Wolf Christian Schröder

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Wolf Christian Schröder (born December 6, 1947 in Bremen ) is a German writer , playwright , poet , translator and screenwriter .

Life

Wolf Christian Schröder was born on December 6, 1947 in Bremen as the son of the lawyer Horst Schröder and the historian Ursula Schröder. He spent his childhood and youth in Kiel and Tübingen and then in England. He obtained his A-Levels (the English university entrance qualification) at Atlantic College in Llantwit Major , Wales. In 1966 he began studying Slavic Studies at the Free University of Berlin . His master's thesis dealt with a proletarian cult theme: Agitatory forms and their ideologies in Gastev's Poesija Rabotschego Udara under the supervision of Klaus Dieter Seemann .

In 1980 his first novel Dronte was published. A story from my free time about a strange creature between humans and flightless birds that lives exclusively for its spontaneous needs.

At about the same time he began to work as a translator, first for the stage publisher Nyssen and Bansemer, then for the stage publisher Jussenhoven und Fischer. Schröder has translated playwrights such as Isaak Babel and Anton P. Chekhov from Russian . He translated works by Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard from English and American English .

The writing of his own stage plays began in 1978 with a commissioned work for the Hamburger Schauspielhaus ( Traum-Mörder ). Other pieces followed, premiered in Hamburg , Hanover , Münster , Aachen and Konstanz . They are about German terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s, idealism and violence. In 2007 Schröder wrote the libretto for the musical Die Liebe , which premiered at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin .

In 2007 Schröder presented his novel Harthaus (under the pseudonym Nikolaus Wegener) as part of a performance in the Literaturhaus Berlin . In this novel, the realization of a film project takes a completely unexpected turn.

In 2018 his novel Honka murder no longer about an architect without adequate work, who is the cause and witness of diverse human misfortunes. Schröder also came out with poems that have appeared in the magazine Sinn und Form . He wrote screenplays for cinema and television. Wolf Christian Schröder lives in Berlin .

Works

Novels, short stories

  • Dronte - A story from leisure time. S. Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1980, ISBN 3-596-22310-5
  • Harthaus . (Under the pseudonym Nikolaus Wegener) Forkelhirsch Verlag, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939796-00-8
  • Honka no longer kills . Forkelhirsch Verlag, Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-939796-01-5
  • Annual rings 86 - 87, yearbook for art and literature Der Türke
  • Litfass 27, magazine for literature, 1986, Der Versorger
  • Radio report on NDR, 1986, short story The loser's dogs
  • Drive to a demonstration in: Life in the Atomic Age , 1987

Stage plays, radio plays, libretti

  • Dream Killer 1978
  • Dinosaur 1992
  • Salamander 1995
  • Phoenix 1997
  • Hechinger 1997
  • Cheater 2000
  • Vaccus 2014
  • Drama and radio play after the correspondence between Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper in 2000

All at Theaterverlag Jussenhoven and Fischer.

  • Libretto for the musical Die Liebe 2007

Translations of dramas (selection)

  • Isaac Babylon
  • Anton P. Chekhov
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Tom Stoppard

All at Theaterverlag Jussenhoven and Fischer.

Poetry

  • Sinn und Form , 2016, September / October ISBN 978-3-943 297-31-7
  • Dimension , Special Issue 1983, Contemporary Arts and Letters, Austin, TX 78755, USA ISSN 0012-2882

Scripts

  • The Super Spider , made TV 1974
  • Elisabeths Kind , made TV 1981
  • Doppelganger / Sitting Duck , movie 1989
  • Under Pressure , TV film in the series Ein Fall für Zwei , (with Michael Klette ) 2010
  • Dark Shades , TV film in the series Ein Fall für Zwei , (with Michael Klette) 2011
  • Leichen im Keller , TV film in the series Ein Fall für Zwei , (with Michael Klette) 2010

Essays

  • Ex libris '83 Berlin Book Forum - Berlin as a city of literature: Festival at the lecturer
  • Litfass 40, 10 years Litfass: Capital of literature

Awards and grants

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Christian Schröder at Jussenhoven and Fischer
  2. ↑ “Die Zeit” 1980/36: Critique in Brief
  3. ↑ Forkelhirsch-Verlag

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Wolf Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegener, Nikolaus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright, poet, translator and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen