Wolfgang Körner

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Wolfgang Körner (born October 26, 1937 in Breslau ; † April 25, 2019 in Dortmund ) was a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Körner was the son of an industrial clerk . He grew up in Zwickau and attended a grammar school there . In 1952 his family fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic . Here Körner broke off his school education and instead completed an administrative training with the city of Dortmund. He then worked as a municipal civil servant : first in the social welfare office , then as manager of the Werkkunstschule Dortmund , today's Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , and the municipal adult education center . Most recently, he was responsible for the promotion of literature and art at the Dortmund Cultural Office . From 1980 he worked as a freelance writer .

Wolfgang Körner was the author of novels , satires , television scripts and radio plays . He also wrote articles for several magazines; u. a. he was the literary political columnist for the magazine Buchmarkt . As a member of Gruppe 61 in the 1960s, Körner was a socially critical author whose texts were about the representation of the Federal Republic of Germany's world of work and everyday life. At the beginning of his work mit Versetzung , also as a television play in 1968, HR for ARD, there is an early example of the modern employee novel , while in the novel Nowack , which was influenced by the pop literature of the 1960s, he paints a multifaceted picture of the Ruhr area .

In the autobiographical books for young people The Way To Over , And Now Freedom? and At Home in the West , Körner describes his family's journey in the 1950s. In the 1980s, Körner had great success with the scripts for television series such as Büro, Büro , Kurhotel Sonnenschein and Stahlkammer Zürich . He switched to writing non-fiction books, in which he analyzed parts of economic and cultural life in a politically highly incorrect and satirical way. The alleged translations of the detective novels by the Italian-American author Franca Permezza, published in 2005 and 2006, are most likely satirical mystifications , the author of which was probably Körner himself.

Wolfgang Körner was a member of Group 61 and its last managing director until it was dissolved. He received u. a. The following awards: 1967 the advancement award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature , 1973 the advancement award for the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis , 1975 the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis, 1979 the advancement award for literature of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1989 an author's grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation .

Wolfgang Körner lived in Dortmund. He died there on April 25, 2019, just hours after being hospitalized for abnormal blood tests.

He left his archive folders, correspondence with the publisher and other documents to the Fritz Huser Institute .

Works

  • Transfer. Recklinghausen 1966.
  • Nowack. Düsseldorf 1969.
  • The time with Harry. Dortmund 1970.
  • Book and society. Dortmund 1973.
  • A freelance writer. Düsseldorf 1973.
  • with Günter Seidel: A Ham-Ham and the i. Hanover 1973.
  • with Rolf Rettich : The imaginary father. Hanover 1974.
  • A trace of Horst Wessel or The Overcoming of Fear. Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Where I live. Wuppertal 1975.
  • The way over there. Recklinghausen 1976.
  • I'm going to Munich. Ravensburg 1977.
  • And now freedom? Recklinghausen 1977.
  • At home in the west. Recklinghausen 1978.
  • The time with Michael. Cologne 1978.
  • Travel to Scandinavia. Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Office, office or the studies of the trainee Sigbert Schmidt on the L factor in the Konrad-Lurzer-KG. Munich 1983.
  • Kandinsky or A Long Warm Summer. Munich 1984.
  • The only true opera guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1985.
  • The only true acting guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1986.
  • Hot soups for hungry men. Munich 1986.
  • The only true investment advisor. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  • Welcome to reality. Munich 1987.
  • The only true career guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.
  • The only true patient advisor. Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.
  • The only true marriage counselor. Reinbek near Hamburg 1989.
  • with Manfred Limmroth: The golden parent book. Hamburg 1989.
  • The only true culture guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1990.
  • The only true travel guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1991.
  • The only true manager consultant. Reinbek near Hamburg 1992.
  • The only true parenting guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1993.
  • Ruhr area. Munich 1993.
  • Körner's final history of the Germans. Düsseldorf u. a. 1994.
  • The only true success advisor. Reinbek near Hamburg 1995.
  • The only true operetta and musical guide. Reinbek near Hamburg 1995.
  • Körner's final discovery of America. Düsseldorf 1995.
  • From the life of a sensitive chauvinist and other weird stories. Düsseldorf 1996.
  • Körner's ultimate investment advisor. Düsseldorf 1996.
  • Körner's ultimate career advisor. Düsseldorf 1996.
  • Hot soups for hungry men. With new ingredients and spices. Norderstedt 2017.

Editing

  • Children's stories from Scandinavia. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Ghost stories from Scandinavia. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • My wife left. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Drug reader. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Start all over again. Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • The new drug reader. Frankfurt am Main 1989.

Translations

  • Franca Permezza: Prosciutto di Parma. Hamburg u. a. 2005.
  • Franca Permezza: Partitura di Praga. Hamburg 2006.

Reviews

  • to DBC Pierre - Bunny and Blair: Love of the Internet Age. Dortmund, February 20, 2007
  • to Stephan Reinhardt - betrayal of the intellectuals: marching in lockstep. Dortmund, January 12, 2008
  • to Vladimir Sorokin - The Day of the Opritschnik: Greetings from Moscow or Vladimir Opritschnik's negative utopia. Dortmund, March 3, 2008
  • to Corinne Maier - No Kid: Experiences of a frustrated mother. Dortmund, June 4, 2008
  • to Tom Robbins - B Is for Beer: The Magician did it again. Dortmund, April 24, 2009
  • to Timothy Brook - Vermeer's Hat: On the Splendor and Misery of Long-Distance Trade. Dortmund, February 16, 2010
  • to Harold, one-child: young and old on cocoa with LSD. Dortmund, April 15, 2010
  • to James Howard Kunstler - The Long Emergency: The End of the Oil Company. Dortmund, August 21, 2010
  • on Daniel J. Boorstin - The Image, A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America: Big Bubbles - The Suppression of Reality by Virtual Realities. Dortmund, August 18, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Körner. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 502.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Körner died , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on May 6, 2019
  3. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Hüser Society 2019/2, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Koerner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2019
Place of death Dortmund