Peter Klusen

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Peter Klusen (1999)

Peter Klusen (born March 20, 1951 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German writer , playwright and cartoonist .

Life

Klusen studied German, journalism and social sciences in Mainz and Aachen and worked as a mentor at the Fernuniversität Hagen for two semesters . From 1980 to 2014 he was senior teacher at the Franz-Meyers-Gymnasium in Mönchengladbach. Since the early 1980s he has written more than a dozen plays for children and youth theater , in which the outsider problem is often the focus. “In his imaginative plays, Klusen is about socially critical engagement among adolescents, about breaking down prejudices and expanding group tolerance. The teacher and author thus combines educational and literary interests. ” His play The Magic Cushion was translated into Sorbian and performed in 2004 by the German-Sorbian People's Theater. Klusen has written numerous revisions of children's book classics, as well as short stories, poetry and crime stories (partly in anthologies and literary magazines). The Swiss literary magazine Scriptum wrote about Klusen's poetry that it was “just on the edge of deconstructivism . The references to visual lyric poetry are well chosen and always justified , and the occasional end rhyme is often used for unmistakable, sometimes crude comedy. ” With all the ostensible cheerfulness and irony, Karl-Josef Striebe recognizes in Klusen’s texts “ sad songs, fool’s songs ” .

Cartoon by Peter Klusen

Klusen is a member of the “authors' group of German-language crime literature” Das Syndikat . He received the Bad Wildbad Children's and Young People's Literature Prize in 1998 and was awarded the F&F Literature Prize in the “Nonsense and Satire” category in 2007 in Frankfurt (Main) for his cartoons and nonsense verses. A dramatized version of his newly translated historical novel by Mark Twain, The Prince and the Beggar Boy , premiered in 2003 in the Bochum Schauspielhaus (Young Theater). His cartoons are published in calendars and magazines, including the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel . In his novel The Ridiculous Seriousness of Life , published in 2010, Klusen tells "the everyday, so normal, so insane blows of fate of the old and young residents of an apartment building in Mönchengladbach in the 1950s".

Klusen worked for the annual publication Muschelhaufen from 1994 to 2007 and was a member of the jury for the Lower Rhine Literature Prize from 2010 to 2016 . He is married and lives in Viersen .

Quote

with words
"paint with words / like with colors / pictures for the unconscious / just to feel / not see / and certainly not / to understand // play with words / like with sounds / [...]"

Works

Novels, adaptations, short stories, poetry

Klusen wrote a new version of the Holgersson novel. The illustration shows a Nils Holgersson wood relief at the Swedish airport Arlanda.

Children's and youth plays

  • The miracle elixir. A school fairy tale . German theater publisher. Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-7695-1510-2
  • The Chinese garden gnomes. A farce full of prejudice . German theater publisher. Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-7695-0586-7
  • Riesenfrieder, cake crumbs and the big bear . German theater publisher. Weinheim 1987, ISBN 3-7695-0332-5
  • The festival of the frogs. A daring game with music . German theater publisher. Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-7695-0326-0
  • Desperado or everyone is the maker of their happiness . German theater publisher. Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-7695-0326-0
  • Madman. Skits . Proud. Düren 1998, ISBN 3-89778-704-0
  • The magic pillow. Fairy tale game . German theater publisher. Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-7695-1728-8
  • Elephant polo . Premiere: December 2nd, 2010, Theater Objekt, Waggonhalle Kulturzentrum Marburg (received the prize of the Marburg Short Drama Competition), Theaterverlag Coco, Speyer 2014

literature

  • Andreas Amberg: Writer in the Erkelenzer Land. A literary search for traces. Erkelenz 1993
  • Gabriele Barth in conversation with Peter Klusen. In: play and theater . Issue 159.Weinheim 1997, ISSN  0038-7509
  • Ludwig Janssen: Peter Klusen . In: Literature Atlas NRW . Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-96-0
  • Anja Schüring. New volume of poetry. Serious and funny . In: Aachener Nachrichten of January 7, 1995
  • Eva Weissweiler / Ulla Lessman: Peter Klusen . In: Reading desire. Authors from NRW . Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-23-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Social Sciences. From: fmg-mg.de , accessed on May 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Andreas Amberg: Socially critical children's books and snappy cartoons by Peter Klusen . In: Rheinische Post from July 20, 1994
  3. ↑ Charles Stünzi: Peter Klusen: "bright lights in the seventh heaven" . In: Script. The Swiss literary magazine . No. 20, Rothenburg 1995, ISSN  1420-0171
  4. ^ Karl-Josef Striebe: A fool in the entablature . In: Clams. Annual journal for literature , No. 35. Viersen 1996
  5. ^ Theo Breuer : From book to book / Reading times: Everyday • Normal • Insane . In: Poetenladen 2011
  6. ↑ Quoted from: winking. a lyrical chamber symphony in three movements . Page 12. Trier 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Klusen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach