Nicolas Born

Nicolas Born ( born December 31, 1937 in Duisburg, † December 7, 1979 in Breese in the marsh at Dannenberg in the Lüchow -Dannenberg; actually Klaus Jürgen Born) was a German writer.

Life

Born on the Lower Rhine grew up in Praest near Emmerich and in Essen, where he first served an apprenticeship as a process engraver. After the first publications in newspapers and magazines, he was loaded into the Literary Colloquium, with the support of Ernst Meister 1964/1965, where he worked on the novel Community co-wrote The guest house, among other newspapers and reviewed for literature. In the so-called course prose writing Höllerer and Hans Werner Richter, young, previously unknown authors such as Hans Christoph Buch, Peter Hermann Piwitt and Peter Bichsel wanted to turn away, especially from the ciphertext, metaphorical language of the 50s.

Born in 1965 published his first novel The Second Day Kiepenheuer & Malevich. In 1967 the first volume of poetry market situation. He participated in the International Writing Program ( IWP ) at the University of Iowa and returned to the publication of his second collection of poems where my head is back with new influences of pop and beat poetry from America. In 1972, at Rowohlt his most famous book of poetry The eye of the discoverer, in which he contrasts with the " delusional system reality " utopian moments of happiness.

After his retirement in the Lower Saxony Wendland, where he was active against a proposed nuclear repository and a reprocessing plant, Born wrote the novel The far side of the story, which was largely an "event " welcomed by the critics. Borns -known novel The forgery, which appeared shortly before his death in 1979, was filmed in 1981 by Volker Schlöndorff.

25 years after Born's early death, his daughter Katharina Born was in the fall of 2004, the poems from the estate in Wallenstein publishing new out that in the issued by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz series, NF published. The band came immediately to No. 1 on the SWR leaderboard. The following year the band was honored as the most interesting new publication in the field of poetry by Peter Huchel price.

In June 2007, also in Mainz series, NF the issue of the letters Nicolas Borns appeared in the Wall Stone publisher. It contains in addition to individual letters to Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Ernst Meister, Alfred Kolleritsch and Dieter Weller Hoff also the already published in the literary magazine copybook correspondence with Peter Handke, the correspondence with Günter Kunert, Hermann Peter Piwitt, Jürgen Theobaldy and Friedrich Christian Delius. Issuer is again Borns youngest daughter Catherine Born, which takes care of the maintenance of the estate of the author on behalf of the community of heirs.

Born's novels and poetry of the Cologne School, nature poetry and the New interiority have been assigned. Due to the very own sound and strong development, the work evades ultimately each classification.

Axel put Kahrs 1999, together with Christiane Beyer the memorial book The surveyor before, was remembered with the twentieth anniversary of the death of the author. The Kahrs largely guided by " Nicolas Born Foundation " promotes Wendland Schreyahn Literature and Literary Studies.

In memory of Nicolas Born Nicolas Born- two prizes were donated. His grave is located in Damnatz ( Lüchow- Dannenberg ). His grave is adorned with a grave stone sculptor Klaus Müller- Klug. In Dannenberg (Elbe ) is the Nicolas- Born- school ( primary and junior high school ) and the Nicolas Born library.

Honors and Awards

Born was a member of the German PEN Center, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (who co-sponsored the publication of the book of poetry in 2004 and the letter band from 2007 instrumental ), the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and in 1975 a member of the jury of the Petrarch Prize.

Quotes

"I admit that I wanted to write beautiful poetry, and some have become beautiful, to my great surprise."

"Literature has to make the reality with the help of counter-images of utopias once than the horrible mess visible, it is in fact "

"So, I write that too, but it could never write as it was and is but must make violent changes, changes and enforce it with inventions, so that I may believe, the writing was not more to do with the experienced. I did not say to you about, if it were bad to me; I'm feeling not bad. Secretly I also enjoy this experience because it changed me in a diffuse, numbing way that is not so unpleasant. "

"I 'm always nervous, because I no new beginning will really succeed. Maybe even the strength to go deep enough down and shake the foundations of their own is missing. Otherwise, I always try to continue to rid myself of all Grundeinverständnisse. I really had the distinct feeling that before anything can start new, first time there must be no more stone upon another, because all of calmness and self - evident until deep into the language that I an immediate sense of 've futility, so that I can have it bad. "

"We must not only be poorer, we must want to be poorer. The emergency must be redistributed so that everyone knows what is necessity because of any sense that we know in our lives comes from the experience of distress ... "

Works

  • The second day. Novel. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 1965.
  • Market situation. Poems. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 1967.
  • Where me is the head. Poems. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 1970.
  • The eye of the discoverer. Poems, with drawings by Dieter Masuhr. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1972.
  • Oton and Iton. Adventures in the fourth dimension. Children's book with drawings by Dieter Masuhr. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1973.
  • Recipes for peacetime, Berlin, Weimar: Building 1973 ( together with Friedrich Christian Delius and Volker of Törne )
  • The far side of the story. Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1976 ISBN 3-499-14370-4. .
  • Poems 1967-1978. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1978.
  • The forgery. Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1979 ISBN 3-499-15291-6. .
  • The world of the machine. Essays and speeches, ed. by Rolf Haufs. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1980, ISBN 3-498-00462- X. .
  • Nicolas Born. Poesiealbum 167, (East) Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1981.
  • Perpetrators sketches. Narratives. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1982 ISBN 3-498-00481-6. .
  • A song that everyone knows. Poems. (East) Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1989, ISBN 3-353-00533-1. .
  • Poems, ed. by Peter Handke. Frankfurt aM: . Suhrkamp, ​​1990, ISBN 3-518-22042- X.
  • Poems. Critical Edition, ed. by Katharina Born. Göttingen: Wallenstein, 2004 ISBN 3-89244-824-8. .
  • Letters from 1959 to 1979. Critical Edition, ed. by Katharina Born. Göttingen: Wallenstein, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8353-0106-1. .
  • Self-Portrait ( 1967)

As a translator

  • May Wong: Wannsee poems. Translated from English by Nicolas Born. Berlin: LCB Editions, 1975.
  • Kenneth Koch: Thank you. Poems and games. German Nicolas Born. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1976.

As editor

  • Rowohlt literary magazine 3: The imagination to power - literature as Utopia (1975 )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 6: Literature and Science (1976; together with Heinz Floppy )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 7: Postwar Literature (1977; together with Jürgen Manthey )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 8: The language of Big Brother ( 1977, together with Jürgen Manthey )
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 9: The new irrationalism ( 1978, together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 10: Idols ( 1979, together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 11: Writing or Literature (1979; together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
  • Rowohlt literary magazine 12, Special Issue: Nietzsche ( 1980, together with Jürgen Manthey and Delf Schmidt)
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