 Friedrich Hölderlin Award
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poetry
264pp (26,400 words)
»One of the most important contemporary German writers.«
Brigitte Kronauer
>> No. 5 on the SWR Bestseller List
The long-anticipated first edition of poems, ballads and songs, most of which have never before seen print, from the years 1958 to 2006.
Ror Wolf’s lyrical work belongs to »the most delightful examples being published of what is simultaneously the most contemporary and humorous of poetry« (Robert Gernhardt).
»Ror Wolf is the most important German poet of the 20th century.«
konkret
»The texts of Ror Wolf stand without comparison. He is capable of revealing the comical, the absurd element, the abysmal behind our everyday. His work stands as living proof that ‚serious’ literature may also be hilarious and entertaining.«
Horst Köhler, Federal President of Germany
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»Literature is first and foremost made from language, rather than from thoughts or stories. No other German poet has shown this as passionately and vividly as Ror Wolf has. Rightly so, he is praised and adored by critics, scholars and writers alike.«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Ror Wolf is a pioneer of pop literature. Like Jandl or H.C. Artmann, he shakes and mixes language; like Handke and Jelinek, he experiments with bits and pieces, with our everyday trivia.«
Tages-Anzeiger
»Once again, these 150 previously unreleased pieces of prose bring to life Wolf’s absurd heroes from the last 40 years, in lines so resilent, rhymes so flexible as have - after Busch and Morgenstern – only ever been invented by Robert Gernhardt.«
Der Tagesspiegel
»Ror Wolf creates literature in its purest form (...), a fantastic, dreamlike journey. Read Ror Wolf, treat yourself to his truly delectable prose .«
SWR
»We particularly recommend a careful reading of the closing verses - in which the author himself takes extra pride (and deservedly so) - because he always manages to end his poems with a laconism that leaves no questions unanswered.«
literaturkritik.de
»What would the world be without Ror Wolf (…) Wolf’s worlds are often as unsettling as those collages Max Ernst assembled from elements at once familiar, arbitrary and terrifying. That not only applies to Wolf’s own collages which resemble them, and which he has been producing for a long time as a relaxation from writing, but also to his texts. Rarely has the puzzling been so entertaining…«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
About the author
Ror Wolf, born in 1932, is, besides Thomas Bernhard and Arno Schmidt, one of the most idiosyncratic and prominent authors of German Literature after 1945. He is also a master of fine arts. Since the early Sixties he creates surrealistic collages. His radio dramas count among the most success-ful of German radio plays. Ror Wolf has received numerous awards, most recently the Friedrich Hölderlin Award in recognition of his contribution to German language and literature.
Ror Wolf’s complete works are available from Schöffling & Co.
Awards
Bremen Literature Award
Heimito-von-Doderer Award
Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Award
Main Award of the Bavarian Academy of Arts
Friedrich Hölderlin Award
More about the life and work of Ror Wolf: www.wirklichkeitsfabrik.de
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