Ulrich Horstmann

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Ulrich Horstmann (born May 31, 1949 in Bünde ) is a German literary scholar and writer who also publishes under the pseudonyms Horst-Ulrich Mann and Klaus Steintal .

Life

Ulrich Horstmann passed his Abitur at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Bünde / East Westphalia in 1967 and completed his studies in English and Philosophy at the University of Münster with a doctorate (dissertation topic: Edgar Allan Poe ) in 1974 . He was a lecturer at the University of South Africa in Pretoria . In 1983 he completed his habilitation with a study on aestheticism and decadence . From 1991 until his retirement in 2014 he was professor for English and American literature at the University of Giessen . He lives in Marburg / Lahn .

Ulrich Horstmann, who since 1976 has published essays , novels , plays and translations from English in addition to academic works , became known in 1983 for his treatise Das Untier , in which he took a philosophical position that was diametrically opposed to the peace-loving zeitgeist of those years: he propagated a perspective of "human flight" from which the self-extinction of humanity with the help of the accumulated nuclear arsenal appeared as the target point of (cultural) history. The publication prompted the “ New Germany ” to inquire, “when Professor Horstmann last consulted his neurologist”. Horstmann's "philosophy of eventuality" drove the pessimism of his role model Schopenhauer to the Gnostic extreme. That the ridicule of Swift's A Modest Proposal was also the godfather is proven by the later publications, which were sometimes accused of extreme world disgust and nihilism , not least of all the poems of “fighting silence ”.

Ulrich Horstmann, who is a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the Kleist Prize in 1988 at the suggestion of Günter Kunert .

Works

  • Approaches to a technomorphic theory of poetry in Edgar Allan Poe. Bern 1975, ISBN 3-261-01741-4 .
  • Klaus Steintal: He died of his own free will . An exchange of letters with Necropolis. Obertshausen 1976.
  • Word Carcass Icon or Little Thermonuclear Verse School for everyone. Cologne u. a. 1977, ISBN 3-88097-052-1 .
  • After poems . Miniatures from the desert. Essen 1980.
  • Steintals Vandal Park . Narrative. Siegen 1981, ISBN 3-922524-04-4 .
  • Terrarium or introduction to keeping people . Stage manuscript. Munich 1981.
  • Worm . A spectacle from post-history. General cargo, Munich 1981.
  • Aestheticism and Decadence . On the paradigm conflict in English literary theory of the late 19th century. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7705-2098-X .
  • Paracriticism and Deconstruction . An Introduction to American Poststructuralism. Würzburg 1983, ISBN 3-88479-131-1 .
  • 1983: The monster. Contours of a philosophy of flight. Medusa-Verlag, Vienna and Berlin 1983. Suhrkamp 1985–1993, ISBN 3-518-37672-1 . With an afterword by Frank Müller: Hoof-Verlag, Warendorf 2004, ISBN 3-936345-47-3 , 6th edition: 2016.
  • Stroke . Aphorisms, abbot certificates. Berserkasmen. Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-88694-501-4 .
  • Silo . A lesson in brood care. Stage manuscript. Göttingen 1984.
  • The donor . a comedy for the conceptionist. Stage manuscript. Munich 1984.
  • The luck of OmB'assa. Fantastic novel. Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-37588-1 .
  • The long shadow of melancholy. Try over a blackened feeling. Essen 1985, ISBN 3-924368-24-4 . Shoebox House, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941120-09-9 .
  • UFO or The Third Stand . A slightly silted up comedy. Stage manuscript. Munich 1987.
  • Swedish drink . Poems. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-22362-8 .
  • Blunder . Novel. Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-251-00165-5 .
  • 1991: Views of the great in vain. Essays. 1984-1990. Verlag Hans Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-01114-6 .
  • Infernodrome . Program recordings from thirteen years. Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-927104-82-5 .
  • Old town with skins . Poems. Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-927104-96-5 .
  • Conservatory . Stories sooner or later. Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-89621-017-3 .
  • Summoning Shadow Realm . Plays and radio plays from 1978 to 1990. With an essay on the art of going to hell. Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-036-X .
  • Gateway . New aphorisms. Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89621-065-3 .
  • Jeffers Meditations or Poetry as the Art of Avoidance . Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-930978-10-5 .
  • Drift . New essays. Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89621-103-X .
  • Goddesses, perishable . Poems. Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89621-106-4 .
  • J . A half-world novel. Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89621-138-2 .
  • Proven experts . Art hostility in literary theory of the 20th century. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-50887-5 .
  • Picnic at the beat river . Poems. Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89621-204-4 .
  • Hopefuls. Late aphorisms and a discharge paper from the Thirty Years War. Johannes G. Hoof, Warendorf 2006, ISBN 3-936345-55-4 .
  • Relapse . Novel. Johannes G. Hoof, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-936345-59-9 .
  • The abandonment of literature, or how writers learned to survive silence. Verlag S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18361-6 .
  • Horst-Ulrich Mann: Silent fight . Poems 1977-2007. Shoebox House Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-941120-07-5 .
  • The art of deterrence. To save the honor of the apocalyptic imagination. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5288-7 .
  • Notation. Why writers understand more about literature than their academic patrons do. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8260-5371-9 .
  • with Minh Tran: In the realm of freedom . Interplay. litblockín, Fernwald 2014, ISBN 978-3-932289-89-7 .
  • The luck of OmB'assa along with The Only True or Song of Songs to the twentieth century. Verlag JG Hoof, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-936345-25-4 .
  • The Complete Works, Volume 1: Essays and Interviews. Verlag Johannes G. Hoof, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-936345-90-2 .
  • The fourth raft of the Medusa. Shanties from board. Verlag Radius, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-87173-047-4 .
  • Taillights fire. Aphorisms from the backwater and an alternative. Verlag Johannes G. Hoof, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-936345-97-1 .
  • The Complete Works, Volume 3: Poems and Aphorisms. Verlag Johannes G. Hoof, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-936345-99-5 .
  • Reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Walter Gödden. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2020, ISBN 978-3-8498-1571-4 .

Editing

Translations

literature

  • Burkhard Biella: On the critique of anthropofugal thinking. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1986, ISBN 3-89206-108-4 .
  • Rajan Autze, Frank Müller: Steintal stories. Information on Ulrich Horstmann. Igel, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89621-111-0 .
  • Frank Müller (Ed.): Beyond the Apocalypse. Notes on Ulrich Horstmann. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-89528-917-0 .
  • Alexander Eilers (ed.): Dismissal papers. Festschrift for Ulrich Horstmann. Internet publication (untier.de) 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meaning of anthropofugal : fleeing from people (from Latin fuga = to flee), see also: wikt: fuga
personal data
SURNAME Horstmann, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husband, Horst-Ulrich; Steintal, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frets