Peter Hamm

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Peter Hamm (born February 27, 1937 in Munich ; † July 22, 2019 in Tutzing ) was a German poet , writer , literary critic and author of numerous documentary films, including portraits of Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke .

Live and act

Peter Hamm was born in Munich in 1937 as the son of a veterinarian. His mother died in 1940, due to the absence of his father due to the war, he grew up with his grandparents in Weingarten in Upper Swabia and in various Catholic boarding schools. At the age of 14 he fled the Salvatorkolleg in Bad Wurzach and worked temporarily as a farmhand in a farm. He then began an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Lindau , which he broke off after a year.

In 1954 he published poems for the first time in the literary magazine Akzente , later also in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in various anthologies . In 1956, during the Hungarian People's Uprising , he gave his first reading at Group 47 . In 1958 he began a pen friendship with Nelly Sachs and befriended Tomas Tranströmer .

From 1959 he was in the GDR several times and made friends with the authors Peter Huchel , Sarah Kirsch , Johannes Bobrowski and Volker Braun . That year he also visited Paul Celan and Nathalie Sarraute in Paris.

1959 Hamm became head of the press office of the then College of Design in Ulm . From 1960 he worked as a freelance writer. From 1964 to 2002 he was culture editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk .

Hamm was Vice President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , of which he had been a member since 1991. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . He was also a member of the jury for the Hermann Lenz Prize and the Petrarca Prize ; Shortly before his death on June 28, 2019, Hamm had given the laudation in Munich - as well as the Büchner Prize and the Peter Huchel Prize .

He was known to a wide audience from the literature club , of which he was a permanent critic from 1990 to 2012. He was also a jury member for the monthly SWR leaderboard .

From the mid-1970s, Peter Hamm was Marianne Koch's partner . The couple lived in Tutzing.

criticism

In a letter to Martin Walser , who wanted to discuss Hamm's poem laying down for the FAZ , Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote on April 24, 1986: “I can assume that the poem you have chosen by Peter Hamm (“ laying down ”) is one of the highlights of this author's poetic work. So now the readers will be able to clearly recognize the level of Hamm's poetry. At the same time, your contribution will make all your literary tastes clear. The fact that I consider the poem to be miserable and not find a single line in it that I could describe as poetic need not bother you in the least ”.

Awards

Fonts

Volumes of poetry

  • Seven poems. (Cover: HAP Grieshaber). Stierstadt i.Ts. (Hermit Press) 1958.
  • Ben Shahn. A poem. Munich (Verlag Heino von Damnitz) 1963.
  • The beam. Poems. Munich-Vienna (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1981.
  • The disappearing world. Poems. Munich-Vienna (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1985.
  • The disappearing world. Poems. Frankfurt am Main (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) 1988.
  • Keep the dream. Poems and essays. Ed. Gisela Lindner. Friedrichshafen 1989.

Essay volumes

  • The will to swoon. Munich-Vienna (Edition Akzente, Carl Hanser Verlag) 1992.
  • From the counter-story / eulogies and declarations of love. Munich-Vienna (Edition Akzente Carl Hanser Verlag) 1997.
  • The art of the impossible or every thing has (at least) three sides. Essays on literature. Munich-Vienna (Edition Akzente Carl Hanser Verlag) 2007.
  • Pessoa's dream or: “Be as diverse as the universe!” Essays on literature. Munich-Vienna (Edition Akzente Carl Hanser Verlag) 2012.
  • INTO THE OPEN! Paths, detours and wrong turns in modern Swiss literature. Zurich (Limmat Verlag) 2014.
  • Peter Handke and no end. Stations of an approach . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3156-3 .

Essays (selection)

  • On the run - alone with the language. Nelly Sachs as a translator of Swedish poetry. Contained in: In honor of Nelly Sachs. Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp Verlag) 1961.
  • Opposition - using the example of HM Enzensberger. Contained in: About Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Ed. Joachim Schickel. Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp Verlag) 1970.
  • The artist as a martyr - About Ingeborg Bachmann. Contained in: DER SPIEGEL June 5, 1978. Reprinted in: About Ingeborg Bachmann. Edited by MMSchardt. Paderborn (Igel Verlag Wissenschaft) 1994.
  • I am not a literary critic. Contained in: Understanding Thoroughly - Literary Criticism Today . Edited by Franz Josef Görtz and Gert Ueding. Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp Verlag) 1985.
  • Hermann Lenz and the ambivalence - laudation for the Petrarch Prize winner Hermann Lenz. Included in the Petrarca Prize 1987/1988. Munich (Edition Petrarca) 1989.
  • I would have liked to have stayed there - Hermann Lenz and his Stuttgart. Warmbronn (Verlag Ulrich Keicher) 2007.

Warmbronn (Verlag Ulrich Keicher) 2009. Also included in Alfred Brendel: After the final chord. Munich (Carl Hanser Verlag) 2010.

  • Winner in failure - Fernando Pessoa and Robert Walser, two distant relatives. Contained in Fernando Pessoa: Algebra of Secrets - A Reader . Frankfurt am Main (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) 1990.
  • In a two-part unit, Hermann Lenz and Peter Handke - a friendship. Contained in the reporter of the day - letter exchange Peter Handke - Hermann Lenz . Frankfurt am Main (Insel Verlag) 2006.
  • Incarnation musically. Diary of a life story as a music story. Contained in: A dream of music - 46 declarations of love. Ed. Elke Heidenreich. Munich (C.Bertelsmann in the Random House publishing group) 2010.

Conversations in book form

  • Peter Handke / Peter Hamm: Long live the illusions - conversations in Chaville and elsewhere. Göttingen (Wallstein Verlag) 2006.
    • French edition: PH / PH Vive les illusions! Entretiens. Traduit de l'allemand by Anne Weber. Paris (Christian Bourgois Éditeur) 2008.
    • Spanish edition: PH / PH Vivan las ilusiones - Conversaciones en Chaville Y en otros lugares. Traducción de Eustaquio Barjau. Valencia (De la Presente Edición: Pre-Textos) 2011.
  • Thomas Bernhard / Peter Hamm: Do you like being angry? An overnight conversation between Thomas Bernhard and Peter Hamm in the Bernhard house in Ohlsdorf. Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp-Verlag) 2011.
    • Spanish edition: Thomas Bernhard / Peter Hamm :? Le gusta ser malvado? Trad. from the alemán by Miguel Sáenz. Madrid (Alianza Editorial) 2013.
  • Peter Rühmkorf / Peter Hamm: Self-disclosure - writers in conversation. Ed. Werner Koch.
  • Frankfurt am Main (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) 1971.

Editions

  • Light behind the ice - Swedish poetry from 1900–1957. Selection and translation together with Stig Schönberg by Peter Hamm. Bull town i. T. (Verlag Eremiten Presse) 1957.
  • Cornflowers and cities - Czech poetry of our century. Edited and transmitted together with Elisabeth Borchers by Peter Hamm. Bull town i. T. (Verlag Eremiten Presse) 1962.
  • Prospects - Young poets from the German-speaking area - presented by Peter Hamm. Munich (Biederstein Verlag) 1966. (The first all-German poetry anthology)
    • Italian edition: Giovani poeti tedeschi - A cura di Roberto Fertonani. Torino (Giulio Einaudi Editore) 1969.
  • Which animal do you belong to? A poetic Noah's Ark - built by Peter Hamm. Munich / Vienna (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1984.
  • Do you know the country where the lemons bloom - Italy in the German poem. Edited by Peter Hamm. Frankfurt am Main (Insel Verlag) 1987.
  • Criticism / by whom / for whom / how - A self-presentation of the criticism. Edited by Peter Hamm. Munich (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1968. (In it: PH Der Großkritiker , the essay with which this term was born)
    • Spanish edition: Critica de la Critica. Barcelona (Barral) 1971.
  • Artur Lundkvist poems, edited and with an afterword by Peter Hamm. Cologne - Berlin (Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house) 1963.
  • Christopher Caudwell - Bourgeois Illusion and Reality. Contributions to materialistic aesthetics. Edited by Peter Hamm. Munich (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1971.
  • Jesse Thoor: Poems. Edited and with an afterword by Peter Hamm. Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp Verlag) 1975. New edition (ibid.) 2004.
  • Julien Green - The dreamer with the second face. Inside: Peter Hamm Diaries- Night Books, for Julien Green's 80th birthday. Munich (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1986.
  • Robert Walser: Life and Work in Data and Images - With an essay by Peter Hamm. Edited by Elio Fröhlich and Peter Hamm. Frankfurt am Main (Insel Verlag) 1980.
  • Jakob Schaffner: Johannes - novel of a youth. With an afterword by Peter Hamm. Edited by Peter von Matt. Munich (Nagel & Kimche in Carl Hanser Verlag) 2005.
  • Walter Gross: Works and Letters. Edited and with an afterword by Peter Hamm. Zurich (Limmat Verlag) 2005.
  • Peter Handke / Hermann Lenz: Correspondence. With an essay by Peter Hamm. Frankfurt am Main (Insel Verlag) 2006.
  • Lillian Birnbaum: Peter Handke - portrait of the poet in his absence. Therein: Peter Hamm: A house is more than a house or an experiment about the house of the poet. Salzburg 2011.

Scripts

  • The morale of Ruth half barrel. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff in 1972.
  • Overnight in Tyrol. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff 1973.

TV films (script and direction)

  • Protest in art, an inventory. 2 × 60 'written and directed, Radio Bremen 1969.
  • Alfred Brendel, pianist. A portrait. Script and direction, 45 '. Radio Bremen 1973.
  • Alfred Brendel plays Schubert. Thirteen part television series. Music and image direction. Radio Bremen / Studio Hamburg 1976–1977. It was released as a five-part DVD cassette entitled Alfred Brendel plays and introduces Schubert Piano Works. EuroArts Music Int. 2007.
  • Hanns Eisler. Too early? Too late? A composer portrait. 60 '. Written and directed by. Hessischer Rundfunk 1972/73.
  • Heinrich Böll - Nobel Prize Winner. Written and directed by. 60 '. From the series Nobel Prize Winners Bavaria Production Company 1974.
  • The forbidden beauty - the composer Hans Werner Henze. Script and direction, 90 '. West German Radio 1976.
  • "That I cannot live among people". Looking for Ingeborg Bachmann. Script and direction, 120 '. Westdeutscher Rundfunk / SWF 1980.
  • "I am still standing at the door of life". Robert Walser and the fine art of losing. Script and direction, 120 '. SWF / WDR 1986.
  • In the labyrinth of the self. Fernando Pessoa and Portugal. Script and direction, 120 '. Hessischer Rundfunk 1988.
  • "Where did you steal your blond hair?" - Ilse Losa geb. Lovely. Script and direction 60 '. Hessischer Rundfunk 1992.
  • The melancholy player - Peter Handke. A portrait. Script and direction 90 ' . SWR / ARTE 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Hamm, the uncompromising advocate of poetry, is dead , br.de, published and accessed on July 22, 2019
  2. ^ Peter Hamm - Munzinger biography. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ FOCUS Online: The last public appearance of Peter Hamm at the Petrarca summer meeting - video. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "I'm under full stress!": Marianne Koch will be 85th dpa report from August 13, 2016, accessed online from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on August 14, 2016
  5. ↑ in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Feuilleton, p. 37, from May 31, 2020
  6. ↑ Nanette Kolb, Raimund Kolb: Culture Prize . In: Norbert Kruse, Hans Ulrich Rudolf, Dietmar Schillig, Edgar Walter (eds.): Weingarten. From the beginning to the present . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1992, ISBN 3-924489-61-0 , p. 524-528 here p. 527 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2019
Place of death Tutzing