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The poet and musician Wulf Hühn in 2014 at a reading in front of Leuenhagen & Paris in the Lister Meile

Wulf Dietmar Hühn (born January 8, 1943 in Solingen ; † May 2, 2016 in Hanover ) was a German author and environmental psychologist as well as a composer , singer and guitarist .

Life

Born in 1943 at the time of the Second World War , Wulf Hühn studied psychology, sociology and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until 1971.

After working as a psychological consultant in the project of the German Research Foundation Socialization and Environment. Young people in the socio-environmental context at the German Youth Institute in Munich Wulf Hühn worked 1976-1979 academic tutor in the seminar visualization theoretical processes and in an emerged from interdisciplinary research group at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Muenster.

Also in 1979, Wulf Hühn received the decades-long teaching assignment for planning-related psychology at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Development at the then University of Hanover , where he worked specifically in the field of environmental and art psychology. From 1982 to 1983 he also worked as a psychological assistant in the research project Experience Effectiveness of Land Conservation Measures at the Institute for Landscape Management and Nature Conservation at the University of Hanover.

With colleagues in 2012 in the Decius bookstore after a memorial event for the book burning in Hanover (from left): Wulf Hühn, Marcel Magis , Axel Klingenberg , Kersten Flenter and Hartmut El Kurdi

From 1984 to 1987 Wulf Hühn was a lecturer in the social affairs department of the Münster University of Applied Sciences on the subject of cultural work in the district .

In the meantime, Hühn had founded the Münster Culture Cooperative in 1984 , a cross-sectoral initiative to network free culture in and around the city of Münster. From the beginning and until 1988 he was the managing director of this cooperative and as such played a key role in the development of the KultUhrladen . At the same time, as a research assistant, Hühh carried out the project promoting cultural self-employment through lawyer planning from 1985 to 1987 . At the same time from 1986 to 1990 he was an elected member of the board of the state association for free cultural work in cultural projects in North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition, Wulf Hühn planned and directed the kick-off meeting for new German chansons held in Münster at the end of 1989 .

As a chansonnier with guitar in 2013 on the Kröpcke during the Easter March

Meanwhile Hühn had already in 1988 the teaching position at the Department of Architecture Planning (iap), University of Hannover Architecture Psychology get. Back in Hanover, the lecturer was not only there as a musician and reciter , but was also involved in numerous artistic projects.

From 1995, Hühn organized the megalomania living room stage .

From 1997 to 2008 he directed and moderated the radio program Flora Motte, which specializes in chansons , at Radio Flora in Hanover. As part of this one-hour monthly broadcast, he presented the biographies of various chansonniers in more than 100 programs, developed and read his own short stories and presented his own chansons live.

In addition to his numerous activities for various institutes as a research assistant, Wulf Hühn designed the internationally oriented art and "river garden project" on the banks of the Leine in the Lower Saxony state capital. In 2004, as part of his study seminar on planning- related psychology , he opened the Chinese text garden, which he also designed for the Leineufer .

In 2002, Hühn was the main founder and, from the beginning, first chairman of the Querkunst Hannover e. . , which had set itself the goal of promoting free culture in the Hanover region by means of cross-disciplinary networking of cultural events such as music, literature, visual arts, dance and theater as well as cabaret and media.

In 2008, Hühn joined the Hanover Art Association .

In 2010, Hühn was elected to the board of the Association of German Writers (VS) in Lower Saxony .

Hühn's literary focus was on poetry , chansons, essays and short stories . Most recently he lived in Bertramstrasse , designed by Siegfried Neuenhausen and others, at number 4a in Hanover-Hainholz , which is also the seat of the Kornbrennerei Artists' Association . V.

An obituary in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung contained a quote from the poet's work :

"... and life is so clear
a thousand miracles come true
only those who can be weak
and children
really have courage ..."

Obituary notices for Hühn's death were published, for example, in the Westfälische Nachrichten with condolences from colleagues such as Joachim Hetscher , Manfred Kehr, Uli Preuss , Ernie Rissmann and Ulla Struck-Gerlach . Through sheets of the publishing company Madsack such as the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung condolences “a lovable person” the association Querkunst e. V. , Radio Flora of friends , the group poetry , the German Author's Association , the Hannoversche artists association, ver.di , Association of German writers Lower Saxony / Bremen, Diether Dehm , culture, the blade , the Cultural Office Hannover and others.

Hühn was buried in an urn in the family circle in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz .

Memorial service

Group picture with friends, colleagues, fellow campaigners and companions posthumously on the 74th birthday of the chansonnier in the district center of the Nordstadt Bürgererschule

Posthumously and on the occasion of Wulf Hühn's 74th birthday, the district center of Nordstadt Bürgererschule organized the “All Beautiful” commemoration in its stage hall on January 8, 2017 in honor of the artist, together with the City of Hanover's cultural office. Numerous colleagues, fellow campaigners and companions appeared on stage with readings, music and other performances.

Awards

In 1996 Wulf Hühn was selected for the lyricist seminar on behalf of the GEMA Foundation .

Works (selection)

Pieces of music and poetry:

Wulf Hühn (concept, production): Monsterland , long-playing record with 12 chansons by singer-songwriters from Münster / Westphalia, including two titles by Wulf Hühn, Münster: self-published, 1989

Words only for a while - or: Hühns satilyrical gardens , compact disc with 12 chansons Hühns, design by Inge-Rose Lippok. Berlin: Nebelhorn Musik, 1995

Words just a little while or Hühn's satilyrical gardens (= Nebelhorn , No. 29), texts, twelve compositions and music by Wulf Hühn, compact disc with supplement, Berlin: Stefan Körbel, 1997

Blue tutorial , CD with poetry by Frauke Baldrich-Brümmer, music by Wulf Hühn and design by Inge-Rose Lippok, Hanover: aire-music, 2003

Fritz Graßhoff recites from the Scoundrel Postille , CD, Wulf Hühn. Music composed by Wulf Hühn. Hanover: aire-music, 2005

Hexenwetter , CD with chansons, texts and music by & with Wulf Hühn (vocals, recitation, guitar, keyboard, sound engineering). Hanover: aire-music, 2006

Fonts (selection):

Manfred Asseburg, Wulf Hühn, Hans-Hermann Wöbse : landscape and land consolidation. The change in the experience value of selected landscape areas in Lower Saxony through agricultural measures and suggestions for its increase in the context of land consolidation procedures , 218 pages, illustrated, Hanover: Institute for Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Hanover: University of Hanover, 1985, ISBN 3-923285-01-9
In flagranti , insert in the magazine flagranti. Salon postil for literature and music… , joint project of the AWO-Lyrikgruppe Hannover, megalomania living room stage, group poetry, interested party house reading, writing workshop Hainholz and individual authors, No. 2.2001

literature

NN : Wulf Hühn / chansons & more / About the person , as a PDF document on the website of the Förderverein Mikado

Web links

Commons : Wulf Hühn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wulf Hühn in the catalog of the German National Library
YouTube .com: Dornröschenbrücke , video clip with Wulf Hühn on February 14, 2013 as a guest at the eight and a half event at Stöber-Treff , the social department store owned by Werkstatt-Treff Mecklenheide eV

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kathrin Dittmer (responsible): Wulf Dietmar Hühn in the literature database Lower Saxony , last accessed on June 21, 2016

↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Corinna Haberkorn-Schütte: Dipl.-Psych. Wulf chicken . Curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Open Space Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover, edited on May 12, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2016.

^ Heidi Plank : Directory of Members 2003 . Hannoverscher Künstlerverein , Hannover 2003.
^ ^A ^b Karl-Heinz Vach: A blatant violation of the rituals of public art . In: Siegfried Neuenhausen, Karl-Heinz Vach: Bertramstrasse picture wall - grain distillery . Edited by the Kornbrennerei e. V., self-published, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-88746-301-3 , p. 5 f.
↑ Wulf Hühn / chansons & more / About the person . Website of the Förderverein Mikado , accessed on June 21, 2016 (PDF).
↑ ^a ^b Obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 18, 2016, p. 21.
↑ Obituary notice. In: Westfälischen Nachrichten , May 11, 2016.
↑ oV : Wulf Hühn for 74th birthday. / "Alles Schöne" , event flyer, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Elke Oberheide, as well as the district center Nordstadt eV, Ulrike Brink, Sabine Schultz, Hanover, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Chicken, Wulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hühn, Wulf Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and environmental psychologist as well as composer, chansonnier and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 2016
Place of death	Hanover

[Literaturdatenbank-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kathrin Dittmer (responsible): Wulf Dietmar Hühn in the literature database Lower Saxony , last accessed on June 21, 2016

[2] Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library

[Dipl.-Psych._Wulf_Hühn-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Corinna Haberkorn-Schütte: Dipl.-Psych. Wulf chicken . Curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Open Space Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover, edited on May 12, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2016.