Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang Herrndorf (2011)

Wolfgang Herrndorf (photo) - nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize , category fiction - and jury (2011)

Wolfgang Herrndorf (first row, second from left) during the training of the national football team (2007)

Wolfgang Herrndorf (born June 12, 1965 in Hamburg ; † August 26, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German writer , painter , illustrator and caricaturist .

life and work

Herrndorf grew up in Norderstedt , where he attended the Coppernicus high school. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . He worked as an illustrator and author for the fanzine Luke & Trooke , Haffmans Verlag and the satirical magazine Titanic, among others . A painting by the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the style of Vermeer became famous in 1996 and was sold as a poster. In 1997 Haffmans Verlag published the wall calendar Klassiker Kohl 1998 with twelve portraits of Kohl in the style of famous painters such as Cranach , Magritte and Baselitz . Kohl was shown the calendar at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

In 2002 his debut novel In Plüschgewittern was published by the Two Thousand One Publishing House, which according to Herrndorf is an "adolescent novel" (although the protagonist is almost 30 years old). Critics assigned the novel to pop literature , and a revised version of In Plüschgewittern was published in 2008 as a paperback by Rowohlt Verlag . In 2007 Eichborn Verlag published a series of related short stories by Herrndorf under the title This Side of the Van Allen Belt ; In the same year the SuKuLTuR- Verlag published an interview invented by Herrndorf with a (not completely trustworthy) cosmonaut that contains science fiction elements. The unreliable narrator is a recurring element in Herrndorf's prose that goes back to the influence of Vladimir Nabokov .

His great success as a writer began in 2010 with the publication of Tschick by Rowohlt Berlin Verlag , an educational novel whose protagonists are around 14 years old. The book was on the German bestseller list for over a year. In November 2011 the novel Sand was published , which combines features of the detective novel , the social novel and the historical novel . According to Herrndorf, it would also be possible to assign sand to the “ genre of the idiot novel”. After Tschick had been nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2011 , Herrndorf was finally awarded this prize in 2012 for sand . His friend Robert Koall accepted the award on his behalf . In the same year came the sand on the shortlist of the German Book Prize .

Herrndorf, who lived in Berlin, wrote regularly in the Internet forum Wir polite paparazzi , which is said to have had a great influence on Herrndorf as a “hinterland and resonance space for his writing”, and he contributed to the Giant Machine weblog . He was a member of the Autonama national football team .

After he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor ( glioblastoma ) in February 2010 , Herrndorf started a digital diary , the Blog Work and Structure , in which he reported about his life with the deadly disease. It was published posthumously in December 2013 by Rowohlt in book form, as the author had requested.

Herrendorf killed himself on 26 August 2013, Berlin itself . He was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin (Dept. 7-2-7).

Grave site, August 2016

In 2014 Rowohlt published the sequel to Tschick from Isa’s perspective as an unfinished novel under the title Pictures of Your Great Love . In the afterword by Kathrin Passig and Marcus Gärtner it is stated that Herrndorf himself agreed to the publication and also determined the title himself. Directed by Jan Gehlers, the book was premiered as a play at the Dresden State Theater in 2015 .

Since 2015 Herrndorf's pictures have been shown in exhibitions at the Literaturhaus Berlin and Literaturhaus Munich as well as the Kunsthaus Stade. Herrndorf's widow Carola Wimmer was involved in the selection of works.

In 2019, Bayerischer Rundfunk produced a radio play from Herrndorf's last text Pictures of Your Great Love , the prehistory to the novel Tschick .

Works

• Heribert Fassbender - Collected Works. Volume IX / 5: European Championship 1996, Italy – Germany. (Eds. Wolfgang Herrndorf and Jürgen Roth ). Klartext, Essen 1998. ISBN 978-3-88474-658-5
• In plush thunderstorms . Novel. Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-86150-504-5 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25883-1 .
• This side of the Van Allen Belt . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-5794-7 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-24777-4 .
• The Rosenbaum Doctrine . Wolfgang Herrndorf in conversation with Friedrich Jaschke. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937737-72-0 (= Beautiful reading , issue 64)
• Tschick . Novel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-710-8 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25635-6 .
• Sand . Novel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-734-4 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-25864-0 .
• Work and structure . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-781-8 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26851-9 .
• Pictures of your great love: An unfinished novel . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-791-7 ; Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26909-7 .
• Be right. Texts that should stay . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7371-0057-1 .

