Hermann Peter Piwitt
Hermann Peter Piwitt (born January 28, 1935 in Wohldorf near Hamburg ) is a German writer.
Life
Hermann Peter Piwitt - son of a civil servant - grew up in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school , he studied sociology , philosophy and literature at the universities in Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Berlin . The academic teachers Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Höllerer exerted a strong influence on him. In Frankfurt, Piwitt was one of the friends of the photographer Abisag Tüllmann .
In 1967 and 1968 Piwitt worked as an editor at Rowohlt Verlag in Reinbek near Hamburg; 1968 began his collaboration on the magazine concretely . Since 1969 he has lived in Hamburg as a freelance writer, whose essays have also appeared in magazines such as Akzente und Sprache im Technischen Zeit . Piwitt, who is a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the Literature Promotion Prize for the Berlin Art Prize in 1968 and a Villa Massimo scholarship in 1971/72 . In 1973 he became "Writer in residence" at the University of Warwick in England and held this position until 1974. In 1976 he was given a teaching position at the University of Bremen . In 1999 he was Writer in Residence at the University of Wales in Swansea .
The social critic Hermann Peter Piwitt has emerged with essays on political topics; his narrative works illuminate above all the conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany and in Italy .
Works
- Herd-rich landscapes . Ten prose pieces, Reinbek near Hamburg 1965
- Das Bein des Bergmanns Wu , essays, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971. ISBN 3-596-25968-1
- Rothschilds , Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg 1972
- Boccherini and other civic duties , essays, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1976
- The gardens in March , Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
- Germany. Attempt to return home , Roman, Hamburg 1981
- The sailing around Cape Horn by the full ship Susanne 1909 in 52 days , essays, Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 1985. ISBN 3-922144-43-8
- Der Granatapfel , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1986. ISBN 3-455-05951-1
- The passion fruit , Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg. 1993
- An unforgivingly gentle ending , Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg. 1998
- Stone age. Notate zur Nacht 1989 - 2002 , diary entries, Revonnah Verlag Hannover 2003. ISBN 3-934818-18-8
- Years among them , Roman, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-8353-0082-2
- Home, beautiful strangers , stories and sketches, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0621-9
- Mercy , Novelle, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-8353-1043-8
- Sign of life with 14 helpers. Stories from a short life , autobiographical review, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-1379-8
- Summer with raccoon , novella, Göttingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1678-2
- Drei Freunde , Erzählungen, Göttingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-8353-1979-0
Editing
- Yugoslav narrators of the present , anthology, Stuttgart 1962 (together with Miodrag Vukic)
- The passing of hearing and seeing , Reinbek near Hamburg 1976 (together with Peter Rühmkorf )
- The seventh journey , Munich 1978 (together with Roman Ritter)
Translations
- Miodrag Bulatović : Die Liebenden , Munich 1962 (together with Miodrag Vukic)
- Miodrag Bulatovic: The red rooster flies skywards , Munich 1960 (together with Miodrag Vukic)
- Miodrag Bulatovic: Der Schwarze , Munich 1963 (together with Miodrag Vukic)
literature
- David Basker (ed.): Hermann Peter Piwitt (Series: Contemporary German Writers) Univ. of Wales Press, Cardiff 2000 ISBN 0708316662 ; TB: ISBN 0708316654
- Mathias Brandstädter: Presence by absence. Remarks on the background noise of an aesthetic of the recess in Ror Wolf, Hermann Peter Piwitt and Thomas Lehr , in: Literatur für Leser 2 (2007), pp. 87–97.
- Andreas Urban: Henrik and the mistress. Hermann Peter Piwitt's novella 'Mercy' as an access to his poetics. In: Critical Edition. Journal for German Studies and Literature No. 31 (2016), pp. 80–84.
- Dietmar Dath : A German without a place to stay. On the eightieth birthday of the writer Hermann Peter Piwitt, in: FAZ No. 23, January 28, 2015, p. 11.
Web links
- Hermann Peter Piwitt's website
- Literature by and about Hermann Peter Piwitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Readings by Hermann Peter Piwitt in the cultural center of the Action Quality of Life, Munich, with photos and biography
- Piwitt (PDF; 2.8 MB) at the Literary Colloquium Berlin , May 10, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Piwitt, Hermann Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wohldorf near Hamburg |