Wolfgang Hilbig

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Wolfgang Hilbig (born August 31, 1941 in Meuselwitz , Altenburg district , † June 2, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German poet and writer .

Life

Wolfgang Hilbig was born on August 31, 1941 in Meuselwitz, Thuringia. His father was reported missing outside Stalingrad in 1942. The family left behind consisted of his two grandparents, his mother and himself. The grandfather Kaszimier Starlek immigrated to Thuringia from Biłgoraj in the Polish Lublin Voivodeship before the First World War .

After eight years of schooling in his home town, Hilbig learned the trade of a boring machine lathe. After completing his military service , he worked as a toolmaker, earthworker and assembly worker on the Meuselwitz open-cast lignite mine. In 1967 his company delegated him to a circle of writing workers in Leipzig. The talented autodidact was excluded from this one year later because the poems he presented there met with complete incomprehension. Before that, the violent end of the Prague Spring drove Hilbig into a manifest psychological crisis. It was only through the offer of his friend Siegmar Faust from Heidenau near Dresden to take him in that a way out of the crisis appeared to be paved. In the summer of 1968 he was a participant in the Leipzig reservoir reading , which led to further political reprisals for several poets, but also to Hilbig's discovery as a poet. Hilbig had lived with Faust and his family since the spring of 1969, a cramped coexistence that soon came to an end due to the very limited space and finances.

After Hilbig had found accommodation with the writer Gert Neumann in Leipzig for a while , he returned to Meuselwitz in 1970 in the grandparents' mother's house. He was now working in his hometown as a stoker for a state-owned company. In 1978 Hilbig was arrested and shortly released without charge. He moved to East Berlin , where he again found work as a company heater.

In 1979, Wolfgang Hilbig started his own business as a writer, his whereabouts changed between East Berlin and Leipzig. In 1985 he left the GDR for West Germany on a travel visa.

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Hilbig had lived in Berlin since the early 1990s; he had a daughter who still lives in Berlin today. From 1994 to 2002 he was married to the writer Natascha Wodin . On June 2, 2007, he died of cancer . He is buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin. Matthias Biskupek characterized Hilbig as follows: “A man who was well-liked in the 'literature business', who received 18 literary prizes, but had nothing of an intellectual about him ... He was sociable, hardly showed his erudition and had a boxer's nose. Because he boxed in his youth. "

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Hilbig's first attempts at writing - his preferred genre at that time was poetry - remained unprinted in the GDR. In the Federal Republic of Germany he became aware of some of his poems in the anthology Hilferufe von drüben (1978). His first volume of poetry was absent (1979) was published by S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main, which brought Hilbig a fine for "foreign exchange offense".

At the end of the 1970s, Hilbig gave up his job as a stoker and only worked as a writer. With the support of Franz Fühmann , some of his poems were first printed in a GDR magazine in 1980. His volume of prose Unterm Neomond (1982) was published by S. Fischer . The collection of poetry and prose, Voice , was published by Reclam in Leipzig in 1983 , albeit with visible interventions by the censors (“the sea in Saxony”).

In 1985 Hilbig received a visa for the Federal Republic of Germany that was valid until 1990. During this time, he published not only other stories and poems, but also his debut novel Eine Transmission (1989), which was widely praised by literary critics.

The theme of his work remained, even after the fall of the Wall , the double existence as worker and writer in the GDR and the search for individuality. At the center of his second novel, »Ich« (1993), which was also well received in the literary world, is an unsuccessful poet who works for the GDR's state security . His volumes of short stories Die Arbeit an den Öfen (1994) and Die Kunde von den Trees (1996) also revolve around life and work in his home in Central Germany. Hilbig's third novel Das Provisorium (2000), also discussed benevolently, has clearly autobiographical features.

Memberships

Wolfgang Hilbig was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig , the Saxon Academy of the Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Awards

Works

Unless otherwise stated, the books were published by S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main.

Poetry

Stories and novels

Edited volumes and miscellaneous

  • The workers. 1976.
  • Voice voice. Reclam, Leipzig 1983.
  • The sea in Saxony. Prose and poetry. Afterword by Hans-Jürgen Schmitt. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7632-3846-8 .
  • Between the paradises. Poetry and prose. With an essay by Adolf Endler . Reclam, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-379-01419-2 .
  • Outline of the criticism. Frankfurt poetics lectures. 1995, ISBN 3-596-22383-0 .
  • Stories. 2002, ISBN 3-596-15809-5 .
  • The smell of the books. Prose and poetry. Read by the author. Audiobook CD, 78 minutes, MDR / Der Audio Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89813-223-4 .
  • 20th Century Poetry: My 24 Saxon Poets , Ed. Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 9783861899358

Settings

  • Horst Lohse : Wrapping. (2002/2003) For medium voice and ensemble. World premiere in 2005 in Stuttgart. (House of the Philharmonic; Christina Ascher [mezzo-soprano]; Janus-Ensemble Karlsruhe, conductor: Ernst Helmuth Flammer.)
  • Helmut Zapf : Accountability. (2005) For altus and oboe. New version (2008) for soprano and violoncello. World premiere on October 16, 2008 in Düsseldorf. (Maxhaus; Irene Kurka [soprano], Burkart Zeller [violoncello].)

Secondary literature

Monographs

  • Frauke Meyer-Gosau (editor): Wolfgang Hilbig . Text & criticism, Zeitschrift für Literatur. Volume 12, July 3, 1994. Boorberg, Munich 1994.
  • Uwe Wittstock (ed.): Wolfgang Hilbig - materials for life and work. Information and materials on literature, Volume 12253. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Gabriele Eckart: Speech trauma in the texts of Wolfgang Hilbig. (= GDR studies, Volume 10.) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Bärbel Heising: "Letters full of quotes from oblivion". Intertextuality in Wolfgang Hilbig's work. (= Bochum writings on German literature, Volume 48.) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Klaus Welzel: Loss of Utopia - German Unity in the Mirror of East German Authors. [Volker Braun, Stefan Heym, Wolfgang Hilbig, Christa Wolf.] Epistemata. Literary Studies Series, Volume 242. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1998.
  • Beatrix Stan: Poetry of Downfall - Downfall of Poetry? A comparative attempt on the apocalyptic world of images in the lyrical work of Wolfgang Hilbig and Edgar Allan Poe. Dissertation at the University of Essen in 1999.
  • Sylvie Marie Bordaux: Literature as Subversion. An examination of the prose work by Wolfgang Hilbig. Cuvillier, Göttingen 2000.
  • Paul Cooke: Speaking the taboo. A study of the work by Wolfgang Hilbig. Amsterdam publications on language and literature. Vol. 141. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2000. (English)
  • Michael Haase: A question of clarification. Literature and state security in novels by Fritz Rudolf Fries, Günter Grass and Wolfgang Hilbig. European Enlightenment in Literature and Language, Volume 13. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
  • Jens Loescher: Myth, Power and Cellar Language. Wolfgang Hilbig's prose in the mirror of the aftermath. Amsterdam Publications on Language and Literature, Volume 151. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2003.
  • Sabine Sistig: Change of I-Identity in Postmodernism? Time and storytelling in Wolfgang Hilbig's “I” and Peter Kurzck's “Nobody dies” . Epistemas. Literary Studies Series, Volume 407. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2003.
  • Yvonne Delhey: Black orchids and other blue flowers. Reform Socialism and Literature in the GDR. With interpretations of the literary work of Christa Wolf and Wolfgang Hilbig. Epistemas. Literary studies series. Vol. 523. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • Angelika Winnen: Kafka reception in the literature of the GDR. Productive readings from Anna Seghers, Klaus Schlesinger, Gert Neumann and Wolfgang Hilbig. Epistemas. Literary Studies Series, Volume 527. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006.
  • Hans Jürgen Balmes, Jörg Bong , Alexander Roesler and Oliver Vogel (eds.): Wolfgang Hilbig . Contributions by Marcel Beyer, Patrick Findeis, Wolfgang Hilbig, Jürgen Hosemann, Uwe Kolbe, Claudia Rusch, Ingo Schulze, Litz Seiler, Neue Rundschau, Volume 119. 2008, Issue 2. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Michael Buselmeier (Ed.): Memories of Wolfgang Hilbig . With contributions by Michael Buselmeier, Karl Corino, Jürgen Hosemann, Jayne-Ann Igel, Wulf Kirsten, Uwe Kolbe, Ingo Schulze and Natascha Wodin. Edition Künstlerhaus, Volume 26. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008.
  • Karen Lohse: Wolfgang Hilbig. A motivic biography. Leipzig 2008.
  • André Steiner: The narrative self. Studies on Wolfgang Hilbig's narrative work. Short stories 1979–1991. Novels 1989–2000. European University Theses, Series 1, Volume 1970. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Ines Theilen: White hum. Literary synesthesia in contemporary literature. Literary studies. Volume 12. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008.
  • Richard Pietraß (Ed.): Wolfgang Hilbig. With 40 poems by Hilbig, voices by Michael Buselmeier , Franz Fühmann , Uwe Kolbe and Natascha Wodin as well as graphics by Harald Kretzschmar and Gerda Lepke . Poetry album , 284th Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2009, ISBN 978-3-931329-84-6 .
  • Birgit Dahlke: Wolfgang Hilbig (= Meteors, Vol. 8) Wehrhahn, Hannover 2011.
  • Margret Franzlik: Memory of Wolfgang Hilbig. Transit Verlag, Berlin 2014.
  • Michael Opitz: Wolfgang Hilbig: a biography. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-057607-1 .

Collective works

General

  • Adolf Endler: Hell / Maelstrom / Absence. Fragments about Wolfgang Hilbig. In: Thorsten Ahrend (Ed.): Wolfgang Hilbig: "Between the paradises" . Prose, poetry. Reclam Library, Fiction, Volume 1419. Reclam, Leipzig 1992.
  • Hans-Christian Stillmark: Franz Fühmann and Wolfgang Hilbig. A dialogue on the topicality of romanticism. In: Brigitte Krüger (Ed.): Everyone has their driver. Origin - coinage - habitus. Access to poetology and the work of Franz Fühmann. Conference on the life and work of Franz Fühmann from February 26 to 28, 1997 at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Potsdam. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998. pp. 251-263.
  • Hans-Christian Stillmark: "Old covering shop ... old covering ... old cornering ... old building". Wolfgang Hilbig's stories in the light of Julia Kristeva's poetology. In: Michael Hoffmann and Christine Kessler (eds.): Relationships between linguistics and literary studies. Language - system and activity. Volume 47. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003. pp. 357-372.
  • [Entry] Wolfgang Hilbig. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vols. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , vol. 7, pp. 478-481 [biogram, work article on Das lyrische Werk by Thomas Combrink, Ich von Hans-Peter Kunisch and Das Provisional by Helmut Böttiger].

To description II (1985)

  • Hans-Christian Stillmark: In the impotent hallucination frenzy of unrealization. Negative synesthesia in Wolfgang Hilbig's “Description II”. In: Lia Secci, Anna Fattori and Leonardo Tofi (eds.): Sinestesie. Percezioni sensoriali multiple nella cultura degli ultimi quarant'anni. Università degli studi di Perigia. Letterature modern e contemporanee. Incontri, Volume 7. Naples 1999. XXXVI, pp. 233-245.

To The Women (1987)

  • Hans-Christian Stillmark: Wolfgang Hilbig - "The women". A cross-over to myth, bible and Freud among others. In: Eva Lezzi and Helmut Peitsch (eds.): Literature, Myth and Freud . Colloquium in honor of Elke Liebs, July 20, 2007. Universitäts-Verlag, Potsdam 2009. pp. 143–155.
  • Markus Symmank: Wolfgang Hilbig - "The Women" . In: ders .: Carnival-like configurations in contemporary German literature . Investigations based on selected texts by Wolfgang Hilbig, Stephan Krawczyk, Katja Lange-Müller, Ingo Schulze and Stefan Schütz. Epistemas. Würzburg scientific writings. Literary Studies Series, Volume 370. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002. pp. 139–172.
  • Uwe Wittstock: Dirty characters . In: ders .: From Stalinallee to Prenzlauer Berg. Paths of GDR literature. 1949-1989. Piper series. Volume 1136. Piper, Munich 1989. pp. 203-207. [= Basement speeches by Jack the Ripper . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Issued November 28, 1987.]

Essays

  • Jan Gerstner: Arcadia and the workers' state. Wolfgang Hilbig's idyll and the idyll of the GDR. In: Jan Gerstner / Christian Riedel (ed.): Idylls in contemporary literature and media. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1279-9 .

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Büchner Prize Winner Wolfgang Hilbig died." In: Die Welt on June 2, 2007, accessed on February 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Chronological data according to Andrea Jäger: Wolfgang Hilbig. In: dies .: writers from the GDR. Expatriation and relocation from 1961 to 1989. Lexicon of authors. Writings on research on Europe and Germany. Edited by Paul Gerhard Klussmann. Vol. 1. Frankfurt Main 1995. p. 201
  3. ^ Matthias Biskupek: From Lärchenau via Hilbig to Berlin , reviews a. a. to Karen Lohse, A motivic biography . In: Eulenspiegel , 55./63. Vol., No. 7/08, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 77.
  4. ↑ Author portrait of Wolfgang Hilbig ( memento of February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the FAZ.NET literature calendar , accessed on February 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ Evelyn Finger: Luchs 185 - The jury from ZEIT and Radio Bremen presents: Franz Fühmann and Jacky Gleich, "Anna, called Humpelhexe". The time on February 29, 2002, retrieved on February 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ Cornelia Geissler: The Unhoused - Wolfgang Hilbig has arrived in the West with his new novel. In: Berliner Zeitung on February 19, 2000, accessed on February 7, 2011.
  7. ^ Sächsische Akademie der Künste: Deceased members. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  8. ^ Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts: Nekrolog. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  9. ↑ Price notification from the state of Brandenburg. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  10. ↑ Ursula March: In the German Limbo. Review of the novel The Provisional in “ Die Zeit ” No. 9/2000. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  11. ↑ Ingo Arend: The invocation of the dead God. Review of the novel The Provisional. in “ Freitag ” on March 24, 2000, accessed on February 6, 2011.
  12. ↑ Dietmar Jacobsen: The truth of the invented. Review of the short story volume The Sleep of the Just . ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at lyrikwelt.de, accessed on February 6, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  13. ↑ table of contents
personal data
SURNAME Hilbig, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz , Altenburg District , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2007
Place of death Berlin