Peter Huchel

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Grave of Peter Huchel in the Staufen cemetery

Peter Huchel (born April 3, 1903 in Lichterfelde near Berlin ; † April 30, 1981 in Staufen ; actually Helmut Huchel ) was a German poet and editor . His father was Friedrich Huchel, his mother was Marie Zimmermann.

Life

In 1907 because of his mother's lung disease, he lived with his grandparents for a long time in Alt-Langerwisch near Potsdam.

In 1916/1917 the parents moved to Potsdam and in 1919 the grandparents' farm in Alt-Langerwisch was sold.

In 1918 Huchel made the first attempts at poetry and in 1924 the first poem was published.

Peter Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau and Vienna from 1923 to 1926 . In the period from 1927 to 1930 he traveled to France (two years in Paris), Romania , Hungary and Turkey .

Berlin memorial plaque on the 32 Hindenburgdamm house in Berlin-Lichterfelde
Memorial plaque on the house at Kreuznacher Strasse 52 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

In 1930, when he also took the first name Peter, he made friends with Ernst Bloch , Alfred Kantorowicz and Fritz Sternberg . Before he settled in the Berlin artists' colony on Laubenheimer Platz in 1931 , he lived temporarily with Kantorowicz and Sternberg. In the period from 1930 to 1936, early lyrical works, which were strongly influenced by the Brandenburg landscape, appeared in Die literäre Welt , Das Innere Reich , Die Kolonne and Vossische Zeitung . In 1931 he published the prose study In 1930 about a Nazi fellow traveler from the petty bourgeoisie. In 1932 he was awarded the column's poetry prize for the volume of poetry Der Knabenteich . In the same year he met Günter Eich . In 1934 Huchel married Dora Lassel, from whom he was to separate again in 1946.

From 1934 to 1940 he worked as a radio play author for the Reichssender Berlin and the German shortwave transmitter , among others . Radio plays such as Die Magd und das Kind (1935) and Margarethe Minde (1939) already indicated his ability to encode political issues in hidden quotations. From 1941 he served in the Air Force in World War II . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

After completing a course at the Antifa School in Rüdersdorf , Huchel began in 1945 as a dramaturge and personal advisor to the broadcasting director at what was later to become radio in the GDR . In 1946 he was promoted to chief dramaturge, then to broadcasting manager and finally to artistic director in 1947. In his works published in 1948 from the period after 1925, the contrasts between childhood idyll and experiences of war and flight are evident.

In 1949 Huchel became a member of the PEN Center Germany. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Sinn und Form, founded by Johannes R. Becher and Paul Wiegler , of the German Academy of the Arts in East Berlin, of which he was a member from 1952 to 1971. In 1951 he was awarded the GDR National Prize. In 1953 he married the Essen translator, journalist and writer Nora Monica Rosenthal (1914–2002). In 1956 he was the official representative of the GDR at the Poetry Biennale in Knokke . In 1955 Peter Huchel was awarded the Theodor Fontane Prize for Art and Literature by the Potsdam District Council.

Huchel has been attacked since the early 1950s for his cross-system artistic conceptions for sense and form . After pressure from official sources, Huchel was forced to resign from his editorial position in 1953, something that could only be prevented by Bertolt Brecht's intervention . When the attacks on Huchel intensified again after Brecht's death in 1956 and his work was hindered to an ever greater extent in terms of meaning and form , he was finally forced to resign in 1962.

In 1963 he received the Fontane Prize for the volume of poetry Chausseen, Chausseen , published in the same year by the German publisher S. Fischer Verlag . Since he refused to reject this West Berlin award, he was not allowed to publish or travel in the GDR in the period that followed. In 1965 he was unable to accept a professorship for poetics at the University of Frankfurt , nor could he leave North Rhine-Westphalia in 1968 to receive the Great Art Prize . From 1968 onwards, the mail sent to him was also confiscated. In his poetry, Huchel impressively described the inhuman harassment by the Stasi system.

Only after interventions by the West Berlin Academy of the Arts, the presidents of the International PEN Center and Heinrich Bölls , was Huchel approved to leave the GDR in 1971 and he left his house in Wilhelmshorst forever.

In the period that followed, he first lived in the Villa Massimo in Rome and then settled in Staufen im Breisgau . In 1972 he published the volume of poetry Counted Days with works from the period after 1963.

