Peter Horn (poet)

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Peter Horn

Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn (born December 7, 1934 in Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia ; † July 23, 2019 in Johannesburg ) was a South African poet .

Life

At the end of the Second World War, Peter Horn and his family fled to Bavaria and then to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he graduated from the Berthold-Gymnasium . In 1954 he emigrated to South Africa with his parents. For a while he worked as a packer, bricklayer, laboratory assistant, photographer, insurance agent and teacher at the German School in Johannesburg .

He studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the College of Education (Johannesburg). He was a lecturer at the Witwatersrand University, the University of South Africa and the University of Zululand . From 1974 to 1999 he was Professor of German Studies at the University of Cape Town .

He was the author of poems, short stories and essays.

Awards and honors

  • 1992 Noma Award: Honorable Mention for Poems 1964–1989
  • 1993 Alex La Guma / Bessie Head Award for The Kaffir who read Books (published under the title My Voice is under Control now )
  • 1994 Honorary Fellow of the University of Cape Town
  • 2000 Charles Herman Bosman Prize for My Voice is under Control now
  • 2000 finalist at the Caine Prize for African Writing
  • 2010 SALA Lifetime Literary Award

Works

  • Walking through our sleep. Ravan Press, Johannesburg 1974, ISBN 0-86975-036-4 .
    • Review: Poems sincere to the point of pain. In: Natal Witness. December 12, 1974.
  • Silence in Jail. Scribe Press, Cape Town 1979, OCLC 85993985 .
  • Derrière le vernis du soleil, poèmes 1964-1989. Selected and translated from South African into English by Jacques Alavarez-Péreyre. europePoesie, Paris 1993, OCLC 53869373 .
  • The rivers which connect us to the past. Mayibuye books, Belville 1996, ISBN 1-86808-303-9 .
  • My Voice is Under Control Now. Short stories. Kwela Books, Cape Town 1999, ISBN 0-7957-0086-5 .

Literary criticism

  • with RA Krüger (ed.): German poems from the Reformation to the present. McGraw-Hill, 1973.
  • with Walter Saunders (Ed.): It's Gettin Late… and other poems from Ophir. Ravan / Ophir, 1974.
  • Heinrich von Kleist's stories. An introduction. Language + literature + didactics. Librarian, 1978.
  • Cape of Good Hope. Poems from the South African resistance. Translated and introduced by Peter Horn. Athenaeum, 1980.
  • Kleist Chronicle. Athenaeum, 1980.
  • Writing my reading. Essays on Literary Politics in South Africa. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1994 [recte: 1995], ISBN 3-89896-346-2 . (= Cross / Cultures - Readings in Post / Colonial Literatures in English 15), p. 172.
  • with Anette Horn (Ed.): The knowledge of world citizens. Series »Discourse Philosophy«. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89896-301-5 .
  • Verbal violence or Kleist on the couch. On the problems of psychoanalysis of literary texts. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89896-346-6 .
  • with Anette Horn: “I learn to see” on Rilke's poetry. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2010.
  • The yarn of the fishermen of the Irrsee. On the poetry of Paul Celan. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2011.
  • Their spirits blow in song. Holderlin's Late Hymns. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2012.
  • with Anette Horn: “I am a riddle to you?” Heinrich von Kleist's dramas. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2013.

literature

  • David Adey, Ridley Beeton, Michael Chapman, Ernest Pereira: Companion to South African English Literature. AD Donker, Johannesburg 1986.
  • Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre: The Poetry of Commitment in South Africa. 1983.
  • Michael Chapman: South African English Poetry. A Modern Perspective. AD Donker, Johannesburg 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TALKING ABOUT BANGLA POETRY: THE SOUTH AFRICAN POET PETER HORN - IN MEMORIAM accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. ^ Jean Sevry: 'Peter Horn: Introducing a South African Poet.' (Interview with P Horn, August 1992) In: Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 16 (l), 1993, pp. 104-113.
  3. ↑ Robert Berold: 'Interview.' (Interview with P. Horn) In: New Coin. 31 (l), 1995, pp. 31-41.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Peter Rudolf Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African German studies scholar, poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2019
Place of death Johannesburg