Werner Koch (writer)

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Werner Koch (born August 4, 1926 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; died March 30, 1992 in Cologne ) was a German writer .

Life

Werner Koch came from a pastor family. He studied history , German and philosophy . From 1948 to 1954 he was editor for the features section of the Rheinische Zeitung , from 1954 to 1961 dramaturge and director at the municipal theaters in Cologne. From 1961 to 1965 he headed the television magazine “Spektrum” and from 1965 the program group culture at Westdeutscher Rundfunk , where he also produced his own television programs, including many on topics from the Arab cultural area.

Koch had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1962 and of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 1977 . He received u. a. 1960 the storyteller prize of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1964 the prize of the Académie Française for the best foreign novel and 1972 the Bodensee literary prize .

Werner Koch's narrative prose deals primarily with biblical, religious and philosophical topics. In addition, the author has also emerged as an essayist .

Works (selection)

As an author

• But deliver us from the evil , Cologne 1955
• Pilatus , Düsseldorf 1959
• The Maid of Orleans , Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 1963
• The Trial of Jesus , Cologne [u. a.] 1966
• See-Leben I , Pfullingen 1971
• Menopause or See-Leben II , Frankfurt am Main 1975
• Beyond the lake , Frankfurt am Main 1979
• Ganghofer's attitude , Mainz 1979
• Kant in front of the camera , Mainz 1980
• Intensive care unit , Frankfurt am Main 1983
• This side of Golgotha , Frankfurt am Main 1986
• Author and audience , Stuttgart 1987
• The compulsion to image , Stuttgart 1988
• Old monastery , Frankfurt am Main 1990
• Lawrence of Arabia , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1995

As editor

• On the trial of Jesus , Weiden 1967
• To the night , Frankfurt am Main 1970
• Voluntary disclosure , Frankfurt am Main 1971
• Vom Tod , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• The compulsion to image , Stuttgart 1988
• German fates , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1992

As translator

• Robert Payne : The great Charlie . Frankfurt am Main, 1979 (with Jakob Moneta )

literature

• Gudrun Bießmann: Werner Koch - a writer on television . In: Jörg Hucklenbroich, Reinhold Viehoff (Hrsg.): Writer and radio . Konstanz: UVK, 2002 ISBN 3-89669-374-3 , pp. 183-212

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Koch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Stäuble: Laudation to Werner Koch. City of Überlingen, June 11, 1972, accessed on May 26, 2020 .