Peter Köhler (writer)

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Peter Köhler (* 1957 in Eschwege ) is a German writer .

Life

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The focus of Köhler's journalistic and writing activities are satire , cultural history , literary criticism and chess . He works for newspapers and magazines and has edited numerous anthologies of comic literature, including a book on Christian saints and a treatise on nonsense. In the summer of 2006 he unleashed a German-Polish potato crisis with a satire on the Polish President Lech Kaczyński , which was published in the daily newspaper under the title Poland's New Potato. Together with two other authors, he founded the Neue Göttinger Gruppe in 2007 .

As a journalist, Köhler can be found regularly in the left-wing newspapers Junge Welt and taz .

Köhler lives in Göttingen .

Works (selection)

  • Nonsense . Theory and history of the literary genre, Heidelberg 1989
  • The joke book , Stuttgart 1993
  • Attention! High voltage! Chess for low-flying aircraft, Maintal 1994 [together with Hardy Siedler]
  • Get out of the sun! Anecdotes about philosophers and other thinkers, Stuttgart 2001
  • Edmund G. Stoiber . World statesman and friend of the people, Frankfurt am Main 2002 [together with Jürgen Roth]
  • Why the Easter Bunny lays eggs . The new bazaar of the educational gaps, Munich 2003
  • Thunderstorm! I got drunk for free . Poet anecdotes, Stuttgart 2004
  • If I were to tell the truth, I would have to lie . The book of anecdotes, Stuttgart 2005
  • The most beautiful quotes from politicians , Baden-Baden 2005
  • Saints. 50 classics . From St. Anna to St. Valentin, Hildesheim 2006
  • The nonsense book , Stuttgart 2007
  • Legendary chess games . Ingenious moves and spectacular mistakes from 400 years of chess history, Baden-Baden 2007
  • Life is a herring on the wall Jewish jokes. Stuttgart: Reclam 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020050-6 .
  • Religions. 50 classics . Faith teacher from Abraham to Zarathustra. Hildesheim 2010
  • Two horses practice penalty shootouts . Soccer jokes. Göttingen: Werkstatt 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-777-2
  • Steep words, tight texts . Göttingen 2011 [together with Klaus Pawlowski and Reinhard Umbach]
  • Is anyone up there? Divine jokes. Berlin 2012
  • Amen! Curious found objects from the world of religions. Cologne: Eichborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8479-0545-5
  • Bad times, weird heads . Göttingen 2015 [together with Klaus Pawlowski and Reinhard Umbach], ISBN 978-3-930333-62-2
  • Close your eyes . Mistakes and other language accidents. Munich: dtv 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-34850-8
  • Fake . The strangest fakes from art, science, literature and history. Munich: Beck 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68128-8
  • The great variety of chess . Daring, crazy and messed up on 64 fields. Göttingen: Werkstatt, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7307-0257-4
  • Education gaps bazaar . Small guide of expendable knowledge. Munich: Beck, 4th, revised edition 2017. ISBN 978-3-406-70841-1
  • Leonardo's bike . The most famous fake news from Ramses to Trump. Munich: Beck, 2018. ISBN 978-3-406-72814-3

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PETER KÖHLER: Poland's new potato . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 26, 2006, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 20 ( taz.de [accessed February 8, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Jens Mattern: Potato War stopped. In: the daily newspaper. taz. https://taz.de/Archiv- sucht/!207238&s=Polens%2Bneue%2BKartoffel&SuchRahmen=Print/ . August 12, 2007, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ http://www.neuegoettingergruppe.de
  4. ↑ See for example: Ant on the northwest arm, in: Junge Welt, April 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege