Wendelin cute

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Wendelin Niedlich (born August 31, 1927 in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde ) is a German bookseller , publisher and gallery owner .

Life

Wendelin Niedlich came to Stuttgart in 1960 and took over the bookstore Bücherdienst Eggert at Schmalen Strasse 14, which was dedicated to contemporary literature and critical theory of the Frankfurt School . Niedlich was considered a left-wing bookseller and stood for a literary avant-garde. On Thursdays he organized readings with Max Bense , Reinhard Döhl , Helmut Heißenbüttel , Elfriede Jelinek , Josef Bierbichler , Franz Mon , Ernst Jandl , Ror Wolf , Gert Jonke and Max Goldt , among others . In addition, he founded the Wendelin Niedlich publishing house and began to organize art exhibitions in his premises. From November 5 to 26, 1965, Niedlich exhibited graphic works by Frieder Nake and Georg Nees . The exhibition was the world's third exhibition with computer graphics and received international attention.

In the 1970s the bookstore moved to number 9 on Schmalen Strasse. The visitors to the bookstore described an extraordinary place: books were not simply sorted chronologically on the high shelves. In the magazine Du , the writer Otto Marchi described a "well-ordered chaos, the Jandl and Mayröcker streets, an Achternbusch pyramid, a Brecht house lake, an Enzensberger high rise, as well as a Joyce tower and a Robert Walser - Mountains included that towered over everything ”. For the 1980 federal election , Niedlich provided the bookstore's shop window and a showcase for the “Stop Strauss!” Campaign in which leaflets, posters and appeals were displayed. A leaflet with the sentence "Whoever chooses Strauss , chooses reaction, fascism and war" led the Stuttgart public prosecutor to complain against Niedlich for insult, which was rejected by the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt district court on the grounds that "The incriminated text does not meet the criteria of Paragraph 185 of the Criminal Code. "

In June 1998, Niedlich closed the bookstore. In 2005 the exhibition "Wendelin Niedlich and his Reading Pleasure Society " took place in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart , which was curated by the literary critic Helmut Böttiger .

In 2019 he was awarded the Staufer Medal for services to the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Quote

" I won't do it under Böll ."

Honors

Art exhibitions (selection)

Wolfgang Neuss (left) and Kurt Weidemann at a soccer game organized by Wendelin Niedlich (around 1968)

Editing (selection)

  • Wolfgang Schmidt , Reisser. Book 10 . Wendelin Niedlich publishing house, Stuttgart 1967.
  • His anniversary motto is: Cute 10 years above water . Wendin Niedlich, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Jan Peter Tripp , 19 images and 16 texts . Exhibition catalog, ed. by Wendelin Niedlich. Wendin Niedlich publishing house, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Maina-Miriam Munsky , pictures and graphics . Exhibition catalog. Edited by the Wendelin Niedlich gallery, the Hans-Jürgen Niepel gallery and the Poll gallery , Stuttgart / Düsseldorf / West Berlin 1972.
  • Critical Yearbook 2. Verlag Wendin Niedlich, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Twenty years of bookstore Wendelin Niedlich Stuttgart . Festschrift for 4.-5.-6. July 1980.
  • Wendelin Niedlich, Horst Brandstätter (ed.), Festival bundle for the 60th birthday of the bookseller Wendelin Niedlich . Compiled from greetings, poems, etchings and lithographs, photographs, postcards, collages, paper cuttings, a blank page and other statements by the 60 artists, poets and writers. Merlin Verlag , Gifkendorf 1987.
  • Heike Miethe-Sommer, Tuareg poetry . Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart 1994.

Literature (selection)

  • The bookstore Niedlich celebrated its 20th anniversary in Stuttgart . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Vol. 36, 1980, pp. 1801–1802.
  • Otto Marchi , Wendelin Niedlich: The ruinous preferences of a staunch survivor . In: Du , Volume 55, Issue 2, 1995-1996, pp. 44-47.
  • Markus Heffner, The left ventricle of literary life. The bookseller Wendelin Niedlich talks about his life as a cultural worker and about the "power of poetry" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , March 14, 2007, p. 20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article about the exhibition on compart-bremen.de, accessed on March 18, 2017
  2. ↑ Otto Marchi , Wendelin Niedlich: The ruinous preferences of a staunch survivor . In: Du , Volume 55, Issue 2, 1995-1996, pp. 44-47.
  3. ↑ Article of March 21, 1980 on Zeit Online, accessed on March 18, 2017
  4. ↑ Link to the website of the Literaturhaus Stuttgart .
  5. ↑ Otto Marchi , Wendelin Niedlich: The ruinous preferences of a staunch survivor . In: Du , Volume 55, Issue 2, 1995-1996, p. 45.
  6. ^ Portrait of Markus Heffner in the Stuttgarter Zeitung
  7. ↑ Awarding of the Staufer Medal to Wendelin Niedlich. Retrieved on May 15, 2019 (German).
  8. ^ WM: Plastic graphics: Wolfgang Kermer at Eggert . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , No. 57, March 8, 1962, p. 7; The artwork , 9 / XV, March 1962, ill. P. 31
  9. ↑ "Those who came by with their portfolio": Thom Barth, Erhard Mika, Wilfried Momberg, Paul Th. Schandin, Jörg E. Wetterauer . Exhibition catalog, Niedlich, Stuttgart, August 4 - August 31, 1977 (loose, sheet form individually designed by the artists in an envelope, enclosed text by Wendelin Niedlich: "Those who came by with their portfolio or from the world of work of a gallery owner")
personal data
SURNAME Cute, Wendelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, publisher and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Friedrichsfelde