Uwe Nettelbeck

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Uwe Nettelbeck , actually: Hans-Uwe Bessert-Nettelbeck ; (Born August 7, 1940 in Mannheim ; † January 17, 2007 in Bordeaux ) was a German writer , journalist and music producer .

Life

During his studies (without a degree) in German literature and sociology , Uwe Nettelbeck began working as a journalist for newspapers , magazines , radio and television from 1962 . His articles on film and court proceedings soon made him one of the most famous authors of the TIME .

Nettelbeck caused a scandal in 1968 when he took sides for the controversial film " Particularly valuable " by director Hellmuth Costard , which the festival management of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival wanted to throw out of the program. The film, which has a penis recite a politician's speech about the law on film funding , was produced by Nettelbeck's wife Petra . Uwe Nettelbeck called it "the preliminary chef d'œuvre of German underground cinema. It will achieve something, although no rental company will buy it, no accessible cinema will show it, because that would be something: a film that cannot be integrated into our cultural scene, that forces the other side to show their colors and not react liberally as she wants, but authoritarian, as she has to when things get serious. "

In his work, Nettelbeck felt increasingly regulated and censored by the editor-in-chief of the time , especially by Theo Sommer . Therefore, in 1969, he retired from the weekly newspaper, for which he had worked as an editor up until then. From March 1969 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine concrete . Its editor, Klaus Rainer Röhl , dismissed him in August because of "political differences". Between 1970 and 1975 Nettelbeck produced the band Faust . From 1976 until his death he edited the magazine Die Republik with Petra Nettelbeck . The couple moved to Maransin near Bordeaux in 1992, “dismayed by the triumphalism and racism in reunified Germany” .

Uwe Nettelbeck was married to the program spokesperson and actress Petra Nettelbeck (née Krause) since 1964 . The marriage resulted in two daughters, Anouchka and Sandra. Sandra Nettelbeck is a film director and screenwriter .

journalism

Nettelbeck wrote from 1962 for Die Zeit , from 1963 for the magazines film and film criticism , later also for Südwestfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk and others, initially mainly about cinema, occasionally also about literature , especially trivial literature , and pop music . From 1967 he published trial reports in the time , among other things on the criminal proceedings against the "fair murderer" Jürgen Bartsch and on the department store arson on April 2nd, 1968 . A characteristic of Nettelbeck's journalism is that he takes seriously what is despised by the cultural scene, genre films , especially westerns , but also detective novels , pop music and television . In his articles he documents his sources in detail, which heralds his later preference for assembly .

His uncompromising attitude brought Nettelbeck not only into conflict with conservative editors and readers, but also with the left. Against Ulrike Meinhof's accusation that he was transforming in concrete terms into an “instrument of counterrevolution”, he insisted that political journalism should not just be an avowal, it should also be mediation.

fist

In 1969, Nettelbeck was asked by Horst Schmolzi, responsible for A&R at the London branch of the Polydor record company , if he could put together a German rock band . Nettelbeck, who had just broken with journalism, accepted, but asked for substantial advances. He combined two smaller bands, Nukleus and Campylognatus Citelli, into the group Faust . In a former school building in Wümme he began to rehearse and make recordings with the musicians. The resulting avant-garde records, which did not have any notable success in Germany, are still highly valued by US and British fans and critics as masterpieces of Krautrock . When Polydor pushed for the music to be commercialized, the producer and group signed a deal with Virgin Records . Nettelbeck: "I had no idea what commercial was." (I didn't even know what was supposed to be commercial.) Although Virgin Records brought The Faust Tapes onto the market for the price of a single , which made the LP sell well, the group stayed one lasting success with the audience fails. Nettelbeck retired from the music business in 1975.

During his time with Faust , Nettelbeck also produced records by Anthony Moore and Tony Conrad .

Literary and editorial work

Uwe Nettelbeck's literary work developed from a sharp examination of the cultural scene . The first results of this discussion are collected in the self-published volume Mainz as it sings and laughs […] . Glossaries stand next to documents, e.g. B. Letters from publishers, proofreaders and editors to the author; the text "Der Dolomitenkrieg", also contained in the volume, is a literary montage about the mountain war of 1915–1918 . The book already contains almost all stylistic devices and procedures that Nettelbeck will develop in his magazine Die Republik .

The Republic

The Republic No. 94-97

The journal Die Republik , founded by Uwe Nettelbeck in 1976, was published by him alone up to No. 54, then together with Petra Nettelbeck , and DE Sattler was co-editor for No. 86 to 91 . The cover and typography are similar to Karl Kraus' torch . The republic appeared irregularly. Most of it is written and edited by Uwe Nettelbeck himself, and the translations are usually from him. After his death, the last edition appeared with No. 123–125 (January 17, 2008); it contains a long essay by Nettelbeck on the subject of cinema . The passage that can be found in the early editions of the republic is indicative of the irreconcilable attitude that the magazine took towards the cultural scene : “Companies and institutions are excluded from subscription. Advertisement orders are not accepted; Unsolicited manuscripts and printed matter not checked, but destroyed, letters and inquiries to the editorial team not answered. "

In addition to the cultural business, Nettelbeck dealt in Die Republik with criminalistics and police methods , with Charlotte Corday , the colonization of Peru, television, the detective novel and questions of translation , with the writers Gustave Flaubert , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Johann Georg Hamann , Friedrich Hölderlin , Herman Melville , August Strindberg and Johann Heinrich Voss , the mountaineer Maurice Wilson , the director Sam Peckinpah and the musician Jerry Lee Lewis . Texts by Franz Jung , Maurice Maeterlinck and Jules Michelet were published in the magazine. The staff included the film essayist Frieda Grafe , the filmmakers and artists Heinz Emigholz and Harun Farocki , the photographer Silke Grossmann, the filmmaker and sociologist Robert Krieg , the radio play director and author Peter Michel Ladiges , the journalist Stefan Ripplinger , DE Sattler , the publisher Jörg Schröder , the cultural theorist Klaus Theweleit and the writer and translator Hans Wollschläger .

Editorships

Various editions emerged from the work on the republic , for example by Franz Jung and Jules Michelet . In the 1980s the Franz Greno publishing house published the first 13 of a 30-volume edition of the writings of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), edited by Petra and Uwe Nettelbeck. After the publisher went bankrupt, the edition had to be temporarily put on hold until a patron was found. It was only finally given up in 2006.

Karl Philipp Moritz

In addition to the work on the edition of Karl Philipp Moritz's work , a literary montage of several thousand pages was created , which has remained a fragment and has not been published until now, Karl Philipp Moritz . It can be considered a major work by the writer Nettelbeck.

effect

Although Uwe Nettelbeck, with very few exceptions, has not published any film reviews since the 1960s and the subject of cinema played only a minor role in the texts of the Republic he wrote , he is still widely perceived as a film critic today . Peter von Becker remarked in the Tagesspiegel : “This aborted literature student Nettelbeck wrote in the, compared to today, really wilder 60s on often whole 'Zeit' pages or in the magazine 'Filmkritik' about Godard and Hitchcock , Truffaut and Kubrick , Pasolini and Bergman , on the new German short film or the US underground, essays of such clarity, sharpness of perception and density of reflection that could never be read on later cultural pages. "

The republic was particularly noticed by its opponents, who portrayed Nettelbeck as an epigone of Karl Kraus. The writer Eckhard Henscheid , whom he had previously attacked and exposed , counted Nettelbeck among those who wanted to draw prestige from “a) acting as a Karl Kraus Verweser, b) practically only considering the literature of the 18th century worthy of aesthetics and c) and as a result to ignore all current literary-philosophical production disgusted as third to fifth class. "

As a writer, he is here and there considered to be an early exponent of pop literature . So from the literary scholar Dirck Linck. The obituaries of taz and Welt express themselves similarly . However, they all refer to a single text by Nettelbeck, “General theme 'Trivial myths' (to call it that)” (1970).

Autobiographical Note (1965)

In: Filmkritik 4/1965, pp. 237-238.

“Uwe Nettelbeck. Born on August 7, 1940 in Mannheim, but soon transplanted to the vicinity of Lindau, i.e. to Bavaria. From sixth to fourteenth I tried the state high school in Lindau, from the lower secondary school the Birklehof school in Hinterzarten, where I had my confirmation bona fide . For the third time they did not want me to do the Obersekunda, so I was expelled from school because of bad reports (seven fives and one six) and unruly behavior. They put me back among the Lindau high school students, unjustly in the lower secondary school. After a few weeks and several directorships, however, I was also expelled from this school because of poor performance and unruly behavior. Three months apprenticeship as a publishing house, then four months of independence in England and then entry into the modern-language educational home Schule Schloss Louisenlund near Schleswig, where I barely managed to stay afloat until I graduated from high school (1961). Found unfit for military service (disorders, poor eyesight and underweight), started studying (literary studies, sociology) in Göttingen and Hamburg, which I dropped out after six semesters and a seminar paper. During his studies, he began to work continuously in the features editorial team of Die Zeit, publications (features, literary and film criticism) since autumn 1962. Since issue 3/1963, permanent collaboration with Enno Patalas . A festival report for film and a review for Frankfurter Hefte , work for radio and television. Married, one daughter. Address: Hamburg 39, Gellertstrasse 28. "

Discography

Records produced by Uwe Nettelbeck:

Fonts

  • “General topic of 'trivial myths' (to call it that)”. In: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): Trivialmythen . March, Frankfurt / M. 1970, pp. 151-179; again in March texts 1. Trivial myths . March at Area: Erfstadt 2004, pp. 471–499
  • Mainz as it sings and laughs. The balloonists. Letters. Mainz remains Mainz. Ghost stories. The Dolomite War. Supplements. Verlag Petra Nettelbeck: Salzhausen-Luhmühlen 1976
    • The Dolomite War. Two thousand and one: Frankfurt a. M. 1979 (separate print from Mainz how it sings and laughs )
      • The Dolomite War. With an afterword by Detlev Claussen . Berenberg: Berlin 2014
  • The Republic , No. 1–125 / 1976–2008; approx. 8,000 pages
  • Fantômas. A moral history of the identification service . Verlag Petra Nettelbeck: Salzhausen-Luhmühlen 1979
  • Cosmic (with Jörg Schröder ). March: Berlin / Schlechtenwegen 1982 (also in Die Republik , No. 55–60 / June 3, 1982)
  • Charlotte Corday. A book of the republic (with Petra Nettelbeck ). Verlag Franz Greno: Nördlingen 1986 (extended version of Die Republik , No. 16-17 / July 17, 1977)
  • Karl Philipp Moritz, reader . Publisher Franz Greno: Nördlingen 1986
  • No idea about art and little about business. Film review 1963-1968 . Ed. V. Sandra Nettelbeck. Philo Fine Arts: Hamburg 2011
  • Processes. Court reports 1967–1969 , edited by Petra Nettelbeck, with an afterword by Henrik Ghanaat. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-42482-7 .

Notes and individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is how his full name appears in an indictment from the Frankfurt Regional Court concerning the unauthorized distribution of a report by the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Horst Herold . The indictment is quoted in Die Republik, No. 48–54 / May 8, 1980, p. 6
  2. ↑ a b c Bibliography Uwe Nettelbeck . Verlag Die Republik: Maransin 2008
  3. ↑ "Among the important film critics of the sixties was Uwe Nettelbeck the little prince: a pop star who, with a furious temperament, could write more original and musically about cinema than anyone else in Germany." Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : (Obituary for Uwe Nettelbeck). In: DIE ZEIT 5/2007
  4. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck: “Description of a fight. About the filmmakers Hellmuth Costard and Martin Müller ”. DIE ZEIT 13/1968 ; completely reprinted in Klaus Behnken / Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, publisher: short and small. 50 years of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival . Hatje Cantz: Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, pp. 125–129, here p. 127
  5. ↑ Peter Rawert : If in doubt, better against the judge. Theo Sommer won't be happy: after almost fifty years, Uwe Nettelbeck's polemical court reports appear . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 8, 2015, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck: “On our own behalf”. In: concrete , 9/1969. "My decision to no longer contribute to the fact that time sometimes looks different from what it is, I admit, was also a response to the request that an editor such as Theo Sommers should have a closer look at my articles in the manuscript [ ...]. "
  7. ^ Stefan Ripplinger: "Post from Haßfurt". concrete 3/2007, p. 14f. Also the legal notice specifically 5 / 1969-18 / 1969
  8. ↑ "dismayed by the triumphalism and racism of post-unification Germany" - Joe Boyd: Obituary. Uwe Nettelbeck. German rock producer, film critic and gourmet . In: The Guardian , February 13, 2007
  9. ↑ time ', no. 49 , 50 and 51 /1967
  10. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck: “ The Frankfurter Brandstifter-Trial  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Four times three years in prison for a senseless demonstration ”. First in Zeit , 45/1968, again in concrete ', 3/2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / nurtext.zeit.de  
  11. ↑ On one of his works on television, cf. Brigitte Weingart: "Fleeting reading: TV transcripts (Goetz, Kempowski, Nettelbeck)". In: Ludwig Jäger and Georg Stanitzek, Ed .: Transkribieren. Media / reading . Wilhelm Fink: Munich 2002, pp. 91–114
  12. ↑ An example of this: Uwe Nettelbeck: “Whoever is walking is leaning forward. Fellow citizens read a picture or morning post. In the demonstrators they can see what they already knew. But you are not the Bild newspaper yourself ”. In: film , 3/1969. The article consists of Nettelbeck's reflections and long quotations from the FAZ and a speech by Kurt Georg Kiesinger . Also: Stefan Ripplinger: "Return to Sender. About Uwe Nettelbeck's quotation montages", Kultur & Gespenster, 7 / autumn 2008, pp. 73–97
  13. ↑ "It is sensible that 'Konkret' is not just about representing left politics in a journalistic way, this magazine must also be about spreading left politics in a journalistic way." Uwe Nettelbeck: ( Letter to the Editor ), Spiegel , 12/1969
  14. ↑ See for example Julian Cope: KrautRockSampler. one heads guide to the great cosmic music . German by Clara Drechsler. Pieper's media experiments: Löhrbach 1996, excerpts from the original and Andy Wilson: Faust - Stretch Out Time 1970–1975. Faust Pages: London 2006
  15. ↑ Chris Cutler / Kersten Glandien: (Interview with Uwe Nettelbeck). In: Faust. The Wümme Years 1970–73 (booklet of a 5-CD box), pp. 33–38, here p. 35. ReR Megacorp 2000
  16. ^ Later also separately: Uwe Nettelbeck: Der Dolomitenkrieg . Two thousand and one: Frankfurt / M. 1979
  17. ↑ "Mainz as it sings and laughs" is the prototype of the "Republic" . Hermann Bohlen : “A very dangerous one. The whiz kid Uwe Nettelbeck is dead, but his' republic '' is alive. ”In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 25, 2007, and in Literaturkritik.de
  18. ↑ Quoted here from Die Republik , No. 1–4 / September 8, 1976, p. 240
  19. ^ "Fantômas", collected in Uwe Nettelbeck: Fantômas. A moral history of the identification service . Petra Nettelbeck Publishing House, Salzhausen 1979
  20. ↑ "On the river Pirú they met a man whose name was Berú. Hence the name. The journey of Tupak Yupanki". Die Republik, No. 41-47 / September 26, 1979, pp. 9-439
  21. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck (Ed.): The Republic . No. 28-33 . The Republic, Salzhausen / Frankfurt am Main 1978, p. 392 .
  22. ^ Franz Jung: Writings and letters in two volumes . Edited by Klaus Behnken, Uwe and Petra Nettelbeck. Petra Nettelbeck Publishing House, Salzhausen 1981
  23. ↑ Jules Michelet: The Bird . Translated from the French and edited by Uwe Nettelbeck. Verlag Franz Greno, Nördlingen 1986
  24. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck gives the reasons for this in Die Republik , No. 120–122 / September 28, 2006, pp. 176–180
  25. ↑ Stefan Ripplinger: “On the other side. Uwe Nettelbeck, 1940 to 2007 " , Jungle World 4/2007. More information on the posthumous work can be found in Stefan Ripplinger: Uwe Nettelbeck. A reminder , copybook , 81/2013, pp 101-106.
  26. ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck wrote several articles on film and other topics for the weekly newspaper Jungle World in 1998 and 2003 ; see under web links
  27. ↑ Peter von Becker: “The flash of inspiration. The last edition of the Republic appears now ', and the Berlin Arsenal homage Uwe Nettelbeck, who was a ghost rider for the feuilleton journalism and Kulturessayistik. " . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 15, 2008
  28. ↑ Wilhelm Bittorf based his review of the republic on a comparison with Kraus and called the magazine "the Kohlhaasiade of a self-made martyr of journalism". Wilhelm Bittorf: "Karl Kraus, written in small letters", Der Spiegel , 42/1976. Earlier, Hellmuth Karasek had already named Nettelbeck a “successor to Karl Kraus” in a meeting from Mainz remains Mainz Nettelbeck, who, compared to him, “often less fair, but more malicious, more self-righteous”. Hellmuth Karasek: “A world out of quotes”, Der Spiegel , 17/1976.
  29. ↑ Eckhard Henscheid: Sudelblätter . Haffmans Verlag: Zurich 1987, here cited from Die Republik No. 94–97 / September 1, 1997, p. 7. Wolfram Schütte raised in his obituary "The shadow economy of a privateer. On the death of the solitary journalist Uwe Nettelbeck" ( Memento from 8. March 2016 in the Internet Archive ), title, online, January 24, 2007, similar allegations. Nettelbeck had attacked him too, u. a. in: “Wolfram Schütte is stupid. A short article “, film , 10/1969
  30. ↑ Dirck Linck: "'Liking Things': About a motif of Pop". In the S. and Gert Mattenklott: Waste. Presentation of material and material in German pop literature of the 1960s . Wehrhahn Verlag: Hannover-Laatzen 2006, pp. 125–160, here p. 138
  31. ↑ Tobias Rapp : “In the shade. The publicist and editor Uwe Nettelbeck died last Wednesday ”. taz , January 22, 2007
  32. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: "Uwe Nettelbeck (1939 [sic!] - 2007)". Welt , January 24, 2007
  33. ↑ Renate Matthaei (ed.): Trivialmythen . March, Frankfurt / M. 1970, pp. 151-179; again in March texts 1. Trivial myths . March at Area: Erfstadt 2004, pp. 471–499.
  34. ↑ Book review: Cord Riechelmann in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on May 17, 2015, page 41, Nothing but Truth

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personal data
SURNAME Nettelbeck, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bessert-Nettelbeck, Hans-Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2007
Place of death Bordeaux