Wolf Wondratschek

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Wolf Wondratschek, 2003

Wolf Wondratschek (born August 14, 1943 in Rudolstadt ) is a German writer .

Life

Wolf Wondratschek grew up in Karlsruhe . From 1962 to 1967 he studied literature , philosophy and sociology at the universities of Heidelberg , Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main . From 1964 to 1965 he was the editor of the literary magazine Text and Critique . Since 1967 he has lived as a freelance writer in Munich . In 1970 and 1971 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Warwick ; At the end of the eighties he made extensive trips to the USA and Mexico, among other places . In addition to Munich, Vienna has been his second place of residence since the mid-1990s , where he currently mainly lives.

The author Wolf Wondratschek started out as an author of poems and short texts that document his radical opposition to conventional poetry and prose . In the 1970s he published a number of volumes of poetry with which he achieved extraordinarily large print runs by mail outside the publishing book trade ( Chuck's Zimmer : over 300,000 copies); the lyrics contained therein established him as one of the few German-speaking “rock poets”. Since the 1980s, Wondratschek has been publishing more and more prose in addition to his poetry; The subject is gender relations and the world of show business , which is very fascinating to the author. Wondratschek is also the author of radio plays and film scripts , two of which were filmed by Werner Schroeter .

Wolf Wondratschek and Luzia Braun in conversation, 2011

Since his literary beginnings, Wondratschek has largely refused to engage in literature . His novel Selbstbildnis mit Rat was not even published as a book, but only sold as a manuscript exclusively to the Viennese investor and literature lover Helmut Meier. Similarly, Wondratschek also sold poems, collages and typographic works to enthusiasts, some of these privately owned pieces not intended for publication were shown in an exhibition in Berlin at the beginning of 2015.

Various of his texts were set to music by the German blues rock band Interzone and their singer Heiner Pudelko . Liebeslied and Adam Jr. have been released on recordings . In 1982 the LP Complicated Ladies was released , on which Esther Ofarim sings four songs by Wolf Wondratschek, set to music by Eberhard Schoener. De-Phazz voice Barbara Lahr made use of the volume Das leise Lachen at the ear of someone else in 2002 and realized an entire album with English translations of previously silent songs.

In his work Earlier, the day began with a gunshot wound , he invents a leaflet on § 49 of the General. Service instruction (ADA), which is intended to eliminate ambiguities in the use of the terms "value bag", "value bag", "pouch" and "value parcel sack" . This text has been circulated for years as a prime example of official language, giving the impression that it is a real official announcement by the former Deutsche Bundespost .

Awards

Works

  • The day used to start with a gunshot wound. Munich 1969.
  • A farmer and a farmer's wife father a farmer boy who absolutely wants to become a servant. Hanser, Munich 1970 (series Hanser 44); again as a byte in: The day used to start with a gunshot wound dtv and Diogenes 1972, 1979 and 2007, ISBN 3-423-13527-1 ; abbreviated in: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): Trivialmythen. March, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 128-133 & Area, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-029-7 , pp. 448-453.
  • The Rolling Stones in: Accents. Journal of Literature. Ed. Hans Bender. 18th year, booklet 3. Hanser, Munich 1971.
  • Paul or The Destruction of an Audio Sample. Munich 1971.
  • The dog duck. Frankfurt am Main 1972 (together with Bernd Brummbär ).
  • Omnibus. Munich 1972.
  • October of the pigs. Frankfurt / Main 1973.
  • Chuck's room. Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Laughing softly at someone else's ear. Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • Sometime on Tuesday. 1976.
  • Men and women. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Last poems. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • The loneliness of men. Mexican sonnets ( Lowry songs) . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-257-01654-9 .
  • Carmen or Am I the asshole of the eighties. Zurich 1986.
  • People, places, fists. Zurich 1987.
  • One from the street. Munich 1991 ( factual novel about Walter Staudinger ).
  • Love poems. Zurich 1997.
  • The girl and the knife thrower. Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Kelly letters. Munich 1998.
  • The big insult. Munich [u. a.] 2001.
  • Mozart's hairdresser. , Humor-Satire, Hanser, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-446-20160-2 .
  • Mara. Munich [u. a.] 2003.
  • Lunch break. Short story.
  • Tabori in Fuschl. Lyric Cycles, DTV, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13458-3 .
  • The gift. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23679-0 .
  • Wednesday. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-99027-041-7 .
  • Self-image with the rat , novel, sold in 2014 in only one copy to a private person.
  • Self-image with a Russian piano , novel. Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05070-1 .
  • Collected poems , work edition 2018, Ullstein, ISBN 978-3-550-05058-9 .
  • Earth and Paper, Anthology, 2019, Ullstein, ISBN 978-3-550-05090-9 .

Editorships

  • Vlado Kristl : Seconds Films , Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • My reading book , Frankfurt am Main 1982.

