Peter O. Chotjewitz

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Peter Otto Chotjewitz (born June 14, 1934 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † December 15, 2010 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer , translator and lawyer .

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Life

Peter O. Chotjewitz was the son of a master painter and an office clerk . At the end of 1945 the family moved to Northern Hesse, where Chotjewitz lived in the village until 1955. He attended a secondary school and completed an apprenticeship as a painter from 1948 to 1950, which he completed with the journeyman's examination. In addition to working as a journeyman house painter, he attended the evening high school in Kassel , where he graduated from high school in 1955 .

Then studied it law at the universities of Frankfurt and Munich . From 1961 he was a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Supreme Court ; He also did a second degree in journalism , history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . In 1965 he passed the second state examination in law. After that he lived as a writer .

From 1967 to 1973 he stayed in Rome - initially with a grant from the Villa Massimo - and then returned to the Federal Republic of Germany . In December 1969 contact with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin during their stay in Italy. Baader and Chotjewitz met in Berlin in 1966. In February 1970 it was Chotjewitz who let Baader tell Horst Mahler that the Hessian Minister of Justice Karl Hemfler had rejected Baader's petition for clemency . When Baader was arrested in Berlin in April 1970, he identified himself with an identity card in the name of Peter Chotjewitz .

In the 1970s Chotjewitz was politically active and u. a. Defense lawyers for Baader and Peter-Paul Zahl . For these clients he temporarily revived his legal career, which he said had already ended with the completion of the second state examination. The dispute over the publication of his novel The Lords of Dawn , in which Chotjewitz processed experiences from the terrorist trials against the Red Army Fraction , led in 1978 to the termination of the contract with the authors' edition by Bertelsmann Verlag .

After early experimental texts in which he made use of collage and montage techniques, Chotjewitz found himself in the 1970s with a committed, left-wing, realistic narrative- oriented style of writing. In addition to his own texts, his translations from Italian are also important . He translated almost all of Dario Fo's pieces into German. His last works, the Fast Last Stories and the novel Mein Freund Klaus (about Klaus Croissant ) were published in 2004 by the Berliner Verbrecher Verlag .

The author has lived in Stuttgart since 1995 . He was a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di , of which he was a member of the federal board from 1976 to 1983. He wrote to the end of the monthly magazine concretely and for the weekly Jungle World and Friday .

Peter O. Chotjewitz was married to the painter Cordula Güdemann . The writer and theater director David Chotjewitz comes from his previous marriage to the author and translator Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner .

Honors

In 1969 he received the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize and in 2000 the Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart .

Works

  • Homage to Frantek , Reinbek 1965
  • Ulmer board games Eremitenpresse , Stierstadt 1965 (with Johannes Vennekamp )
  • The island. Tales on the bear's eye. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1968 (Berlin novel)
  • Novel. An adaptation sample Melzer Verlag , Darmstadt 1968 (contains partly exhibitionistic nude photos of the author by Gunter Rambow )
  • Farewell to Michalik , Stierstadt 1969 (with original graphics by Klaus Endrikat )
  • Joy in It , Berlin 1969
  • From living and learning. Stereo texts. Radio plays March, Darmstadt 1969
    • from it the epilogue: Conversation from POC with Lesmor Bruit, again in MARCH texts 1; again in the area reprint 2004, pp. 272–278.
  • Trivial Myths. In: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): Trivialmythen. March, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 115-127.
    • Reprint: MARCH texts 1 & trivial myths. Area, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3899960297 , pp. 435–447 (partial reproduction: see web links).
  • Mourning in the Ox's Eye , Bull City 1972 (with Thomas Bayrle )
  • Itschi has a flea in her ear, Datschi has a titmouse , Hanover 1973 (with Paulus Böhmer )
  • Children, children! , Hanover 1973
  • Malavita , Cologne 1973
  • Talking is deadly, keeping silent too , Düsseldorf 1974
  • Die Briganten , Berlin 1976 (with Aldo De Jaco)
  • Damage makes you stupid , Düsseldorf 1976
  • The Objects of the Still Thought , Düsseldorf 1976 (with Klaus Fußmann )
  • Thirty Years of Peace , Düsseldorf 1977
  • The Gentlemen of the Dawn , Berlin 1978
  • Seamless , Königstein im Taunus 1979, new edition of Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-935843-30-0
  • Those who sow with tears , Munich 1980 (with Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner )
  • My husband is unable to attend, Düsseldorf 1985 (with original offset lithographs by Klaus Endrikat)
  • The murder in Davos , Herbstein 1986 (with Emil Ludwig )
  • Death through emptiness , Bad Homburg 1986
  • The Jews of Rhina , Oberellenbach 1988 (with Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner)
  • The return of the landlord , Düsseldorf 1991
  • Street children , Cologne 1991 (with Lukas Ruegenberg)
  • My sweetheart under the attic , Düsseldorf 1995 (with Cordula Güdemann)
  • Cannibals , Berlin 1997
  • Rome - Walks in Antiquity , Hamburg 1999
  • The Wasp's Nest , Hamburg 1999
  • As if you were living , Hamburg 2001
  • The Hypatia case , Hamburg 2002
  • Machiavelli's last letter , Hamburg 2003
  • Vacation in the country , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3-935843-35-5
  • Everything about Leonardo from Vinci , Hamburg 2004
  • Almost last stories , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-935843-84-3
  • My friend Klaus , Berlin 2007.
  • Almost last stories 2 , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-940426-26-0
  • Almost last stories 3 , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-940426-49-9
  • Almost last stories 4 , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-940426-54-3
  • 49 VIPs simultaneous texts , Bielefeld 2010 (with Cordula Güdemann)
  • Exhale deeply , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-943167-02-3
  • My friend Klaus , revised new edition with an afterword by Dietmar Dath, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943167-46-7

