Peter Schünemann (writer)

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Peter Schünemann (born April 25, 1930 in Hamburg ) is a German writer who has written numerous radio plays and author monographs, among other things.

Life

Peter Schünemann worked as a publisher and editor in Munich. For the radio he wrote many radio plays, later literary history broadcast series. For his achievements in radio journalism in 1965 he received a Radio Prize , the Kurt Magnus Prize ARD. He wrote numerous monographs and short stories about poets. Schünemann was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry from 1993 to 2013 . He lives as a freelance writer in the town of Otterndorf in Lower Saxony .

Subject area "Biography"

Many of Schünemann's texts deal with the subject of biography . In addition to the author's monographs on Gottfried Benn , Georg Heym , Georg Trakl and Robert Walser, he also wrote numerous imagined life pictures by poets; he also deals with the topic in literary journals. In the fictional portraits, the poets can be found under extraordinary titles that also indicate the short period of time that is dealt with: Friedrich Hölderlin as Magister , Georg Trakl as the drug acquirer and Arthur Rimbaud as the commercial agent . Only the frontispiece of the book Die Nacht explains that the first-person narrator is Heinrich von Kleist , whose last hours of life are discussed here. The literary monographs bring psychological, artistic and historical perspectives to those portrayed in a very condensed form, but according to the Critical Lexicon of contemporary German literature , they do not take into account their “literary and lyrical works”. The lexicon judges the texts of Schünemann's poetic biographies, which are not always easy to read for the “non-literary scholar”, as being “stored in tight language: a worldview that has to be deciphered like a photographic negative, created from various overlays of intellectual history and individual fate ” .

"Trace of the father"

Schünemann's book Spur des Vaters (2001), which contains five portraits of writers and in which he tries to explain what traces the fathers of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Gottfried Benn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud had in literary works , attracted attention of sons left behind. For Schünemann, the respective starting point is not just the figure of the father, "but his death, which here is always the - imaginary, feared or longed for - death of the Father of God". In these essays, life and death are presented as intertwined processes, linguistically very condensed and mixed with knowledgeable psychological, literary and biographical details, the overabundance of which also provoked criticism. The author tries “often to bring about syntheses by merging several metaphors or images. In interaction with other stylistic peculiarities: bulky parentheses , superfluous rows, parallelisms , multiple attributions , the tendency to metaphorize leads to a 'poetization' of the topic, which almost inevitably means that the texts move away from their usually pleasantly clearly defined starting point. Many a passage remains incomprehensible because it is overloaded with syntax and content ” .

Quote

  • "You no longer determine the pictures, but line up the thousand mirrors in which they would have broken, cut through the thousand upon thousand eyeballs that stared at their origin, painted it, set it on fragile notes, wrote on the floor."

Works

Books and phonograms

  • When the memory comes Saul Friedländer . Text selection by Peter Schünemann. (Reading. 2 CDs and booklet). Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-56677-6
  • Scardanelli's memory . Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-56369-0
  • Dark picture. Three stories & an essay . Hanser, Munich and Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-446-20684-1
  • Stay with me, my heart, in the shadowland. Poems about love and death . (Ed.) Beck, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-406-52915-1
  • Trace of the father. Five essays. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2001. ISBN 3-89528-331-2
  • Forgetting debt . Lecture at a memorial event for the victims of National Socialism on January 27, 2000 in Darmstadt. In: German Academy for Language and Poetry. Yearbook 2000. Reprint . Wallstein, Göttingen 2000
  • Repeated Reflections - Eleven essays on Goethe & others . Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 1998. ISBN 3-931402-30-4
  • Immutable G. A reading book on Goethe's life in twelve chapters . (Ed.) Beck, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-406-42079-6
  • Zenon's trail. Novella . Kleinheinrich, Münster 1996. ISBN 3-930754-15-0
  • Lots of farewells. A reader . (Ed.) Beck, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-406-39275-X
  • Jewish storytelling . (Ed.) Dtv, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-423-11767-2
  • Narrated world. German prose from 250 years . (Ed.) Dtv, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-423-11620-X
  • The night . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1992. ISBN 3-925670-57-2
  • Robert Walser . Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1989. ISBN 3-7678-0735-1
  • Georg Trakl . Beck, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-406-32903-9
  • YES Rimbaud. Commercial agent . Brinkmann et al. Bose, Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-922660-18-5
  • Georg Heym . Beck, Munich 1986. ISBN 3-406-31609-3
  • Zwieland. Imagined scenes from Büchner's biography . Classen, Zurich and Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-7172-0333-9
  • The master. Imagined scenes from Holderlin's biography . 1982. ISBN 3-7172-0312-6
  • The drug purchaser is. Imagined scenes from a biography . Classen, Zurich and Stuttgart 1981. ISBN 3-7172-0302-9
  • Counter memory. Narratives . Fink, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-7705-1931-0
  • Gottfried Benn . Beck, Munich 1977. ISBN 3-406-06268-7

Radio plays

The 29 radio plays that Peter Schünemann wrote and that were broadcast include:

translation

  • William Faulkner: When I was dying. Novel. From the American. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 1963

literature

  • Heinrich Detering : My son will cry for me! In the darkroom: Peter Schünemann's father essays . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 15, 2002
  • Heinrich Detering: Conversations across the ages. Historical experience and poetic asceticism: Peter Schünemann's stories . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 3, 2005
  • Angela Schader: Schünemann, Peter . In: Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature - KLG . ISBN 978-3-88377-927-0
  • Albert von Schirnding : The other Trakl . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 24, 1981

Web links

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  1. ↑ For example: The disappearance of biography. Observations on the work of Ernst Jünger . In: TEXT + KRITIK . Journal of Literature . Issue 105/106. 1990. ISBN 3-88377-359-X
  2. ↑ Angela Schader in: KLG
  3. ↑ Ibid
  4. ^ Except in the media cited in this section, for example in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 21, 2001
  5. ↑ Heinz Detering in: FAZ from February 15, 2002
  6. ↑ Stefan Schank: Covered traces of the fathers . In: www.literaturkritik.de. No. 1. 2003 . Retrieved July 2, 2008
  7. ↑ Quoted from JA Rimbaud. Commercial agent . Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-922660-18-5
personal data
SURNAME Schünemann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg