Peter Härtling

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Peter Härtling at the age of 80 (2013)

Peter Härtling (born November 13, 1933 in Chemnitz ; † July 10, 2017 in Rüsselsheim am Main ) was a German writer , editor and journalist .

Life

Peter Härtling (2011 in the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival )

Peter Härtling first spent his childhood in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, where his father ran a law firm. During the Second World War the family moved to Olomouc in Moravia , at the end of the war they fled from the Red Army to Zwettl in Lower Austria . In June 1945 the father died in a Soviet prisoner of war . After the war, Härtling moved to Nürtingen , where he attended the Max-Planck-Gymnasium and became a trainee at the Nürtinger Zeitung . In 1946 his mother took her own life. Härtling had to witness their rape by Russian soldiers in 1945. In 1948 he met the sculptor Fritz Ruoff in Nürtingen , who became his mentor. In 1959 he married the psychologist Mechthild Maier. The couple have four children together.

In 1954/1955 Härtling was an editor at the Heidenheimer Zeitung , from 1956 to 1962 for the Deutsche Zeitung and from 1962 to 1964 for the magazine The Month , of which he was then co-editor until 1970. In the 1960s Härtling took part in election campaigns for the SPD , later he turned away from it and supported the peace movement .

Härtling worked in 1967 as chief editor and from 1968 to the end of 1973 in the management of S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1974 he has worked as a freelance writer. In the 1983/84 winter semester, Härtling gave the Frankfurt poetics lectures , during which the story The Spanish Soldier was created based on a photograph by Robert Capa . From 1985 to 1991 he was a member of the EKD Synod .

From 1998 to 2006 Härtling was President of the Hölderlin Society . He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , the German Academy for Language and Poetry , the Academy of Arts Berlin and the PEN Center Germany . He has also received many literary prizes and other kinds of awards, such as B. in 2004 the honorary citizenship of the city of Nürtingen, in which a private high school was named after him. Around 20 schools have been named after him so far. From 2012 Härtling worked as an “ambassador” for the German Lung Foundation .

Peter Härtling lived in Mörfelden-Walldorf in Hesse from 1973 until his death .

Act

Study of writer Peter Härtling in his house in Mörfelden-Walldorf (March 2019)

Peter Härtling dedicated a large part of his literary work - both in poetry and prose - to coming to terms with history and his own past. The autobiographical novel Zwettl (1973) deals with the time in Lower Austria after the family fled from the Red Army . Love added (1980) processed Härtling's memories of his father, who died early. In his book Herzwand , published in 1990, entitled Mein Roman , the author describes - triggered by a cardiac examination in a clinic - his life from arriving as a refugee child in Nürtingen to being supported in school and training to participating in the disputes about the West runway in Frankfurt Airport.

Härtling's poems, essays and reviews are also thematically shaped by his home, which he found in Württemberg .

The background for another focus of his work is the literature and music of the Romantic period . Härtling prepared the life stories of the writers Friedrich Hölderlin , Wilhelm Waiblinger and ETA Hoffmann as well as the composers Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann in novel biographies. With Niembsch (= Nikolaus Lenau ) he made an early contribution to postmodernism . The song cycle Winterreise by Schubert was particularly important for Härtling, so that in 1988 he published his own book, Der Wanderer .

“We are like the nameless wanderer. We no longer hike to arrive, we are on the way in a frosty, cooling world. "

- Peter Härtling in Der Wanderer , 1988

Children's books

After Härtling had given a laudation for the Czech children's book author Jan Procházka in 1969 , he began to write books for children himself in 1970. His books for children and young people mostly deal with social problems that affect children. In the the Hirbel was (1973) is about a mentally disabled foster child and the associated social exclusion, Oma (1975) deals with aging and death, Theo runs away (1977) the uprooting from home and parents. In Ben loves Anna (1979) a German student falls in love with a Polish student.

Radio

For many years, Peter Härtling was the presenter of the program Literatur im Kreuzverhör on hr2 , the cultural program of the Hessischer Rundfunk . From January 2016 until his death he moderated Das kleine Literaturquiz every month .

