Roderich Feldes

Roderich Feldes (born December 21, 1946 in Offdilln ; † May 10, 1996 in Eiershausen ) was a German writer and PEN member.

Life

Feldes and the later writer Gert Loschütz visited the old-language branch of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule in Dillenburg , where they published poems in the school newspaper Funzel . Just one year after graduating from high school in 1967, Feldes ' first volume of poetry, haubergsnelken, was published by Suhrkamp Verlag . After studying German , linguistics and philosophy in Giessen and Frankfurt and after receiving his doctorate as Dr. phil. he worked as a freelance writer in Eibelshausen near his birthplace Offdilln. His childhood in the still rural village remained a formative experience for him. Until his early death in 1996, he lived with his family in the neighboring town of Eiershausen , where he worked in village associations. For many years he was the secretary of the local choral society and co-initiator of the Eschenburg local history museum (now the regional museum). With its regular exhibitions of folklore objects, this voluntary museum enables a glimpse into past and present everyday culture and is developing into a meeting place for the surrounding villages.

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Feldes created an extensive literary work consisting of novels , short stories , poems , short prose and a large number of radio plays and documentary radio plays . Some of his works have also been made into films. Feldes also worked scientifically, both independently and as an editor. He did his doctorate on The Word as a Tool . In 1978 the comprehensive study Magic, the Unconscious Power was published .

Feldes saw himself as a witness of a turning point. Connected to his home in the upper Dilltal , he kept a critical inner distance to the immediate events around him in his writing. He describes the change in village life as a result of the highly armed consumer world and states that society is crumbling into individuals, "because the whole spectrum of life is no longer the bracket". About his situation as a writer in the village, he said that even if the urbanization of the villages could not be stopped, there was still an exemplary social network in which the general social reality was more accurately reflected, at least more clearly visible to him than that in of a bigger city.

Awards

Feldes was honored with the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize in 1976 for his short story Die Einnürung . In 1980/81 he received the Märkische Stipendium for literature .

Publications (selection)

• haubergsnelken , poems, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1967
• The word as a tool , dissertation, Verlag Otto Schwartz & Co., Göttingen 1976
• Magic, the unconscious force , non-fiction book, Keil Verlag, Bonn 1978
• The journey to the edge of the will , stories, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1979
• Lilar , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1980
• The disappearance of harmony. Eine Chronik , Roman, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1981 (filmed in 1984; director: Ulrich Heising )
• In a dead house , story, BrennGlas Verlag, Assenheim 1983
• The Weber-Panofski Syndrome , narrative, BrennGlas Verlag, Assenheim 1984 (filmed under the title: "Otherwise everything is in order")
• Insulating glass. Tales of living and living , dtv, Munich 1985
• The Budgie. Two stories , BrennGlas Verlag, Assenheim 1986
• The whale or mom, can you still hear me? , Roman, Edition Literarischer Salon , Giessen 1991
• Weatherproof. Poems from 30 Years , Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 1993
• The werewolf. Two stories , Albrecht Thielmann Verlag, Dillenburg 2012

literature

• Schiller in the village. Field and the change of the village . On behalf of the Roderich-Feldes-Gesellschaft eV ed. by Christian Kauferstein, Matthias Nowak, Walburg Scharnagl, Albrecht Thielmann, Andreas Topp and Gabriele H. Tuczek. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (= publication series of the Roderich-Feldes-Gesellschaft eV, 1).

Web links

• Literature by and about Roderich Feldes in the catalog of the German National Library