Richard Anders (writer)

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Richard Anders (born April 25, 1928 in Ortelsburg , today Szczytno; † June 24, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German writer . He is considered an important representative of German literary surrealism .

Life

Youth and World War

Richard Anders was born in 1928 as the son of a wealthy timber merchant in Ortelsburg, East Prussia . The anxious boy was given private lessons because he could not stand the hostility of his classmates. In his early years he wrote his first poems and drafts for plays. In 1945 the family fled the Red Army before the end of the war . The father was killed, Anders managed to escape from East Prussia, but after several stops (military training camp in Parchim , labor service in Süderlügum , military service in Verden an der Aller ) south of Bremen as a deserter and sentenced to death. In the confusion of the last days of the war, the sentence was no longer carried out.

post war period

After a brief internment at Stade and an unsuccessful visit to the Hermann Lietz School on Spiekeroog (instead of preparing for lessons, Anders wrote plays that were either rejected or forbidden by the director as decadent) and an aborted bookseller apprenticeship in Marburg , Anders caught up with his Abitur after a high school graduation course for soldiers in Delmenhorst.

Anders began studying psychology in Hamburg in 1950 , but dropped out after a short time due to pulmonary tuberculosis . After six months of lying cure ( pneumothorax ) in the Schledehausen Lung Hospital , he resumed his studies in Münster with the subjects of German and geography, interrupted it for an apprenticeship in the middle librarianship in Cologne, but also gave it up after one semester. Finally he returned to the University of Hamburg , where he completed his studies in 1959 with the first state examination for a higher teaching post.

His first publications appeared in 1953 and 1954 in the magazine Between the Wars, edited by Werner Riegel and Peter Rühmkorf . His encounters with Hans Henny Jahnn , about whom he wrote his dissertation in 1959, were formative. From 1955 to 1959 he underwent psychotherapeutic treatment for the first time . He began his legal clerkship for the higher teaching post, but soon broke it off. In 1960 Anders went to Greece at the invitation of Count Eri Graf von Coudenhove-Kallergi . He earned his living as a German teacher in Athens and shared an apartment with the American Beat Generation author Gregory Corso .

surrealism

Back in Germany, Anders continued his psychotherapy in 1961/62 and took psychedelic drugs for the first time under medical supervision . Additionally stimulated by music and dance, he experimented for the first time with Écriture automatique . From 1962 to 1964 Anders worked as a German lecturer at the University of Zagreb . He lived in the apartment of the Croatian poet Radovan Ivsic , who mostly lived in Paris and whom he repeatedly visited in the French capital. Ivsic invited him to the gatherings of the Parisian surrealists around André Breton in the Café La Promenade de Vénus . Anders became a member of the circle and worked on Bréton's anthology of black humor as a translator.

Anders earned his living from 1965 to 1969 as an archivist for Spiegel and Die Welt . In 1969 his first volume of poetry was published, The Entkleid des Meeres . Anders moved to Berlin in 1970 , where he has lived as a freelance writer ever since. He found his final resting place in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau .

plant

The examination of Breton's surrealism became an important influence for Richard Anders. With Johannes Hübner , Lothar Klünner and Joachim Uhlmann he formed a surrealist group. Anders published a number of poetry and prose volumes; Again and again he made attempts with automatic writing and other surrealist techniques, which, above all , were supposed to make hallucinations , which Anders had had between waking consciousness and sleep since early adolescence, literarily fruitful in dream logs:

More and more I see the pictures as characters in a language unknown to me, which I need to keep from being forgotten and then decipher.

Anders sometimes used marijuana to make the hallucinated images clearer and to lengthen their appearance. The hallucinations seen by the author were recorded on a dictation machine when they were created and later transferred unchanged to paper. Anders calls these pictures

strange, as if they came from another world, while they are only memories alienated by being copied over one another. You could also modern concepts such as collage and dissolve call.

Anders himself illustrated a number of his books with surrealist drawings and collages.

Quotes

In his poems Richard Anders has repeatedly devoted himself to the wonderful and also bizarre peculiarities, insofar as they ignite the powers of imagination on the friction surface between the desirable and the absurd. His pictures arise from sleep's willingness to transform and empty the shadows of things, so that things lose their usual hold in our terms. The horror, as a flip side of the wonderful and the beauty, does not fall under the workbench of self-censorship in his texts, but loses word for word and conclusion for conclusion (because Richard Anders is an astonishing reasoning) of its shape and its corresponding horror. And there is often a laugh. Not of the kind that gets stuck in the throat, but of the kind that, behind the cover that the pictures offer their objects, amuses itself with the many absurdities of the truth that plays hide and seek. Andreas Koziol
A bird-light, bird-wise marginal existence; It is to be feared that those like his will not be able to run much longer in the increasingly hectic capital, which is bitterly haggling over the cake crumbs. Ursula Krechel

Awards

Works

Poetry

  • The undressing of the sea. With etchings by Ekkehard Thieme. Sirius, Hamburg, 1969
  • Prussian room. Bläschke, Darmstadt, 1976
  • About the city highway and other poems. With illustrations by Louis. First edition (not intended for retail): Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin, 1980. Second edition: Oberbaum, Berlin, 1985
  • Head rolls. Poems. fundamental, Cologne, 1993
  • For Aloïse. Translated from an interlinear translation from Spanish by Karlheinz Barck. With illustrations by Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller. Galerie 13, Hanover, 1994
  • White horror. With drawings by Gerald Titius. Maldoror, Berlin, 1996
  • The pendulum clocks have curfew. Selected and new poems. With collages by the author. Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin, 1998 ISBN 3-933149-07-X
  • No man's eye. Poems. With high pressure from Andreas Hegewald . Buchenpresse, Dresden, 2006

prose

  • Zeck. Stories. Literary Colloquium, Berlin, 1979
  • Oedipus and the holy cow. Short novel. With illustrations by Franjo Klopotan . Sirene, Berlin, 1979
  • A favorite son. Novel. Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M., Berlin and Vienna, 1981
  • Encounter with Hans Henny Jahnn. Records 1951–1955. With a foreword by Signe Trede-Jahnn. Rimbaud, Aachen, 1988
  • Trumps trumps. Prose. With drawings by Horst Hussel . Dr.-Haus Galrev, Berlin, 1993 ISBN 3-910161-31-6
  • Footprints from someone who did not appear. Aphorisms. Keicher, Warmbronn. 1996 ISBN 3-924316-86-4
  • Subservient. Stories. With collages by the author. Dr. Haus-Galrev, Berlin, 1997 ISBN 3-910161-80-4
  • Marijuana Hypnagogica. Protocols I – II. With serigraphs by Michael Würzberger. Maldoror, Berlin, 1997 ISBN 3-933149-30-4
  • Zeck. Stories. With drawings by the author. Extended edition 1979–1999. Dr.-Haus Galrev, Berlin, 1999
  • Marijuana Hypnagogica. Logs. Maldoror, Berlin, 1997 ISBN 3-933149-30-4
  • Marijuana Hypnagogica. Protocols I – IV. With serigraphs by Michael Würzberger. qwert zui opü, Berlin, 2002 ISBN 3-933149-30-4
  • Cloud reading: via hypnagogic hallucinations, automatic writing and other sources of inspiration . Wiecker Bote, Greifswald, 2003, ISBN 3-935458-06-1
  • Clackamusa. Between Prussian childhood and surrealism. (Not) a novel. Extended version of A Favorite Son. With posthumous dream stories by Rajna Jordanovic-Anders and drawings by the author. Kairos Edition , Luxembourg, 2004 ISBN 2-9599829-8-3
  • With Gita in India. A story. Kairos Edition, Luxembourg, 2005 ISBN 2-9599829-4-0

Collections

  • The divided face. Selection 1949–1974. Published by Maximilian Barck . With an impromptu by Rita Bischof and seven colored graphics by Rainer Tschernay. Maldoror, Berlin, 1996
  • Shadow Mouth Speech. Automatic texts 1958–1966. Published by Maximilian Barck. With screen prints by Pontus Carle. Maldoror, Berlin, 1996
  • EROSion of the I. Automatic texts from sixty years. On the theory of surrealism. With a foreword by Karlheinz Barck and serigraphs by Klaus Bendler. Maldoror, Berlin, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lang: Pommersches Jahrbuch für Literatur. ISBN 978-3-8330-0288-5 , p. 192. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  2. ↑ Johann Thun: The circle around the yearbook 'Spokes' as a mediator of Surrealism in Germany . In: Karina Schuller, Isabel Fischer (Eds.): "The Surrealism in Germany (?)" Interdisciplinary Studies . Scientific publications of the WWU Münster, Münster 2017, ISBN 3-8405-0149-0 .
  3. ↑ Stephan Resch: Written Pictures - To Richard Anders' "Wolkenlesen". In: literaturkritik.de. February 2, 2005, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c printing house galrev: Richard Anders. In: galrev.com. April 25, 1928, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Stephan Resch: "The thought leap as a mental way of moving" - On Richard Anders' "Marihuana Hypnagogica": literaturkritik.de. In: literaturkritik.de. February 2, 2005, accessed January 2, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Different, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortelsburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2012
Place of death Berlin