Walter Helmut Fritz

Walter Helmut Fritz (born August 26, 1929 in Karlsruhe , † November 20, 2010 in Heidelberg ) was a German poet , essayist and novelist .

life and work

Walter Helmut Fritz came from a family of architects. He grew up in Waldprechtsweier , Rastatt and Karlsruhe. After he had passed the Abitur in 1949, he studied literature , philosophy and modern languages at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 1954 . He then worked as a high school teacher in Karlsruhe. Since 1964 he has been a freelance writer. At first he also taught at times as a lecturer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , and from 1968 to 1970 he was a lecturer at S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main .

In addition to a few novels and occasional essays, Walter Helmut Fritz has primarily published poetry . He was regarded as a representative of a "quiet", laconic form of the poem; The focus is on the sober description of nature and everyday observations, which are often used to illustrate psychological relationships and developments.

Walter Helmut Fritz was a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Works

Single titles and anthologies

• Be careful. Biel 1956.
• Picture sign. Hamburg 1958.
• Changed years. Poems, Stuttgart 1963.
• Poems. Darmstadt 1964.
• Borderland. Darmstadt 1964.
• Driftwood. Frankfurt am Main 1964.
• Detours. Prose, Stuttgart 1964.
• Interim remarks. Records. Stuttgart 1964.
• Moments. Prose. Stuttgart 1964.
• Deviation. Novel. Stuttgart 1965.
• The reliability of the unrest. New poems. Hamburg 1966.
• Jean Cayrol's “Lazarenic” prose. Mainz 1967.
• Notes on an Area. Frankfurt am Main 1969.
• Possibilities of prose poetry based on some French examples. Mainz 1969.
• The confusion. Novel. Frankfurt am Main 1970. New edition: Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-86059-058-8 .
• Friedrich Bentmann (Ed.): Partial routes. Karlsruhe 1971.
• From near. Poems 1967–1971. Hamburg 1972.
• The nature of such days. Novel. Hamburg 1972.
• Before we hear and see. Novel. Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-455-02257-X .
• No alibi . With etchings by Johannes Schreiter , Duisburg 1975.
• The day grows over the way. Zurich 1975.
• Trees. Recke 1976.
• The visitor. Frankfurt am Main 1976.
• Difficult crossing. Poems. Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-455-02259-6 .
• Nostalgia. Poems and prose poems. Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-455-02261-8 .
• Even now and tomorrow. Poems. Pfaffenweiler 1979, ISBN 3-921365-26-0 .
• Collected poems. Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-455-02262-6 .
• Pierce a rock. Nine poems. Leonberg 1980.
• Love poems from Goethe's "West-Eastern Divan". Mainz 1980.
• Who wasn't wrong? Poems. Zurich 1980.
• Dream nightmare. Poems and prose poems 1979–1981. Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-02263-4 .
• Tools of freedom. Poems. Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-455-02264-2 .
• Conversation about poems. Stuttgart 1984.
• 'Cornelia's Dream' and other records. Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-455-02266-9 .
• Like never before. Poems . With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl Pfaffenweiler 1986, ISBN 3-921365-83-X .
• Always easier, more and more difficult. Poems and prose poems 1983–1986. Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-455-01880-7 .
• with Franz Bernhard : Lines. Bonn 1988.
• Unstoppable. Poems. Warmbronn 1988, ISBN 3-924316-26-0 .
• With a feather from the wings of Icarus. Selected poems and prose poems. Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Time to see. Prose. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-455-02267-7 .
• No procrastination. Bergen, Holland 1990.
• The keys are reversed. Poems and prose poems 1987–1991. Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-455-02268-5 .
• Part of the dark. Poems with drawings by Heidelore Goldammer, Warmbronn 1993, ISBN 3-924316-63-5 .
• Even an indifferent look is homicide. Poetry cycle, in: Karl Bohrmann - Drawings. Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87173-998-7 .
• Collected poems 1979–1994. Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-455-02269-3 .
• Klaus Isele (Ed.): Pulsschlag. Poems. Eggingen 1996.
• The open window. Prose poems. Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-02312-6 .
• with Franz Bernhard: ... as if a narrative began. Karlsruhe 1999.
• Rainer Malkowski (Ed.): Selected poems and prose . With contributions on Fritz von Hans Bender , Elisabeth Borchers , Hugo Dittberner , Tankred Dorst , Peter Härtling , Ludwig Harig , Harald Hartung , Bruno Hillebrand , Dieter Hoffmann , Wulf Kirsten , Eckart Kleßmann , Michael Krüger , Barbara König , Paul Michael Lützeler , Rainer Malkowski , Uwe Pörksen , Herbert Rosendorfer , Helga Schütz , Arnold Stadler , Guntram Vesper , Dieter Wellershoff , Erwin Wickert , Bernhard Zeller u. Gerda Zeltner . Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft 1999. (= Mainzer Reihe. 89. Authors see an author.), ISBN 3-534-14772-3 or, ISBN 3-89244-845-0 .
• What once lived in the spirit. Records. Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-88423-159-6 .
• Allowed in life. Poems. Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-02242-1 .
• Matthias Kussmann (ed.): The love poems. Darmstadt 2002, new edition Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-852-3 .
• Mask train - poems. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-02243-X .
• with Franz Bernhard: On the way. Material images, records. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-87173-273-7 .
• My bookmark. Poem with a speech by Harald Hartung, Hauzenberg 2004, ISBN 3-931883-37-X .
• Matthias Kußmann (Ed.): Open eyes. Poems and notes. Hamburg 2007.
• Matthias Kussmann (Ed.): Heartbeat. The love poems. with a foreword by Michael Krüger, Hamburg 2008.
• Matthias Kußmann (ed.): Works in three volumes. Volume 1: Poems, prose poems. Volume 2: Novels, Prose. Volume 3: radio play, play, essays. Hamburg 2009.

