Uwe Timm
Uwe Hans Heinz Timm (born March 30, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German writer .
Life
Uwe Timm, the third child of the married couple Hans and Anna Timm, was evacuated to relatives in Coburg together with his mother during the Second World War at the age of three (1943) . In the late summer of 1945 they returned to Hamburg, where their father, who had returned from the war, opened a skinning workshop. After attending primary school , Uwe Timm completed an apprenticeship as a furrier at Levermann. After completing his apprenticeship, he took over the heavily indebted fur business of his father, who had recently died († September 1, 1958). After the reorganization of the business, Timm attended the Braunschweig College from 1961 . Here he met Benno Ohnesorg . He was the editor of the magazine partly-partly . In No. 1 - no further numbers followed - Timm's first poems appeared.
Uwe Timm finished the college on March 5, 1963 with the Abitur. Together with his girlfriend Jutta Kosjek - it was in May 1964, the mother of his first daughter Katharina - Timm went to Munich at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of the subjects Philosophy and German study. His academic teachers were the philosopher Max Müller (student of Martin Heidegger ), the medievalist Hugo Kuhn and the Germanist Walter Müller-Seidel .
In 1966 Timm continued his studies with Raymond Aron and Jean Wahl at the Sorbonne in Paris . Here he met Alice Dermigny and the mathematician Diederich Hinrichsen . Together with Hinrichsen he wrote a play for which they could not find a publisher. In June 1967 Timm received news of the death of his friend Benno Ohnesorg in Paris.
In September 1967 Uwe Timm returned to Munich. From 1967 to 1969 he was politically active in the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). He wrote agitprop lyrics and street plays ; and he participated in the occupation of Munich University. During the protests in 1968 he lived in Hamburg for a few months. He made contact with the left-wing literary author collective Hamburg , the u. a. the writers Klaus Kuhnke , Peter Schütt and Uwe Wandrey belonged.
In November 1969 Uwe Timm married Dagmar Ploetz , who comes from Villa Gesell (Argentina) and later translates , with whom he has three children, a son and two daughters. Ploetz's ancestors have lived in South America for 150 years. He gave up a second degree in sociology and economics , which he had started in 1970, in 1972. In 1971 he received his doctorate on the subject of the problem of absurdity with Albert Camus .
Since then, Timm has been working as a freelance writer. In 1971/1972 he founded the “Wortgruppe München” and was co-editor of the magazine Literäre Hefte . From 1972 to 1981 he worked - in the first few years together with Uwe Friesel , Richard Hey , Gerd Fuchs and Hannelies Taschau - as editor of the AutorEdition at Bertelsmann- Verlag. After their dissolution, Uwe Timm moved to the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house in Cologne.
In 1973 Uwe Timm became a member of the DKP . However, he could not fully identify with their goals, so that he resigned in 1981, partly because of the party's uncritical attitude towards the GDR . In the same year he moved to Rome for two years . Uwe Timm currently lives with his family in Munich and Berlin.
Timm was appointed writer in residence at universities in English-speaking countries three times :
- 1981: University of Warwick
- 1994: Swansea
- 1997: Washington University in St. Louis .
Uwe Timm gave the following poetics lectures in Germany :
- Winter semester 1991/92: University of Paderborn (published in the volume Narrating and No End )
- 2005: Otto Friedrich University Bamberg
- Summer semester 2009: Frankfurt poetics lectures at the University of Frankfurt (published in the volume Von Anfang und Ende ).
- 2018: Tuebingen poetics lectureship together with Frank Witzel
In 2006 Timm was guest of honor at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome . In spring 2009, Timm received his first Heinrich Heine lectureship at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg , and in 2012 the Kassel Brothers Grimm Professorship .
Memberships
Since autumn 1994 Uwe Timm has been a full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt , the PEN Center Germany and the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) . He is also a member of the Association of German Writers (VS), the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg.
reception
After the publication of his novel Hot Summer in 1974, Uwe Timm first received a lot of attention as an author: The work is still one of the few literary testimonies to the 1968 student revolt . His post-colonial historical novel Morenga from 1978 also contributed to its growing popularity.
Uwe Timm celebrated great success in the early 1990s with the novel The Discovery of Currywurst , which has been translated into more than 20 languages. The plant was established in 2008 by Ulla Wagner with Barbara Sukowa and Alexander Khuon starring filmed .
In the new millennium his novel Rot (2001) was published, which tells of the hopes and desires of the 68ers, of lives and their secrets, of the utopias and crimes of history. In 2003, Timm's autobiographical story Am example my brother was published , which sparked a general discussion about the German culture of remembrance and National Socialism. The story Der Freund und der Fremde (2005), in which he deals with the story of his friendship with Benno Ohnesorg , also provoked a great response . His novel Vogelweide made it onto the shortlist of the German Book Prize in 2013 . His work also includes four children's books.
Uwe Timm's works were u. a. Translated into Danish, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Ukrainian and Hungarian.
Awards (selection)
- 1979: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen (sponsorship prize), for Morenga , a novel about Jakobus Morenga
- 1988: New York scholarship from the German Literature Fund
- 1989: Prize for Literature from the City of Munich
- 1990: German Youth Literature Prize , for Rudi Rüssel , a racing pig
- 1996: Bavarian Film Prize (Children's Film Prize ) for Rudi Rüssel , a racing pig
- 2001: Tukan Prize , for red
- 2001: Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 2002: Literature Prize of the City of Munich
- 2002/03: Town clerk of Bergen-Enkheim
- 2003: Schubart Literature Prize
- 2003: Erik Reger Prize
- 2006: Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize
- 2006: Premio Napoli , for red
- 2006: Premio Mondello of the city of Palermo, for red
- 2009: Heinrich Böll Prize
- 2009: Heinrich Heine guest lecturer
- 2012: Carl Zuckmayer Medal
- 2012: Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship
- 2013: Cultural Prize of Honor from the City of Munich
- 2016: Plaque of honor from the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg
- 2018: Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim
- 2018: Tuebingen Poetics Lecturer
- 2018: Cross of Merit 1st class
Works
Monographs
- 1971: The problem of absurdity in Albert Camus. Dissertation. Hamburg.
- 1993: storytelling and no end . Try an aesthetic of everyday life. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2009: From the beginning and the end. About the legibility of the world. Frankfurt poetics lecture . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2015: Montaignes Tower . Essays. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04743-1 .
Poetry
- 1971: contradictions. Poems and an essay. Hamburg.
- 1977: Wolfenbütteler Straße 53. Zeit-Gedichte. Munich.
prose
- 1974: hot summer . Novel. Bertelsmann, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna.
- 1978: Morenga . Novel. Authors Edition, Gütersloh.
- 1980: Kerbel's escape. Novel. Authors Edition, Gütersloh.
- 1981: The wagon mouse. Children's book with drawings by Tatjana Hauptmann . Diogenes, Zurich.
- 1983: The pirate blackbird. Children's book with drawings by Gunnar Matysiak. Benziger, Zurich / Cologne.
- 1984: The man on the penny farthing. Legend. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1986: The snake tree. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1989: Rudi Rüssel racing pig . Children's book with drawings by Gunnar Matysiak. Obelisk, Innsbruck / Vienna.
- 1989: Bird, don't eat the fig. Roman records. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1991: headhunter. Report from the interior of the country. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1993: The discovery of the currywurst . Novella. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1995: The treasure on Pagensand. Youth book. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld.
- 1996: Midsummer Night . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 1999: not tomorrow, not yesterday. Stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2001: Red. Roman. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2003: Using my brother's example . Narrative. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2005: The friend and the stranger . Narrative. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2008: partial shade. Novel about Marga von Etzdorf . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne.
- 2011: free meal . Novella. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne ISBN 978-3-462-04318-1 .
- 2013: Vogelweide . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-462-04571-0 .
- 2017: Icaria . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-462-05048-6 .
Movies
- 1984: Many roads lead to Rome. Screenplay and direction, WDR.
- 1984: Kerbel's escape. Script, director. Erwin Keusch , ZDF.
- 1985: Morenga . 3 parts. Script together with Egon Günther . Director: Egon Günther, ARD.
- 1987: The aviator. Erwin Keusch, screenplay. Director.
- 1995: Rudi Rüssel racing pig . Script together with Ulrich Limmer . Director: Peter Timm .
- 1997: The Bubi Scholz story. Script. Director: Roland Suso Richter , ARD.
- 2000: a handful of grass. Roland Suso Richter, screenplay. Director.
Editing
- 1981: German colonies. Photo tape. Authors, Munich.
Radio plays
- 1972: Herbert or the preparation for the Olympics.
- 1972: The steppe sow.
- 1984: bugging. Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Director: Dieter Carls )
- 1994: The pirate blackbird. Süddeutscher Rundfunk
- 2004: The Zugmaus. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Audiolino, ISBN 3-8339-5327-6 .
- 2009: Red. Norddeutscher Rundfunk
literature
- Christof Hamann (Ed.): Uwe Timm. With contributions by Axel Dunker, Matteo Galli, Kerstin Germer, Martin Hielscher, Alexander Honold, Clemens Kammler, Julian Osthues, Rolf Parr and Julia Schöll. (= TEXT + KRITIK . Zeitschrift für Literatur . Issue 195). Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-197-6 .
- Helmut Bernsmeier: Reading key. Uwe Timm: penumbra. Reclam, Ditzingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-015444-1 .
- David Basker (Ed.): Uwe Timm. Volume 1 (= Contemporary German Writers ). University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1999, ISBN 0-7083-1447-3 .
- David Basker (Ed.): Uwe Timm. Volume 2. (= Contemporary German Writers ). University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2007, ISBN 978-0-7083-2122-5 .
- Fatih Tepebaşılı: 68 Kuşağı Yazarlarından Uwe Timm ve Toplumsal Eleştiri. Çizgi Kitapevi, Konya 2002, ISBN 975-8156-41-1 (Turkish).
- Helge Malchow : The beautiful abundance. Texts on the life and work of Uwe Timm. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03461-8 .
- Manfred Durzak (ed.): The archeology of wishes. Studies on the work of Uwe Timm. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02408-6 .
- Martin Hielscher (ed.): Uwe Timm reading book. The voice while writing. dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13317-1 .
- Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-31081-9 .
- Sabine Weisz: The '68 revolt in the work of Uwe Timm. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9981-0 .
- Olaf Kutzmutz (Ed.): Uwe Timm - pure readings. Contributions to the poetics of contemporary literature. Wolfenbüttel 2009, ISBN 978-3-929622-45-4 .
- Simone Christina Nicklas: "Remembering leads inside" - memory and identity with Uwe Timm. Tectum, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8288-3519-1 .
- Paul M. Lützeler (Ed.): Contemporary literature. Volume 11: Uwe Timm. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86057-582-6 .
- Markus Lorenz: Subversive Mastersong. A study on the work of Uwe Timm. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4831-9 .
Dissertations
- Julienne Kamya: Student movement, literature and the rediscovery of the foreign: on the ethnographic view in Uwe Timm's novels (= meander . Volume 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-631-53689-5 (Dissertation University of Paderborn 2004)
- Simplice Agossavi: Foreign hermeneutics in contemporary German literature using examples from Uwe Timm, Gerhard Polt , Urs Widmer , Sibylle Knauss , Wolfgang Lange and Hans Christoph Buch . (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Literary Studies. Volume 77). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-86110-339-7 . (Dissertation Saarland University 2002)
TV / movie
- Uwe Timm - The freedom to write. Documentation, Germany, 2007, 43 minutes. Direction: Arpad Bondy, Margit Knapp; Production: SWR . Synopsis of arte
Web links
- Literature by and about Uwe Timm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website ( dtv publishing company )
- Uwe Timm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Uwe Timm in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Uwe Timm in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Short biography and reviews of works by Uwe Timm at perlentaucher.de
- Uwe Timm in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 31 and 183.
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, pp. 46-49.
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, pp. 55-59.
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 65.
- ↑ From the life of Uwe Timm. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 27, 2010.
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 66f.
- ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 72 u. 75.
- ↑ focus.de: Brothers Grimm Professorship goes to Uwe Timm.Retrieved on March 27, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.wn.de/Welt/Kultur/2012/01/Kultur-Uwe-Timm-erhaelt-die-Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille
- ↑ Artists honor Uwe Timm and Burkhart Klaußner on deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 31, 2017, accessed on September 1, 2017
- ↑ Announcement by the Office of the Federal President of December 1, 2018 , accessed on December 11, 2018
- ↑ CV Simplice Agossavi
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Timm, Uwe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Timm, Uwe Hans Heinz (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |