Theo Köppen

Theo Köppen (born March 5, 1953 in Göttingen ) is a German writer and painter.

life and work

Theo Köppen grew up in Vechta, Lower Saxony . He has lived in Göttingen again since 1972, where he studied philosophy , sociology and education from 1973 to 1978 . From 1978 to 1983 he was a singer in the band "Swinging Mescalero", for which he wrote lyrics. In the following years he experimented with different painting techniques, especially with ink on paper.

Köppen has been publishing self-copied poetry books since 1977 and "sends out his self-copied laconic poems when he feels like it". In more than 30 magazines texts appeared from him, so in Falk , opponents , Gaté , The medic , Barney culture , trumpet , Loose leaf collection , Hokahe , elder Ground , the mouth organ and on the glittering lantern! . He also read at public appearances with Sarah Kirsch , Helmut Salzinger , Peer Schröder , Anna Rheinsberg , Rolf Schwendter , but also with Beat authors from the USA such as James Koller, Cody Maher and Will Staple.

Apostrophized as "Barbarossa of the Göttinger Beat", Theo Köppen is one of the protagonists of the Social Beat . From 1988 to 1994 he edited the magazine for applied alphabet and art with Peer Schröder , and from 2007 he and Katja Töpfer edited the magazine Trompete . Among the employees are also "some scattered old authors of the German beat generation" such as Udo Breger , Stefan Hyner and Anna Rheinsberg .

Works (selection)

• Notice & Other Poems . Loose-Blätter-Presse, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-922035-08-6 .
• The fear caruso. 55 attempts in the insane sense . Altaquito, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-923588-15-1 .
• October minutes . Engstler, Ostheim vd Rhön 2001–2010.
• Will we ever wake up again? or the hedge . Engstler, Ostheim vd Rhön 2002, ISBN 3-929375-36-2 .
• Reality is slaughtered. Radio play, NDR 3, October 16, 1982.
• Salzinger's moults. Feature, WDR 5, October 16, 1995.
• The taste. Edition Dead Monkey, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-930545-21-7 .

Contributions to anthologies (selection)

• Harder than the rest . Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-87628-206-3 .
• Seaward . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17517-7 .
• 39 degrees . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3 499 15088 3 .
• Unruly masculine . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-15167-7 .
• Survive school . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-15234-7 .
• You'd have to be 20 again . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-15900-7 .
• Point time . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-88423-049-2 .
• Waiter's guest book . Kellner, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-927623-44-X .
• Northern Hesse answers . Jenior & Pressler, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928172-48-4 .
• Humus . Kellner, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89630-101-2 .
• Social beat . Galrev, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-910161-60-X .
• Kaltland beat . Ithaka, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-933545-07-2 .
• Here the honey of knowledge drips . Satzwerk Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-930333-45-7 .
• In the magnifying glass of the words . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2002, ISBN 3-579-03289-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Theo Köppen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 30 years of paper work , Göttinger Tageblatt of March 4, 2013.
2. ↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch (ed.): Social beat D. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-910161-60-X , rear inside cover.
3. ↑ Jamal Tuschick : Between Schoppen and Schopenhauer. A commemorative reading in the Batschkapp on the first anniversary of Hadayatullah Hübsch's death . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . (Germany edition) of January 6, 2012, p. 31.
4. ↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch (ed.): Social beat D. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-910161-60-X , rear inside cover.
5. ↑ Caroline Hartge , Ralf Zühlke (eds.): QuerFALK. Book about a magazine. Ostheim vd Rhön 2007, ISBN 978-3-929375-81-7 , p. 130.
6. ↑ Michael Buselmeier : Zeitschriftenlese , Poetenladen , November 2016.