Ralph Roger Glöckler

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Ralph Roger Glöckler (born November 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary scholar , ethnologist , poet and writer .

Life

Ralph Roger Glöckler studied German , French , Portuguese and ethnology at the University of Tübingen from 1971 . He was a co-founder of the Tübingen literary magazine exempla , whose conceptual focus was on promoting young literary talents in the fields of poetry , short stories and essays . There were also issues with thematic focuses, such as on South America or Egypt . Glöckler wrote the first scientific work (Magister) on the early expressionist work of the poet Anton Schnack .

Ralph Roger Glöckler lives as a freelance author and translator in Frankfurt am Main and temporarily in Lisbon and New York . His previous publications include, in addition to some reports, literary travel stories, poems and novels.

The Azores Trilogy

Glöckler is one of the most attentive observers of Portuguese culture. His interest in the secrets of vanished worlds gave rise to the Azores trilogy , whose stories mix reality and fiction . Corvo is the first book to be written. It was published in Lisbon in 2001, even before the German version was published, under the title Corvo. Uma viagem açoriana published. In addition to the story Madre , which is about the Christian cult in the Azores, which is now over three hundred years old, the volcanic journey is also part of the trilogy. The centerpiece of the series, first published in 1997, deals with the volcanic eruption on Faial in 1957 and the associated emigration of many islanders to America , as well as the resulting ideological consequences of natural events. The Portuguese press has compared Glöckler's work with that of Antonio Tabucchi . An important topic is the reaction of people to the existence-threatening violence of nature. With the Azores trilogy, Glöckler has succeeded in joining the tradition of narrative travel literature .

The stylistic development from the travel narrative to the novel-like inner monologue can be clearly seen in the Azores trilogy . The relationship of the nun Teresa da Anunciada to the bust of Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres is represented in a kind of death delirium in which the time levels are mixed up. Language becomes the actual event of the book, a 'radical portrait of a woman and a language which, in its brokenness, is reminiscent of the sky-storming force of baroque imagery'.

Poetry, short stories and novels

The volume of poems Taking the face off thematizes u. a. Language, its impossibility and silence as a 'hidden' possibility of expression. The title is due to a cycle dedicated to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa . The 'material' language is also important in the prose works. The story Die kalte Stadt not only tries to portray the relationship between two men, but also alienates it through different perspectives, captivating with the 'unusual and interesting structure of the story'. 'The finely constructed parallelogram of the internal text communication gives the author Glöckler time and again the opportunity to ironically distance himself from what has been said. The result: even dramatic events seem coldly pushed into the distance. ' "Thanks to a distant, cool way of writing, Glöckler has succeeded in describing the numerous moments of separation, which not infrequently allow a sudden insight into oneself." The work is one of the most important literary works on sexual emancipation.

The novel Mr. Ives and the fourth degree cousins is based on the friendship of the American composers Charles Ives (1874–1954) and Henry Cowell (1897–1965) and tells in four letters, broad internal monologues, the effect of Cowell's arrest for one Moral offenses on the friends had and at the same time conveyed a psychogram of the time. As in Die kalte Stadt , Madre and other, as yet unpublished stories, the language material is always processed musically. 'The narration is often in wide hypotaxes, with which, for reasons of rhythmic acceleration, paratactically organized elements either alternate or are directly coupled to them. As a result, the sentences sometimes give the impression of a stopped action time, not just a kind of pause before narrative outbursts, but rather shyly disguises the modernity of this narrative, as in order not to abuse the time color. In addition, there is Glöckler's pleasure in syncope. '

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Guardado Moreira, in: Espresso, May 3, 1997.
  2. ↑ Linda Santos Costa, in: Publico, August 10, 1997.
  3. ^ Susanne Broos, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 1997.
  4. ↑ Ferdinand Blume-Werry, in: Portugal-Post No. 44/2008, page VII.
  5. ↑ Ruth Fühner, Hessischer Rundfunk, 2008.
  6. ^ Martha Höhl, in: ekz-informationsdienst, ID 45/87-BA 12/87.
  7. ^ Fritz W. Haver, in: Die Welt, November 28, 1987.
  8. ^ Alain Claude Sulzer, in: Die Zeit, No. 42, October 9, 1987.
  9. ↑ Stefanie Steiner-George, in: info-netz-musik, August 16, 2012.
  10. ↑ Alexandra Garcia Düttmann, in: kommbuch-newsletter, 2012.
  11. ↑ Alban Nikolai Herbst, in: Volltext 4/2012.
personal data
SURNAME Glöckler, Ralph Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, ethnologist, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main