Volker Hage

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Volker Hage (2015)

Volker Hage (born September 9, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , literary critic and writer .

Life

Volker Hage studied German and sociology in Hamburg and Munich ; he received his doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on collages in German literature . He began his work as an editor in 1975 at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he first worked in the literary paper and later in the FAZ magazine . From 1986 to 1992 Hage was senior literary editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1992 to 2014 he worked as a culture editor at Spiegel . He was the founder of the periodical German literature at Reclam (18 annual volumes, published 1982–1999) and editor of various anthologies .

From 1988 to 1994 Hage was a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In 2005 and 2006 he was appointed to the jury of the German Book Prize . He was a visiting professor at German and American universities and published in 2009 a theory to literary criticism band whose title criticism for readers it as a maxim goes for his attitude as a literary critic.

For Der Spiegel he wrote cover stories about Friedrich Schiller , Franz Kafka , Thomas Mann , Günter Grass and Marcel Reich-Ranicki , and Volker Hage also published books on contemporary German literature and biographical works (about Max Frisch , Walter Kempowski , John Updike and Philip Roth ). He made a major contribution to the rediscovery of the German writer Gert Ledig in the course of the debate triggered by WG Sebald about the literary processing of the aerial warfare and the bombing of German cities in World War II (this applies in particular to Ledig's second novel Retaliation ). In his book Witnesses of Destruction (2003) he responded to Sebald's thesis that German literature had not adequately dealt with the subject of the bombing war: “The gap that was not only felt by Sebald was and is less of a production than that Reception."

Marcel Reich-Ranicki judged on the style of his fellow critic that Hages “book reviews [...] have one great advantage: you always know exactly what he wants to say.” On the occasion of Hage's 60th birthday, Hubert Spiegel wrote in the FAZ in 2009 : “ He counters the volatility of day-to-day business with criticisms whose analyzes often target not only the aesthetic but also the typical of the time. "

In 2015, Luchterhand Literaturverlag published Hage's debut novel Die Free Love , “a classic triangular story in the guise of a new worldview,” as Rudolf von Bitter from Bavarian TV put it. While Moritz Baßler criticized in the taz that the obsessive in the novel "does not take on any literary form", Julia Encke wrote in the FAS of a "chronicle of an intimacy that falls into a political era, told in a restrained, not at all trumpet" tone Helga Arend judged on literaturkritik.de : "The critic Volker Hage not only sings a song about aesthetics in his journalistic texts, but his first novel can also be read like this." In 2018, Hage's second novel Des Lebens was fifth , also by Luchterhand Akt , a novel biography about the last years of the writer Arthur Schnitzler's life . In the Austrian Kurier , Peter Pisa wrote: “Schnitzler has never been as close to his readers as in Des Lebens's fifth act .” In the SWR , where the novel was presented as “Book of the Week” and a conversation with Hage was broadcast, it was said that it would combine "as it were journalistic and literary skills of the author".

Works (selection)

Novels

Non-fiction

Editor (selection)

  • Poetry for readers. German poems of the seventies. Reclam, Stuttgart 1980 (Universal Library No. 9976), ISBN 3-15-009976-5 .
  • Literary collages. Texts, sources, theory. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981 (Universal Library No. 7695), ISBN 3-15-007695-1 .
  • Michael Schwarze: Christmas without television. Cultural policy essays, glosses, portraits. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-518-37643-8 .
  • Gerold Späth: Commedia. Selection. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989 (Universal-Bibliothek 8245), ISBN 3-15-008621-3 .
  • Botho Strauss: About love. Stories and fragments. Reclam. Stuttgart 1984 (Universal Library 8621), ISBN 3-15-008621-3 .
  • Botho Strauss: fleeing thoughts . Library Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1999 (together with Barbara Hoffmeister), ISBN 3-518-22326-7 .
  • Golo Mann / Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Enthusiasts of literature. Correspondence, essays and portraits. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-10-062813-6 .
  • Other love stories. German stories from two decades. btb, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-72610-7 .
  • Dieter Forte: Write or speak. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-10-021113-8 .
  • Hamburg 1943. Literary testimonies to the firestorm. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-596-16036-7 .
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki: My life. Selection tape for school. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13327-9 .
  • Günther Anders: Daily Notes. Records 1941–1979. Library Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-518-22405-0 .
  • Max Frisch: America! Insel, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-74940-0 .

Audio books

  • A love for life. Thomas Mann and Travemünde. Read by the author and Hans-Peter Hallwachs. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89903-105-9 .
  • Friedrich Schiller. The breath of freedom. Read by Heikko Deutschmann, August Diehl, Ulrike Grote u. a. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89903-209-8 .
  • Last dances, first steps. Contemporary German literature. Reading Michael Prelle. DAV, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89813-692-1 .

Articles (selection)

  • About the creation of books while writing or: the authentic first-person narrator. In: Akzente 5/1974, pp. 453–468.
  • On the use and withdrawal of the fictional first-person narrator. “Doctor Faustus” - a modern novel? In: Text + Criticism, Sonderband, Munich 1976, pp. 88–98.
  • Epic attitude to life. Peter Handkes emergency books. In: Spätmoderne und Postmoderne , ed. by Paul Michael Lützeler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt 1991 (pp. 117–130), ISBN 3-596-10957-4 ( online as pdf , accessed October 13, 2019).
  • With “Don Quixote” to America. About Thomas Mann's 'affair' in 1934 . Thomas Mann Yearbook, Volume 10, Klostermann, Frankfurt 1998, pp. 53-66.
  • The poet of our future. (About Kafka and the biography of Reiner Stach ) In: Der Spiegel , No. 40/2014, pp. 117–124 ( cover story , in- house communication ).
  • One like all, none like him. (Obituary for Günter Grass ) In: Der Spiegel , No. 17/2015, pp. 106–118 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Volker Hage  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcast "Zwischenentöne" with Volker Hage , Deutschlandfunk from January 12, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Volker Hage: Witnesses of Destruction: The Literati and the Air War. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-028901-3 , p. 119.
  3. ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki: The thing with the Nobel Prize . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , March 18, 2007, p. 29
  4. ↑ Hubert Spiegel: Not a servant of actuality . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 7, 2009, p. 36
  5. ↑ In conversation: Volker Hage: Die free love . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , June 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Moritz Baßler: Die Begier records , in: Die Tageszeitung , July 11, 2015, p. 14
  7. ↑ Julia Encke: "Munich, 1971", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 10, 2015, p. 49
  8. ↑ Helga Arend: Free love does not age . In: literaturkritik.de , July 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Peter Pisa: "Who understands your own child?" October 10, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ SWR2: www.swr.de/swr2/buch-der-woche/bdw-hage. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hage, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, literary critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg