Werner Streletz

Werner Streletz (2006)

Werner Streletz (born March 6, 1949 in Bottrop ) is a German journalist and writer who lives and works in Bochum .

Life

After attending secondary school in Bottrop and doing an apprenticeship and working as a draftsman, Streletz did a journalistic traineeship from 1971 to 1973. From 1979 to 1986 he was arts editor in the Marler Lokalredaktion the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) and, together with Norbert Kuehne organized, a member of a group of authors, readings and literary events in the region. From 1985 to 2013 he was cultural editor at WAZ in Bochum . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Cog . Literary fields of work are poetry , prose , theater , radio play and film . He particularly addressed the Ruhr area . Yet he said of himself: I live here and I work here. But the Ruhr area is only the foil against which my stories are set. I'm not a Ruhrpott poet, not a herald of the area. Writer of the Ruhr area, that is a term that does not fit. (...) I also have no desire to glorify the past of my homeland or euphorically exclaim new times. We're a bunch of pretty upset people - I want to show that.

In 2008 Streletz was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize of the Ruhr Regional Association. "The price," said Streletz, "was overdue."

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In his poems, radio plays and books, Streletz depicts weird and broken types who are reminiscent of the characters of Samuel Beckett or the "heroes of ancient tragedies". This is particularly evident in his last novel Kiosk kaputt . According to Streletz, it is a coincidence that these people live in the Ruhr area. The inner tragedy that clings to many of his characters is again bitter and, in a penetrating way, staid, sometimes even petty criminal. The Marler Zeitung writes about the language of the novel: “Werner Streletz manages the great treasure of the Ruhr area idioms pleasantly and economically; his language is precise, reduced to the essence, cool, almost documentary. ”The critics see him as a“ Ruhrpott poet ”and thus obviously different from the author himself. Streletz also mentioned the WAZ, for which he worked for decades, on the occasion of the Award of the Ruhr Literature Prize 2008 - despite its self-image - the "voice of the region".

In his novel " Return of a Local Reporter " (2016) Streletz draws on the content of his previous professional activity. He worked for a long time in the local editorial office of the WAZ in Marl. "Streletz describes in deliberately undercooled language how his protagonist digs through his memories until they become unbearable for him. Here you can read the chronicle of a slow decay, of values, also of old friendships." "The" local reporter "roams his old town with a different view, not as a breathless, frenzied reporter, but as a brooding doubter and procrastinator." In his interview with the WDR (September 5, 2016) the problems of the reporter in a local editorial office are described very clearly and clearly.

Works

Books

Dream over . With drawings by Hans-Peter Ibrom, Bottrop 1977
The eternal drunkard. Texts from a broken coal pot . Bottrop 1977
The first awakening of an Elvis fan. Narration . Bottrop 1979
The pitter knife. Poetic texts in the everyday language of the district . Dortmund 1982 (numerous new editions)
When cuts were still modern. Texts from 10 years about playful useless, contentious weaklings and dreamy counter gymnasts . Fixpunkt-Verlag, Marl 1984
If I had known that beforehand. Stories and poems in the everyday language of the district . Bochum 1987
Via one other than Neemstrasse. Poetic text in the everyday language of the district . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 1990
Sleeve. Poetic text in the everyday language of the district . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 1994
Iron man. Stories . Bochum 1996
Blues except Neem Street. Poetic texts in the everyday language of the Ruhr area . Pomp Verlag, Bottrop 1999
Disturbing silence . Poetic texts with woodcuts by Horst Dieter Gölzenleuchter , Word and Image Edition, Bochum 2002
Broken kiosk. Story of a mistake , novel. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann Bottrop 2008, ISBN 9783922750819
Cup fight. Novel. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann Bottrop 2009, ISBN 9783922750895
The Streletz Block. Limited special edition in a slipcase for Werner Streletz's 60th birthday with "Kiosk kaputt", "Vermessen" and "Pokalkampf" Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann Bottrop 2008, ISBN 9783922750901
The passenger. A self-talk. With an audio book read by Joachim Hermann Luger and illustrated by Zarko Radic. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann Bottrop 2010, ISBN 9783942094061
Volkers Song of the Nibelungs. An approximation , with an afterword by Ralph Köhnen. Projektverlag , Bochum 2011, ISBN 9783897332461
Shell. Novel . Projektverlag , Bochum 2012, ISBN 978-3-89733-270-6
Reading book Werner Streletz . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8498-1019-1
So the year ends tremendously. My days with Georg Trakl (with CD) . Projektverlag , Bochum 2014, ISBN 978-3-89733-350-5
Return of a local reporter. Novel . Projektverlag , Bochum 2016, ISBN 978-3-89733-395-6 ; Interview about the novel in WDR3
The freest of all poets: on the road with Robert Desnos : Novelle . Bochum: projektverlag, 2017
The Route of the Raven: an encounter with Edgar Allan Poe: narrative . Bochum: projektverlag, 2018

CDs

Martin, his father and the familiar voice - with Helge Schneider . Roof Music, Bochum, 1996
Mankurt or the late revenge of a student - speakers: Ralf Richter, Hans Caninenberg. Roof Music, Bochum, 2001
Unsorted deaths - a kind of requiem music: Ludwig Kaiser. Roof Music, Bochum, 2004

Radio plays (selection)

Everything you are is love - WDR 1977
Scenes with one, nothing gentle - WDR 1980
There were only three left - WDR 1982
It's always so quiet - BR 1982
Tiller in my head - WDR 1986
Sowwat or I know where it goes - WDR 1988
Martin, his father and the familiar voice - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk 2007

Theater (selection)

Kohlpott-Klümpkes - short spoken theater piece , Theater Oberhausen 1984

Lisa, her carpenter and a mother - extended theatrical version of the radio play of the same name, premiered in the Prinzregenttheater Bochum, 1992

5 after 12 - scenic reading, Prinz Regent Theater Bochum, 2007

Volkers Lied , Rottstraße 5 Theater Bochum, 2011

watch TV

Small lyric series - WDR 1994

Movie

A poet in the family - a homage for Tana Schanzara , premiered in the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 2005, cinema release in early 2006; Pranke Film Distribution Gelsenkirchen