Peter Roos

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Peter Roos (born June 30, 1950 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German writer .

Life

Peter Roos grew up in Göllheim in the Palatinate . In Würzburg , he passed the Abitur at the Matthias Grünewald high school there. His first literary activities included the publication of the literary magazine "experiment" with first publications by Erich Fried , Walter Jens and Martin Walser . Roos studied philosophy , literary studies , cultural studies and rhetoric at the Universities of Würzburg, Bochum and Tübingen, among others with Ernst Bloch and Walter Jens , as well as 'German Area Studies', 'Jewish Studies' and 'Womens Studies' at Washington University in St. Louis ( USA ), among others with Professors David Bronsen and Egon Schwarz , and completed this course with a master's degree . This was followed by a second degree in Italian at the universities of Siena and Perugia .

Roos has been working as a freelance writer since 1975. In addition to literary writing, he works for theater, opera, ballet and film and translates. He writes for Spiegel , TransAtlantik , FAZ , FR , Die Weltwoche , Die Presse , Der Standard and as a cultural correspondent for the newspaper Die Zeit . Roos lives in the old town hall rooms near Marktheidenfeld am Main and in Vienna .

Competitions and scholarships

Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, Berlin scholarship for young authors in the “ Literary Colloquium ”, Munich literature scholarship in the Villa Waldberta zu Feldafing, town clerk in Otterndorf . Travel and work grants from the Italian Embassy in Bonn for the universities of Siena and Perugia, the Ministries of Culture in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, the cities of Bochum, Würzburg and Vienna, the Volkswagen Foundation Hanover, the Foundation for the Promotion of Philosophy Düsseldorf.

Works

  • Genius loci. Discussions about literature and Tübingen , Pfullingen 1978 and Tübingen 1986.
  • About the abolition of daylight. Last attempt to change the world , Tübingen 1981 and Siegen 1990.
  • Broken conversations: Who is the youth dialogue good for? A literary-documentary dispute , Weinheim 1982.
  • Vespa stracciatella. A scooter novel with 50 photos from the 50s , Berlin 1985ff. and Leipzig 2002.
  • Between painting and power. An essay , Zimmer 1988.
  • Vespa bella donna: The waist of the century - the shapes of the 50s , Kiel 1990.
  • Body! 3 men! 1 commotion! A monologue , Zimmer 1991 (world premiere in the Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen).
  • The wild 40s. Portrait of an adolescent generation. A sociological novel , Düsseldorf 1992 and 1995.
  • Jeans blues. Libretto for the studded pants opera of the State Theater Nuremberg , Zimmer 1994.
  • Self-portrait of childhood and youth in: Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): At home with us. Celebrities talk about their childhood. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-430-15945-8
  • You pee sitting down! The manuscript. Monologue for the world premiere of the Wiener Festwochen 1997 , Zimmer 1997.
  • Hitler loves. Novel of a disease , Tübingen 1998 and Leipzig 2000 (Italian translation: Amare Hitler. Storia di una malattia , Milan 2002).
  • You pee sitting down! A men's letter novel , Leipzig 2001.
  • blauPEN or SCIENCE & TENDERNESS. Poetry & Percussion. A performance together with Bernd Kremling. CD with booklet from the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover 2002.
  • The angel in the coffee house: Mr. Robert, Café Landtmann, Vienna and the world , Weitra 2004 (together with Clemens Fabry).
  • Tabori is moving: How should you look for an apartment when it's raining? Eine Groteske , Weitra 2004 (together with Maurice Weiss).

Editing

  • Anna Seghers. Materials book , Darmstadt 1977 (together with Friederike Hassauer ).
  • Exile. On the Wolf Biermann case. Documentation and essay , Cologne 1977.
  • Don't trust anyone over thirty. A generation between occupied chairs , Cologne 1980 and Frankfurt 1982.
  • Crazy speech. Is there a feminine aesthetic? , Berlin 1980 (together with Friederike Hassauer).
  • Desire for children. Reden and GegenReden , Weinheim 1982 and Munich 1985 (together with Friederike Hassauer).
  • Félicien Rops : Félicien Rops - the female body, the male gaze , Zurich 1984 (together with Friederike Hassauer).
  • The women with wings, the men with lead? , Siegen 1986 (together with Friederike Hassauer).
  • Berlin 1930: streets and faces. Essay by Jean Giraudoux / Drawings by Chas-Laborde. Translation and essay , Nördlingen 1987 (together with Friederike Hassauer).
  • Me, Myself & I: Painting by Wolfgang Stückler - words, sentences & poems by Peter Roos , Vienna 1998.
  • Visible man. Essay on photos of + with disabled people , rooms 2008 (together with Birgitta Müller).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Peter Roos in the literature lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Roos, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein