Ror Wolf

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Ror Wolf (center) receives the war blind radio play award in 1988

Ror Wolf ; originally: Richard Georg Wolf , pseudonym: Raoul Tranchirer (born June 29, 1932 in Saalfeld / Saale , Thuringia ; † February 17, 2020 in Mainz ) was a German writer and artist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1951, Wolf was refused to study because of his middle-class background. He worked as a construction worker for two years before he left the GDR in July 1953 and went to the West. In Stuttgart he initially worked as a laborer for a year. Wolf then enrolled at the University of Frankfurt am Main to study literature, sociology and philosophy and soon began to publish prose, poetry and photo collages, as well as literature, theater and jazz reviews in the student newspaper Diskus . Wolf became a feature editor at Diskus and later literature editor at Hessischer Rundfunk ; since 1963 he has been a freelance writer. In Frankfurt, Wolf belonged to the circle of friends of the photographer Abisag Tüllmann .

Ror Wolf lived and worked in Mainz after moving more than thirty . The stage name is made up of the letter R from Richard and or in Georg; He developed the pseudonym Tranchirer from the first name spoken backwards: Drahcir ~ tranchir = Tranchirer (cutter).

Wolf's writing career began in 1958 with publications in the discus . In 1964, his first novel, Continuation of the Report , appeared, which can be seen as one of the few examples of a German-language nouveau roman and reveals an intensive examination of the book The Shadow of the Body of the Coach by Peter Weiss . As a result, Wolf continued to develop his prose, which he had trained in Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka and Robert Walser , and which quickly found a tone that was as artistic as it was unmistakable; books such as Pilzer and Pelzer (1967) and The Dangerousness of the Great Plain (1976) have appeared. Later, in Nachrichten aus der Inhabied Welt (1992) and two or three years later (2003), a radical compression occurs with a simultaneous external scarcity of its prose. Influences from surrealism , fantasy , adventure and crime literature are just as evident as humorous and erotic motifs, which make his books extremely entertaining despite all literary claims. This applies in particular to the poems collected in Prospects for New Experiences (1996) and Pfeifers Reisen (2007).

Wolf's theme was a playful, profound examination of reality, which for him only exists as a highly melodious word space. Nevertheless, his books, which confidently overcome the boundaries of traditional narrative patterns, were by no means language games without reference to reality. How much reality can be reproduced with Wolf's method was shown very clearly in the popular football books and the associated radio collages: "The world was not football, but in football, that's no secret, there is a whole lot of world" ( RW). Wolf was fascinated by what is behind football, what is recognizable through it and can be represented through it - e.g. B. two completely different ways of commenting on the same game (cf. the radio play Córdoba June 1.45 p.m. , 1979). With this in mind, he has assembled numerous works from original quotes from journalists and fans. - Since 1969, Ror Wolf has also made a name for himself as a radio writer. The life and death of the cornet player Bix Beiderbecke from North America (1986) was awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize in 1988 and is one of the most successful German radio plays thanks to numerous broadcasts.

Ror Wolf was also a visual artist. Since the early sixties he has been making - in this respect Max Ernst , but also comparable to Peter Weiss - surrealistic collages with materials from the early days , which he took from old encyclopedias, magazines and etiquette. Complemented by appropriate text concentrates, the motifs obtained in this way formed the encyclopedia for intrepid readers , which had been in six volumes since 1983 and could be read as a parody of erudition, authority and positivist strategies for recognizing the world.

Ror Wolf was the honorary captain of the Autonama team, founded in 2005 .

In April 2006, Wolf announced in an interview in the daily newspaper that he wanted to destroy the sound archive he had created while working on the radio collages, because he would no longer deal with it, although he had a lot to pass on. It didn't come to that. At the end of 2007, the German Literature Archive in Marbach was given an initial bundle of early manuscripts and correspondence. Parts of Vorlasses are Museum of Modern Literature seen in Marbach in the permanent exhibition. He left the radiophonic usage coordinated with the scientific development to the Südwestrundfunk . This resulted in the radio play Attack is the Best Defense - a radio play by Hermann Bohlen read by Ror Wolf , first broadcast on SWR2 on July 3, 2009. In 2011 and 2012 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published several collages and excerpts from the unpublished novel Twenty Nine Attempts, Die Welt to devour . In 2015 , some episodes of his collages on Ror Wolf's rhymed worlds and on the new work Ror Wolf: The Suddenly Creeping Cold in December were published, also in the FAZ . From March 6 to April 24, 2016, the Bensheim Museum showed a representative selection of his surreal collages under the title Ror Wolfs wunderbare Welten.

