Wolfgang Haberl (writer)
Wolfgang Haberl (born January 21, 1960 in Ingolstadt ) is a German writer .
Life
Wolfgang Haberl grew up in simple family relationships in Ingolstadt in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, which was shaped by the culture of the automotive industry and conservative politics . His maternal family comes from Silesia (now Poland). After graduating from high school at Reuchlin-Gymnasium , he was drafted into the basic military service in the Ingolstadt pioneer barracks on the Schanz , but subsequently recognized as a conscientious objector on November 27, 1990 . From the winter semester 1979/1980 he studied for two years at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and then at the Free University in what was then West Berlin , which he left in 1991 with a master's degree . He wrote his master's thesis on Bob Dylan , whose lyrics at the time found little acceptance in academic circles at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and were considered popular culture . At the beginning of the nineties he moved to Italy, where he often changed his place of residence for professional reasons (Tuscany, Lazio, Verona, Naples). From 1995 to 2005 he worked in the sale of natural and artificial stone , most recently as regional sales manager for the Quarella company. He has lived in Rome since 2016 and works as a German teacher at the Federigo Enriques grammar school in Ostia . He is married to Giovanna Maria Teresa Luceri and the father of their daughter Diletta Haberl, who was born in 1997.
Books
In 2011 he published his first book Zimmys Jukebox , a non-fiction book about the American rock musician Bob Dylan with Südwestbuch-Verlag . Another non-fiction book about the Canadian rock musician Leonard Cohen followed in 2012 with the title Leonard Cohen: The Powerlessness of Words , which was reissued by Südwestbuch-Verlag in November 2018 with the almost identical title Leonard Cohen: The Power of Words . In 2013 the author, again at Südwestbuch-Verlag , published a non-fiction book about the American rock musician Patti Smith , which was mentioned by " Rolling Stone Germany ". Another non-fiction book followed in 2015, also published by Südwestbuch-Verlag, about Berlin rock musician Rio Reiser .
In 2015, the Westkreuz publishing house in Berlin published Wolfgang Haberl's first novel Nobody Says Was , which is about the (autobiographically motivated) love story between Edgar Rödl and Teresa Bianciardi in Kreuzberg in 1988 before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2017, again at Westkreuz-Verlag, the book Italy! , which looks back on 25 years of stay in Italy with its ups and downs, mixing factual and fictional texts of various genres (essay, diary entry, newspaper article, short story, poetry). The author pays particular attention to the most recent, often traumatic experiences in Naples (and the surrounding area).
At the end of 2017, the author self-published epubli a volume of poetry and two plays.
In a weblog created especially for this purpose in 2014, the author writes mainly short reviews of books he has read at irregular intervals.
Themes and style
Haberl's protagonists and texts often fluctuate between brief outbursts of rebellion and spirituality and a widespread basic attitude of nihilism, resignation and sometimes also surrender to a globalized contemporary culture that is perceived as abstruse, hollow and overpowering without inner values.
Another topic is the reflection on the increasingly obvious insignificance of contemporary literature, which for decades has not managed to produce "leading culture", seems to lose its millennia-old nimbus as high culture and through the cacophony of television first and now is drowned out on social media. In this context, he laments the (for him) “mafia-like” structures of the (German) culture and literature industry with their non-transparent and often unjust allocation and distribution mechanisms. The dovetailing between the big public publishers, public cultural work, feature pages, literary prizes and bestseller lists are (for him) an indictment of the closed societies of the current literary business, which only allows a mainstream culture to survive. He sees himself in the tradition of the literary underground literature of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and, even more, its forerunners and pioneers in North America, the so-called Beat Generation .
Haberl reflects on his poetological approach in the “Afterword” of the volume of poetry “100 Poems and an Afterword”.
Haberl's writing style is often characterized by lacony, sarcasm and the grotesque.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review: Wolfgang Haberl - Patti Smith . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Italy! Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ epubli - Wolfgang Haberl. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Haberl's book blog. Retrieved on July 10, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Wolfgang Haberl: Dead as stone. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Haberl: Rumstänkern. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Haberl: The usual German literature mafia. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Haberl: Afterword. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haberl, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingolstadt |