Wilhelm Karl King

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Wilhelm Karl König , usually only Wilhelm König (born June 27, 1935 in Tübingen ) in publications , is a German author .

Life

König grew up in the district of Kappishäuser in Neuffen and in Dettingen an der Erms . After eight years of elementary school in Dettingen, he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter, which he completed in 1954. A short time later he lost his left hand in an accident at work. He then studied literature and history autodidactically and retrained to become a technical draftsman in Heidelberg in 1961 . 1963 to 1964 he studied at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" (today the German Literature Institute Leipzig ). He made several study trips to Eastern Europe , where parts of his writings are available in translations. Today he lives in Reutlingen and Bad Schussenried and is head of the dialect library that he set up in 1999 in the New Monastery there . He is also the founder and chairman of the Württemberg dialect society, which was founded in Reutlingen in 1978, and has been the publisher of the “schwädds” magazine since 1980. Since 1958 he has published Standard German and Swabian. He has also been organizing public events in Baden-Württemberg and beyond since 1975 . The best known are the Reutlingen Dialect Weeks , which he has been holding since 1976. König is married to Manuela König and has two sons and two grandchildren.

Awards

Works

Standard German

  • “Lebenslauf”, poems, Delp 1974
  • “Neue Heimatlieder”, poems, Bläschke 1975
  • "Closer to Heaven or The Karl Simpel Case", Roman, Bleicher 1985
  • "Der Sonderling", Roman, Bleicher 1986
  • “Border Crossing or Coming Home Outside”, Roman, Bleicher 1989
  • “The boots or who is Adolf?”, Narrative, schwädds Verlag 2007
  • "Approaches". Biographical and other texts. 1935–2015, schwädds Verlag 2015

Swabian dialect

  • "Dees ond sell", poems, Knödler 1975
  • “A Gosch wia Schwärt”, poems and stories, Schlack 1976
  • "Wäar saets then dassdr frosch koene hoor hot", poems, Schönemann 1977
  • “You swarm out -”, poems, JP Peter 1978
  • "Jeddsd wäarmr gscheid", prose, Kirchentellinsfurt 1978
  • "Mit zwua zonga gsonga", dialect pamphlet No. 1, poems, Schönemann 1978
  • "Hond ond Kadds", poems and sayings, Knödler 1983
  • "Habbicht ond Daub", poems, Knödler 1993
  • "Do you do abbas with". 1975–1995: Twenty years of new Swabian dialect poetry, Knödler 1995
  • "Äwwl", new entries in the Württemberg hymn and proverbs. Swabian poems, Knödler 2005
  • "Jo ond noe", Swabian poems and sayings. 2010 schwädds Verlag Reutlingen

Records in Swabian dialect

  • "Dees ond sell", Reutlingen 1976
  • "You swarm out -" Rothenburg od Tauber 1978
  • “Ets häämr da Drägg”, long-playing record with text insert (album), Reutlingen 1978; New edition Reutlingen 1983

Cassettes with Swabian poems and stories

  • "You swarm out", Murrhardt 1984
  • “Karl Simpel Roman Trilogy”, 25 cassettes, spoken by Peter Johann Kemmer, Stuttgart 1991

Anthologies

  • 1966: "Deutsche Teilung", poems
  • 1975: "New Expeditions", poems
  • 1976: "Esslinger readings by authors", poems and stories
  • 1977: “Kultur-Arbeit”, essays, essays
  • 1977: "Dialekt - Rediscovery of the Self-evident", poetry anthology with essays
  • 1985: “Kleines Reutlinger Lesebuch”, anthology with poems and stories
  • 1985: “Dichten im Dialekt”, Marburger Literaturtage, with text contributions by the authors involved
  • 1985: "Voices of the Nations", Baden-Württembergische Literaturtage Sindelfingen, material collection
  • 1986: "39. Bevensentagung ”, report and collection of texts
  • 1987: "Impulses", texts, pictures, encounters
  • 1988: "Ludwig Soumagne: Die Litanei", dialect anthology
  • 1988: “Boundless”, texts translated by 30 dialect authors
  • 1988: “Sculptors in the City”, texts on the Schorndorfer Symposion
  • 1988: “Restless Heart”, a reader with prose and poetry
  • 1989: "Tagesspiegel", yearbook of the city of Schopfheim
  • 1989: "Experience Baden-Württemberg", texts and suggestions for regional studies
  • 1989: "Mei Sprooch - dei Red", dialect poetry in Baden-Württemberg, text collection
  • 1990: "How dr Schwob babbles", collection of texts
  • 1991: “Songs from the Danube Spring”, Romanian poetry anthology
  • 1993: "Bosener Tagebuch", six dialect authors on voyages of discovery in the St. Wendeler Land
  • 1993: “Approaches”, a reading book
  • 1995: “German dialects at the turn?”, North-South anthology
  • 1995: "Heimat" (dialect modern II), modern texts in dialect
  • 2008: "Albgeschichten", Klöpfer & Meyer Tübingen
  • 2009: "Grieshaber 100. A hundredfold tribute", Friends of HAP Grieshaber
  • 2010: "The Swabian Alb in Poetry", Isele Eggingen

International dialect symposia

Events

  • "Reutlinger Dialect Weeks" (annually since 1976)
  • "Nürtinger Mundarttage" 1976–1981
  • "Schorndorfer Dialect Days" (1987–1993)
  • “Dialect Cabinet” Reutlingen (1992–1994)

Theater and radio play

  • "Dr Guadschei", "Em Fahrschduahl" - two scenes in the Swabian dialect, 1984
  • "The Gsondheitsmuffel", Swabian Comedian to Molière. World premiere: Ulm, June 8, 1984 New production: Ulm, December 25, 1997
  • "Gotthilf Wimmerle", radio play, Südwestfunk Tübingen: November 4, 1984
  • "The miracle doctor", Swabian comedy to Molière. World premiere: Lützelburg (Gablingen) , July 5, 1996

literature

  • Karl Corino : "The lyricist Wilhelm König", Hessischer Rundfunk 1970
  • Eckard Lang : "For example Wilhelm König - a young author's experiences with a divided Germany", Südwestfunk 1971
  • Fernand Hoffmann : "A tender man with a sharp dialect - on the high-linguistic and dialectic work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm König", Luxemburger Wort from April 6, 1982
  • Norbert Feinäugle : "About Wilhelm König", dialect poetry in Württemberg since 1945, exhibition catalog 1991
  • Otto Borst : "Verrot net älles", laudation for the awarding of the Ludwig Uhland Prize 1992 (schwädds 17)
  • Norbert Feinäugle : “Excellent! Wilhelm König on his 60th birthday ", (1995 / schwädds 19)
  • Bernd Jörg Diebner : "Keunig vun Alt-Württemberg: Wilhelm König 65 Johr", DE KENNUNG 2000/2001
  • Silke Kühn : “Wilhelm König. An example of Swabian dialect poetry ”. Scientific term paper on the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools. Summer semester 2002 at the Weingarten University of Education

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME King, Wilhelm Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen