Peter Horst Neumann

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Peter Horst Neumann (born April 23, 1936 in Neisse , Upper Silesia , † July 27, 2009 in Nuremberg ) was a German poet , essayist and literary scholar .

Life

After the expulsion in 1945, Peter Horst Neumann grew up in Aue . In Leipzig he studied music (singing, piano, double bass) and German literature ; In 1958 he was relegated and fled to West Berlin. In 1965 he received his doctorate under Walther Killy in Göttingen with a thesis on Jean Paul's novel Flegeljahre . As a full professor of modern German literary history, he taught from 1968 at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland), from 1980 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and from 1983 until his retirement in 2001 at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . From 1984 to 2002 he was President of the Eichendorff Society ; In 1995 he initiated the Nuremberg Authors' Talks with Reinhard Knodt . Since 2000 he has been President of the Goethe Society in Erlangen. Together with Ilse Aichinger and other fellow authors, he criticized the 1996 spelling reform in the Frankfurt appeal .

Peter Horst Neumann lived with his wife, the painter Astrid Neumann (née Steinkopf) in Nuremberg. The couple adopted two Indian children. Neumann was appointed to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2002 for his lyrical work, with which he went public late . Since 2004 he has been the successor of Albert von Schirnding's literary department.

portrait

“(...) In his Celan studies, Neumann describes a lyrical form that is far removed from the Weimar experience and thought poetry, the ideal type of German studies prevailing at the time. Neumann mentions French symbolism. As we know, Baudelaire's habitus of reflective self-talk already presupposes an uninterrupted separation between the subject and his objective correspondants.

Neumann perceives the lyricism of Celan's poetry as a form similar to the musical composition: as syllable music. According to Roman Jakobson's happy word for symbolist poetry, such poetry is semantically 'downgraded', in that the rhythm of the differentiated speech reshapes the languages ​​of information and the historically discredited conventional verse forms and thus reshapes it as an open wound.

It is the pure poetry, generally regarded as difficult, which Neumann attracted and shaped from his youth. But not in the sense of flight from the world or the joy of the fear of the citizens. The poetry that Neumann has in his eyes and ears is too marked by the genocides and expulsions of the 20th century.

And this literature can no longer keep the experiences of general history at bay. Some only lose their spiritual legacy, such as Rilke, others, such as Celan, do not survive their damaged lives. The pursuers keep chasing them. (...) "

Honors, memberships

Works

Theoretical prose
Poetry
  • Poems. Claims. Time announcements . Bargfeld (book store) 1994.
  • Pentecost in Babylon. Poems . Salzburg, Vienna ( Residenz Verlag ) 1996.
  • The invention of the scissors. Poems . Bargfeld (book store) 1999.
  • New edition: Pentecost in Babylon / The invention of the scissors. Poems . Aachen ( Rimbaud ) 2005. Cover picture: Astrid Neumann, Lichtbogen . ISBN 978-3-89086-629-1 .

Settings

  • Werner Heider : Thanks ("With how many voices / did you speak to me ..."; 2009) for your voice. Text from: Pentecost in Babylon (1996). WP January 24, 2010 Erlangen (Redoutensaal; Monika Teepe [soprano])
  • Hans Kraus-Hübner: Four Songs (2004) for mezzo-soprano and piano. Texts from: Auf der Wasserscheide (2003). WP April 1, 2004 Altdorf ( Wichernhaus ; Irene Kurka [soprano], Florian Kaplick [piano])
    1.  Tree in front of the window ("He has / from his leaves / separated ...") - 2.  Truth, old stray woman ("No fixed address ...") - 3.  Old church vault ("When they understood / that God was deaf is ... ") - 4th  drinking song to the Messiah (" Well corked / in the middle of the table / is the bottle ... ")
  • Manfred Trojahn : Two Spring Songs (2004) for baritone and piano. Texts from Auf der Wasserscheide (2003). Premiere March 8, 2004 Munich ( Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ; Thomas E. Bauer [baritone], Siegfried Mauser [piano])
    1.  Again ("And again for spring / has she decided ...") - 2.  Counterstrophes of an allergy sufferer ("Proserpina, / descended from the underworld ...")
  • Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau : Wrong hiding - five musical sketches for a cellist . Text from: Providence , based on: Pentecost in Babylon (1996). WP May 25, 2008 Oldenburg ( Matthias Lorenz )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Grubitz: Peter Horst Neumann. A teacher of the love of poetry ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau : Fehlversteck - Five musical sketches for a cellist (PDF; 257 kB)