Textbook 11. In purified language

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"Textbook 11. In cleaned language" is the last published textbook by Helmut Heißenbüttel (1921–1996). It was published in 1987 by Klett-Cotta-Verlag, Stuttgart. With Text Book 11, Heißenbüttel once again builds on his previous text books, which are full of "text collages and language gimmicks".

In the textbooks he abolishes the usual grammatical structures and combines rows and fragments by adding them to one another. Heißenbüttel's text books consist of a text collection, that is, they are composed of various texts. With the term "text", Heißenbüttel tries to point out that he no longer differentiates between poetry and prose, but rather eliminates these literary genre differences and understands his textbooks as "open literature". According to him, this literature is no longer composed of opinions, feelings and images, but consists of simple language schemes from different areas. Using these phrases, he documents the empty content of the language of that time.

To the work

In this book, Heißenbüttel's art reaches its climax as he selects text elements from the literary tradition, breaks them down and reinterprets them. Combinations of sentences emerge that come from dream sequences, scraps of memory, poetological notes, customers of knowledge or images of nature. But private memories also take shape in the textbook, such as shorthand notes from a guest lecturer's stay in Warwick, rhymes and sexual fantasies, as well as mocking declensions. Heißenbüttel's juxtaposition and its alienating elements are, however, permeated time and again by the most important figure of prose, the quotation.

Texts in the factory

(arranged true to the table of contents)

  • she mother laundry room
  • RR
  • Inkarano
  • in Bornemann's house
  • Warwick lesson
  • Heinrich raises himself
  • lesson on method
  • ent
  • Schlager with a mallet
  • Stole time
  • Legend
  • Imagination
  • Phlogeon's dream

review

Unfortunately, there is very little secondary literature on this work by Helmut Heißenbüttel. A review by Lutz Hagestedt, in which a brief comment is made on three published works by Heißenbüttel, appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in February 1988.

Lutz Hagestedt: Textbook 11

The text book 11 is made up of individual chapters that are more or less independently lined up one behind the other. However, these chapters differ. After visiting “Borneman's house”, he wrote on three pages “very tired Arno-Schmidt-Kalauer” (“Arno's moon metaphors”, “Arno is meta fern”, “Arno isst” etc.). Then there are “idiosyncratic portraits” of the English county of Warwick (“Warwick lesson”) and of the American poet John Berryman. In the chapter “lesson on method” it seems as if Heißenbüttel would like to explain his method of the textbooks and try to represent it graphically and visually at the same time (“collecting interest in strange words / unusual spaces free-flowing punctuations (...) / even if he is responsible for his words, he is not ”etc.).

Heißenbüttel has also added his own signature to this textbook. He refrained from any kind of punctuation in the work, as well as stringing the individual quotations and fragments together. Only the individual texts are separated from one another by headings. Heißenbüttel's profit, which he achieves through his technique by dispensing with punctuation and thus leaving sentence boundaries open, is achieved through a syntactic construction ("Apokoinu") that often arises. They can be used to relate a sentence or a sentence fragment to both the previous and the following text: "The sentences become ambiguous".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Heißenbüttel, Helmut". In: “Lexicon of contemporary German literature since 1945”, 2003, pp. 509–511.
  2. ↑ "Heißenbüttel, Helmut". In: “Harenberg's Lexicon of World Literature. Authors, works, terms. ”, 1989, pp. 1302–1303.
  3. ↑ a b Heißenbüttel, Helmut: "Textbook 11. In cleaned language.", 1989.
  4. ↑ a b c d Hagestedt, Lutz: "The disappearance in foreign text.", 1988.

literature

  • Hagestedt, Lutz: Disappearance in another text. On three publications by Helmut Heißenbüttel. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 30 (1988), p. XII.
  • Heißenbüttel. In: Harenberg's Lexicon of World Literature. Authors, works, terms. Volume 3. Harenberger-Lexikon Verlag, Dortmund 1989, pp. 1302-1303.
  • Heißenbüttel. In: Lexicon of contemporary German-language literature since 1945. Volume 1: A – J. Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 2003, pp. 509-511.
  • Heißenbüttel, Helmut: Textbook 11. In purified language. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1987.