Werner Schlegel (writer)

Werner Schlegel (* 1951 in Ansbach , Bavaria ) is a German writer.

Life

Schlegel started writing articles for a local newspaper at the age of 16. After a wild life as a youth, he was put out to search in 1974 for “ membership in a terrorist organization ” and arrested in February 1975 in Zurich with the head of the Swiss “Bändlistraße group”. After his extradition to the Federal Republic, he took part in two hunger strikes by the RAF . In October 1977 ( German Autumn ) he was therefore subject to the ban on contact , the application of which, however, to him and three other prisoners was later declared unlawful by the Federal Court of Justice.

Out of custody Schlegel came to the first literary publications, first political poetry in well-known literary magazines like the horen , then three of his own poetry volumes. In addition to Peter-Paul Zahl , he quickly became one of the best-known prison authors of the 1970s.

After his release from prison, he worked as a magazine editor and freelance journalist. a. for magazines like Stern and Die Zeit . In the 1990s he was an author and co-editor of several literary anthologies for ARKA-Verlag in Essen and published non-fiction books such as “Women think differently” with his wife Marit Rullmann . He has lived in Gelsenkirchen since 1994 and from 1999 also appeared as a cabaret artist and satirist with his own stage performances (“KabaRead program”). He is the author of Kelly Trump's 2005 biography , which told him about her experiences as an ex-porn star on tape. From 2006 to 2015 he headed the oldest literary workshop in Germany at the VHS Marl, which has existed since 1980.

Works

• The sympathizers. Lyric poetry Short prose. IVA-Verlag, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-88266-014-7 .
• Just don't make a fuss now! Articles, reviews, letters. With a contribution by Dirk Bubel. Roter Funke Verlag, Bremen 1980, ISBN 3-88516-005-6 .
• with U.Strater (Ed.) How we can best bathe in oil and feel good about it . ARKA publishing house. eat
• Dornrösia and other modern fairy tales and legends. ARKA-Verlag, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-929219-02-6 .
• (with M. Rullmann) Women think differently. Philo-Sophias 1 × 1. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39654-4 .
• Kelly Trump. A star unpacks. Beluga New Media, Herten 2005, ISBN 3-938152-07-9 (also as audio book, 4 CDs)
• The normal madness - 10 blank sentences from an abnormal author's life. Audio CD, Beluga New Media, Herten 2005, ISBN 3-938152-03-6 .
• with U. Brack and I. Harlammert (eds.): 2010 - Texts from three decades - Marl Literary Workshop. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-8196-0750-9 .
• as editor: When it's at its best ... - 35 years of lit. Werkstatt Marl. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2015, ISBN 978-3-8196-1021-9 .
• Thinking in order to live (with M. Rullmann) Marix Verlag. Wiesbaden 2018. ISBN 978-3-7374-1087-8

Cabaret programs

• "I think so I'm crazy!"
• "Hit your neighbor!"
• "The normal madness - 10 blank sentences from an abnormal author's life"

Press reviews

“It is still considered an insider tip: Whether the Gelsenkirchen resident of Gelsenkirchen as a political advisor Meier-Hülimann on the phone with Schäuble, Schröder and Kohl in an Emil parody or as a FUNTLSAT reporter interviewing the most flexible employee of the year - the audience - trendy-easy-happy is usually not even aware that it is experiencing a skilful balancing act between acting reading and performing cabaret numbers. When his various characters speak in different dialects about the "standardized man" as such or the topic of "foreigners out", all you have to do is laugh. "- MARABO

“Schlegel is more or less alone today. You rarely see cabaret as it offers. He openly puts the mirror in front of society ... His program has nothing to do with the flat comedy that is too often seen on the stages. ”- GENIUS

“The man has courage. Schlegel has chosen trade unions, the brave new media world or 'doitsche' racists as the target of his vicious satire. The artist turned out to be not only a keen observer of the real nonsense that existed, but also brought his little stories onto the stage with fine theatrical nuances. ”- Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

Web links

• Kulturserver-nrw.de
• Literature by and about Werner Schlegel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Holdings: Schlegel, Werner in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives