Uwe Timm

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Uwe Timm at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

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 :

Uwe Timm gave the following poetics lectures in Germany :

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)

Works

Monographs

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

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

Wikiquote: Uwe Timm  - Quotes
Commons : Uwe Timm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 31 and 183.
  2. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, pp. 46-49.
  3. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, pp. 55-59.
  4. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 65.
  5. ↑ From the life of Uwe Timm. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 27, 2010.
  6. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 66f.
  7. ↑ Martin Hielscher: Uwe Timm. DTV, Munich 2007, p. 72 u. 75.
  8. ↑ focus.de: Brothers Grimm Professorship goes to Uwe Timm.Retrieved on March 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ https://www.wn.de/Welt/Kultur/2012/01/Kultur-Uwe-Timm-erhaelt-die-Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille
  10. ↑ Artists honor Uwe Timm and Burkhart Klaußner on deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 31, 2017, accessed on September 1, 2017
  11. ↑ Announcement by the Office of the Federal President of December 1, 2018 , accessed on December 11, 2018
  12. ↑ CV Simplice Agossavi
personal data
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