Hans Peter Keller

Hans Peter Keller ( born March 11, 1915 in Rosellerheide / Neuss, † May 11 1989 in Büttgen / Neuss ) was a German writer.

Life

Hans Peter Keller was born into a merchant family. He spent his childhood and youth in Neuss. In 1934 he began, at the invitation of a Catholic priest in Leuven, for one semester studying theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven Flemish, which he continued in Cologne. In 1939 he was drafted into the army and took part as a soldier in World War II. 1942 was severely wounded his dismissal from the armed forces. Then he continued his studies in Cologne, finished it but not finish.

After 1945, Keller worked as an external lecturer of Swiss publishers in Basel and Thun. He undertook lecture tours in Germany, Switzerland and France. He lived in different places, among others, on Helgoland, in Paris and Palermo ( they were all short-term vacation trips ). Since his marriage he lived in the house of the Büttgen inherited from his wife's house. From 1955 to 1983 he was a teacher at the Dusseldorf bookseller school; From 1973 he was head of the next Community College in his hometown Büttgen.

Hans Peter Keller wrote mostly poems and aphorisms. In his poetry, two phases can be clearly distinguished from each other: While Keller's poems formally stood up to the end of the fifties in the tradition of classical and romantic periods and were strongly influenced by the work of his friend Emil Barth, he later wrote spoke - and time-critical poems in a cool, tight sound.

Hans Peter Keller was a member of the Association of German writer and since 1966 the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has received, among others the following awards: 1955 a honorary gift of Thomas Mann Foundation, the 1956 Award for Heinrich Droste Prize 1958 Award for Immermann Prize of the city of Dusseldorf and 1975 Kogge Literature Prize of the City of Minden.

Works

  • The narrow ford, Hamburg 1938
  • Be strong, we need life, Hamburg 1942
  • Tent on the current, Ratingen 1943
  • Magical landscape, Hamburg 1944
  • The hemlock, Dusseldorf 1947
  • The sacrificial pit, Basel 1953
  • The wavering hour, Wiesbaden 1958
  • The naked window, Wiesbaden 1960
  • Autumn eye, Wiesbaden 1961
  • Even gold rusts, Wiesbaden 1962
  • Groundwater, Wiesbaden 1965
  • Panopticon from the corner of my eye, Wiesbaden 1967
  • Keywords Flick words, Wiesbaden 1969
  • Light behind the shadow, MA 1970
  • Gibberish, Wiesbaden 1971
  • Extract at 18 clock, Wiesbaden 1975
  • Hans Peter Keller, Dusseldorf 1975
  • A self that is painfully remembers up, Dusseldorf 1975

Editorship

  • Emil Barth: Letters from the years 1939-1958, Wiesbaden 1968
  • Confessions, Dusseldorf 1972 ( together with Wilhelm and Hedwig Gössmann Walwei - Wiegel man)
  • Sentence structure, Dusseldorf 1972 ( co-edited with Günter Lanser )
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