Ulrich Schödlbauer

Ulrich Schödlbauer (born May 27, 1951 in Bockum-Hövel , today Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German writer , literary scholar and essayist .

Life

Schödlbauer teaches as an adjunct professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen , where he a. a. the virtual author seminar Grabbe leads. In addition to works on literary theory and cultural criticism, his publications include a lyrical work, a series of narrative titles and essays on literary, philosophical and political-cultural topics. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the yearbook for European processes Iablis , which is also accessible online . The author is also represented on the Internet with the pages GlobKult and Grabbeau and as a guest author of the Axis of the Good . Ulrich Schödlbauer is a member of the “Trust in Liberal Society” initiative, called the Liberal-Democratic Laboratory (libdela), an association of professors. The initiative was formed in 2018 out of concern for liberal democracy , it is non-partisan, based on the principles of liberalism, which has its roots in the Enlightenment.

Works

Lyric works

The poetry cycle Lektion des Ich (2004) comprises three volumes, initially published individually:

• Ionas. Poem (2001) consists of nine long, largely monological parts in which the talk of the "self" is developed: as the topos of choice, of the century and of sacrifice, with increasing focus on the subject of fear of death and its - possible, impossible - coping.
• Organum Mortis (2003), German ›death organ‹, stands in the tradition of the ancient Egyptian, Islamic and Tibetan tradition known from the ancient Egyptian, Islamic and Tibetan tradition of the death books (→ death book ), which the adepts with the ideas of death, the afterlife and the Transition (passage) to familiarize. The work, which is divided into four parts, interprets these motifs in a completely contemporary, non-traditional game of ideas and forms, in which contemporary history is always discussed.
• PoliFem sat 1-5 (2004) is based in title and overall appearance on the satirical art of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal . The figure of the one-eyed cyclops Polyphemus , who sees through glare, i.e. H. Becoming knowing stands in the background of thinking about the powerlessness of the individual, which can just as well be called power, since it releases all power from itself: "Only the hatred that is denied / is the one granted".
• The volume OR (1994) contains an early selection of poems, some in different versions.
• Deutsches Roulette, Heidelberg 2018 (Appendix Peter Brandt's explanations on Michael Sowa's illustration of cockchafer mourning [1868])

stories

• The ethics of the wet shave (Stories, 1997). The title story of the volume ironically tells, on the pretext of a literary award ceremony, of literary ambition and the internal and external conditions of literary existence in the province. In The Aztec, the hermetic operation of a mysterious scientific institution gets out of control on various levels. The other stories ( Die Paw des Löwen, Das Wilde Leben, Totenpassage, etc.) deal with existential derailments . At the end of the volume there is a cool 'human' disposal talk about garbage.
• Uhuru Peak. One report (narration. 2001) tells of a group of six men who had to climb Kilimanjaro who made an agreement beforehand: "If you don't get up, you won't go back." In fact, altitude sickness overtakes you. The narrative, rich in cultural-historical details and allusions, describes in detail the changes in the actors' consciousness caused by the “thin air”. On another level, she parodies the fourth book of Nietzsche's »Zarathustra«, in which Zarathustra receives the ›higher people‹ with him (blurb).
• The Hidden Power of Nonchalance (Novelle, 2002). The term ›Nov elle‹ suggests the subject of this long male monologue, which is interrupted in a few places by brief interjections from a second - female - voice. It is the account of a woman who "walked through, just walked through" the speaker, a passionate reckoning with a system of "arithmetic" calculated, calculated relationships in which the child's maternal control gets out of hand.
• The anthropological experiment (narration, 2005). A young woman finishes her studies and, when the Berlin Wall falls, she finds herself in a strange, basically unsolvable situation between her East Berlin ex-husband and her friend from Heidelberg. As she progresses, she transforms the narrative into an expressively designed contemplation of doubt about gender, relationship and parent-child constellations.
• In Das Ungelebte (Study, 2007) the protagonist tells in large sheets of reflection about the strange acquaintance with a dead writer who did not appear as such during his lifetime and who left him a manuscript in which he wrote a novel-like work with no realizable meaning, but believes to recognize with a comprehensive intention. - In a revised version, the first part (half volume), published in 2002 under the title Die Furie des Verschwindens , has been incorporated into the volume. The Unlived is the first volume of a larger project called The Sealed World .
• Hiero (Tropos, 2010). Hiero is the story of a student clique who - sometime in the late 1970s - saw themselves as part of a narrow thinker elite in West Germany and derived claims for their future life from this. At the center of these games of illusion and disillusion is the figure of the young Hiero, who goes his way straighter than the others and fails more uncompromisingly. Thinking about the living conditions of a generation - this is how one could outline the inner theme of this book, the second volume from the cycle Die versiegelte Welt . - Reading (MP3; 28.4 MB) by Matthias Ponnier / Chapter 8 from Hiero
• [1] . Writing pieces in Acta Litterarum

Theoretical and essayistic writings

• Draft der Lyrik (1994) is a study of the "claim to knowledge" of - high - lyric poetry in European theories of poetry from Renaissance humanism (Conrad Celtis) to the classically modern poetics of Paul Valéry, derived from the work of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé.
• The End of Criticism (1997), a joint project with the literary scholar Joachim Vahland, deals in a series of individual studies with the theoretical »exhaustion of left and right social criticism, of the previously so powerfully acting cultural criticism« (blurb). Under the titles »Crisis Speech«, »Value Theater«, »The Lost Cause« and »The Century of the Intellectuals« one can find studies on the origins of cultural criticism in the Enlightenment, on Georg Simmel and Max Weber, on the 'compensation hermeneutics' of the philosopher Odo Marquard, the memoirs of the Germanist Hans Mayer as well as intellectual self-images and role constraints in the twentieth century.

Other titles:

• Art experience as understanding the world. The aesthetic form of "Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship Years". Heidelberg 1984
• Only violence stands against thinking. Of thinking machines and worlds of consciousness (Essay, 1999).
• Notes on German Unity (Essays, 1994).
• The Land of the Frogs (Miniatures, 2001).
• Rilke's Angel (Essay, 2002).
• [2] , Acta Litterarum
• Micropoetics , Acta Litterarum
• Network literature project »The sealed world« [3]
• Poetics of excess. Thomas Körners The Land of All Evils and the Function of the Past in Literature, in: Iablis 2012
• Unleashed writing, essays on literature, Heidelberg 2018
• Power without sovereignty. The dismantling of the citizen in the minded state, Heidelberg 2019

Editorships (selection)

• Iablis . Yearbook for European Processes (since 2002)
• Editor of the web edition Das Land all Evil . Fragment-Roman (creation from ~ 1970). Continuous publication in Acta Litterarum since 2008 .
• The power of differences. Contributions to the hermeneutics of cultures, Heidelberg 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Schödlbauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• About Schödlbauer
• Fonts [4]
• Iablis. Yearbook for European processes
• Kondylis Institute for Cultural Analysis and Alteration Research
• Grabbeau, museum on the web
• Literature on the net [5]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Articles by and about Ulrich Schödlbauer at the Axis of the Good .