Further honors

In 1972 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature , in 1974 the Andreas Gryphius Prize and the Lessing Ring together with the German Freemasons Prize for Literature . In 1976 he was accepted into the Order Pour le mérite for Science and the Arts . The following year he was awarded the Europalia Prize . In 1979 he was awarded the Jacob Burckhardt Prize of the Basel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation and the Eichendorff Prize for Literature . He also became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

The Peter Huchel Prize , donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Südwestrundfunk , has been awarded in honor of Peter Huchel since 1984 .

In 1992, Alexander-Abusch -Strasse in Berlin-Hellersdorf was renamed Peter-Huchel-Strasse. Since 2005 the main thoroughfare of Wilhelmshorst has been called Peter-Huchel-Chaussee . There is a memorial in his former home. There is also a street named after him in Potsdam and Staufen im Breisgau.

Wolf Biermann dedicated his poem Encouragement , published in 1968, to Peter Huchel .

Works

Poems
  • Poems. Structure, Berlin 1948 (licensed edition: Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1950).
  • Chausseen, Chausseen. Poems. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • The star trap. Poems 1925–1947. Piper, Munich 1967.
  • Counted days. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • The ninth hour. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Collected works in two volumes. Volume 1: The Poems. Volume 2: Mixed Scriptures. Edited and explained by Axel Vieregg. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Waymarks. A reader. Poems and prose, with graphics and interpretations as well as voices for Huchel. Selected and edited by Axel Vieregg. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1999, ISBN 3-931329-01-1 .
  • The year slowly turns into the light. Seasonal poems from the Mark Brandenburg / Peter Huchel, with photography by Sabine Breithor. Selected and edited by Axel Vieregg. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2003, ISBN 3-931329-25-9 .
  • Poetry album 277 : Peter Huchel. Selection of Bernd Jentzsch. 2007. 2nd extended edition: Selection of Axel Vieregg. 2009, ISBN 978-3-931329-77-8 .
Letters

literature

  • Hans Mayer (Ed.): About Peter Huchel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Andreas Möller: Peter Huchel. In: Ursula Heukenkamp, ​​Peter Geist (Ed.): German-speaking poets of the 20th century. Schmidt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07999-8 , pp. 293-306.
  • Axel Vieregg (Ed.): Peter Huchel: Wegzeichen - Ein Lesebuch. Poems and prose with graphics and interpretations as well as voices for Huchel. 1999, ISBN 3-931329-01-1 .
  • Hub Nijssen, Lutz Seiler , Sebastian Kiefer, Ludwig Völker: Peter Huchel's traces. 4 essays. In: Language in the Technical Age . No. 150, July 1999, ISSN  0038-8475 , pp. 136-216.
  • Thomas Götz: The fragile idyll. Peter Huchel's poetry between magic and disenchantment. Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-631-34117-2 .
  • Peter Habermehl : The falling silent of the mythologist. An attempt at the three Odysseus poems by Peter Huchel . In: Antike und Abendland 42, 1996, 155–173.
  • Hub Nijssen: The secret king. Life and work of Peter Huchel. Nijmegen 1995. Extended edition: Würzburg 1998.
  • Axel Vieregg: The poetry of Peter Huchels. Sign language and private mythology. Berlin 1976.
  • Christoph Meckel : Gold is panned here. Memories of Peter Huchel. Libelle, Lengwil 2009, ISBN 3-905707-38-1 .
  • Christof Siemes: The will of fallen fir trees. The lyrical work of Peter Huchel. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, ISBN 3-7930-9128-7 .
  • Peter Walther (Ed.): Peter Huchel. Life and work in texts and pictures. Insel, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1996.
  • Eduard Zak : The poet Peter Huchel: attempt to portray his lyrical work. New life, Berlin 1953.
  • Short biography for:  Huchel, Peter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Matthias Weichelt: Peter Huchel . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-422-07458-3

Settings

  • Under the naked hoe of the moon , 5 songs for baritone and orchestra, 1974–1976 Francis Burt
  • Breathe through the throat of the reed , 17 songs for baritone and piano, 1993, Wolfgang Schoor
  • ... to the broken bricks of Babel , 3 chants for bass baritone and orchestra, 1998, Thomas Blomenkamp
  • The bigger dog hunts over the hunters , 12 songs for baritone and piano, 2007, Tobias Rank

Movie

  • 1973: Peter Huchel. A production by Saarland Radio / Television (15 minutes). Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter-Huchel-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Huchel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huchel, Hellmut (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichterfelde near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1981
Place of death Staufen im Breisgau