Walter Höllerer

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Walter Höllerer in 1966

Walter Höllerer (19 December 1922 – 20 May 2003) was a

literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin from 1959 to 1988. Höllerer was a member of the Group 47, founder of the German literary magazine Akzente
(1953) and the Literary Colloquium of Berlin (1963).

Biography

Walter Höllerer was born in

literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin. Meanwhile, he looked and researched a lot of professors from the United States. In 1973 he took up a "joint professorship" for German and comparative literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, teaching there for one semester every two years until the early the 1990s.[2]

During his research and work he published poems and novels, and put together critical statements for other literature works. In 1954 Höllerer put together the bimonthly literary magazine Akzente, one of the most important literature forums in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1961 Höllerer published the newspaper Sprache im technischen Zeitalter ("Language in the Age of Technology"), in 1963 he founded the Literary Colloquium of Berlin. Through his hard work as a publisher and critic and a professor at TU Berlin he helped with the era of literature. In 1965 Höllerer married a photographer from Mangoldt, Renate, she previously had two sons. He was a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. In 1977 he founded literary archives in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, which he then embedded the magazine Akzente into the archives.

In 1966 he was honored with the Fontane-Award and in 1993 together with Robert Creeley, the Horst-Bienek-award for lyrics and in 1994 the Rahel-Varnhagen-von-Ense-Medaille from Berlin. He was also honorary citizen and culture award-winning from the city Sulzbach-Rosenberg.

Robert Neumann harshly criticized Höllerer's leading role in the Group 47 and in the literary scene.[3] He obtained research from Christoph König that Höllerer was a member of the NSDAP in 1941.[4] Höllerer said that he had not gotten any confirmation for being in the NSDAP.

Höllerer was laid to rest at the Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin. His widow Renate donated the archive Sulzbach-Rosenberg as a gift to Walter Höllerers research, which since 2007 has been developed and been researched even more. Since 19 April 2007, the Sulzbach-Rosenberg school changed its name to Walter-Höllerer-Realschule.

List of works

Non-fiction

  • Gottfried Kellers "Leute von Seldwyla" als Spiegel einer geistesgeschichtlichen Wende. Eine Studie zur Geschichte der Novelle im 19. Jahrhundert. Erlangen 1949
  • Zwischen Klassik und Moderne. Lachen und Weinen in der Dichtung einer Übergangszeit. Klett, Stuttgart 1958; new edition: SH, Köln 2005,
    ISBN 3-89498-133-4
  • Theorie der modernen Lyrik. Dokumente zur Poetik 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965
  • Modernes Theater auf kleinen Bühnen. Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1965

Literary works

As editor

  • Junge amerikanische Lyrik (with Gregory Corso). Hanser, München 1960
  • Transit. Lyrikbuch der Jahrhundertmitte. Mit Randnotizen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1956
  • Movens. Dokumente und Analysen zur Dichtung, bildenden Kunst, Musik, Architektur. Limes, Wiesbaden 1960
  • Spiele in einem Akt. 35 exemplarische Stücke. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1961
  • Ein Gedicht und sein Autor. Lyrik und Essay. Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1967
  • Dramaturgisches. Ein Briefwechsel (with Max Frisch). Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1969
  • Welt aus Sprache. Auseinandersetzung mit Zeichen und Zeichensystemen der Gegenwart. Art Academy, Berlin 1972
  • Zurufe, Widerspiele. Aufsätze zu Dichtern und Gedichten (with Michael Krüger). Berlin Scientific Publishing, Berlin 1993,
    ISBN 3-87061-405-6

Films

  • Literatur im technischen Zeitalter, TV series, 13 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1961/62, First episode: 13 November 1961
  • Berlin stellt vor. TV series, 39 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1962, First episode: 28 May 1962
  • Modernes Theater auf kleinen Bühnen, TV series, 10 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1964/65, First episode: 18 November 1964
  • Der weiße Hopfengarten, 1966
  • Ein Gedicht und sein Autor, TV series, 11 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1966/67, First episode: 1 December 1966
  • Die Alexanderschlacht, 1968
  • Das literarische Profil von Prag, 1969
  • Das literarische Profil von Stockholm, 1969
  • Das literarische Profil von London, 1970
  • Das literarische Profil von Rom, 1970
  • Das literarische Profil von Berlin, 1971
  • Vögel und Fluggespenster, 1973

Further reading

External links

  • Biography as part of the
    Berlin Institute of Technology
    's 125th anniversary commemoration
  • Walter Höllerer (in German) in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Höllerer-Nachlass) literature archive

References

  1. ^ Höllerer moderated on 11 November 1962 in a Culture Shock SFB show as a part of the group 47. Source: Archiv des RBB, Archivenumber 0903151
  2. ^ McGlathery, James M. German and Scandinavian at Illinois: A History. Urbana, 1990, p. 123, 132.
  3. ^ Neumann, Robert: Spezis. Gruppe 47 in Berlin. In: definite, 8/1966. also in: Hermann L. Gremliza (Hrsg.): 30 Year definite. Hamburg 1987, pp. 88–93
  4. ^ For Example. The show Culture Shock on 3sat from 25 November 2003: participant again Willen / a German walking encyclopedia proves the connection to the NSDAP
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