Wolfgang Cziesla

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Wolfgang Cziesla (born February 3, 1955 in Essen / Ruhr) is a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Wolfgang Cziesla studied German , English and art studies in Tübingen , Essen and Bangor (Wales) . In 1988 he received his doctorate in comparative literary studies with the dissertation Aktaion polyprágmon - Variations of an ancient theme in the European Renaissance , a research into the history of motifs on the ancient hunter Aktaion (image: Diana in the bath) and the revaluation of curiosity in the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. He taught general and comparative literature and Romance studies at the Universities of Essen, Bochum and Cologne, and from 1984 to 1987 German studies in Pisa and as a DAAD lecturer and visiting professor in Santiago de Chile (1990-1995) and in Fortaleza (Brazil) ( 1998-2003).

In 1986 he published his first lengthy prose work “Visitatio”, which Steidl Verlag (Göttingen) described as a “mannerist crime story”. This more experimental work was followed in 1992 in a small edition in Santiago de Chile by a sequel under the title “Anomaly”. Due to the many years of experience abroad in South America, style and subject matter changed. The Brazilian novel “The Exchange Student” was published in 2004 by a small publisher in Cologne. A year later the novel "Coffee Drinking in Cabutima" was published there, which processed Cziesla's experiences in Chile immediately after the Pinochet dictatorship in an anonymized form . He traveled through Africa, Asia, Polynesia, North, Central and South America. He currently lives in the Ruhr area.

In addition to his work on a work in progress , Cziesla has published short stories and essays in literary magazines such as Sinn und Form, Sinn und Form or My secret eye . For the online portal Literaturport Literaturport , he wrote a “literary tour” in the 2010 Capital of Culture year on the trail of recent music history through his hometown Essen. Cziesla regularly writes book and concert reviews for the blog revierpassagen.de and reviews new publications from the programs of independent publishers for the Hotlist blog. Cziesla is a member of the German Peace Society - United War Service Opponents German Peace Society - United War Service Opponents (DFG-VK); he has signed the Convivialist Manifesto and supports the campaign to establish a world parliament as a body of the United Nations , UNPA . After several years in adult education, he has been working at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf Filmmuseum Düsseldorf since 2019 .

Awards / grants

  • 1995: Medal of Honor from the Universidad Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile
  • May – October 2004: Working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW as an author
  • May – September 2005: Scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
  • August – November 2017: selected for the Atelier NRW
  • July – August 2019: Writer in Residence, Franz Edelmaier Residence for Literature and Human Rights, Merano; an institution of the SGEMKO (Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights)

Works

  • Oskar Panizza . The factory as a messy theater of war. Oskar Panizza's individual battle against an overpowering order. A treatise. Philosophical dissertation Essen 1983.
  • Visitatio. (Roman), Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 1986.
  • Aktaion polyprágmon - Variations of an ancient theme in the European Renaissance (dissertation), Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. / Bern / New York / Paris 1989.
  • Anomaly. (Roman), Santiago de Chile 1992.
  • The exchange student. (Roman), Firwitz Verlag, Cologne 2004.
  • Drinking coffee in Cabutima. (Roman), Firwitz Verlag, Cologne 2005.
As editor
  • Comparative literature reviews - 11 articles on Latin America and German-speaking Europe, edited together with Michael von Engelhardt, iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1995.
  • El cóndor pasa. Out and about with traveling scholars . Festschrift for HA Glaser, ed. Together with Rita Glaser, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1995.
  • 40 years of the German House of Culture in Ceará - 40 years Casa de Cultura Alemã no Ceará. Bilingual Port.-German, edited together with Tito Lívio Cruz Romão, Editora UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ firwitz.de
  2. ↑ sinn-und-form.de
  3. ↑ Beat 'n' Blues 'n' Rock 'n' Jazz - What Rüttenscheid shook - Literatouren - Literaturport.de. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Author information on revierpassagen.de
  5. ↑ under the heading "Affirmatives vom Firwitz"
  6. ↑ diekonvivialisten.de
  7. ↑ List of signatures of the UNPA campaign
  8. ↑ Film Museum of the State Capital Düsseldorf
  9. ↑ Atelier NRW
  10. ↑ Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights
personal data
SURNAME Cziesla, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH eat