Selected poems

• I don't know (the day is pale and clear)
• Driving in the rain (rain against the window)

Release

• Fictional characters. Mainz 1971.
• About Karl Krolow. Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• Karl Krolow : A reading book. Frankfurt am Main 1975.

translation

• Alain Bosquet : J'écrirai ce poème. Darmstadt 1965.
• Jean Follain : Poems. Ebenhausen near Munich 1962.
• Philippe Jaccottet : Fin d'hiver. Darmstadt 1965.
• René Ménard : Entre deux Pierres. Darmstadt 1964.
• Claude Vigée : Network of the Wind. Frankfurt 1968.

Awards

• 1960 Literature Prize of the City of Karlsruhe
• 1962 Honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1963 Villa Massimo scholarship
• 1973 Honorary gift from the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry. V .; Prize for Literature at the Berlin Art Prize
• 1986 Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
• 1991 Deidesheim tower clerk
• 1992 Georg Trakl Prize
• 1994 Upper Rhine Culture Prize
• 1995 Grand Prize for Literature from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

literature

• Theo Breuer : To Walter Helmut Fritz 'Der Wal. In: Hiltrud Gnüg (Hrsg.): Modern German natural poetry. Interpretations. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-017538-5 .
• Theo Breuer: Interim remarks - man of the quiet tones. Walter Helmut Fritz on his 80th birthday.
• Theo Breuer: Walter Helmut Fritz. In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 .
• Bernhard Nellessen (Ed.): Sentences are windows. On the poetry and porsa of Walter Helmut Fritz . Hempel Verlag, Lebach 1989, p. 12 ff., ISBN 978-3-925192-3-71 .
• Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann (ed.): WH Fritz - P. Hamm - HR Schwab - Moments of Perception. Karlsruhe 1999, ISBN 3-930314-30-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Helmut Fritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Master of Clarity: Poet Walter Helmut Fritz dies , Spiegel Online , November 22, 2010

References and comments

1. ↑ The two poems are from: Hans Bender (Ed.), Gegenpiel. German poetry since 1945. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1962, without, ISBN