Ror Wolf

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Ror Wolf
Rhineland-Palatine
, Germany
Other namesRaoul Tranchirer
Education
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Poet
  • Artist
Organizations
Awards

Ror Wolf (born Richard Georg Wolf; 29 June 1932 – 17 February 2020) was a German writer, poet, and artist who also published under the pseudonym Raoul Tranchirer. He wrote audio plays, novels, and poems and made collages.[1][2][3]

Life

Richard Georg (Ror) Wolf was born in

German Democratic Republic in July 1953 to live in West Germany. He first stayed in Stuttgart, making a living as an unskilled laborer. Later he studied literature, sociology and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt,[6] with Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Höllerer and Max Horkheimer.[2] Wolf soon published prose, poetry, reviews of literature, theatre and jazz as well as artistic collages in the student magazine Diskus.[4][7] His name as an artist ("Ror") combines letters from his given names. His pseudonym ("Tranchirer") is his first name, Richard, spelled backward and turned into "Tranchirer," someone who "carves up [meat]."[4][3] Cutting would become an important technique both in Wolf's literary and visual work. Wolf continued his studies in Hamburg in 1958, and graduated from the University of Frankfurt in 1961.[2]

Wolf worked as contributing editor of literature for the Hessischer Rundfunk, a public radio station, for two years.[4] After 1963 he became a freelance writer and artist..[6] His first novel, Fortsetzung des Berichts, was published by Suhrkamp in 1964.[8] It shows influences of Franz Kafka,[9] Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. His first radio play was broadcast in 1971.[8] His radio collages often focus on soccer and keep being aired.[4] The play Leben und Tod des Kornettisten Bix Beiderbecke aus Nord-Amerika, about the life and death of jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, was awarded the prestigious Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden in 1988. The 2007 audio play Raoul Tranchirers Bemerkungen über die Stille -- R T's Comments on Silence received the award "Radio Play of the Year" from the German Academy of Performing Arts.[8]

Wolf settled in Mainz where he lived for 30 years.[1][6] He died there on 17 February 2020.[1][6]

Works

Wolf's texts often begin in simple everyday-life situations, changing abruptly to the grotesque in a combination of comical and horrible aspects.[7] He worked last on an autobiography in the form of a collage.[9] His works have been published by Schöffling & Co..[10] The publisher plans a complete edition of his works, not only those already published, entitled Ror Wolf Werke (RWW):[11]

Volume 1 contains the poems, volumes 2 to 5 prose works, volume 7 the audio plays, and volume 9 Raoul Tranchirers Enzyklopädie für unerschrockene Leser, an encyclopedia for "intrepid readers".

Translations

English

French

Italian

Awards

Wolf was the recipient of numerous awards for his poetry, including the 2008

Rhineland-Palatine and the SWR, the Günter Eich Prize [de] in Leipzig[13] in 2015,[8] the Schiller Memorial Prize from the Ministry of Culture [de] in Baden-Württemberg in 2016,[11] and the Rainer-Malkowski-Preis in 2018.[13]
The Schiller Memorial Prize's jury wrote in 2016:

For the fragmented present in which we live, Ror Wolf has developed literary forms like no other that have nothing to do with the comforting obligations of conventional storytelling.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Romane, Gedichte, Collagen : Schriftsteller Ror Wolf gestorben". FAZ (in German). 18 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ror Wolf". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-80-400652-1
    . Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Abenteuer eines Pedanten". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 5 July 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Ror Wolf – Preisträger 2004". brueckner-kuehner.de (in German). 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d Wasner, Alexander (18 February 2020). "Der Schriftsteller unnd Fußballdichter Ror Wolf ist tot". BR (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  7. ^ a b Kolser, Hans Christian (15 May 2013). "Ror Wolf - Essay". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d "Laureate 2015 / Ror Wolf". Leipziger Medienstiftung. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Ror Wolf: writer died at the age of 87". en24.news. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Ror Wolf". Schöffling & Co. (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Ror Wolf erhält Schiller-Gedächtnispreis 2016". Baden-Württemberg (in German). 14 July 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Friedrich-Hölderlin-Literaturpreis: Ror Wolf wird ausgezeichnet". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 26 February 2008.
  13. ^ a b "Mainzer Schriftsteller / Ror Wolf ist tot". SWR (in German). 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

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