Walter Laufenberg

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Walter Laufenberg (* 1935 in Opladen , today Leverkusen ) is a German writer and blogger .

Life

Walter Laufenberg studied law and economics in Cologne, Saarbrücken and Berlin and did his doctorate in social science . He worked in various professions, such as television editor and reporter at WDR and ZDF , as a filmmaker and publisher , as advertising manager for the German Development Service and as advertising and public relations director of Berlin. After many changes of residence (Berlin, Bonn , Aachen , Oldenburg , Heidelberg , Speyer ) he lives for example. Currently in Mannheim .

In 1970 he was one of the first to set up an alternative publishing house , Argus-Verlag in Opladen (closed in 1977).

Laufenberg has written for newspapers and magazines and film productions as well as for radio stations for WDR, NDR and Südwestfunk , and since 1982 numerous articles in the cultural magazine TransAtlantik . He published a few non-fiction books and then devoted himself entirely to fiction . In his books, the question of the basic motivation for human action is repeatedly raised. According to Laufenberg, people - everyone without exception - do everything only to intensify their self-awareness. He calls this the "Laufenberg instinct". The author comes to this conclusion when he continues to question the usual reasons for action. In this way, goals that seem so natural to him, such as money, power, fame and sex, become mere transitory interests, because ultimately the interest in one's own self becomes clear behind them; because nothing is more important to a person than his self. Laufenberg believes that knowing this is a protection against seduction through feigned noble motifs. The ego-fixation, generally despised as egoism, is not negative for him, since it becomes valuable for a community in every decision in which one places the community interest above his ego interest because he sees himself as part of this community (the reflected Laufenberg instinct).

At the turn of the year 1995/96 he founded the internet magazine LaufenbergNETzine (see web links ) as a non-commercial periodical , the first German-language blog , called Netzine , which mainly provides current and pseudo-current issues , a blasphemous lexicon and book and film reviews as well as travel pictures.

Works

Books (selection):

  • Corpse batman . Roman, Opladen 1970
  • The last days of New York: Snapshot of the world capital in a dead end - only for disrespectful readers . Story, Opladen 1972
  • Little Mr. Pinkepank. A trip around the world in 50 pictures by Klaus Päkel . Children's book, Opladen 1973
  • Love istanbul . Story, Opladen 1975
  • Tightrope walker and poor poet - text book of an unhurried museum visitor . Prose poems on pictures, Bovenden 1980
  • From living above the market . Short texts, Aachen 1981
  • M-Maybe and the Golden Age - text book by an unhurried museum visitor . Prose poems on pictures, Bovenden 1982
  • Oracle ride . Story, Stolberg / Rhld. 1984
  • Axel Andexer or The Taste of Freedom and so on . Roman, Hamburg 1985
  • Guide for egoists . With cartoons by Manfred Limmroth, Hamburg 1987
  • The dwarf from Heidelberg . Historical novel, Stuttgart 1990
  • It all started in paradise . New version of the Bible, Munich 1991 (1994 as paperback edition)
  • Knight, Death and the Devil . The Roman of the 15th Century, Munich 1992, (1995 and 1997 as paperback editions)
  • Goethe and the Bajadere - The Secret of the West-Eastern Divan . Historical novel, Munich 1993
  • New Year's fireworks . Roman, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-928254-88-X
  • The island was so beautiful . Roman, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-928254-01-4
  • Hitler's double . Roman, Berlin 1997, 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-928254-70-7
  • Odysseus' dilemma . Roman, Mannheim 2001, ISBN 3-00-004700-X
  • Laufenbergs Läster-Lexikon, a dictionary of a different kind . 2nd edition, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-009206-4
  • Crimea Intim - Experienced town twinning . Report, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-014178-2
  • Cupid and the judge . Stories, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-014052-2
  • Pride and storm . Historical novel, Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-89735-448-9
  • Hotel Pfälzer Hof . Historical novel, Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-89735-466-7
  • The painter's wives . Historical novel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-939321-09-5
  • Treblinka's dog . Roman, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-939321-16-3
  • Sarcophagus . Roman, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937357-29-4
  • Perkeo - The dwarf from Heidelberg . Roman, Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-539-2
  • Jesus Online . Roman, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-939321-22-4
  • Favorite of two gentlemen . Historical novel, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-939321-27-9
  • Heidelberg stories . Portrait of a celebrity in twelve pictures from six centuries, with 48 illustrations by Piotr Skroban , Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-643-6
  • The painted death . Ein Iceland-Roman, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-939321-32-3
  • Breast milk thief . Roman, eBook, amazon.de/kindle-shop, 2011
  • The calculation of happiness - the life of Hermann Heinrich Gossen . Roman, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-939321-43-9
  • I think of Baghdad that night - a state guest the evening before the war began. Travel report, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937881-38-6
  • Hypogeum - Triumph of Venus of Malta. Kulturthriller, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-939321-53-8
  • The Pope in prison - The first John XXIII. and what the stones tell about a damned man. Biography of a novel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-939321-58-3
  • The Salt Witch - A woman's fate at the time when love was rediscovered. Roman, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-939321-61-3
  • The Mannheim TT is investigating - the ultimate regional thriller. Roman, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-939321-67-5
  • High time - a guide's novel. Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-939321-76-7
  • Caribbean without cannibals - a tropical island paradise experienced yesterday and today on a cruise. Two travel reports, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-937881-48-5
  • Deadly multiplication table - a historical Heidelberg thriller. Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-945424-63-6
  • The sinner. Vienna 1683. Roman, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-947404-04-9
  • The triangle. Roman, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-947404-13-1
  • I am top: self-confident, superior and social - out of selfishness, extended new edition of Ratgeber für Egoisten, neobooks / Kindle, 2020
  • Two to twelve, Roman, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-947404-20-9

Community novels:

  • The twelfth day. Structure, Berlin 2006
  • The third sword. Structure, Berlin 2008
  • The stone eye. Bookspot, Munich 2009

Anthologies:

  • Lemons for Uncle Sam. Kindler, Munich 1975
  • By track. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985
  • Berlin reading book. von Loeper, Karlsruhe 1986
  • Breakfast and violence. Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 1997
  • Monks, assassins, minstrels. Bookspot, Munich 2007

Films:

  • Watching television closely . Allianz film, Berlin 1967
  • It's worth it . Argus-Film, Düsseldorf 1969
  • Numerous reports and short films for WDR and ZDF, 1965 to 1970
  • Perkeo's Return , YouTube 2010

Broadcasting features (selection):

  • Hermann Sinsheimer - Palatinate man of letters, lawyer and Jew , SWR 1999
  • Konrad Krez - A Palatinate Revolutionary in America , SWR 2000

Awards

  • 2013 guest of the city of Soltau in their artist apartment
  • 2010 Prize of the Free German Association of Authors (FDA) for his complete works
  • 2010 scholarship in Ventspils (Latvia)
  • 1998–2009 multiple work grants in Rhodes , Visby and Tarazona as well as in Iceland
  • 1995 Town clerk of Otterndorf
  • 1991/92 Heidelberg district clerk
  • 1989 German short story award of the city of Arnsberg
  • 1989 Dr. Hartwig Kleinholz Prize
  • 1989 Prize of the Arnsberg School Jury
  • 1988 Mannheim Short Story Prize
  • 1981 Prose Prize of the Heinrich Heine Competition of the City of Düsseldorf
  • 1979 work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

  • Bernhard Iglhaut: Laufenberg, Walter. In: Killy literary dictionary - authors and works of the German-speaking cultural area , ed. v. W. Kühlmann, Vol. 7, Berlin 2010, p. 263 f
  • Helmut Riemenschneider: Walter Laufenberg . In: Passagen , Heft 38, 1996, p. 59
  • Stephen C. Merrick: Walter Laufenberg's Laufenberg Instinct . Arizona State University, Phoenix 1992
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Walter Laufenberg . In: Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 7, Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1990, p. 171

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Laufenberg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Opladen