Translations

  • Jules Verne : Jules Verne , Frankfurt am Main.
    • Vol. 11. The steel elephant. Catastrophe in the Atlantic. 1967.
    • Vol. 14. The Carpathian Castle. The propeller island. 1968.
    • Vol. 15. Two years of vacation. The village in the air. 1968.

Settings / texts for music

  • Judith Debbeler: In a small room in Paris (1995) for 4-part mixed choir a cappella. Premiere 1995 (?) Oldenburg (Choir of the Carl von Ossietzky University )
  • Paul Hertel : Farewell Piece (1986/87). Miniature opera for mezzo-soprano and 13 instrumentalists. Premiere November 3rd, 1995 at the Weitra Castle Theater
  • Version for soprano and piano. WP November 8, 2001 Vienna
Orchestra: 3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - percussion [2] - timpani [1] - harp - strings
1.  The night begins - 2.  In hatred - 3.  Dancers - 4.  In the eye of the eagle - 5.  Prayer - 6.  Who was lonely for a long time - 7. The sun
  • Wolfgang Rihm: My death. Requiem in memoriam Jane S. (1988/89) for soprano and orchestra. Duration: ~ 35 '. Premiere August 16, 1990 Salzburg (Ingrid Haubold [soprano]; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Michael Gielen). - ( Jane Seitz [Jane Sperr, Juliane Sperr], editor ; † January 4, 1988)
Orchestra: 3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - percussion [3] - timpani [1] - harp - strings: 16.14.12.10.8
  • Wolfgang Rihm: Farewell Pieces (1993) for female voice and small orchestra (15 players). Duration: ~ 30 '. Premiere November 14, 1993 Badenweiler (Rosemary Hardy [soprano]; Ensemble Modern ; conductor: George Benjamin )
Orchestra: 1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.0 - percussion [2] - harp - piano - accordion - strings: 0.0.1.1.1

Radio plays

  • Freedom or Ça ne fait rien , director: Hans Bernd Müller , composition: Wolfgang Wölfer (SR 1967)
  • Paul or The Destruction of an Audio Sample , Director: Heinz Hostnig (WDR / BR / HR / SR 1969)
  • Coincidences , director: Heinz Hostnig (SR / WDR 1969)
  • Lonely corpses , directed by Hein Bruehl (WDR 1970)
  • Conditions and relationships , director: Peter Michel Ladiges (BR / SR 1970)
  • Acoustic descriptions , directed by Peter Michel Ladiges (1971)
  • Can the squeaking of the tram only be a woman , directed by the author (WDR 1971)
  • A broadcast for beginners (WDR 1973)
  • Machine No. 9 , directed by the author, Bernd Brummbär , Georg Deuter (BR / HR / NDR 1973)
  • The raspberry-colored light bulb , director: Angeli Backhausen . Composition: Henrik Albrecht (WDR 2007)

literature

Secondary literature
  • Otto F. Riewoldt et al. Isa Schikorsky: Wolf Wondratschek . In: Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature. edition text + kritik, Munich.
  • Bernhard Kraller: The happy author. Try to understand Wolf Wondratschek . In: Wespennest (2002), H. 127, pp. 64-68.
  • Hans. H. Hiebel: Wolf Wondratschek . In: Ders .: The spectrum of modern poetry. Interpretations of German-language poetry 1900–2000 in the international context of modernity. Vol. 2, Würzburg, 2006, pp. 510-523.
  • Wolfgang Reichmann: Wolf Wondratschek . In: Killy Literature Lexicon, 2nd ed., Vol. 12, Berlin, de Gruyter 2011, pp. 575-577.
Interviews

Web links

Commons : Wolf Wondratschek  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Wolf Wondratschek  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alem Grabovac: Wolf Wondratschek about the letter: "I am only the one who types" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 28, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 3, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Moritz Aisslinger: " The Sound of Muschelkalk ", Die Zeit No. 11 of March 7, 2019, pp. 11-13, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Hans-Edwin Friedrich, Christoph Rauen (ed.): TEXT + KRITIK 215 - Wolf Wondratschek, 2017
  4. ^ A b Volker Weidermann: Private person awards alternative Büchner Prize. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved June 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tobias Lehmkuhl: Wondratschek exhibition: A poem for almost 10,000 euros. In: Spiegel Online . February 21, 2016, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  6. ^ Hanser series, Carl Hanser Verlag 9th edition 1978, title "Bundespost", page 70.
  7. ↑ Christopher Wurmdobler: I can cut too ( Memento from April 22, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Love as the only window to eternity Michaela Schmitz on Wednesday on Deutschlandfunk on August 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ Erich Joham: Conversation André Müller - Wolf Wondratschek ( memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on 1988-03-11
personal data
SURNAME Wondratschek, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt