Wiglaf Droste

Wiglaf Droste (2008)

Wiglaf Droste (born June 27, 1961 in Herford ; † May 15, 2019 in Pottenstein ) was a German author and singer who was best known as a satirist .

Life

Wiglaf Droste (1980)

Wiglaf Droste in Potsdam (2006) in front of a painting by Johannes Grützke

Wiglaf Droste was the son of a teacher. After attending the Heepen high school in Bielefeld in 1983, he went from Westphalia to Berlin . He broke off his studies in journalism and communication science after five weeks and worked in various temporary jobs until 1985. He then wrote articles for the Spandauer Volksblatt , the Berlin city magazine tip and the taz . In 1987 he worked for a short time in a Düsseldorf advertising agency. Back in Berlin, he worked as editor of the taz media site until mid-1988 , and from the 1990s until 2006 as a freelancer for their satirical site “The Truth”.

In 1989 Droste first appeared as a book author with Kommunikaze . He also wrote articles for WDR , including in the Critical Diary and for the Digital Logbook on Deutschlandfunk . From 1989 to 1991 he was editor of the satirical magazine Titanic , he founded the Höhnende Wochenschau in 1989 and in 1991, together with Michael Stein , the " Benno-Ohnesorg -Theater".

From 1989 he went on reading tours and was accompanied several times by the Thuringian punk rock band "Geile Götter". From 2000 (CD for ever ) he appeared as a singer with the chanson jazz band Spardosen-Terzett .

Droste's readings were in part accompanied by feminists and autonomists in the mid-1990s in connection with the so-called " abuse with abuse " debate with accusations of pedophilia and also disturbed by vigils , butyric acid attacks , wanted posters, etc. He had chosen the pseudonym " Michael Jackson from Görlitzer Park " for the satirical short story The Chocolate Uncle at Work , which was printed in the Titanic , and was exposed by an Emma editor. This led to numerous criticisms of his person. Among other things, it was alleged that he propagated rape.

He has been writing for the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt since 1994, and from January 2011 he had a daily column there . From 2000 to 2009 he also wrote for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . He was also the author of Arranca magazine !

From 1999 to 2013, Droste and his friend Vincent Klink published the quarterly culinary magazine, Chief, Eigener Herd . In 2006 he wrote a humorous book on the subject of sausages with Klink and the illustrator Nikolaus Heidelbach . This was followed by joint works on the themes of Christmas (2007) and wine (2008). In addition, he took on the role of reader at Heidelbach's exhibitions on the subject of sausage, wine, Christmas picture - a colorful vegetable , for example in the Caricatura Museum in Frankfurt.

Droste rarely gave interviews. In 2002, he wished that “nothing is in the newspaper” about him and that “at some point he would no longer appear as a public figure.” In the spring of 2009, he received the five-month scholarship to Rheinsberg city clerk and took over his apartment and office there.

From 2006 he lived mainly in Leipzig . In late autumn 2017 he married and moved to Pottenstein in Upper Franconia . Droste, who was temporarily ill with alcohol , died there on May 15, 2019 at the age of 57 from complications from cirrhosis of the liver .

A reading evening with singing was planned for Whitsun 2019 at the “ Festival of Youth ” of the SDAJ , the youth organization of the DKP . Droste told the young world that he had become a communist , "all of this is unbearable."

Reception and criticism

Droste saw himself as a satirical polemicist , which repeatedly led to conflicts. The taz alone withdrew its media page, the Friday column on the satirical page “The Truth” and his job as an editor.

In his satirical crime thriller Der Barbier von Bebra (1996), which he wrote together with Gerhard Henschel , he talked about the former GDR civil rights activists and how they deal with religious feelings. The satire was first published in the taz as a serial novel and later appeared as a book. Among others, Wolfgang Thierse , Rainer Eppelmann and Jürgen Fuchs fall victim to a serial killer. The ex-civil rights activists Konrad Weiß and Vera Lengsfeld then accused Droste of “literary instructions on the murder of those who think differently” and equated him with “executors of Hitler's murder orders” and Weiß die taz with the striker . In the conservative weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag they called for a boycott of the newspaper. The taz supported Droste and found sympathy among others with Peter Laudenbach from the Berliner Zeitung . In the context of the dispute, a text by Lengsfeld with the heading “perpetrator humor” was also documented in the taz . During the time an article by Oliver Tolmein appeared under the title "Humorgewalt" , who saw "Affliction delusion " at work.

At the end of 2006, Droste separated from the taz on the occasion of an article about the Society for the German Language , which was rejected by editor Michael Ringel . Ringel saw taz -Interna in it. Droste made regular and then daily contributions to the young world , which became a "home" for him ( Jürgen Roth ).

In the reason for the award of the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize, the jury wrote, "Comparisons to authors like Kurt Tucholsky are appropriate and justifiable. His satires and glosses are linguistic cabinet pieces of high literary rank." In went Willi Winkler , SZ essayist in his newspaper, one step beyond when he explained Droste was - "that we only rightly understand" - the "Tucholsky of today". This equation occurs again and again as a quote in the descriptions, for example in the laudation by friend Friedrich Küppersbusch on the award of the Göttingen elk to Droste and in Küppersbusch's obituary in the taz . There you can also find the statement that Droste smells violence "where others still sway".

In a conversation with the SRF , the writer Jürgen Roth described Droste as the “most political” and “most committed” contemporary satirical writer and as a “relentless enlightener who could not come to terms with the coherent nonsense of our time” and with his literary means against it "Far removed from the mind" and " swamp of phrases " had proceeded. His art was "in the pointed , word-creating formulation".

“Basically he invented a new text form, namely that of satirical polemics or polemical satire. He wasn't interested in labels anyway. And whoever wanted to pinpoint an opinion or even a political position was surprised. He messed with almost all the people from the feature pages, with famous writers and almost as famous literary critics, he ranted against esotericism and gurgles in the left-wing alternative milieu as well as against new and old Nazis. "

- Carsten Otte

Works

Fonts

• Communicaze. A-verbal, Berlin 1989; New edition (with Mein Kampf, Dein Kampf and Am Arsch die Räuber ): Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-89401-296-X .
• My fight, your fight. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89401-196-3 .
• Around the world in 80 phrases. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89401-210-2 .
• The robbers assaulted. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89401-215-3 .
• Winners look different. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-89401-232-3 .
• Bread and shingles and other interjections from life, literature and Lalala. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-923118-69-4 .
• The barber of Bebra. Roman (with Gerhard Henschel ). Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89401-263-3 .
• Bury my brain at the bend in the river. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-89401-278-1 .
• In which pot does God sleep? Star and death hours of two football fans in words and pictures. Illustrations of the rat snail . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-89401-285-4 .
• Zen Buddhism and Cellulite. Polemics, glosses, satires and rhyming poems. Kunstmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88897-218-3 .
• Bomb Belgium! & Bread and shingles. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1999; Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020043-8 .
• The Mullah von Bullerbü (with Gerhard Henschel ). Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89401-352-4 .
• The role of women and other bright spots. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-379-20068-9 .
• The infrared corsair. Selected new texts. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-379-20110-3 .
• We saw off our legs and look like Gregor Gysi . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89320-075-4 .
• No use, it's love. Poems. Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-00839-7 .
• Kafka's monkey stomps the blues. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89320-098-3 .
• Wurst (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink ). DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7992-5 .
• Doesn't any sack of rice want to fall over in China? Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2007; added: Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020177-0 .
• Christmas (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink). DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-8037-9 .
• Wine (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink). DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8077-5 .
• We continue to buckle our belts (with Vincent Klink). Reclam, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-020158-9 .
• In the paradise of the hairdressers. A little language criticism. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89320-132-7 .
• Wild (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink). DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9605-9 .
• On her with idyll. The beautiful world of the muse wonders (with a guest story by Rayk Wieland ). Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89320-145-7 .
• Vegetables (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink). DuMont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9652-3 .
• Do you still speak or are you already communicating? New glossaries. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89320-165-5 .
• Love (with Nikolaus Heidelbach and Vincent Klink). DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9688-2 .
• Human dignity is a subjunctive. New glossaries (with a guest story by Archi W. Bechlenberg ). Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89320-175-4 .
• Silencer. A revue. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89320-187-7 .
• After the slap. New stories, glossaries and miniatures. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89320-191-4 .
• Wasabi just done you? Poems. Illustrations by Hans Traxler . Kunstmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88897-704-6 .
• Nomad in Bacon . Illustrations by Nikolaus Heidelbach. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89320-208-9 .
• The hangover hobble buddy and me . With pictures by Jamiri , Reclam, Philipp, jun. GmbH, Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-011092-8 .
• Cold showers, warm rain . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89320-224-9 .

Editing

• The do-gooder's dictionary . Vol. 2, Berlin 2001 (together with Klaus Bittermann )
• Chief's own hearth . (Magazine), Stuttgart 1999 ff. (Together with Vincent Klink )

Sound carrier

• Grönemeyer can't dance, (together with Bela B. ) Weserlabel 1989, 7 ″ vinyl single
• Wiglaf Droste - his most beautiful successes. Bremen 1993 (CD)
• The difficult years from thirty-three. as guest: Funny van Dannen 1995 (CD)
• Why is everyone suddenly called Oliver? 1996 (CD)
• Mariscos y maricones. Zurich 1999 (CD)
• forever. Munich 2000 (CD)
• Paradise is not a Protestant motorway church. 2001 (2 CDs)
• Voltaire : Candide . Munich 2002 (3 CDs)
• Clouds move. Bochum 2002 (CD)
• The big me and you. Munich 2003 (CD)
• I owe a birth to a train driver. 2003 (CD)
• The bear at the rangers ball. Hacks and related. With Bernstein, Droste, Wieland and music by Petrowsky , 2004 (CD)
• Westfalian alien. 2005 (CD)
• Wiglaf Droste and the money box trio: Peter Hacks: Since you were here in the world - love songs. Kein & Aber Records, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0369-1406-0 .
• Overheard at the next table. Kunstmann, Munich 2009 (CD)
• In the paradise of the hairdressers. WortArt, Cologne 2010
• My east German adoptive parents and their failed son from the west. With Uschi Brüning and Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Buschfunk, Berlin 2011
• Wiglaf Droste, Renate Kampmann : Human dignity is a subjunctive. WortArt, Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8371-2541-2

Memberships

• Wiglaf Droste was a member of the Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center fun party

Awards

• 2003: Ben Witter Prize
• 2005: Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize
• 2013: “Nieheimer Schuhu”, the Peter Hille Literature Prize. (Regional literary prize, which is awarded by the Peter Hille Society every three years to authors whose work has a special relationship to the writer Peter Hille and Westphalia .)
• 2018: Göttingen Elch

literature

• Wiglaf Droste in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Friedrich Küppersbusch : On the death of Wiglaf Droste. The Tucholsky of our day . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 16, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de - the text is based on a laudatory speech on the awarding of the “Göttinger Elche” in 2018. Küppersbusch, as he explains, with “the Tucholsky of our days” approvingly uses a formulation from the Süddeutsche Zeitung on).
• Alexander Reich, Peter Merg, Arnold Schölzel , Wolfgang Kröske: I've never been here ...! With maximum expenditure: On the death of Wiglaf Droste. In: young world. May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 . 

Movies

• night studio : Forever Young - Bob Dylan for his sixtieth. Talk, 2001, 60 min., Director: Klaus Haubenschild, production: ZDF , with Gerhard Henschel , Willi Winkler , Wiglaf Droste, Volker Panzer . Music: Bob Dylan , Wiglaf Droste and the Money Box Trio. Table of contents
• Conversation with Wiglaf Droste, writer and satirist. Austria, 2004, 5 min., Production: 3sat , first broadcast: December 6, 2004, announcement

Web links

Commons : Wiglaf Droste  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Wiglaf Droste  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Wiglaf Droste in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Wiglaf Droste in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Wiglaf Droste in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Wiglaf Droste in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Wiglaf Droste at Discogs (English)
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Article dossier Wiglaf Droste - on time
• WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) table talk. Culture of conversation with prominent contemporaries from May 16, 2019
• Obituary for Wiglaf Droste: "Tucholsky of our days" , title thesen temperamente , May 19, 2019

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary for Wiglaf Droste: Tucholskys Erbe , Neue Westfälische , May 17, 2019
2. ↑ Every Sauce a French , taz.de, December 15, 2000
3. ↑ See e.g. B. The Infrared Corsair . In: Forschungs Aktuell , 2004: “I have never been able to stand it when men hold their crotch in public and fidget or scratch around there. Reaching out to one's mind is uncivilized and a real reason for deportation for foreigners and residents alike. "
4. ↑ In addition the criticism of the criticism: Objectively not funny , by Frank Drieschner, Die Zeit , June 23, 1995 26/1995.
5. ^ The one who describes himself as left , by Jörg Lau , taz, May 5, 1995.
6. ↑ "Attention Masturbator" , Micha Schöller, Women Helping Women, Tübingen, May 11, 1995.
7. ^ Two appearances, Butyric Acid & Haeme , by Marco Carini and Ulrike Winkelmann, taz Hamburg, June 12, 1995.
8. ↑ Jan Schwarzmeier: The Autonomous Between Subculture and Social Movement. Dissertation. Göttingen 1999, available as Book on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, here the chapter The campaign against Wiglaf Droste, pp. 192–195.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Writer and singer Wiglaf Droste died at the age of 57 after a short, serious illness in Pottenstein (Franconia). Junge Welt , press release from May 16, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2019.
10. ↑ On the author's death - Wiglaf Droste on Berlin street dogs. tagesspiegel.de, published and accessed on May 16, 2019 (reprint of a text by Droste from November 11, 2011).
11. ↑ Talking to Nazis arranca # 3: Left and Militancy (December 1993).
12. ^ "Chief's own hearth" ( Memento from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
13. ↑ Wiglaf Droste and colorful vegetables . frankfurter-blog.de, July 9, 2012.
14. ↑ Frank Lorentz: Down-to-earth alien. In: The world . June 22, 2003, interview with Droste.
15. ↑ ^{a b} "I have done a lot for the first time" The satirist about his experiences as a town clerk in Rheinsberg. Deutschlandradio Kultur from July 16, 2009.
16. ↑ Stephanie Gerlich: Wiglaf Droste: "If someone asks you what should and what makes sense / then you better not listen at all." ( Memento from December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Unser-luebeck.de (city magazine), December 12, 2009 .
17. ↑ Alexander Reich, Peter Merg, Arnold Schölzel, Wolfgang Kröske: I've never been here ...! In: young world. May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .  .
18. ^ DTS news agency: Author and singer Wiglaf Droste has died. May 16, 2019, accessed May 16, 2019 .  .
19. ↑ Alexander Reich, Peter Merg, Arnold Schölzel, Wolfgang Kröske: I've never been here ...! With maximum expenditure: On the death of Wiglaf Droste. In: young world . May 17, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
20. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich Küppersbusch : On the death of Wiglaf Droste. The Tucholsky of our days , in: taz, May 16, 2019.
21. ↑ Wiglaf Drostes and Gerhard Henschel's "Barbier von Bebra" , by Michael Kohtes, Die Zeit , November 1, 1996, knot in anger .
22. ^ Liane von Billerbeck : The barber of Bebra - Vera Lengsfeld contra taz . In: Berliner Zeitung . August 16, 1996, p. 3.
23. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Lau : taz.de: Call for a boycott of the taz. What is the “Barber of Bebra” allowed to do?
24. ↑ Burkhard Scherer: The tired Arnold Hau swords. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 13, 2001.
25. ↑ Peter Laudenbach: The lust for murder is non-partisan . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 28, 1996, p. 34.
26. ↑ perpetrators Humor , taz, August 21 1996th
27. ↑ Humor violence , of Oliver Tolmein , Time , August 23, 1996 35/1996.
28. ↑ Wiglaf Droste: Trittbrettficker. Against evasive talk: the word of the year. ( Memento from February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Junge Welt. December 27, 2006.
29. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Schröder , Barbara Calendar : Wiglaf Droste for the second. In: taz. February 13, 2007.
30. ↑ ^{a b} Wiglaf Droste has died - "He raised his voice against the nonsense of our time" , SRF from May 16, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019.
31. ↑ Quoted from: Peter Böthig , head of the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum , in: And anyway the better poem. Memories of Wiglaf Droste (1961-2019) , in: Junge Welt, June 4, 2019, p. 12.
32. ^ Literaturhaus Hamburg , salon event with Wiglaf Droste, hosts: Gerhard Henschel and Richard Christian Kähler , 23 August 2011, see: [1] .
33. ↑ zeit.de: On the death of Wiglaf Droste: A sensitive rough leg
34. ↑ Funny poems as a weapon . Deutschlandradio , July 15, 2005.
35. ↑ Satirical work honored: Droste Hülshoff Prize for Wiglaf Droste , rp-online, August 29, 2005
36. ↑ Wiglaf Droste receives Nieheimer Schuhu , Neue Westfälische, August 16, 2013
37. ^ "Göttinger Elch" for Knorr and Droste , goettinger-tageblatt.de , May 22, 2018