Thomas Körner (writer)

Draft and directive. Work on: The Land of All Evils

Thomas Körner (* 1942 in Breslau ) is a German writer .

Life

After being expelled in 1945, Thomas Körner grew up in the Dresden area . From 1961 he studied medicine and law in Berlin (East) ; from 1963 he wrote experimental poems, stage works (including libretti for Friedrich Goldmann and Paul Dessau ) and prose. As a long-term project, he started a “fragment novel”, which aims at a critical “analysis of the nationalized utopia” in the GDR. At the same time he worked as a nurse, window cleaner and assistant judge. In 1980 he fled to Germany . The director Peter Zadek , with whom Körner worked as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg from 1985-88 , and the composer Adriana Hölszky , with whom he created joint musical theater works, became important dialogue partners . Today, Thomas Körner lives as a freelance author, librettist, translator and dramaturge in Unterschüpf ( Baden ).

Works

prose

• The land of all evils. Fragment-Roman (creation from ~ 1970). Continuous publication in Acta Litterarum (network archive) since 2008 . The network edition is published by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schödlbauer .
  The ›novel‹ comprises nine parts:

• GDR. A language institution - a fragment of the word
• EGSS or Die Einheitskartei. System of a way of life in five file boxes - a fragment of the book
• Novalis's tomb. Dramatized Essay - Fragment of Weltanschauung
• S or The Story of a Stone. Contribution to theoretical literature - fragment from the work
• The rejected one. Memorial of a utopia - a fragment of the human being
• From the misery of a method - a fragment of the plan
• The Masters of Tomorrow (The Hammer). Manuscript model - fragment from the people
• The principles of necessity (the sickle). Reading games - fragment of the state
• The P project. Two attempts - fragment from the escape

• Book publication: The grave of Novalis . Dramatized essay. Fragment of the worldview. With an afterword by Joachim Walther . Frankfurt am Main (Edition Büchergilde) 2007. ISBN 3940111384

radio play

• state That is the fairy tale of the godfather . Deutschlandradio Berlin 2003

Musical theater

• R.Hot or The Heat. Opera fantasy in over one hundred dramatic, comical, fantastic poses (based on Der Engländer by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz ; music: Friedrich Goldmann ). Premiere 1977 Berlin ( State Opera Unter den Linden ; Director: Peter Konwitschny )
• Leonce and Lena (based on Georg Büchner ; music: Paul Dessau ). Premiere November 24, 1979 Berlin (State Opera Unter den Linden; Director: Ruth Berghaus )
• Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen (with Karin Körner; music: Kurt Schwertsik ). Premiere November 24, 1983 Stuttgart ( State Opera )
• Bremen freedom. Singing work on a woman's life (based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; music: Adriana Hölszky ). Premiere June 4th, 1988 Munich (1st Munich Biennale ; Gasteig , Carl Orff-Saal; director: Christian Kohlmann; stage and costumes: Birgit Angele; Ensemble Avance; conductor: András Hamary [* 1950]))
• The walls (based on Les Paravents by Jean Genet ; music: Adriana Hölszky). Premiere 1995 Vienna (Director: Hans Neuenfels ; Conductor: Ulf Schirmer )
• The fairy tale after forever and three days. Opera silhouette (music: Wilfried Maria Danner ). WP 2000 Schwetzingen ( Festival )
• Eurydice or The Reversal. Mono / Melodrama 2002. Published in: Grabbeau. Museum on the Net (2008).

Web links

• Works by and about Thomas Körner in the catalog of the German National Library

Commons : Thomas Körner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• acta litterarum
• Gabi Rüth, The boxes of Mr. K. - (K) a handout to Thomas Körner's fragment from the book
• Ulrich Schödlbauer: Poetics of Excess. Thomas Körners The Land of All Evils and the Function of the Past in Literature, in: Iablis 2012
• Steffen Dietzsch: From fairy tales to trauma and back. Romanticism and ideology of the GDR
• The grain project

swell

1. ^ Andrea Neuhaus: From the end of utopias , literaturkritik.de, December 2007