Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born 12 August 1952) is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel Der Verlorene (translated into English as Lost). Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze.
Early life and education
Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold in Westphalia in 1952 and lived there until 1968. After graduating from high school in Hanau, he studied German philology, philosophy and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on Wolfgang Koeppen. He habilitated in 1993 and from 1995 to March 2018 taught as Professor for German literature at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut Leipzig. (German literature institute)
Career
Treichel became known in particular through his novel The Lost (Der Verlorene), in which he set the flight of his parents from the "Eastern Territories" and the loss of their first-born son towards the end of World War II about his own childhood and youth. In 1995 he became Professor at the German Literature Institute (Deutsche Literatur Institut) Leipzig and retired in 2018.
Treichel is a member of the PEN Center Germany.
Awards and honours
1985 Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
1993 Literature Prize of the city of Bremen
2003 Annette von Droste Hülshoff Award
2003 Margarete Schrader Award
2005 Hermann Hesse Award
2006 Eichendorff-Literaturpreis und Deutscher Kritikerpreis
2007 Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie
Works
Source:
Poetry
A remnant future. Poems. Edition New ways, Berlin (West) 1979, . Tarantella, poems. Schmid, Berlin 1982, . From the time of silence. 9 songs for Arthur Rimbaud, An oratorio. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1984. Love distress. Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986, . No wonder for days. Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, . The only guest, poems. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, 1994, . Conversation under trees, collected poems. Hg. with a Nachw. v. Rainer Weiss. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002, . South room Leipzig. Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, .
Prose
Body and soul, reports. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1992, . Local or Everything is cheerful and noble, sightseeing. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1996, TB: . The lost. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, TB: . Tristan chord. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, TB: . The earthly cupid. Novel. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 2002, TB: . Human flight. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005, . The Pope I knew. Narrative. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, . Anatolin. Novel. Suhrkamp, 2008, . Grunewaldsee. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, . My Sardinia. A Lovestory. Mare-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, . Early disorder. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, . Breaking Dawn. Narrative. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, .
Literary Studies, Essays
Fragment without end , a study on Wolfgang Koeppen. Heidelberg: Winter, 1984, . Erasure , Exemplary Investigations on Literature and Modern Poetics. Fink, Munich 1995, . Beyond writing , essays on literature. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, 2000, . The author's design , Frankfurt Poetics Lectures. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, . The rock on which I hang , essays and other texts. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005, .
Libretti
Le Précepteur (after The Hofmeister [1774] by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz). Music: Michèle Reverdy. 14 May 1990 Munich ( Gasteig, Carl Orff Hall, 2nd Munich Biennale ) The betrayed sea. (1986/1989). Music drama in 2 acts (after the novel Gogo no eiko ("The sailor who betrayed the sea") by Yukio Mishima ). Music: Hans Werner Henze . Schott, Mainz and others 1990, . UA 5 May 1990 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ) Recast (2003/2005): Gogo no Eiko ("The Betrayed Sea") . Music drama in 2 acts. Music: Hans Werner Henze. UA 15 October 2003 Tokyo ( Suntory Hall, Yomiuri-Nippon Symphony Orchestra ) Venus and Adonis. Opera in one act for singers and dancers. Music: Hans Werner Henze. Schott, Mainz et al. 1997, . UA 11 January 1997 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera, National Theater ) Sinfonia N. 9. For mixed choir and orchestra. Seal on Anna Seghers ' novel The Seventh Cross . Music: Hans Werner Henze. UA 11 September 1997 Berlin ( Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker ) Caligula. Opera in 4 acts (free after the same piece [1938] by Albert Camus ). Music: Detlev Glanert . Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock: Berlin 2006. UA 7 October 2006 Frankfurt ( Opera )