Renate Matthaei

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Renate Matthaei (born November 6, 1928 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) is a German literary scholar , publisher's editor , editor and author .

education

Renate Matthaei attended elementary school from 1935 to 1939 and then attended the municipal high school for girls in Cologne until 1944, which was interrupted by the war . After attending school in 1946 Bielefeld was able to resume, she lay there in 1949 at the Cecilie School , the Graduate from. She then studied - with a one-semester detour to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau - the subjects of German , history and philosophy at the University of Cologne . Her academic teachers included the literary scholars Richard Alewyn and Wilhelm Emrich . In 1960 it was with a thesis on the " mythical " in works of the Romantic poet Clemens Brentano doctorate .

Editing work

From 1960 to 1993 Renate Matthaei worked as a lecturer for German-language literature at the Cologne publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch . At the beginning of the 1960s she discovered the author Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and subsequently looked after him - partly in collaboration with her colleague Dieter Wellershoff . Brinkmann's poem Tritt im Band Die Piloten from 1968 reads as an invitation to Renate Matthaei for a discussion on aesthetic issues and begins with the apostrophic verses: “ Step in , Matthaei / and sit down / we have to // sen [ …] talk". It brought works by Wilhelm Reich and Ronald D. Laing into the publishing program. Later she also edited Heinrich Böll . With the collapse of Cologne's city archive , many testimonies to her work for the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house were lost.

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When Renate Matthaei made critical appearances in the late 1960s and 1970s , it was not just in journalistic media such as the FAZ or Merkur . Rather, in 1970, with Shifting Borders, she presented a large overview of new experimental and committed tendencies in contemporary German literature beyond Group 47 : from H. C. Artmann and Konrad Bayer to Oswald Wiener , Ror Wolf and Wolf Wondratschek . As a side piece to this, she initiated a volume with experimental essays , inspired by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann : Trivialmythen:

“The plan was to use this book to facilitate the feedback between the 'fictionalized' environment and literature. Because the trivial artificiality of our milieu, proclaimed daily as 'nature' ('life at first hand'), calls for a second artificiality that doubles and distances the first. ”( Preface to trivial myths )

This book was launched by the März Verlag , also in 1970 . Contributors include - in addition to Brinkmann himself, who contributes a “photo essay” - Elfriede Jelinek , Friederike Mayröcker , Uwe Nettelbeck and Ror Wolf.

Since 2000 Renate Matthaei has been working on issues of Cologne folklore and cultural history , for example on the Cologne Jeck and most recently on Sulpiz Boisserée's project to complete Cologne Cathedral .

Publications (selection)

  • Luigi Pirandello . Friedrich, Velber near Hanover 1967 (English translation: Ungar, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8044-2592-2 ).
  • The prevented humanization of sexuality. In: LIT. The literature magazine published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1 (autumn 1968), pp. 21-23.
  • Limit shift. New tendencies in German literature in the 1960s. Edited by Renate Matthaei. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1970.
  • Trivial Myths. Edited by Renate Matthaei. March, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • The subversive Madonna. A key to Heinrich Böll's work. Edited by Renate Matthaei. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-462-01046-8 .
  • Matrons, holy virgins, and wild women. On the history of the Kölner Weiberfastnacht . Landpresse, Weilerswist 2001, ISBN 3-935221-05-3 .
  • The Cologne Jeck. On the carnival and laughter culture in Cologne. With a foreword by Hartmut Priess. Dabbelju, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-939666-11-0 .
  • Sulpiz Boisserée and the completion of Cologne Cathedral. A biography. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-3517-2 .

literature

  • Jan-Frederik Bandel: Trivial Myths "1968". Leslie A. Fiedler and German pop literature . in: Konstellationen 3 (2002), pp. 26–30.
  • Ralf Bentz u. a .: Protest! Literature around 1968. An exhibition by the German Literature Archive. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 1998 (=  Marbach Catalogs, 51), ISBN 3-929146-69-X , p. 376 f.
  • Reinhold Neven Du Mont : With books and authors. My life as a publisher. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04879-7 , p. 79 f. (and more often).
  • Klaus Rümmele: Sign language. Text and pictures by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and contemporary pop authors. KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-762-2 , pp. 84-92.
  • Georg Stanitzek : Essay - BRD. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940384-33-1 , pp. 172-216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV. In: Renate Matthaei: The mythical in Clemens Brentano's “The Foundation of Prague” and the “Romances of the Rosary”. Diss. Mach. Cologne 1960, p. 201.
  2. ↑ a b Helge Malchow : From the publisher's notebook # 22 (Renate Matthaei) ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Roberto Di Bella: Four questions about Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Renate Matthaei. In: The wildly spotted panorama of another dream. The portal for the Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Study (accessed on September 26, 2016).
  4. ^ Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Step. In: The pilots. New poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1968, p. 32/33, here p. 32; this en passant : Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. His poems in individual interpretations. Edited by Jan Röhnert , Gunter Geduldig. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012. Vol. 1, p. 173.
  5. ^ Christian Linder : Description of a restructuring. In: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1949–1974. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1974, pp. 90–118, here p. 100 ff.
  6. ↑ Dieter Wellershoff: Heinrich Böll: The defense of childhood . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 23, 2010 (accessed on September 27, 2016).
  7. ↑ Frank Möller: The book Witsch. The dizzying life of the publisher Joseph Caspar Witsch. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, p. 620.
  8. ↑ Cf. u. a. Renate Matthaei: Art in the Age of Multiplication. Situation and theory of intermedia. In: Merkur 26.9 (September 1972), pp. 884-899.
  9. ↑ See with Peter Demetz 'simultaneously published contemporary literature display comparative diagnosis of Marianne Kesting: Peter Demetz as Madame de Staël. “Die süße Anarchy” - The attempt at a critical introduction to German literature since 1945. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 2, 1971 (PDF; 9 kB) (requested on October 1, 2016).
  10. ↑ a b limit shift. New tendencies in German literature. Edited by Renate Matthaei. 2nd edition Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1972, pp. 7-10: Table of contents (PDF; 162 kB) (accessed on June 20, 2020).
  11. ↑ Renate Matthaei: Foreword. In: Trivial Myths. March, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 7-10, here p. 7.
  12. ^ Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Letters to Hartmut 1974–1975. With a fictional answer from Hartmut Schnell. Rowohlt, o. O. 1999, p. 43 (letter of June 7, 1974); see. The reproduction in: Jörg Schröder, Barbara Calendar: How I live and why (Schröder & Calendar, March 5, 2009) (queried on October 1, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Matthaei, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, editor, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Lindenthal