Wolfgang Schömel

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Wolfgang Schömel

Wolfgang Schömel (born May 7, 1952 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German Germanist and writer .

Life

Wolfgang Schömel attended the state high school in Bad Kreuznach. After graduating from high school, he first studied German, philosophy and political science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1971 to 1974 , then from 1974 to 1982 at the University of Bremen . In 1977 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. From 1977 to 1979 he received a doctoral scholarship from the federal government. Between 1977 and 1982 he worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the University of Bremen. In 1982 he received his doctorate in philosophy from Gert Sautermeister.

Between 1982 and 1986 Schömel worked as a freelancer; during this time he wrote a. a. numerous reviews and essays for Radio Bremen , Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Sender Freie Berlin . From 1986 to 1988 he was employed by the Senator for Education, Science and Art in Bremen; here he planned u. a. the conception and implementation of the literary weeks in 1987 (“The World as Simulation”) and 1988 (“The Disappearance of Writing”). From 1989 to 2016 he was literary advisor for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and since 1992 he has also been co-editor of the literary yearbook Hamburger Ziegel . Today he lives in Bremen.

Wolfgang Schömel published his first literary texts in 1998 in Merkur , in Frankfurter Rundschau and in Krachkultur . With the publication of his collection of stories Die Schnecke (2002), he managed a little surprise coup. In Der Spiegel, Wolfgang Höbel praised the "true, cutting-edge explosiveness of this book", which lies "in the description of male distress at the beginning of the third millennium". With the novel Without Maria (2004), the precise and detailed description of a male excess of suffering, the author was again able to convince the critics. Volker Hage again said in Der Spiegel that an “exciting search for clues” would hide behind the “alleged misery”. In his volume of short stories Die Reinheit des Moments (2007), which also contains the title story of the text for which the author was awarded the Georg K. Glaser Prize in 2003, Schömel manages to deal with the themes of the previous books, on the one hand the comic Representation of neurotic characters, on the other hand, the portrayal of melancholy abysses. Early on, critics identified Charles Bukowski and Heimito von Doderer as his literary models .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works (selection)

  • Apocalyptic horsemen are in the air. On irrationalism and pessimism in literature and philosophy between the post-March and the turn of the century , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1985.
  • The snail. Mostly neurotic stories , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002.
  • Without Maria , Roman, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-608-93570-7 .
  • The purity of the moment , stories, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007.
  • The great waste , Roman, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-93903-3 .
  • Two days, three nights , novella, Ch. Schroer , Bergisch Gladbach 2013.

Translations

  • Walter J. Ong : Orality and Literacy. The technologicalization of the word , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987. New edition: Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016
  • Stewart O'Nan : The Lost World of Richard Yates. How the great writer of the Age of Fear disappeared from the book trade . From English together with Martin Brinkmann. In: Krachkultur 10/2004, pp. 25-71
  • HP Lovecraft : Nietzscheanism and Realism . From the American together with Daniel Dubbe and Martin Brinkmann. In: Krachkultur 12/2008, pp. 14-20

Editorships

  • Hamburger bricks. Yearbook for literature . Edited together with Robert Galitz and Jürgen Abel. Hamburg 1992 ff. (Meanwhile 15 volumes)

Awards

  • Georg K. Glaser Prize 2003
  • Prize "Book of the Year 2004" from the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

  • Martin Brinkmann: Uncomfortable worlds. Reality experiences in the new German-language literature, presented on the basis of Christian Kracht's “Fiberland” (1995), Elke Naters “Königinnen” (1998), Xaver Bayer's “Today could be a happy day” (2001) and Wolfgang Schömel's “Die Schnecke. Mostly Neurotic Stories ”(2002) . In: Weimar Contributions 53 (2007), no. 1, pp. 17–46
  • Everything is pointless without sex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2002 ( online ).
  • Lost lovers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2004 ( online - review of "Without Maria").

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Without sex everything is pointless . In: Der Spiegel from October 7, 2002
  2. ↑ Volker Hage: Lost Beloved . In: Der Spiegel from November 15, 2004
  3. ↑ Martin Brinkmann: Sex makes you neurotic and lonely . In: Rheinischer Merkur from September 19, 2002
  4. ↑ boersenblatt.net of July 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Schömel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach