Uwe Herms

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Uwe Herms (born September 9, 1937 in Salzwedel , Altmark ) is a German writer .

Life

Uwe Herms grew up in Hamburg from 1945 . After attending a grammar school , he passed the final exams there in 1957 . From 1959 to 1963 studied it philosophy , art history and German literature at the universities in Heidelberg , Hamburg and at the Northwestern University in Evanston ( Illinois ), where he the master's degree earned. From 1966 he worked for the magazine Konkret and taught as a poet in residence at universities inUK , USA and China . From October 1970 to April 1971, Herms - together with Thomas Ayck , Siegfried Lenz and the television journalist Uwe Zimmermann - campaigned for the social democratic candidate Jochen Steffen in the Schleswig-Holstein election campaign . From 1972 to 1977 he worked as an editor for the television program of the North German Radio . As part of this activity, Herms took part in the production of television portraits, including a. about Konrad Zuse and Siegfried Lenz.

Uwe Herms lives as a freelance writer in the Poppenbüll community in the Eiderstedt district ( North Friesland district ). He is the author of stories , scripts and poems .

position

In his writing, Herms refers explicitly to the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau , who lived from 1845 to 1847 in a self-chosen solitude in a log cabin. During this time Thoreau's work Walden was created; or, Life in the Woods . This work and Thoreau's pamphlet On the Duty to Disobey the State made a lasting impression on Herms in his actions and writing. Herms defines his position in this way:
For me, being a writer is the most precise way of life, no matter how 'successful' I am with it. That sounds romantic, but it is the result of keen self-examination as a fellow citizen of an exuberant economic society in which I try to assert my place as someone who thinks differently and feels differently.

Memberships

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • Brokdorf War Primer. Self-published, Hamburg 1977
  • Family poems. Svato, Hamburg 1977
  • The man with the bloody lobes. The man with the testiculated brainlobes. German and English. Svato, Hamburg 1977
  • The house in Eiderstedt. Narrative. Bertelsmann, Munich 1985
  • Yoga school. The exercise book for the television series. Together with Claudia Mahler. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1993
  • In the land between the seas. Travel to the unknown Schleswig-Holstein. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1996
  • Half a day's lucky bag. Stories. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1997
  • Screws, aha. Verlag Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 2001, ISBN 3-928648-70-5 .
  • Whale and weather maker. Narrative. 2002

Editorships

  • Printed matter. Young German authors. Wegner, Hamburg 1965
  • Intersections. Magazine for prose, poetry, essay, art ... today. Together with Peter-Hannes Lehmann, Hans Meierott and Kurt Meierott. Issue 2, April 1966 (2nd year). Ulrich Ramseger, Hamburg 1966
  • With mixed feelings. Poems, biographies, statements. Poetry catalog Federal Republic. Together with Jan Hans and Ralf Thenior . Goldmann, Munich 1978
  • Dear Axel Eggebrecht ! Friends and colleagues on the occasion of Axel Eggebrecht's 90th birthday. Together with Joachim Fuhrmann. Neue Presse, Hamburg 1989

Translations

  • George MacDonald : Lilith. Translated from English. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1977

Literary magazines

literature

  • Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): Uwe Herms. In: Littera Borealis. Edition on contemporary literature in the north. Issue 12, Kiel 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture Garding / Eiderstedt eV (Ed.): Short portraits of Eiderstedt artists. Garding 2011, p. 17.
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Hajek: A quiet voice of weight. In: Kreis Nordfriesland (Ed.): Kulturjournal Summer / Autumn 2012. Husum 2012, pp. 16–19.
personal data
SURNAME Herms, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel