher.de
• Alban Nikolai Herbst: Everything pushes to earth , about Böhmer, full text , September 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Magenau : The flashing self. In the word universe of the poet Paulus Böhmer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 16, 2015, p. 14.
2. ↑ Radically escalating - On the death of the Frankfurt poet Paulus Böhmer. In: journal-frankfurt.de. Journal Frankfurt, December 7, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 2010 Paulus Böhmer . Website of the City of Hanover, accessed January 20, 2020
4. ^ Hessian Ministry for Science and Art : Directory of awarded Goethe plaques, accessed January 20, 2020
5. ↑ Website of the City of Frankfurt am Main , accessed January 20, 2020
6. ^ Robert Gernhardt Prize 2013 for Paulus Böhmer and Ricarda Junge . Website of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, accessed January 20, 2020
7. ↑ Peter Huchel Prize 2015 : Website of the Peter Huchel Prize accessed January 20, 2020