Rolf-Bernhard vinegar

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Rolf-Bernhard Essig at the Erlanger Poet Festival

Rolf-Bernhard Essig (* 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German author , literary critic , entertainer and lecturer . He is a grandson of the writer Hermann Essig .

Essig grew up in Kulmbach and studied German and history at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . He then worked as a research assistant and librarian before writing his dissertation (Dr. phil.) With the title The Open Letter in 2000 . History and function of a journalistic form from Isokrates to Günter Grass published. Essig has curated exhibitions on the subject of the open letter , for example in the museums for communication in Nuremberg and Frankfurt. The Museums for Communication in Nuremberg, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main as well as the Museum of Everyday Culture in Waldenbuch and the Altona Museum have been showing their exhibition “My name is a rabbit! On the track of idioms ”, which can be seen in the Focke Museum Bremen until June 2020 .

As a lecturer, Essig u. a. worked at the universities of Bamberg , Samara and Togliatti and taught literary studies and literary criticism as well as creative writing . Essig is the author of non-fiction and children's books as well as articles for the FAZ , Die Zeit , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau and others. Under the title "vinegar essences" ran his weekly column about German idioms in Germany Kultur . With his wife Gudrun Schury he presented the series “Migranten des Wortschatzes” for WDR from autumn 2008 to the end of 2011 . The column “Gone to the Bottom” was published from December 2014 to December 2016 in Yacht magazine . From September 2012 to July 2017, SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate ran his daily radio column “And now butter with the fish. Dr. Essigs kleine Sprichwortkunde ", since January 2017 on MDR Saxony the weekly column" Everything in butter or everything vinegar? ".

Since 2008 he is touring - especially as an expert in Proverbs - with edutainment programs for language by Germany and occurs among others at festivals such as the Erlangen Poetry Festival , in Germersheim Cultural Summer and the Hausacher reading Lenz. With Franz Tröger , he has been forming the musical-literary duo The Chipmunks since 2013 .

In 2018 he and his wife Gudrun Schury received the Berganza Prize of the Bamberg Art Association and a special prize from the jury of the Walter Serner Prize for his text Überfahren .

bibliography

Signature of Rolf-Bernhard Essig
  • The open letter. History and function of a journalistic form from Isokrates to Günter Grass. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1647-5 .
  • with Gudrun Schury: picture letters. Illustrated greetings from three centuries Knesebeck Verlag. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89660-158-X .
  • The rush of the seas. About the sea, alcohol and more. Oesch Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0350-2002-7 .
  • Pleasure to write and frustration of poets. Little habits and great secrets of writers. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20851-3 .
  • with Gudrun Schury: Everything about Karl May. A conglomeration from A to Z. Aufbau Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2313-9 . (First published as "Karl May-ABC" by Reclam Leipzig 1999)
  • “He who remains silent is guilty!” Open letters from Martin Luther to Ulrike Meinhof. Edited and commented by Rolf-Bernhard Essig and Reinhard MG Nickisch . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0217-4 .
  • How the cow got on the ice. Miraculous things from the world of words . Berlin 2007.
  • Siren singing and pig magic. Stories from the Odyssey. Illustrated by Anke Kuhl. Klett Children's Book Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-941411-16-6 .
  • The dog in the pan is going crazy. The funny stories behind our sayings. With illustrations by Marei Schweitzer. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23381-2 .
  • Friedrich Schiller: Small Philosophy of Friendship. Edited and with an afterword by Rolf-Bernhard Essig. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-03277-7 .
  • Vinegar essences. The proverb oracle for all situations. Verlag Kreuz , Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7831-3470-4 .
  • When is a hero a hero? Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23481-9 .
  • Butter the fish. How the sea flowed into our language. Proverbs and sayings collected and explained by Rolf-Bernhard Essig. Illustrated by Papan . marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86648-129-9 .
  • Everything for the cat. The funny stories behind our sayings. With illustrations by Ulrike Möltgen. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23785-8 .
  • with Gudrun Schury: How the gossip came to coffee. Miraculous things from the world of words. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-352-00805-4 .
  • Passed over. Images by Manfred Koch. Poems by Rolf-Bernhard Essig. Erich-Weiß-Verlag , Bamberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-940821-17-1 .
  • Holy shit! Everything about swearing and scolding. With illustrations by Papan. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-352-00850-4 .
  • The art of sweeping water. Novel. Ch. Schroer Verlag , Bergisch Gladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-95445-024-4 .
  • A sea is a lake is an ocean. How the English Channel, Horse Broad and Ox Belly Bay got their names. Illustrated by Papan. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86648-189-3 .
  • with Gudrun Schury: Bad fingers. A detective story of the arts from mansions to Beltracchi. CH Beck , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67372-6 .
  • Pearls, pearls, pearls. A declaration of love in seven shimmering chapters. Illustrated by Birgit Schössow. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86648-250-0 .
  • Since we have the mess. Around the world in 80 proverbs With illustrations by Regina Kehn. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26059-7 .
  • I know my Pappenheimers. Wonderful stories behind proverbial places . Duden Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-411-71107-9 .
  • Hand on heart. Sayings from head to toe and their wonderful stories . Duden Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-411-71115-4 .

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SURNAME Vinegar, Rolf-Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, literary critic, moderator and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg