Wolfgang World

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Wolfgang Welt (born December 31, 1952 in Bochum ; † June 19, 2016 there ) was a German writer .

Life

After the church school, the Abitur at the Lessing school in Langendreer and studies of English and history at the universities in Bochum and Dortmund, Wolfgang Welt worked as a record seller until 1981. In 1979, on the 20th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death, he began as a freelance music journalist, writing for various magazines such as Sounds , Musikexpress or Marabo, as well as for the anthology Rock Session published by Rowohlt . Welt became known for his sometimes polemical reviews. For example, he referred to the songwriter Heinz-Rudolf Kunze as "singing Erhard Eppler ".

After a mental illness, which he tells about in his autobiographical texts, he ended his career as a journalist. He has worked as a security guard since 1982 , including at the Schauspielhaus Bochum without interruption since 1991 . He died on June 19, 2016 after a brief, serious illness. His estate was taken over by the Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine Institute .

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The many smaller and larger journalistic texts written for magazines and anthologies, record and concert reviews, theater and literary reviews, reports and impressions of Maloche, football and life in the Ruhr area form an important part of Welt's work . Martin Willems published an extensive collection of these under the title I wrote myself crazy: Texts by Wolfgang Welt 1979-2011 .

The main work of the Buddy Holly admirers, writers and football fans world consists of an autobiographical series of novels with the novels Peggy Sue , The Tick and The Tunnel at the End of the Light , Doris Helps and fish soup . In them, Wolfgang Welt describes his path through the 1980s, turning back to his high school graduation from 1970 to 2005 ( fish soup , last page): “ Hartmann stopped. Elmar Goerden came for him . “ The Pannschüppe remained unfinished and was supposed to tell Welts Leben before Peggy Sue .

A first collection of his works was published in 2006 under the title Buddy Holly on Wilhelmshöhe (Suhrkamp). An outsider in the literary business for years as an insider tip - only a few hundred copies of the first edition of Peggy Sue published by Konkret-Literatur-Verlag were sold - Wolfgang Welt has achieved this since the response to the Suhrkamp edition of his work (for example article in Spex , " Book of the month “in concrete and portraits in the taz ) a wider audience. Even the re-publication in 1997 by the small publisher Edition Xplora, which has since been discontinued, met with a considerable response. a. in the mirror . Critics appreciate Welt's dense description of the Ruhr area and its amusing, drinkable reports from the nightlife and pop magazine editors of the 1980s. “I want to put a memorial to some people who otherwise wouldn't even get a gravestone. I'll line up in the back. "

This quote from Buddy Holly on the Wilhelmshöhe - the original version of the story was first published in the 1982 anthology “Staccato” published by Diedrich Diederichsen at Kübler Verlag . Music and Life ”- is a hidden leitmotif for his entire literary oeuvre, in which the author, as in“ Herbert Grönemeyer doesn't live here any more ”, which first appeared in the taz in 1993, keeps coming back to everyday life in his homeland.

While so-called pop literature ( Christian Kracht , Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre ) boomed shortly after the republication of Peggy Sue , Welt remained a marginal figure, whose stories from the 1980s were published in the special issues "Literatur Konkret" and "Sexualität Concrete ”, but recognized by a small fan base as a style-forming element for the genre.

His literary supporters included the director Leander Haußmann , the literary critic Willi Winkler , the long-time Suhrkamp lecturer Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe and Peter Handke , who campaigned for the work of the world in the traditional Frankfurt house. He exchanged letters with Hermann Lenz for 17 years. The organizers of the Cologne literary festival lit.cologne invited Welt 2007 to a retrospective entitled “Wolfgang Welt reports from Wolfgang's world”, while WDR dedicated a detailed radio feature to Welt under the title “An Evening with Peggy Sue”.

In 2002 Welt received a Hermann Lenz grant .

In June 2014, on the initiative of the writer Marc Degens, the signature list “Thirty for Wolfgang Welt” was published. Thirty well-known writers, journalists and literary scholars, including Peter Handke , Dietmar Dath and Willi Winkler , asked for Wolfgang Welt to be awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize .

The Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine Institute dedicated an exhibition to Wolfgang Welt in 2018. Under the title But I wrote myself crazy. The Wolfgang World Exhibition showed numerous estate materials. In spring 2019 the exhibition could be seen in the cultural property Haus Nottbeck in Oelde. The next stop was Bochum-Langendreer from June 19 to July 27, 2019 in the LutherLAB (Luther Church). The supporting program included readings and music with Frank Goosen , Thomas Anzenhofer , Helmut Brasse, Mike Litt , Arne Nobel, Klaus Märkert , Peter “Zonte” Zontkowski and Rainer Küster , organized by Langendreer hat's! . The exhibition may be in Dortmund in 2020.

On the night of June 20-21, 2020 Deutschlandfunk broadcast a three-hour long night about the life and writing of Wolfgang Welt with the title I wrote myself crazy with author Martin Willems, director Jan Tengeler and writer Frank Goosen as speakers. The show is based on a book of the same title from Klartext-Verlag.

Works

  • Buddy Holly on Wilhelmshöhe , long original version of the story with photos from the possession of the Welt family, in Staccato. Music and Life (anthology), ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen, Kübler-Verlag Akselrad, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-921265-29-0 . Here Wolfgang Welt asks after his invitation to the editor for young authors at Suhrkamp-Verlag: “Do I understand him correctly? I will write the first pop or rock novel for Suhrkamp? "
  • Kalter Bauer in Bochum , narrative, published in Sexualität concrete 4/1983, Gremliza Verlag, Hamburg with photos of the localities and Wolfgang von Andreas Böttcher.
  • Once Tchibo and back , the little story was published for the 1984 book fair in Literatur Konkret, Heft 9, 1984/1985 with the photo of Wolfgang in front of Tchibo by Peter Wasielewski, which was also used for Peggy Sue in 1986, Gremliza Verlag, Hamburg. "The novel. I first have a sentence, a title and an editor. You can already have the sentence: "I would fuck her." A good intro, I think. "
  • Peggy Sue , Roman, Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-922144-62-4 (Other editions: 1997 in Edition Xplora with a foreword by Leander Haußmann and other texts from Welt; paperback edition 1999 from Heyne , today from Suhrkamp) . The opening sentence: "About two years after our first meeting, Sabine gave me the prospect of a fuck on the phone, but not with herself, but with her younger sister."
  • Bob Dylan & Buddy Holly. No comparison The intended extended version , on pages 213-228 in Bob Dylan. 50 years ..., published by the Arbeitsrat für Kultur eV, Germinal Verlag, Fernwald, 1993. It is the extended version of a lecture manuscript for an event in Bochum.
  • Der Tick , Roman, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-18986-8 .
  • Buddy Holly on Wilhelmshöhe. Three novels , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-45776-4 . This collection contains Peggy Sue , the eponymous story it contains, the other autobiographical novels The Tick and The Tunnel at the End of Light - although the latter did not appear separately - and some smaller texts by Wolfgang Welt.
  • Doris helps Roman, and attached Bob Dylan & Buddy Holly. No comparison , afterword by Willy Winkler. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-518-46051-X .
  • Martin Willems (Ed.): I wrote myself crazy: Texts by Wolfgang Welt 1979–2011. With a foreword by Peter Handke and a Wolfgang Welt bibliography, clear text , Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0747-8 .
  • Fish soup , Engstler Verlag, Ostheim / Rhön 2014, ISBN 978-3-941126-57-2 .
  • The Pannschüppe , Roman. Fragment. With a letter from Peter Handke , e-mails between Welt and Frank Witzel , and letters to Hermann Lenz and Siegfried Unseld . In: Schreibheft 88, Rigodon-Verlag, Essen, February 2017, ed. by Norbert Wehr , ISBN 978-3-924071-45-5 .
  • No sleep until Hammersmith (and other musical texts) . Published by Martin Willems, Verlag Andreas Reiffer, Meine 2020, ISBN 978-3-945715-81-9 .
  • The Pannschüppe (and other stories and literary reviews) . Published by Martin Willems, Verlag Andreas Reiffer, Meine 2020, ISBN 978-3-945715-82-6 .

Secondary literature

  • Thomas Hecken / Katja Peglow: Buddy Holly was never at Wilhelmshöhe . In REAL! Pop protocols from the Ruhr area , Salon Alter Hammer, Verlag für Ton und Text, Duisburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940349-05-7 .
  • Rainer Küster: The parasite and the night watchman . In: Rainer Küster: Bochum houses. Stories of houses and people, Oberhausen 2006, page 57-67, ISBN 978-3-89896-126-4 .
  • Steffen Stadthaus, Martin Willems (Ed.): “About everything or nothing.” Approaches to the work of Wolfgang Welt. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-996-5 . Reading sample: [1]
  • André Menke: Pop, literature and authorship. Literary strategies and productions by Wolfgang Welt, Rocko Schamoni and Rafael Horzon . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86205-450-3 .
  • Langendreerer Dorfpostille, special edition for the Wolfgang World Exhibition June 2019 , 44 pages with and about Wolfgang Welt. Publisher and editor: Laden ev DOPO, Oberstraße 100, 44892 Bochum.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pop literary man: Wolfgang Welt is dead . Spiegel Online , June 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang World. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume II: P – Z. Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 1130, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  3. ^ Frank Schäfer: Subterranean Bochum Blues . Rolling Stone , October 3, 2001, accessed June 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Alexander Runte: Writer Wolfgang Welt: The guy from the door . Sueddeutsche.de , May 17, 2010, accessed June 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ The Schauspielhaus Bochum mourns Wolfgang Welt . Message from the Schauspielhaus Bochum on Facebook, accessed on June 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Buddy Heine. Wolfgang Welt's estate in FAZ from January 6, 2017, page 12
  7. ↑ Marc Degens: The WoW Effect. An invitation to read Wolfgang Welt: What the Bochum writer, who died last Sunday, achieved, characterizes the young authors today. What makes this cult author so special? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 25, 2016, p. 18.
  8. ↑ Thirty for Wolfgang Welt . satt.org, June 15, 2014, accessed June 21, 2016.
  9. ↑ "I wrote myself crazy": The Long Night about the writer Wolfgang Welt A contribution by Martin Willems on the radio of Deutschlandfunk , 20./21. June 2020
personal data
SURNAME World, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2016
Place of death Bochum