LEL Schrock

LEL Schrock (2016)

UEG Schrock or Ulrich EG Schrock (born September 4, 1956 in Hanover ) is a German writer and numismatist . His entire work consists of over 500 individual publications.

Life

UEG Schrock grew up in Bad Münder am Deister and Hameln . After graduating from high school, he studied German, history, political science, pedagogy and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1981 he passed the state examination for teaching in German and the science of politics and has since lived as a freelance writer in the Weser Uplands and in Catalonia . In addition, he worked for a time as a teacher, numismatist , research assistant and employee of the South Lower Saxony Literature Office, of which he became managing director in 1994. In this context, he organized and moderated readings with authors such as Franz Mon , Oskar Pastior , Hadayatullah Hübsch , Eugen Gomringer , Stefan Heym and Edgar Hilsenrath . Schrock received several literary awards and in 1991 a work grant from the state of Lower Saxony . As a numismatist he made a name for himself through numerous publications on the history of coins in northern Germany and was an Eligius Prize winner of the German Numismatic Society in 1979 .

Literary work

UEG Schrock is a political author who was inspired, among others, by Erich Mühsam as a poet and anarchist. In his works he wants to break up solidified worldviews and in doing so requires the readers to search intensively for meaning. Since 1984 he has published volumes of poetry, dramatic scenes and three novels. In his poems, which tie in with the language games of the concrete poetry of Eugen Gomringer , Ernst Jandl , Helmut Heißenbüttels or Erich Frieds , Schrock tries to stimulate the reader's power of association through a minimalist style and an extreme condensation of language and thus give them a view of reality beyond linguistic To enable clichés, ideological masking and bourgeois ignorance.

His first novel, O Bock , a bizarre satirical criticism of capitalism, is characterized by the fact that the author spells almost every word “wrong”. In the war tales , Schrock tries to master the speechlessness in the face of a widely announced war. The result is an associative, sarcastic short prose. His mystery satirical Kattesnuff from 2002 is an entertaining murder story told with a lot of pun, with footnotes about stamps. A passion for collecting, this time in relation to coins and old chronicles , is also a motif in Schrock's third novel In der Hand, bei Fuß & im Neck. A German latency from 2016 in which the author rolls up his own family history. This generational novel confronts war propaganda with real, often traumatizing experiences at the front in the two world wars , tells of Berlin bombing nights, of opinion terror and shots in the neck in the early days of the GDR , of growing up in the consumer society of the economic boom and of the absurdities of life in divided Berlin. Through the often seamless stringing together of a multitude of discourses , ranging from an expressionistically shortened narrator's speech to the inclusion of numerous real documents from different centuries, the author succeeds in closely interweaving personal history, family history and political history. The destructive power of "father state" in the various Germanys since the empire becomes just as clear as the possibility of the individual to repeatedly evade this totalitarian grasp through small subversive actions.

Schrock's idiosyncratic prose takes on early New High German and Baroque influences from authors such as Hans Sachs and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen as well as stylistic devices from post-war literature , such as those found in works by Arno Schmidt , Günter Eich and Hans Bender . His childhood reading of the stories of Wolfdietrich Schnurres , to whom, together with the author's parents, this autobiographical novel is dedicated, played a decisive role in his career as a writer .

His last volume of poetry, “printed by us in the year when xerobdella lecomtei died out”, is made up of the three segments “WIR-Mutter-Ich” into a whole. The 53 rhymed poems with their short verses, often consisting of only one word, are grouped around an axis of symmetry. Short of “material”, they try “to exhaust the free-floating intensity of the word” (Schrock), whereby the headline only appears with the final line.

Works

Fiction

• Poems. Valerian, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-924472-09-2 .
• The possibility of the monologue of No. 2651. Journey to Erich Mühsam. Valerian, Bremen 1986, ISBN 3-924472-11-4 .
• O buck inner economy oda hau itt wörcks. That is: ne locka-flockich told story from our everyday life, meal lustich and meal rather herp, how life plays like that. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-7623-3911-1 .
• War Tales MDCCCCLXXXXI. Edition Bubo, Radebeul 1995, (graphic book with woodcuts by Sebastian Hennig).
• Kattesnuff. Almost a thriller. With pictures by Katja Dörmann. Schmerse, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-926920-32-7 .
• So! Edition Bubo, Dresden 2006, (graphic book with woodcuts by Sebastian Hennig).
• In the hand, on the foot & and in the neck. A German latency. Novel in three books. VS - Göttingen et al., Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-926920-54-6 .
• awakened in the brain or: BACK. Self-published, Hameln 2018, (poems).

numismatics

• with Heinrich Kalvelage: coins of the city of Hameln. Niemeyer, Hameln 1982, ISBN 3-87585-052-1 .
• History of the Hamelin emergency money 1916 to 1948. Bieber Luck-Lehne, Bremen 1986, ISBN 3-924472-14-9 .
• Coins of the city of Göttingen. Bieber Luck-Lehne, Bremen 1987, ISBN 3-924472-13-0 .
• with Heinrich Kalvelage: additions to the coin history of the monastery and the city of Hameln. Museum Hameln, Hameln 1988.
• The art of making good money. The coinage of the city of Einbeck (= studies on Einbeck's history. 9). Isensee, Oldenburg 1995, ISBN 3-89598-307-1 .
• with Heinz A. Behrens and Jürgen Denicke: The coins of the County of Blankenburg-Regenstein. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena et al. 1999, ISBN 3-932906-03-9 .
• with Jürgen Denicke: Coin catalog of the Counts of Blankenburg-Regenstein. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena et al. 2000, ISBN 3-932906-19-5 .
• German regimental anniversaries on medals and badges from 1871 to 1918. Catalog with current market prices in euros. Gietl, Regenstauf 2002, ISBN 3-924861-66-8 .
• Collectors are ... people. Pleasantly critical from UEG Schrock. Self-published, Hameln 2019

Others

• Performance 1984. Four poems on the Berlin Wall Treptow.
• "I am a pilgrim ...". Erich Mühsams early poetry. NDR (broadcast) July 1988.
• Four dialogues about HABEE's DAS Art. Performance Gallery InKatt, Bremen November 9, 1991
• “ Picking out banalities and contrasting them.” Interview in: TRAFIK. International journal on libertarian culture and politics. No. 35, 1992, ISSN  0177-1361 , pp. 27-33.
• The Battle of Langensalza 1866. Screenplay for the Lower Saxony state media office in Hanover / Museum Hameln. Premiere Hameln 1996.

literature

• Frank Berger : LEL Schrock. In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt . Vol. 55, No. 9, 2006, pp. 401-402.

Web links

Literature database Lower Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eligius Prize 1978-1995 . DNG . Retrieved January 30, 2017.