Friedrich Christian Delius
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Friedrich Christian Delius took over the Grimm Poetics Professorship at the University of Kassel in November 2004. In doing so, the University of Kassel honored a politically minded and morally highly committed author, who is consistently turned towards our current reality.
Delius was born in Rome in 1943, grew up in Hesse, studied German literature in Berlin and completed his doctorate with a thesis on the novel in 19th century bourgeois realism. The dissertation bears the distinctive title Der Held und sein Wetter. He worked as a publishing editor first at Wagenbach Verlag and then at Rotbuch Verlag and has been a freelance writer since 1978. Today he lives in Berlin and Rome.
Image: Hans Weingartz (Wikimedia Commons; CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)Delius first came to prominence with poems, followed by plays and radio plays. He became known above all for his novels and short stories, which are characterized by very precisely captured images of our living conditions, the inhospitality and alienation of which is a recurring theme in Delius' work. At the same time, their 'realism' is often of a decidedly satirical and revealing character(Unsere Siemens-Welt, 1972). This also applies to his observation of German-German reality, for example in the stories Die Birnen von Ribbeck (1991) or Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus (1995). Here, Delius also shows himself to be an extremely versatile and imaginative author who - in a linguistically masterful manner - repeatedly chooses new aesthetic forms and thus captivates the reader in ever-changing ways.
GPP event series with Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius offered a lecture entitled "Germany, a land of milk and honey - or why Friedrich Schiller would have called Joschka Fischer a barbarian" on November 3 in the Eulensaal of the Murhard Library in Kassel, as well as a seminar and an author reading on November 4 and 5.