Wolf Peter Schnetz

Wolf Peter Schnetz (born September 27, 1939 in Regensburg ) is a German writer and publicist .

Life

He studied German , English , history , art history and theater studies in Erlangen, Mainz and Munich and founded the Junge Akademie München, the "Taschenzeitung" and the Maistrassenpresse in Munich in 1963 , a small publishing house in which the first publications by authors such as Karl Krolow and Günter Eich , Herbert Achternbusch , Angelika Mechtel and Uwe Herms appeared. In 1967 he received his doctorate. He was then on the organizing committee for the 1972 Summer Olympicsresponsible for culture in Munich. From 1968 to 1973 he was the cultural department in Regensburg and from 1973 to 2000 in Erlangen, before settling in Regensburg as a freelance writer in 2001. In 2004 the city of Regensburg appointed him as the representative for the application "Regensburg 2010" (European Capital of Culture; nomination for Berlin). He is also honorary chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di , Bavaria , was an assessor on the federal board from May 1986 to September 1987 and is a member of the writers' association PEN Center Germany .

Awards

• 1966 Honorary Prize of the Schwabing Art Prize , Munich
• 1983 Prize-winning piece competition Spielzeit - Zeitspiel, Bayreuth
• 1983 Hugo Carl Jüngst Medal for progressive literature
• 1986 Pro Cultura Hungarica , Budapest
• 1988 Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry, Cuxhaven
• 2000 Friedrich Baur Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , Munich
• 2011 Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg

Works (selection)

• The more elemental the death, the higher the speed. Excerpts from minutes. Political pamphlet. Together with Ludwig Meidner and Guntram Vesper. Relief Verlag Eilers, Munich 1964
• Oskar Loerke - Life and Work. Munich, 1967
• Poetry trilogy Klaus Renner Verlag, Munich
  • In this garden of earthly delights. 1980, ISBN 3-921499-47-X
  • In this garden of cold. 1984, ISBN 3-921499-70-4
  • In this garden of the night. 1985, ISBN 3-921499-79-8
• UNN. With typographies by Josua Reichert. Renner, Munich, 1990
• Forget the city, the river, the stones. Novel. Regensburg, 1994, ISBN 3-927529-35-4
• Sins of youth. Narrative. Regensburg, 1996, ISBN 3-927529-75-3
• Dancing lesson. Narrative. Regensburg, 1999, ISBN 3-931904-63-6
• A miracle every day. Poems from 40 years. Regensburg, 1999, ISBN 3-931904-63-6
• The forgotten sea. New poems. Allitera Verlag , Munich, 2002, ISBN 3-935877-16-1
• In the year of the Sphinx - return to the city on the river. Narrative. Lichtung Verlag , Viechtach 2003, ISBN 3-929517-62-0
• The fruits of the rainbow tree. Poetry. Lichtung Verlag, Viechtach 2004, ISBN 3-929517-67-1
• Parsifal. Narrative. EAST and WEST series. Edition Ango Boy, Sofia 2005, ISBN 954-737-535-0
• I live you, that's all. Poetry German - Turkish, Sardes Verlag , Erlangen 2009, ISBN 978-3-941025-09-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Peter Schnetz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Schnetz at lyrikwelt.de
• Inventory of his archives in the Regensburg State Library (PDF)
• Wolf Peter Schnetz in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf Peter Schnetz. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 887-888.