Peter Faecke

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Peter Faecke (born November 3, 1940 in Grunwald , Glatz district , Lower Silesia province ; † March 23, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German writer and publisher .

Life

Peter Faecke grew up in Hannoversch Münden . From 1961 he studied Romance languages , German and philosophy in Göttingen , Berlin and Hamburg and from 1963 in Paris . From 1965 to 1990 he was editor of the culture and science department at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, where he was primarily responsible for topics from the Third World . Peter Faecke stayed abroad several times for longer periods; he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas and directed a media project in Peru . Faecke lived in Cologne, where he also ran his own publishing house, Edition Köln , until 2010 .

Faecke was the author of novels , short stories , reports and radio plays . His first two novels are thematically set in the Third Reich ; the novel cycle The Kowalski project is the broad-based chronicle of a German family in the twentieth century.

Peter Faecke was a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany . He received u. a. The following awards: 1966 the promotion price of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature , 1978 a scholarship from the Villa Massimo and 1991 and 1994 scholarships from the German Literature Fund .

Works

  • The arsonists , Olten [u. a.] 1963
  • The red Milan , Olten [u. a.] 1965
  • Mailing novel , 11 deliveries, Luchterhand, Neuwied 1971 (together with Wolf Vostell )
  • Together against demolition , Wuppertal 1977 (together with Gerd Haag and Rolf Stefaniak)
  • The unstoppable happiness of the Kowalskis , Düsseldorf 1982
  • Flight into life , Zurich 1988
  • When Elizabeth Arden was nineteen in Baden-Baden in 1995
  • The Kowalski Project , Cologne
    • 1. The unstoppable happiness of the Kowalskis , 2002
    • 2nd flight to life , 2001
    • 3. When Elizabeth Arden was nineteen in 2001
    • 4. A Shy One Arrives in Heaven , 2001
    • 5. Wedding preparations in the country , 2003
    • 6. Mr. Vladimiro's secret videos , 2004
    • 7. The story of my beautiful mom , 2007
  • The Southern Cross , reports, Cologne 2001
  • On the overflow of the Andes , reports, Cologne 2002
  • Lima the beautiful, Lima the terrible , reports, Cologne 2004
  • When an old man dies here , Reportagen, Cologne 2005
  • The cardinal, all in red and freshly ironed, A case for Kleefisch , Cologne 2007
  • The tango singer, The second case for Kleefisch , Cologne 2008
  • Who Killed Kiki Diamant? The third case for Kleefisch , Cologne 2011
  • Air Cocaine. The fourth case for Kleefisch , Cologne 2012
  • The seventh dwarf. The fifth case for Kleefisch , Cologne 2013

Editing

  • On the gradual removal from the country , Düsseldorf 1983

literature

  • The writer , an article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 26./27. July 2014 in the Obituaries series

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Faecke. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 243, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Faecke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Grunwald , district of Glatz
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2014
Place of death Cologne