Exhibitions

• 2017: The Unknown Chapter. Wolfgang Herrndorf's pictures . Kunsthaus Stade , June 24th to October 3rd, 2017
• 2016: "Quotes" - pictures by Wolfgang Herrndorf . Literaturhaus Munich , 6 July to 25 September 2016
• 2015: Wolfgang Herrndorf: Pictures . Literaturhaus Berlin , June 13th to September 6th, 2015

Awards

• 2004: Kelag Audience Award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition for This Side of the Van Allen Belt
• 2008: German narrator award for this side of the Van Allen belt
• 2008: 1st International Eifel Literature Prize
• 2011: Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize , category fiction with Tschick
• 2011: Clemens Brentano Prize for Tschick
• 2011: German Youth Literature Prize for Tschick
• 2012: Hans Fallada Prize for Tschick
• 2012: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for Sand (Category: Fiction )
• 2012: Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft

literature

• Jan Standke (Ed.): Wolfgang Herrndorf read (= contributions to the didactics of contemporary German literature, volume 1). Scientific publishing house, Trier 2016, ISBN 978-3-86821-683-7 .
• Wolfgang Herrndorf in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Herrndorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Herrndorf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Wolfgang Herrndorf at perlentaucher.de
• Page about Wolfgang Herrndorf by Carola Wimmer
• Work and structure , Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog
• Herrndorf's contributions to the Giant Machine weblog
• Best-selling author Wolfgang Herrndorf died at the age of 48. Der Tagesspiegel , August 27, 2013.
• Fokke Joel: Writing towards the end . Die Zeit , August 27, 2013.
• Holm Friebe : fallen out of the world. World on Sunday , September 1, 2013.
• Klaus Uhrig: Wolfgang Herrndorf - The Unfinished. radioWissen , broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk 2014, podcast, 21 min.
• What do we not yet know about Wolfgang Herrndorf? (about Herrndorf as a painter), Südlicht from July 20, 2016, Bavarian TV.

References and comments

1. ↑ Wolfgang Herrndorf passed away ( Memento from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at rowohlt.de, August 27, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Herrndorf is dead. In: Spiegel Online , August 27, 2013.
3. ^ Frank Knittermeier: Pastor preaches on Wolfgang Herrndorf and "Tschick". January 10, 2014, accessed on December 4, 2019 (German). 
4. ^ The art of Wolfgang Herrndorf Zeit Magazin, No. 21/2015.
5. ↑ Oliver Maria Schmitt: Wolfgang Herrndorf: Herrndorf became an all-purpose weapon for the "Titanic" editorial team . In: The time . June 11, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 4, 2019]).
6. ↑ Art - The Master of All Masters. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Interview with Wolfgang Herrndorf (PDF; 92 kB) ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: "I'm not a bohemian" . In: Börsenblatt 174, issue 10 (March 8, 2006), p. 35f.
9. ↑ Tschik's placement on the bestseller list ( memento of November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at buchreport .
10. ↑ Andrea Hanna Hünniger : The desert is a pointless place. In: Die Zeit , November 22, 2011.
11. ↑ Kathrin Passig : When did Tschick do it, Herr Herrndorf? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 31, 2011.
12. ↑ Florian Diekmann: Wolfgang Herrndorf receives Leipzig Book Prize. In: Spiegel Online , March 15, 2012.
13. ↑ Holm Friebe: The man who fell out of the world . In: Welt Online . September 2, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed February 7, 2016]).
14. ↑ Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog should appear as a book In: Stern , August 29, 2013.
15. ↑ The author Kathrin Passig , who is a friend of Herrndorf, announced via Twitter that Herrndorf had committed suicide even before the media confirmed it; see. Twitter message from Kathrin Passig , August 27, 2013, 1:55 p.m. This was also adopted as the final entry in Herrndorf's blog work and structure .
16. ↑ Pictures of your great love. Staatsschauspiel Dresden, archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 . 
17. ^ Quotations - Literaturhaus Munich. Retrieved December 7, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Radio play Pool - "Pictures of your great love" by Wolfgang Herrndorf. Bayerischer Rundfunk, accessed on March 19, 2019 . 
19. ^ Literaturhaus München ( Memento from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
20. ^ Literaturhaus Berlin ( Memento from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ Praise for Wolfgang Herrndorf - Website of the Bachmann Prize ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )