Rainer Wedler

Rainer Wedler ( pseudonym : Renarius Flabellarius ; born January 1, 1942 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Rainer Wedler went to Turkey, West and North Africa as a cabin boy on ships of the merchant navy . He then studied German , history , political science and philosophy at the universities in Heidelberg and Mainz . After the state examination , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1969 at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the late medieval reception of the liber de vita by the English scholastic Walter Burley . He then worked in the school service and in promoting the gifted .

In addition to scientific work, Wedler, who is the author of novels, short stories, essays and poems, published poetry and prose in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. In 1995 the first novel The Kashubian Wound appeared . Theo Breuer attests to the 2003 novel Die Farben der Tailor's Chalk as extraordinary qualities in terms of subtle sensuality, cool clarity, a feeling for the always precise expression as well as a highly interesting topic .

From 1993 to 1996 Wedler was editor of the literary magazine Hirschstraße and from 1996 to 2000 of the Swiss magazine Scriptum ; since 2005 he has been on the editorial staff of the literary magazines Matrix and Bawülon .

After 2000 Wedler began to seek and establish a connection to the fine arts in the form of book objects . He stands in the tradition of documenta 6 : book destruction as metamorphoses of the book. In contrast to the Surrealists, who aimed at the destruction of meaning, here the books or the objects related to the book have always been carriers of meaning. In Wedler's work, irritations arise from the clash of diverging meanings. From his battered books ... works of art emerge like a phoenix from the ashes .

Wedler is a member of the Association of German Writers , the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg .

Rainer Wedler lives in Ketsch .

Single track

prose

• The Kashubian Wound. Novel. Gollenstein Verlag, Blieskastel 1995, ISBN 3-930008-14-9 .
• Liberation from symmetry. Novel. Alkyon Verlag, Weißach i. T. 1999, ISBN 3-933292-26-3 .
• The little viagrinian consolation book . Under the pseudonym Renarius Flabellarius. With drawings by Peter Frömmig . Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 1999, ISBN 3-932497-31-7 .
• The cat. Seven selected short stories . Edition Minotaurus, 2nd edition, Vevais 2005, ISBN 3-936165-03-3 .
• Twilight time. Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-931402-60-6 .
• The colors of the tailor's chalk. Novel. Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2003, ISBN 3-925825-84-3 .
• Via Ronco 40 . Obleser Publizistik, Marbach am Neckar 2005, ISBN 3-935926-19-7 .
• Stopover in Algiers. Novel . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937139-11-7 .
• The fierceness of the raspberries. Stories. Edition Thalia, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 3-924944-78-4 .
• The loan period. Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937139-81-4 .
• Swell. Novella. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86356-030-0 .
• Ismology or migrations through the Ismania march . Wildleser-Verlag, Erlangen 2013, ISBN 978-3-923611-49-2 .
• There is no trace. Prose pieces . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86356-052-2 .
• The blackberries are also no longer relevant. Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86356-076-8 .
• Nock. Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86356-119-2 .
• Pen organ. Short texts 2014 - 2017 . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86356-190-1 .
• The year zero is the year twelve . Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86356-249-6 .

Poetry

• Svendborg, Skovsbostrand 8. Poems. Ithaka Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-933545-14-5 .
• Breath cubes. Poems. Poetry edition 2000, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-86520-074-5 .
• The rooster crows the wind into the trees . Friends of the Sarah Kirsch e. V., Limlingerode 2004.
• Dikemaster of myself. Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937139-34-0 .
• Under the heat of the tiled roof. Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86356-010-2 .
• against the wind. Poems . Limited edition of 70 copies. Hand setting on laid paper, Westflügel / Syke 2015.
• one does not greet a stranger. Poems 2011–2016. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86356-176-5 .

Non-fiction

• Walter Burley's "Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum poetarumque veterum" in two German versions of the late Middle Ages . Dissertation. Heidelberg University 1969.

literature

• Theo Breuer: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 , p. 67 ff.
• Theo Breuer: pebbles & chestnuts. Of new poems and stories. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008, ISBN 978-3-87512-347-0 , pp. 20-23.

Awards

• 1992: Hafiz Prize for Poetry from the Persian Literature Club
• 1993: UNESCO Burgenland recognition award
• 1996: City clerk of the city of Soltau
• 1998: Scholarship from the Brecht House in Svendborg
• 2001: Scholarship holder of the Villa Vigoni, Como
• 2003: Residence grant from the Künstlerhaus Kloster Cismar
• 2009: Prize of the poetry competition as part of the Rilke Festival in Sierre ( Canton of Valais )
• 2018: Award certificate from the Vontobel Foundation Zurich

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Wedler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Rainer Wedler at Literaturport
• http://www.literatur-rlp.de/db_suche.php?autor=Wedler%2C+Rainer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theo Breuer: Pebbles & Chestnut. Of new poems and stories . Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008, ISBN 978-3-87512-347-0 , p. 22 .
2. ↑ Rolf Dittmar in: Catalog for documenta 6 . Paul Dierichs KG & Co., Kassel 1977, p. 296 .
3. ↑ Reinhard Grüner in: Bawülon 23 . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2016, p. 174 .