As editor

  • The Landgrave of Camprodon , Wangen 1966 (with Gerald Bisinger)
  • European poets tell children , Cologne 1972 (with Gertraud Middelhauve )

Translations

  • Franca Rame : An improvised life / Una vita all'improvvisa. Berlin 2010.
  • Nanni Balestrini : Tristano , Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Nanni Balestrini: We want everything , Munich 1972
  • Luciano Canfora : Oh, Aristotle! , Hamburg 2000
  • Geraldina Colotti: By chance I killed boredom and you condemned me to die from it , Mannheim 2003
  • Giuseppe Fava : Before they kill you , Freiburg 1992
  • Giuseppe Fava: Honorable People , Freiburg 1990
  • Dario Fo : House painters are forgetful , Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Dario Fo: There is no payment! , Berlin 1977
  • Dario Fo: The thief who was not harmed , Frankfurt / Main 1983
  • Dario Fo: Diebe, Damen, Marionetten , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Dario Fo: He had two pistols and his eyes were black and white , Berlin 1987
  • Dario Fo: Archangels don't flip , Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Dario Fo: One for all, all for one , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Dario Fo: Help, the people are coming! , Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Dario Fo: Mockery of Fear , Berlin 1981
  • Dario Fo: Isabella, three caravels and a buffoon , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • Dario Fo: Johan vom Po discovers America , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Dario Fo: Small Handbook of the Actor , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Dario Fo: Mamma has the best shit , Berlin 1989
  • Dario Fo: My first seven years and a few more , Cologne 2004
  • Dario Fo: Obscene Fables. Mistero buffo , Berlin 1984
  • Dario Fo: The opera from the great mockery , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Dario Fo: Quiet! We crash , Berlin 1992
  • Dario Fo: Anyone who steals a foot is lucky in love , Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • Dario Fo: A woman by chance , Frankfurt am Main 1985 (with Renate Chotjewitz)
  • Dario Fo: Accidental death of an anarchist , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Franca Magnani : An Italian Family , Cologne 1990
  • Ich, Donald Duck (two volumes; together with Renate Chotjewitz ), Melzer Verlag 1974
  • Sante Notarnicola: The bank robbers from the Barriera , Munich 1974
  • Leonardo Sciascia : The Moro Affair , Königstein / Ts. 1979
  • Leonardo Sciascia: You sleep with the doors open , Munich 1991
  • Leonardo Sciascia: 1912 + 1 , Munich 1991
  • Leonardo Sciascia: The Knight and Death. A simple case , Vienna 1990
  • Corrado Stajano: The Public Enemy , Berlin 1976

Radio plays

  • Before the doctor comes , directed by Otto Düben , SDR 1986.
  • The Ghoul from Via del'Oca , directed by Heinz von Cramer , WDR 1969.
  • The trap or the students are not to blame for everything , directed by Richard Hey , SDR / SR / WDR 1968.
  • Jelka - A Family Series , 1977
  • Phantom picture or unexpected appearance of the poet HC Artmann from a box with books by HC Artmann , directed by Heinz Hostnig , SDR 1976.
  • The mysterious thing about Mr. Siegwart , directed by Heinz von Cramer , WDR 1972.
  • The return of the host , directed by Otto Düben , HR 1971.
  • Supermenschen in Paranoia , directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , SDR / BR / NDR 1969.
  • The death of Minjotta , directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , WDR 1970.
  • A vacation in the country , directed by Bernd Lau , WDR 1990.
  • Before Gustchen his house , directed by the author, WDR 1974.
  • The reparation , directed by Bernd Lau , SDR 1988.
  • The anger over the lost penny , directed by Klaus Mehrländer , SDR / HR 1975.
  • Two stars in the powder , directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , SR / HR / SWF / SDR 1968.
  • Die Vier Johannen , directed by the author, SDR / BR 1970.

Movie

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Süselbeck : Obituary for Peter O. Chotjewitz: Late Roman decadence suited him well , taz.de, December 15, 2010. twi. Peter O. Chotjewitz has died , Spiegel online, December 15, 2010, accessed on December 15, 2010.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Hammelehle: It all began in a lesbian bar. Spiegel Online December 15, 2010
  3. ↑ Sebastian Hammelehle: It all began in a lesbian bar. Spiegel Online December 15, 2010
  4. ^ "Two stars in the powder" and "The trap or the students are not to blame for everything". Excerpt from "Sterne" in the area reprint from 2004, pp. 59–67, a parody of Texas westerns. With picture of the author with hat and guitar from 1968.
  5. ↑ On his literary theory.
personal data
SURNAME Chotjewitz, Peter O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chotjewitz, Peter Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2010
Place of death Stuttgart