Peter Kurzck

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Peter Kurzck (at a reading in 2005)

Peter Kurzck (born June 10, 1943 in Tachau , Reichsgau Sudetenland , † November 25, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer .

Live and act

Peter Kurzck (after a reading in 2008)
Notice board at the former house of Kurzck in Staufenberg diagonally across from Peter-Kurzck-Platz

Peter Kurzck's family was expelled from the Sudetenland in 1946 . He moved with his mother and sister to Staufenberg near Gießen , where he spent his youth. After his mother's death in 1971, he lived until 1977 (together with his girlfriend Sibylle from 1975) in the former refugee apartment in Staufenberg. From 1977 he lived (initially together with his girlfriend Sibylle and their daughter Carina) in Frankfurt am Main and from 1993 also in Uzès in southern France.

Peter Kurzeck was the author strongly autobiographical embossed novels and short stories , in which life in the Hessian without a Province and in Frankfurt am Main and West German society are described in detail actions to be fixed in the proper sense. The techniques that Kurzck used are sometimes reminiscent of authors such as James Joyce , Arno Schmidt or Uwe Johnson . At the center of his writing ambition was the work of memory and the preservation of the time lived. Kurzck was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Since the mid-1990s, Kurzck has been working on a multi-volume autobiographical novel project entitled The Old Century , which, according to its narrative framework, is located in Frankfurt am Main in 1984. The novels since Übers Eis (1997) are part of this chronicle of a single year in the life of a writer. (→ Frankfurt am Main in literature. Peter Kurzck - Walks through the city. )

Kurzck has also made a name for himself through his readings and audio book productions. In 2007 a summer that stays , a project with kurzck in the role of the narrator, appeared. Without a manuscript, he told of the years of his childhood; the recipient was given the rare opportunity to witness the emergence of literature.

In addition to the Alfred Döblin Prize donated by Günter Grass and other renowned awards, Kurzck received the Joseph Breitbach Prize in 1994 . Since July 2014 a square in Staufenberg has been named after Peter Kurzck.

His grave is in the main cemetery (Frankfurt am Main) , Gewann F.

Kurzck's daughter Carina inherited the rights to his work. While most of his books had previously been published by Stroemfeld Verlag , in December 2018 a change of publisher to Verlag Schöffling & Co. was announced, which is to bring out four more estate volumes.

Honors

Works

Autograph
Roman cycle "The old century"
Radio plays and audio books
  • Doesn't a circus come to the village? (Radio play, HR 1987), Edition Literarischer Salon published by Focus Verlag , Giessen 1987.
  • The Sunday walk. (Radio play, HR 1992).
  • Chair, table, lamp. supposé, Cologne 2004. (audio book CD).
  • A summer that lasts. Peter Kurzck tells the village of his childhood. Concept and direction: Klaus Sander. Narrator: Peter Kurzck. supposé, Berlin 2007. (4-CD box).
  • Peter Kurzck reads from “No Spring”. Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. (audio book, 4 CDs).
  • Peter Kurzck reads “October and Who We Are”. Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008. (audio book, 7 CDs).
  • My train is leaving. Peter Kurzck tells. Concept and direction: Klaus Sander. Narrator: Peter Kurzck. supposé, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-932513-92-3 . (Audio CD).
  • My wild heart. Peter Kurzck tells. Concept and direction: Klaus Sander. Narrator: Peter Kurzck. supposé, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-932513-98-5 . (2 audio CDs).
  • “Unexpected Marseille.” Peter Kurzck relates. Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012. (audio book, 2 CDs).
  • Forever. Peter Kurzck relates his letter. Concept and direction: Klaus Sander. Narrator: Peter Kurzck. supposé, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86385-014-2 . (Audio CD).
conversations

literature

  • Mechthild Curtius: Peter Kurzck “Obsession: That I mustn't forget anything!” Interview, in: Dies. (Ed.): Authors' discussions. Transformation of reality. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-596-10256-3 . Pp. 155-168.
  • Jörg Magenau: The search for lost time. Peter Kurzeck's novels "No Spring" and "No One Dies". In: Walter Delabar, Erhard Schütz (ed.): German-language literature of the 70s and 80s. Darmstadt 1997, pp. 236-253.
  • Sabine Sistig: Change of I-Identity in Postmodernism? Time and storytelling in Wolfgang Hilbig's “I” and Peter Kurzck's “Nobody dies”. Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2361-7 (= Epistemata / Series Literaturwissenschaft, 407.).
  • Beate Tröger: Going to write. Peter Kurzeck's autobiographical novel project. In: Hans Richard Brittnacher, Magnus Klaue (Hrsg.): Unterwegs. On the poetics of vagabondness in the 20th century. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008. pp. 261–276.
  • “Anyway, I like to get lost!” Walking, going wrong and detours as a structure-giving element at Peter Kurzck. In: Matthias Däumer, Maren Lickhardt, Christian Riedel, Christine Waldschmidt (eds.): Irrwege. On the aesthetics and hermeneutics of failure. Winter, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 233–249 (= studies on historical poetics, 5).
  • Maria Kuwilsky: Autopoietics in the medium of literature as a memory of the present and time. Observations by Arno Schmidt, Uwe Johnson, Walter Kempowski and Peter Kurzck. Egon Verlag, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89913-986-0 .
  • Christian Riedel / Matthias Bauer (Hrsg.): Text + criticism 199. Peter Kurzck. edition text + kritik, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-86916-256-0 .
  • Christian Riedel: Peter Kurzcks narrative cosmos. Idyll - romance - blues. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1162-4 (= Philology and Cultural History, Vol. 3).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra Kegel: The present is not just now! In: FAZ.net . November 26, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Jost Weyandt: To the death of Peter Kurzcks: The sound of childlike amazement. In: Spiegel Online . November 26, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.schoeffling.de/buecher/peter-kurzeck/der-vorige-sommer-und-der-sommer-davor , accessed on October 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ The program of the inauguration ceremony on the Staufenberg website, accessed on August 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Tilman Spreckelsen: Rights to Kurzcks work: Again over the ice. In: www.faz.net. December 4, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://www.suppose.de/texte/kurzeck_sommer.html
  7. ↑ Peter-Kurzck-Platz in Staufenberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Video in Gießener Allgemeine from July 3, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.giessener-allgemeine.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kurzck, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tachau
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main