Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer | |
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Born | (1916-12-09)9 December 1916 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | 21 August 1991(1991-08-21) (aged 74) |
Resting place | Protestant cemetery in Poschiavo, Switzerland |
Occupation | Writer and painter |
Notable works | Tynset, lyrical prose (1965) Mozart (1977) |
Relatives | Azriel Hildesheimer (Great-grandfather) |
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Wolfgang Hildesheimer (9 December 1916 – 21 August 1991) was a German author. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.
Biography
Hildesheimer was born of Jewish parents, chemist Arnold Hildesheimer (1885–1955) and Hanna Goldschmidt (1888–1962),[1] in Hamburg. His great-grandfather was Azriel Hildesheimer, the moderniser of Orthodox Judaism in Germany.[2] He was educated at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Mannheim (Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium [de]) from 1926 to 1930. He then attended Odenwaldschule until 1933, when he left Germany. He was then educated at Frensham Heights School in Surrey, England. He studied carpentry in Mandatory Palestine, where his parents had emigrated. He studied painting and stage building in London.
In 1946 he worked as a translator and clerk at the Nuremberg trials. Afterward, he worked as a writer and was a member of Group 47. In 1980, he gave the inaugural address at the Salzburg Festival, "Was sagt Musik aus?" [What does music say?].[3] In addition to writing, Hildesheimer created collages which he collected in several volumes (the first Endlich allein, 1984), an activity he shared with other late-20th century writers Peter Weiss and Ror Wolf. The municipality of Poschiavo in Switzerland made Hildesheimer an honorary citizen in 1982; he died there in 1991.
Works
- 1952 Lieblose Legenden [de], short stories
- 1953 Das Paradies der falschen Vögel
- 1954 An den Ufern der Plotinitza, radio play
- 1955 Der Drachenthron, comedy in three acts
- 1955 Das Opfer Helena [de], radio play
- 1954 Das Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot (The Fairy Tale of Princess Turandot), radio play
- 1958 Pastorale oder Die Zeit für Kakao, play
- 1960 Herrn Walsers Raben, radio play
- 1961 Die Verspätung, play
- 1962 Vergebliche Aufzeichnungen
- 1965 Tynset, a novel
- 1971 Zeiten in Cornwall, travelogue
- 1973 Masante, a novel
- 1977 Mozart [de], a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1981 Marbot [fr], a fictional biography of Sir Andrew Marbot
- 1983 Mitteilungen an Max (Über den Stand der Dinge und anderes)
Awards
- Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (a radio play prize for Princess Turandot) 1955
- Georg Büchner Prize 1966[4]
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz) 1983
References
- ^ Hildesheimer, Wolfgang (2016). Volker Jehle [in German] (ed.). "Die sichtbare Wirklichkeit bedeutet mir nichts." Die Briefe an die Eltern, 1937–1962 (PDF) (excerpt) (in German). Suhrkamp. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-3-518-42515-2.
- ^ Rolnik, Eran J. (2012) [2007 in Hebrew]. Freud in Zion. London: Karnak. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-78049-053-3.
- ^ Brief biography, Suhrkamp/Insel. Retrieved 13 October 2011 (in German)
- ^ "Wolfgang Hildesheimer". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
External links
- "Wolfgang-Hildesheimer-Archiv", Academy of Arts, Berlin
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- 1923 Adam Karrillon and Arnold Mendelssohn
- 1924 Alfred Bock and Paul Thesing
- 1925 Wilhelm Michel and Rudolf Koch
- 1926 Christian Heinrich Kleukens and Wilhelm Petersen
- 1927 Kasimir Edschmid and Johannes Bischoff
- 1928 Richard Hoelscher and Well Habicht
- 1929 Carl Zuckmayer and Adam Antes
- 1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf and Johannes Lippmann
- 1931 Alexander Posch and Hans Simon
- 1932 Albert H. Rausch and Adolf Bode
- 1933–1944 not given
- 1945 Hans Schiebelhuth
- 1946 Fritz Usinger
- 1947 Anna Seghers
- 1948 Hermann Heiss
- 1949 Carl Gunschmann
- 1950 Elisabeth Langgässer
- 1951 Gottfried Benn
- 1952 not given
- 1953 Ernst Kreuder
- 1954 Martin Kessel
- 1955 Marie Luise Kaschnitz
- 1956 Karl Krolow
- 1957 Erich Kästner
- 1958 Max Frisch
- 1959 Günter Eich
- 1960 Paul Celan
- 1961 Hans Erich Nossack
- 1962 Wolfgang Koeppen
- 1963 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- 1964 Ingeborg Bachmann
- 1965 Günter Grass
- 1966 Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- 1967 Heinrich Böll
- 1968 Golo Mann
- 1969 Helmut Heißenbüttel
- 1970 Thomas Bernhard
- 1971 Uwe Johnson
- 1972 Elias Canetti
- 1973 Peter Handke
- 1974 Hermann Kesten
- 1975 Manès Sperber
- 1976 Heinz Piontek
- 1977 Reiner Kunze
- 1978 Hermann Lenz
- 1979 Ernst Meister
- 1980 Christa Wolf
- 1981 Martin Walser
- 1982 Peter Weiss
- 1983 Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- 1984 Ernst Jandl
- 1985 Heiner Müller
- 1986 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1987 Erich Fried
- 1988 Albert Drach
- 1989 Botho Strauß
- 1990 Tankred Dorst
- 1991 Wolf Biermann
- 1992 George Tabori
- 1993 Peter Rühmkorf
- 1994 Adolf Muschg
- 1995 Durs Grünbein
- 1996 Sarah Kirsch
- 1997 H. C. Artmann
- 1998 Elfriede Jelinek
- 1999 Arnold Stadler
- 2000 Volker Braun
- 2001 Friederike Mayröcker
- 2002 Wolfgang Hilbig
- 2003 Alexander Kluge
- 2004 Wilhelm Genazino
- 2005 Brigitte Kronauer
- 2006 Oskar Pastior
- 2007 Martin Mosebach
- 2008 Josef Winkler
- 2009 Walter Kappacher
- 2010 Reinhard Jirgl
- 2011 Friedrich Christian Delius
- 2012 Felicitas Hoppe
- 2013 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- 2014 Jürgen Becker
- 2015 Rainald Goetz
- 2016 Marcel Beyer
- 2017 Jan Wagner
- 2018 Terézia Mora
- 2019 Lukas Bärfuss
- 2020 Elke Erb
- 2021 Clemens J. Setz
- 2022 Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- 2023: Lutz Seiler