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Karl Krolow (11 March 1915 – 21 June 1999) was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and died in Darmstadt, Germany.

Biography

Krolow came from a family of civil servants, and grew up in Hanover where he attended grammar school. From 1935 to 1942 he studied Germanic and Romance languages, philosophy and art history at the universities of Göttingen and Breslau.[1][2] Krolow, who had been a member of the Hitler Youth from 1934, joined the NSDAP in 1937.[2] From 1940. Krolow began having poems published in Nazi propaganda journals such as the Krakauer Zeitung. From 1942 he was working as a freelance writer based in Göttingen.[2] In 1943/44, he published in the Nazi weekly journal Das Reich.[3]

Krolow moved to Hanover in 1952, and in 1956 to Darmstadt, where he lived working as an independent writer until his death.[4] From the 1950s, Krolow was considered one of the greatest poets of the postwar German literature. He was also a translator from French and Spanish, and author of works of prose. From 1951, he was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1953 a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt (temporarily as president),[5] from 1960 a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, and from 1962, a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. For his extensive and varied work he has received numerous awards, including 1956 Georg Büchner Prize, the 1965 Great Lower Saxony Art Award, 1975, the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen, the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the literature prize Stadtschreiber von Bergen and Rainer Maria Rilke Prize for Poetry in 1976, an honorary doctorate from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, in 1983 the Hessischer Kulturpreis (Hessian Culture Prize), in 1985 the Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste and in 1988 the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of Bad Homburg.[6]

Krolow is buried in the family grave of his parents and grandparents in the Municipal Cemetery Engesohde [de] (division 13) of his hometown of Hanover.[7]

Works

References

Bibliography

• Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.), Karl Krolow (Text+Kritik, no. 77), Verlag Text + Kritik, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88377-134-1.
• Fausto Cercignani, "Dunkel, Grün und Paradies. Karl Krolows lyrische Anfänge in «Hochgelobtes gutes Leben»", Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, 36/1, 1986, 59–78.
• Fausto Cercignani, "Zwischen irdischem Nichts und machtlosem Himmel. Karl Krolows Gedichte 1948: Enttäuschung und Verwirrung", Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 27, 1986, 197–217.
• Horst S. Daemmrich, Messer und Himmelsleiter. Eine Einführung in das Werk Karl Krolows, Verlag Groos, Heidelberg 1980.
• Neil H. Donahue, Karl Krolow and the poetics of amnesia in postwar Germany, Rochester, New York, 2002
• Walter H. Fritz (ed.), Über Karl Krolow. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• Rolf Paulus, Der Lyriker Karl Krolow. Biographie und Weiterentwicklung, Gedichtinterpretation, Bibliographie, Bouvier, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-416-01748-X
• Artur Rümmler, Die Entwicklung der Metaphorik in der Lyrik Karl Krolows (1942–1962). Die Beziehung zu deutschen, französischen und spanischen Lyrikern, Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1972.

External links

• Literature by and about Karl Krolow in the German National Library catalogue
• Karl Krolow Suhrkamp Verlag (in German)

На других языках

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[de] Karl Krolow

Karl Krolow (* 11. März 1915 in Hannover; † 21. Juni 1999 in Darmstadt; Pseudonym: Karol Kröpcke) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller.

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- [en] Karl Krolow

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[fr] Karl Krolow

Karl Krolow (connu également sous le pseudonyme Karol Kröpcke), né le 11 mars 1915 à Hanovre et mort le 21 juin 1999 à Darmstadt, est un poète, romancier et traducteur allemand.

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[ru] Кролов, Карл

Карл Кро́лов (нем. Karl Krolow; 11 марта 1915 (1915-03-11), Ганновер — 21 июня 1999, Дармштадт) — немецкий поэт и писатель.

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