Peter Klusen

Peter Klusen ( born March 20, 1951 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German writer, playwright and cartoonist.

Life

Klusen studied German literature, journalism and social sciences in Mainz and Aachen and spent two semesters working as a mentor at the University of Hagen. He is now a senior teacher at the Franz - Meyers High School in Mönchengladbach. Since the early eighties, he has written more than a dozen plays for the children 's and youth theater, where often the outsider problem is the focus. "In his imaginative plays Klusen it comes to socially critical engagement among adolescents in order to reduce prejudices and the expansion of group tolerance. Thus, the teacher and author combines educational and literary interest. " His play The magic pillow was translated into Sorbian and performed in 2004 by the German - Sorbian Folk Theatre. Klusen has numerous reworkings of children 's classics written also (partly in anthologies and literary journals ) stories, poetry and mystery stories. The Swiss literary magazine script wrote about Klusens poetry, she was moving " very nearly on the edge of deconstructivism. Well chosen and always justified are the allusions to the visual poetry, and the occasional rhyme often serves the unmistakable, sometimes bawdy humor. " Karl -Josef Striebe recognizes Klusens texts at all superficial happiness and all the irony " sad songs, fool songs. "

Klusen is a member of the " group of authors German -language crime novel " The Syndicate. He received the 1998 Bad Wildbad Children 's and Youth Literature Prize and was honored for his cartoons and nonsense verses, 2007 in Frankfurt ( Main) with the F & F literature prize in the " nonsense and satire ." A dramatized version of his of his newly translated historical novel by Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper was first performed in 2003 at the Bochum Schauspielhaus ( Junges Schauspielhaus ). His cartoons are published in calendars and magazines, including the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel. In his 2010 novel, The ridiculous seriousness of life Klusen tells " the everyday, so normal, so insane tragedies of old and young residents of an apartment building in Mönchengladbach 1950s ".

Peter Klusen is married and lives in Viersen.

Quote

With words "Paint with words / like colors / images for the unconscious / just to feel / not seen / a fortiori / understand / / play with words / sounded like with / [ ... ] "

Works

Novels, adaptations, short stories, poetry

  • Giant Frieder, cake crumbs and the Great Bear. The story of someone who set out to unlearn fear. Roka. Wegberg, 1991, ISBN 3-926525-09-6
  • Gulliver's Travels. New German processing of the novel by Jonathan Swift. Arena. Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-401-04474-5
  • Ablaze in the seventh sky. Poems. Sassafras, Krefeld 1994, ISBN 3-922690-51-3
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson with the wild geese. Selection and editing new German of the book by Selma Lagerlof. Arena. Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-401-04496-6
  • Nutcracker and the Mouse King. New editing the children's book by ETA Hoffmann. Arena. Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-401-04431-1
  • Save the teacher. Cartoons. (Editor). Anabas. Casting 1996, ISBN 3-87038-282-1
  • Prince and the Pauper. Translation of the novel by Mark Twain from the American. Arena. Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-401-04629-2. A dramatized version was published in the Deutsches Theater Verlag ( Weinheim).
  • Tales of 1001 Nights. Retellings of selected stories. Arena. Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-401-04941-0
  • The death costs more than life. Detective stories. éditions trèves. Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88081-538-0
  • With a wink. a lyrical chamber symphony in three sets. éditions trèves, Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-88081-505-6
  • The ridiculous seriousness of life. Novel. éditions trèves, Trier 2010, ISBN 978-3-88081-518-6

Children 's and youth theater pieces

  • The miracle elixir. A school fairy tale. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-7695-1510-2
  • The Chinese garden gnomes. A farce full of prejudices. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-7695-0586-7
  • Giant Frieder, cake crumbs and the Great Bear. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim, 1987, ISBN 3-7695-0332-5
  • The Feast of the frogs. A risky game with music. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-7695-0326-0
  • Desperado, or Each has his own fortune. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-7695-0326-0
  • Nuthouse. Skits. Pride. Düren 1998, ISBN 3-89778-704-0
  • The magic pillow. Fairy tale. German Theater Verlag. Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-7695-1728-8
  • Elephant Polo. UA: December 2, 2010 Theater object Waggonhalle Cultural Marburg ( received the prize of the Marburg short dramas competition)
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