Works

Autograph

Poems

  • poemes and songs. Bechtle, Esslingen 1953.
  • Yamin's stations. Bechtle, Esslingen 1955.
  • At home in lines. About the adventure of poetry, poetry writing and poetry reading. Neske, Pfullingen 1957.
  • Under the fountain. Bechtle, Esslingen 1958.
  • Spielgeist Spiegelgeist. Goverts, Stuttgart 1962.
  • New poems. edited by Hans Dieter Schäfer. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1972.
  • Address. Poems from the years 1972–1977. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1977.
  • Warning. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1983.
  • The Mörsinger poplar. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1987.
  • Selected Poems - 1953–1979. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1979.
  • The Poems - 1953–1987. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Jürgen Brodwolf and Peter Härtling: Twenty Transparent Sheets / Fifteen Poems. Radius, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Peter Härtling and Arnulf Rainer : Angels - are there any? 28 poems and 30 overpaintings. Radius, Stuttgart 1992.
  • The Land I Made Up - Poems 1990-1993. Radius, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Horizon theater. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997.
  • Trying to talk to my son - poetry. Radius, Stuttgart 1999.
  • A balcony made of paper. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000.
  • come - go - stay. Poems. Radius, Stuttgart 2003.
  • Shadow Throws - Poems 2005. Radius, Stuttgart 2005.

Novels, short stories, autobiographies

  • In the light of the comet. The story of an opposition. Goverts, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Niembsch or The Standstill. A suite, Goverts, Stuttgart 1964.
  • Janek. Portrait of a memory, Goverts, Stuttgart 1966.
  • The family festival or the end of the story. Goverts, Stuttgart 1969.
  • One evening one night one morning. A story, Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1971.
  • Zwettl, checking a memory. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1973.
  • A woman . Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1974, ISBN 978-3-42312921-3 .
  • Holderlin. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1976.
  • Hubert or The Return to Casablanca. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1978.
  • Love brought back. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1980. Luchterhand collection, 1991, ISBN 3-630-61357-8 .
  • The repeated accident. Stories with an afterword by the author. Reclam, Stuttgart 1980.
  • The threefold Mary. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1982.
  • Windmill. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1983.
  • Felix Guttmann. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1985.
  • Letter to my children. Radius, Stuttgart 1986.
  • Waiblinger's eyes. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1987.
  • The little wave. Four stories about the story of creation. Radius, Stuttgart 1987.
  • The hiker. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1988.
  • Heart wall. My novel, Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 1990.
  • Letter to my children. Extended by a second letter. Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 1991.
  • Schubert. Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 1992
  • Božena. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994.
  • Schumann's shadow. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996.
  • Big little sister. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998.
  • Hoffmann or The Diverse Love. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001.
  • Learn to live. Memories, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003.
  • The lifeline. An experience. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, most recently dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-13535-1 .
  • O'Bear to grandson Samuel. A story with five letters. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008.
  • Dearest fennel! The life of Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn in Etudes and Intermezzi . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-462-04312-9 .
  • Days with an echo. Two stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04572-7 .
  • 80. Attempt at a sum. Radius, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-87173-957-6 .
  • Verdi. A novel in nine fantasies. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04808-7 .
  • The mind player . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3462051773 .

Drama

  • Gilles. A costume piece from the revolution. Goverts, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Melchinger winter trip. Stations for memory. Radius, Stuttgart 1998. World premiere 1998, Theater Lindenhof Melchingen.

Children's books

  • . .. and that's the whole family. Daily runs with children. Georg Bitter, Recklinghausen 1970.
  • That was the Hirbel. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1973.
  • For reading loud and quiet. Stories and poems for children, Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1975.
  • Granny. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1975.
  • Theo runs away. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1977.
  • Ben loves Anna . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1979.
  • Sofie makes stories. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1980.
  • Old john Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1981.
  • Jakob behind the blue door. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1983.
  • Crutch . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1986 (filmedunder the title Krücke 1993).
  • Stories for children. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1988.
  • Francs. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1989.
  • Peter Härtling for children. The colorful dog - special issue. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1989
  • There are six of us with Clara. From the Scheurers who go out of their way to be a family. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1991
  • Fundevögel: Stories to read and reread. For children from nine to ninety. Edited and with an afterword by Peter Härtling. Radius, Stuttgart 1991.
  • Narrative book. Stories, poems, texts, samples, selection by Hans-Joachim Gelberg. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1992
  • Lena on the roof. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1993.
  • Jette. Narrative book. Stories, poems, texts, samples. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1995.
  • Aunt Tilli makes the theater. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1997.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "I am in such good spirits". Goethe for children. Selected by Peter Härtling. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Trip against the wind. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 2000
  • Novels for children in three volumes. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2003
  • Paul the house child. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2010.
  • Hello grandpa love Mirjam. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 2013.
  • Djadi, refugee boy. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2016.

Essays, reviews, essays, speeches, interviews, editions

  • Palmström greets Anna Blume. Essay and anthology of the ghosts from Poetia. Goverts, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Forgotten books. Notes and examples, Goverts, Stuttgart 1966.
  • The fathers. Reports and Stories, ed. by Peter Härtling, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Verse for freedom. Edited and introduced by Peter Härtling, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1976.
  • My reading book. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • My reading. Literature as Resistance, ed. by Klaus Siblewski . Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1981
  • You are Orplid, my country! Texts by Eduard Mörike and Ludwig Amandus Bauer . Edited by Peter Härtling. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1982
  • Literature in Democracy. For Walter Jens on his 60th birthday. Edited by Peter Härtling. Kindler, Munich 1983.
  • The Spanish soldier, or finding and inventing. Frankfurt poetics lectures, Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1984.
  • And hear from each other. Speeches out of anger and confidence, Radius, Stuttgart 1984.
  • German poems of the 19th century. Edited by Peter Härtling. German Book Association, Stuttgart / Munich 1984.
  • Stories for us. Selected by Peter Härtling. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1984.
  • Friedrich Holderlin. Selected by Peter Härtling. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1984.
  • Appropriation. About writers. Memories of poets and books. Radius, Stuttgart 1985.
  • The hiker. Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 1988.
  • Information for readers. Edited by Martin Lüdke. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1988.
  • The explanation. Excellent short stories. Edited by Peter Härtling, Theodor Weißenborn , Rudolf Otto Wiener. Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988.
  • An unredeemed legacy. Speech at the opening of the Hermann Kurz exhibition, Reutlingen 1988. Jürgen Schweier Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 1988.
  • Whoever writes ahead has thought back. Essays. Edited by Klaus Siblewski . Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Notes to the music. Radius, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Between downfall and departure. Essays, speeches, conversations, compiled by Günther Drommer . Construction, Berlin / Weimar 1990.
  • Peter Härtling in conversation. Edited by Klaus Siblewski. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Brothers and sisters. Diary of a synod. With the speech UnserLand MeinerLand KeinerLand AllerLand. Radius, Stuttgart 1991.
  • Text tracks. Concrete and critical information on the pulpit speech. Eight volumes. Edited by Peter Härtling. Radius, Stuttgart 1990–1994.
  • The demands of children's literature. Annual gift in 1991 from the Circle of Friends of the Institute for Youth Book Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
  • I was too tired for all of this. Letters from exile. Edited by Peter Härtling. Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 1991.
  • Jürgen Krätzer: Conversation with Peter Härtling. In: Sinn und Form , 2/1992, pp. 268–287.
  • From aging. A presentation. Friends of Dr.-Wöhringer-Heim, Nürtingen 1992.
  • Areas, places - Hölderlin's landscape. A lecture. Swabian Bank, Stuttgart 1993.
  • The wandering water. Romantic music and poetry. Salzburg lectures 1994. Radius, Stuttgart 1994.
  • My father's area. in: Experienced history. Edited by Jürgen Pfeiffer and Gerhard Fichtner . Schwäbisches Tagblatt publishing house, Tübingen 1994.
  • Always keep me kindly in memory. Letters from and to Friedrich Hölderlin. Selected and ed. by Peter Härtling. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994.
  • Holderlin and Nürtingen. Writings of the Hölderlin Society, Volume 19. Edited by Peter Härtling and Gerhard Kurz . Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1994.
  • Do you hear it strike half past eight: The world of school in poetry and prose. Edited by Peter Härtling and Christoph Haacker , Radius, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Musical notation. Words and phrases about music. Radius, Stuttgart 1998.
  • The other me. A conversation with Jürgen Krätzer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998.
  • Speeches and essays on children's literature. Edited by Hans-Joachim Gelberg . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2003.
  • Peter Härtling: remembered reality - told truth. The cities of my childhood. With an introductory speech by José FA Oliver and an afterword and a bibliography by Walter Schmitz. (Dresden Poetics Lecturer on Central European Literature). Thelem, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-935712-31-6 .

Honors and awards (selection)

At the presentation of the Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Prize with the Mayor of Alzey Christoph Burkhard in February 2015

Namesake

So far (as of 2017), 20 schools in Germany have had his name.

year place state School type Remarks
1991 Langenfeld (Rhineland) North Rhine-Westphalia Community elementary school since October 29, 1991
≤1995 Schleswig Schleswig-Holstein Support center for mentally and multiply handicapped children and young people
≤1995 Wuppertal North Rhine-Westphalia Special school with a focus on emotional and social development
≤1995 Gaildorf Baden-Württemberg special school in the district of Eutendorf
≤1995 Jump Lower Saxony special school
1995 Friedrichsdorf Hesse primary school
1995 Riedstadt Hesse special school New building inaugurated in 2017
1995 Dusseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia Special school with a focus on learning, primary level and lower secondary level Renamed in 2015 to Alfred Herrhausen School
1998 Werl North Rhine-Westphalia special school in the district of Sönnern
1998 Remchingen Baden-Württemberg primary school
1998 Fassberg Lower Saxony special school Disbanded in 2013
1999 Wilferdingen Baden-Württemberg primary school full name: "Peter-Härtling-Schule Wilferdingen"
2003 Mainz-Finthen Rhineland-Palatinate primary school since June 27, 2003
2007 Nürtingen Baden-Württemberg Private high school
2007 Because of the city Baden-Württemberg special school
? Estedt Saxony-Anhalt Private primary school
? Pods Baden-Württemberg All-day primary school
? Mülheim an der Ruhr North Rhine-Westphalia Funding focus Emotional u. Social Development in the Dümpten district , closed in 2015
? Walheim (Aachen) North Rhine-Westphalia special school Part of the community elementary school (GGS) Walheim
? Wetzlar Hesse primary school
2018 Berlin-Spandau Berlin primary school Previously Charlie Rivel Elementary School
2018 Erkelenz North Rhine-Westphalia primary school

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Härtling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dpa / fas: writer: Peter Härtling died at the age of 83. In: welt.de . July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ cbu / cpa / dpa: novelist and children's book author: Peter Härtling is dead. In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ P. Härtling's website, accessed October 1, 2011
  4. ↑ compassion for my own "child in me".
  5. ^ A b Life data of Peter Härtling. In: haertling.de. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ilka Scheidgen: Peter Härtling for his 80th birthday - a portrait. (PDF)
  7. ↑ a b c 80 years ago the poet Peter Härtling was born. Christian Lindner on Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 13, 2013, accessed November 13, 2013
  8. ↑ EKD: under point 4.7 Overview of assets. ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Member entry of Peter Härtling at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017
  10. ↑ SZ.de/dpa/sks: writer Peter Härtling died. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Peter Härtling: Heart wall - My novel. Luchterhand, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-630-86737-5 .
  12. ↑ Markus Bücker: Contrafactures of Modernity. Memory as Intertextuality in Early Postmodernism (1964/1981). Philology and Cultural History Volume 1. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8498-1074-0 .
  13. ↑ Heike Rundnagel: Peter Härtling: That was the Hirbel ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), 7/2006, online at agprim.uni-siegen.de
  14. ↑ Christel Lauterbach: Honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen for Peter Härtling. Justus Liebig University Giessen, press release from January 19, 2001 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on July 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Helmut Glück , Walter Krämer , Eberhard Schöck (Ed.): German Language Culture Prize. Speeches and Speeches (2012). IFB Verlag im Institut für Betriebslinguistik, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-931263-50-8 ( online as PDF, 1.3 MB ), pp. 40–57.
  16. ↑ Press release of the city of Alzey from November 25, 2014.
  17. ↑ Thomas Ehlke: He got involved, angry, committed. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz from March 2, 2015; P. 17.
  18. ↑ Reinhold Haring: It was about the well-being of the children. In: swp.de. July 8, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  19. ^ Homepage of the Peter-Härtling-Schule in Springe , accessed on July 11, 2017
  20. ↑ Anke Mosch: Learning in the capital "T". In: echo-online.de. July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Sub-locations website of the Alfred Herrhausen School, accessed on July 11, 2017
  22. ↑ Kreis Soest: See the world with different colors. In: hsk-aktuell.de. July 19, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Udo Genth: Cellesche Zeitung - A celebration for the school closure. (No longer available online.) In: cellesche-zeitung.de. June 21, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 11, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cellesche-zeitung.de  
  24. ↑ Peter-Härtling-Schule, Faßberg / Celebrations for a sad occasion
  25. ↑ Peter-Härtling-Schule Wilferdingen , homepage, online at peter-haertling-schule-wilferdingen.de
  26. ↑ PHS-Hülben , homepage, online at huelben.de
  27. ↑ Annette Lehmann: Of four special needs schools only two remain. In: derwesten.de. November 11, 2014, accessed July 11, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Refugees are accommodated in the Dümpten school. In: lokalkompass.de. September 10, 2015, accessed July 11, 2017 .
  29. ^ Margot Gasper: What will happen to the Am Rödgerbach special needs school? In: aachener-nachrichten.de. April 8, 2015, accessed July 11, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Geographical location of the GGS Aachen-Walheim homepage, accessed on July 11, 2017
  31. ↑ PHS-Wetzlar , homepage, online at phs-wetzlar.de
  32. ↑ New name for the Charlie Rivel Primary School In: www.berlin.de , August 2, 2018, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  33. ↑ New name, new concept In: rp-online.de , December 14, 2018, accessed on December 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Härtling, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2017
Place of death Rüsselsheim am Main