Karl Krolow

Karl Krolow ( born March 11, 1915 in Hannover, † June 21, 1999 in Darmstadt; pseudonym: Karol Kroepcke ) was a German writer.

Life

Karl Krolow, who came from a family of civil servants, grew up in Hanover, where he attended grammar school. From 1935 to 1942 he studied German and Romance languages ​​, philosophy and art history at the universities of Göttingen and Breslau. Krolow which had belonged since 1934, the Hitler Youth, joined the NSDAP in 1937. From 1940 Krolow began publishing poems in journals such as the Krakauer Zeitung, the Nazi propaganda sheet of the General Government. Beginning in 1942, the author did settled as a freelance writer in Göttingen. 1943/44, he also published in the Nazi weekly magazine Das Reich.

1952 moved to Hanover Krolow, 1956 in Darmstadt, where he lived until his death. Since the fifties was Krolow as one of the most important poets of the post-war German literature. He is also distinguished yourself as a translator from French and Spanish, and author of prose works. Karl Krolow was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1953 the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt (temporarily as president ), since 1960 the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and since 1962 the Bavarian Academy of Fine since 1951 Arts. For his extensive and varied work, he has received numerous awards, including 1956 Georg Büchner Prize, the 1965 Great Low Saxon Art Prize, 1975, the Goethe Medal of the Land Hessen, the Federal Cross of Merit, the Literature Prize town clerk of mountains and Rainer Maria Rilke Prize for Poetry, in 1976 an honorary doctorate from the Technical University Darmstadt, 1983 Hessian Culture Award, 1985 Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and in 1988 the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the city of Bad Homburg.

Karl Krolow is in the family grave of the parents and grandparents in the city cemetery Engesohde ( Division 13 ) of his home town of Hanover buried. In his prose work " night - life or Geschonte Childhood " (1985), contains the autobiographical record of his childhood and youth from 1915 to 1935 in Hanover, he recapitulates the age once his time in the Hanoverian South City, where he worked in the house Bandelstraße / corner Sallstraße grew up.

Works

  • High Promised good life, Hamburg, 1943 (together with Hermann Gaupp )
  • The poem in our time, Hannover 1946
  • Poems, Konstanz 1948
  • Visitation, Berlin 1948
  • On earth, Hamburg 1949
  • The signs of the world, Stuttgart 1952
  • From near and far objects, Stuttgart 1953
  • Wind and time, Stuttgart 1954
  • Days and nights, Dusseldorf [ et al ] 1956
  • Foreign bodies, Berlin [ et al ] 1959
  • Shadow of a man, Wamel at Soest, 1959 ( together with Rudolf Schoofs )
  • Ticino, München [ua ], 1959 ( together with Fritz Eschen )
  • Aspects of contemporary German poetry, Gütersloh 1961
  • Selected poems, Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • The role of the author in the experimental poem, Wiesbaden 1962
  • Invisible hands, Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • Darmstadt - reflection of a residence, Darmstadt 1964 ( along with Annelise Reichmann )
  • Journey through the night, Darmstadt 1964
  • Shadow battle, Frankfurt am Main 1964
  • Poem for Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1965
  • Collected Poems, Frankfurt am Main 1 (1965)
  • 2 (1975)
  • 3 (1985)
  • 4 (1997)

Selected poems

  • Men (So they go, laughter in the throat )
  • Summer lunch ( Pavane of the dust above the road )
  • The last night ( Do not wait! The night will be black and white )
  • Sleep ( While I sleep, aging the Sielzeug )
  • Today ( Today I can let you sleep quietly )

Editorship

  • Adaptations of five centuries of French poetry, Hannover 1948
  • The bark imagination, Dusseldorf [ et al ] 1957
  • Paul Verlaine: Poems, Wiesbaden 1957
  • Spanish poetry of the XX. Century, Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • Together, Darmstadt 1974
  • Wilhelm Lehmann: Poetry, Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Literary March, Munich 1 (1979 ) (together with Fritz and Wolfgang Deppert Weyrauch )
  • 2 (1981 ) (together with Fritz Deppert )
  • 3 (1983 ) (together with Fritz Deppert and Hanne F. Juritz )
  • 4 (1985 ) (together with Fritz Deppert and Hanne F. Juritz )
  • 5 (1987 ) (together with Fritz Deppert and Hanne F. Juritz )

Translations

  • Guillaume Apollinaire: bestiary, casting 1959
  • Samuel Beckett: flute, Frankfurt am Main, 1982 ( translated together with Elmar Tophoven )
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Les fenêtres. With etchings by Christian Mischke, Frankfurt am Main 1990
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