Awards

Works

Ror Wolf Works (RWW)

Work edition

  • News from the inhabited world. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1991, reprint Fischer 1994, ISBN 978-3-596-11765-9
  • Continuation of the report. New edition, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1992, reprint Fischer 1995.
  • The danger of the Great Plain. (including Pilzer and Pelzer ), new edition, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1992, reprint Fischer 1996.
  • The next game is always the hardest. New edition, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1994, reprint Fischer 1996.
  • Thank you very much. Nothing to thank for. (including several men ), new edition, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1995, reprint Fischer 1997.
  • Prospects for new experiences. Moritats, ballads and other poems 1957–1996. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1996, reprint Fischer 1999.

Encyclopedia for the intrepid reader

  • Volume 1: Raoul Tranchirer's versatile great advisor for all cases in the world. Anabas-Verlag 1983; exp. New edition Schöffling & Co. 1999.
  • Volume 2: Raoul Tranchirer's communications to the perplexed. Haffmans 1988; exp. New edition Anabas 1997.
  • Volume 3: Raoul Tranchirer's theory of the world and reality from the realm of flesh, earth, air, water and feelings. Anabas 1990.
  • Volume 4: Tranchirer's Final Thoughts on Increasing Pleasure and Terror. Anabas 1994.
  • Volume 5: Raoul Tranchirer's Encyclopedia for Intrepid Readers & Its Manageable Consequences. Anabas 2002.
  • Volume 6: Raoul Tranchirer's Remarks on Silence. Schöffling & Co. 2005.
  • Volume 7: Raoul Tranchirer's Notes from the Shredded Life. . Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-326-5 .
  • Selected volume: Raoul Tranchirer's pocket cosmos. Wagenbach 2005.

Records from the archive of the reality factory

  • The Limits of Confidentiality or Great Voyage in the Opposite Direction. Anabas 2006.
  • Nice surroundings or news from the field of dark feelings. Anabas 2008.
  • In front of the window, by the way, to my amazement, dusk. Anabas 2008.
  • About 132 movements or words from inside the mouth. Anabas 2011.

expenditure

  • Sign. Five new German authors. (Anthology, edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ), Suhrkamp 1962
  • Continuation of the report. Roman, Suhrkamp 1964; New edition Suhrkamp 1970.
  • The Lexicon of Fine Customs. together with Karl Riha, prose and picture collages, Diskus-Verlag 1964.
  • Pilzer and Pelzer. Roman, Suhrkamp 1967; exp. New edition Suhrkamp 1978, complete edition with picture collages Luchterhand 1988.
  • my family. Moritats and picture collages, Anabas-Verlag 1968; exp. Edition Suhrkamp 1971.
  • Thank you very much. Nothing to thank for. Stories, Suhrkamp 1969.
  • Point is point. Soccer games. Suhrkamp 1971; exp. Edition ibid. 1973; first version: point is point. Preoccupation with football. In: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): Trivialmythen March, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 20–39; New edition Area, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-029-7 , pp. 340–359.
  • In search of Doktor Q. radio play trilogy, Suhrkamp 1976.
  • The danger of the great plain. Novel and short prose, Suhrkamp 1976.
  • The hot air of the games. Prose and others, Suhrkamp 1980.
  • The next game is always the hardest. (Anthology of all football texts) Athenäum 1982, exp. New edition Haffmans 1990, frequent new editions, most recently Schöffling, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-324-1 .
  • Hans Waldmann's Adventure. Moritats, ballads and other poems, Haffmans 1985.
  • Several men. Prose and picture collages, Luchterhand 1987.
  • Excursion to the provisional edge of things. Prose 1957–1976 with picture collages, Luchterhand 1988.
  • A plot of fun, games and horror. Prose, poetry, collages, ed. by Karl Riha , Reclam 1994.
  • Life and death of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke from North America. Radio travel. Radio plays (including the CD Four Radio Collages ) Schöffling 2000.
  • Two or three years later. Forty-seven debauchery. Frankfurt publishing house 2003.
  • Two or three years later. Forty-nine debauchery. exp. New edition (contains The Forty-ninth Debauchery ) Schöffling 2007.
  • Pfeifer's travels. Poems. Schöffling 2007.
  • Different ways to lose your calm. A reading book, ed. by Brigitte Kronauer , Schöffling & Co. 2008.
  • The virtues of darkness. Twenty-nine attempts to devour the world . Horror novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-307-4 .
  • The sudden cold in December . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-306-7 .
  • The poems . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-269-5 .

Bibliophile prints

  • Attention attention. serial manifests VIII, edition galerie press, st. Gallen 1966.
  • Mrs. Gray. Raamin Press 1973.
  • Nocturnal screaming. The Bear Press 1991.
  • News from the inhabited world. Marvid Press 1993.
  • The soft world of flowing animals. The Bear Press 1995.
  • Mrs. Gray. Raven Press 1996.
  • News from the inhabited world. Raven Press 1996.
  • The violence of song in Nevada. Schöffling & Co. 1999.
  • An accident in the west, on May 13th. The Bear Press 2000.
  • Let's go west. Private printing by Anke Kuhl 2001.
  • Neither in Schleiz nor anywhere else in the world. The Bear Press 2006.
  • The hand. The Bear Press 2008.
  • Expansion. The Bear Press 2008.
  • Antipathy. The Bear Press 2010.
  • Collages . Edition Romanfabrik, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047522-1 .

Radio plays

  • The Chinese at the window , directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , WDR / HR 1971.
  • The convincing advantages of the evening , directed by Heinz Hostnig , WDR / BR 1973.
  • Journey into the air in 67 minutes and 15 seconds , directed by Heinz Hostnig , HR / WDR 1976.
  • Life and death of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke from North America , director: Heinz Hostnig , SWF / HR / NDR / WDR 1986
  • The blink of the magic eye - The radio playmaker Ror Wolf , directed by Ror Wolf, HR / SR 1990.
  • The crossing of the deep in thirteen dark chapters , directed by Hermann Naber , SWF / DLF / HR 1997.
  • Several Men - Thirty-Two Pretty Short Stories , Director: Antje Vowinckel , SWR 2001.
  • The violence of song in Nevada , directed by Thomas Gerwin , SWR 2005.
  • The forty-ninth debauchery , directed by Antje Vowinckel , SWR 2007.
  • Raoul Tranchirer's Remarks on Silence , directed by Thomas Gerwin , SWR 2007.
  • The virtues of darkness , directed by Thomas Gerwin , RBB / WDR 2012.

Original sound radio plays

  • The loneliness of the seabed , director: Peter Lilienthal , WDR / SDR 1979 (with the original sound re-spoken)
  • Bananen-Heinz , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1983.
  • The slow weakening of strength , directed by Jürgen Roth , Ror Wolf, BR 2006.

Radio collages

  • The hot air of the games , directed by Günter Guben , Ror Wolf, SDR 1972.
  • The moment of truth , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1974.
  • Difficulties switching , director: Ror Wolf. HR 1978.
  • Looking back on great days , director: Ror Wolf, HR 1978.
  • The ball is round , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1979.
  • Strange decisions , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1979.
  • The old days are over , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1979.
  • Expert discussions , director: Ror Wolf, HR 1979.
  • Heinz, what is your view? , Directed by Ror Wolf HR 1979.
  • Cordoba June 1:45 p.m. , directed by Ror Wolf, HR 1979.

Sound carrier

  • The hot air of games , radio play cassette, Hessischer Rundfunk 1980.
  • The ball is round / difficulties in switching , radio collages, record, Edition RZ 1987.
  • Life and death of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke from North America , radio play cassette, Klett-Cotta 1989; CD construction / audio publisher 2000.
  • Radio collages. Football World Cup 1974 and 1978 , CD, Anabas 1998.
  • Four radio collages , CD, in: Life and Death of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke from North America. Radio-Reisen , Schöffling & Co. 2000.
  • Poets Voices 2: 1970s , 3CD box, Der Hörverlag 2005; including a twenty-minute excerpt from The Dangerousness of the Great Plain , read by Ror Wolf.
  • Collected football radio plays, ten radio collages from days gone by and the slow slackening of forces , edited by Jürgen Roth, 4CD box, Intermedium 2006.
  • The forty-ninth debauchery , read by Christian Brückner , DoCD, Parlando 2007.
  • The virtues of darkness , read by Christian Brückner , DoCD, Parlando 2012.

Translations (selection)

  • La terrible festin , French edition of the continuation of the report , translated by Lily Jumel, Gallimard, Paris 1970.
  • Tentativi di mantenere la calma , bilingual Italian-German collection of short prose, ed. and translated by Giovanni Nadiani, Mobydick, Faenza 2001.
  • Obdas Maestras del relato breve. Con Orientaciones didácticas , Spanish anthology, including De Hombres varios, a selection from Several Men , translated by Rolando Sánchez Mejias, Oceano, Barcelona 2003.
  • Two or Three Years Later. Fourty-Nine Digressions , Two or Three Years Later , translated by Jennifer Marquardt, Open Letter Books, Rochester 2013.
  • Karanlığın Faydaları , Turkish edition of The Benefits of Darkness , Everest Yayinlari, Istanbul 2014.

In addition, transmissions into Danish, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Hungarian.

Release

literature

Anthologies

  • Lothar Baier (Ed.): About Ror Wolf. Suhrkamp 1972.
  • Oliver Jahn, Kai U. Jürgens (Ed.): Similar things are not the same. A fast revue for Ror Wolf. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2002, ISBN 3-933598-59-1 .
  • Beginning and temporary end. Materials for the work edition. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Ivo Wessel (Ed.): "Basically I count on everything." The writer Ror Wolf and the charm of the unexpected. Exhibition catalog on CD-ROM. Self-published in 2002.

Studies

  • Ina Appel: Of pleasure and horror in the game of aesthetic subjectivity. About the connection between subject, language and existence in [the] prose of Brigitte Kronauer and Ror Wolf. Königshausen & Neumann, 2000.
  • Thomas Bündgen: Sensuality and Construction. The structure of modern prose in Ror Wolf's work. Peter Lang, 1985.
  • Carola Gruber : Events in a nutshell. Narratological studies on the eventfulness in the shortest prose by Thomas Bernhard , Ror Wolf and Helmut Heißenbüttel , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2013.
  • Espen Ingebrigtsen: "It is my words that get in your limbs." Irony and imagery in Raoul Tranchirer's "Encyclopedia for Intrepid Readers". Univ., Master's thesis. Bergen 2007. (online, PDF; 995 kB)
  • Kai U. Jürgens : Between soup and mouth. Reality conception in Ror Wolf's »Continuation of the Report«. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-933598-10-9 .
  • Barbara Raschig: Bizarre Worlds. Ror Wolf from A to Z. Siegen, Univ., Diss., 2000. (online)
  • Martin Schmitt: Nothing but the truth. Language and the world in Ror Wolf's prose. Kirsch, 2004.
  • Martin Schmitt: Being on the move. Presence and absence in Ror Wolf's briefest prose. Aisthesis, 2004.
  • Rolf Schütte : Material Constitution Variability. Language movements in the literary work of Ror Wolf. Peter Lang, 1987.

Reviews

Web links

Commons : Ror Wolf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Munzinger archive , accessed on April 5, 2011.
  2. ^ BR Kultur from February 18, 2020: The writer and football poet Ror Wolf is dead , accessed on February 18, 2020
  3. ↑ "Allow me to keep silent about Klinsmann" . In: taz . April 18, 2006. Interview: Jutta Heess
  4. ↑ Article in the Thuringian General.
  5. ↑ Ror Wolfs Welten in: FAZ of September 8, 2011, page R8, Die Reise nach O on September 29, 2011, page R8 and Further into the woods on January 26, 2012, page R8.
  6. ↑ 3. The description of the weather in FAZ from May 7, 2015, page R8.
  7. ^ FAZ of July 16, 2015, page R6.
  8. ↑ 6. Five scattered people in FAZ from August 6, 2015, page R6.
  9. ↑ 7. The sudden burst on Saturday, September in FAZ from September 10, 2015, page R6.
  10. ↑ 9. At the top of the pot in FAZ of November 19, 2015, page R6.
  11. ↑ Ror Wolf receives Schiller Memorial Prize 2016 Press release from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg from July 14, 2016
  12. ↑ 15. Seabed. In: FAZ . October 25, 2012, p. R8.
  13. ↑ 21. Journey in: FAZ of July 18, 2013, page R6
  14. ↑ 22. Wirtshausleben in: FAZ from September 19, 2013, page R6
  15. ↑ 24. Keime in: FAZ of March 27, 2014, p. 8.
  16. ↑ 27. East in FAZ of August 7, 2014, page R6
  17. ↑ 30. Farewell in FAZ of December 31, 2014, page R6
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Ror
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Richard Georg (maiden name); Tranchirer, Raoul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfeld / Saale
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2020
Place of death Mainz