Wolf Stegemann
Wolf Stegemann (born October 2, 1944 in Asch , Sudetenland ) is a German journalist, author and poet.
Life
After school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and an internship in Nuremberg and Munich , Wolf Stegemann worked as a journalist in Athens and Istanbul ( German Press Agency ), from 1970 to 1971 as a freelance court reporter in Munich. From 1972 to 1975 he was the book editor in Marzoll near Bad Reichenhall and published the multi-volume series Sacred Art in Bavaria . From 1975 to 1980 he was culture editor in Gelsenkirchen , from 1981 to 1998 in Dorsten ( Ruhr Nachrichten ).
He published two volumes of poetry and short prose in 1972 and 1978, edited the Gelsenkirchener Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst standorte from 1978 in independent collaboration with Joseph Beuys , Jürgen Völkert-Marten , Klaus-Peter Wolf , Michael Klaus and was a member of the jury of the Gelsenkirchen Art Prize . Together with Heiner Jahn and Jörg Loskill, he published the picture and text volume Stadtansichten Gelsenkirchen. Of people, muses and maloche .
Together with Dirk Hartwich, Wolf Stegemann founded the research group Dorsten under the swastika in Dorsten, which researched the National Socialist era in the region. Between 1983 and 1987 Wolf Stegemann published the book series Dorsten under the swastika together with Dirk Hartwich and Anke Klapsing or alone . In 1987 he was the initiator and co-founder of the Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten (1992) and the German-Israeli circle of friends Dorsten-Hod Hasharon . At journalist competitions, Wolf Stegemann received the Award of Change for his life's work in 2005 from the abc Society for the Promotion of Reading and Writing Learning in the 3rd World . Since 1970 he has published poetry and prose in German-language magazines in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Israel, the USA and on the radio at WDR, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Deutsche Welle.
He lives in Dorsten (Westphalia).
Publications (selection)
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Poetry and prose volumes
- Typewriter Types & Nothing Else , 1971
- In search of an enclosed space , 1978
- Up into the realm of the noble people. In 1912, Hitler attended a lecture by Karl May in Vienna. A story based on a true story , 2000
- Today me, tomorrow you. A story with paper cutouts , 2007
Exhibition catalogs
- Aliyah. The rebirth of Israel in Dali's picture cycle , traveling exhibition 1993
- Igor Ganikowski: Time and Memory , 1993
- The Schulenburgs. A family between high treason and resistance , traveling exhibition 1994
- And new life blooms from ruins. Documentation on the reconstruction of the city of Dorsten , 1994
- Fascination Jerusalem. City of Longing and Hope , photo exhibition 1994
- JOLENTA Dorszewska Pötting “Forces of nature. Painting. Impressions from Kashubia ” , exhibition in the European Parliament Brussels 2003
Reviews
“His texts speak to me, convey [...], they make me prick up my ears [...]. They oblige the author to continue on his way. We will certainly hear from him in the future [...]. "
“His thoughts show him as someone to whom language and the use of words are easy at command. With his poems he does not reach for the high shelves of the cryptic, the magical, the intensely pictorial lyric poetry of a Trakl, Celan, Lavant, Malarmé [...]. But his poems also lack that time-critical, pamphlet-like tone of a young Enzensberger as well as the outright displeasure of Erich Fried [...]. Stegemann does not acknowledge the poetry that understands the poem as a bulletin board of time-critical accusations, as a venue for ideological proclamation and discussion. His poetry is committed to the principle of play, the principle of targeted play [...]. "
“The reader of his thematically very complex verses feels transported into a peculiar world: There is talk of a brightly colored dog sitting on the church tower, of mannequins mingling with passers-by. One would be tempted to establish a really fleeting dream world if the colorful dog didn't eat small children, if it weren't for the old man who spits on his shoes while his hands parted a bun, if it weren't for the ever-returning woman Vietnam - young with old eyes' [...]. Stegmann's poems burst like "soap bubble dreams"; they give way to a reality in which there are electric fences and the indifference of the facades, in which one is 'turned off one day' [...]. At the end of this remarkable volume of poetry, the author has placed the poem 'Der claqueur'. For these verses he does not need a claqueur [...]. "
"[...] Stegemann's verses are not playful, casual or even said lightly and cheerfully, they are ruled by melancholy hopelessness, by a sadness that does not seem emotional but rational [...] a remarkable author."
"[...] If a volume of poetry like that of Wolf Stegemann, who lives in the Federal Republic, is a real stroke of luck. The poems are mostly located in the middle between pure word poetry and associative text, whereby it should be emphasized that the density of the The expression and the clean lines are captivating [...]. "
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf Stegemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolf Stegemann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Homepage of Wolf Stegemann
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Bridge man, wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, author and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asch / Bohemia |