Schreibmaschinenpoesie / Mautz, Kurt ; Gomringer E., 1977
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Scope and Contents
Eugen Gomringer provided an introduction. One of the poems entitled "persilschein" that is depicted, the word is a German idiom meanung "Clean Bill of Health" The top line refers to the Nazi brown shirts who after WWII were denazified according to evidence present to the allies and now became "white shirts."Wikipedia: Kurt Adolf Mautz (* June 1st 1911 in Montigny-les-Metz , " November 2000 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary scholar and writer . He was the father of actor Rolf Mautz .Mautz studied German literature, philosophy and history, first from 1930 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, among others in the then little-known lecturer Theodor W. Adorno , from 1934 in Giessen at the Catholic priest Theodor Steinbuchel , the one there Concordat Chair for Philosophy held. "The Nazi seizure of power here seemed less noisy than being run in Frankfurt," Mautz wrote later in his novel The key Urfreund. "I ... took care about nothing but my dissertation." Mautz in 1936 with a study of Max Stirner, PhD, in the New German research published in 1936. A scientific career was denied to him in the years to 1945. But even after the war could Mautz in science, apart from short teaching assignments at the PH Frankfurt , not to gain a foothold; he was from 1950 until his retirement in 1972 as a high school teacher working in Mainz.In addition to his day job as a teacher Mautz was as a private scholar operates. At his philosophical studies of Max Stirner, however, he no longer followed up on. Instead, he created important literary studies of Adalbert Stifter and the literary Expressionism , primarily to Georg Heym . Especially after his retirement wrote Mautz narrative prose and experimental poetry, through which he one of the major representatives of the so-called concrete poetry was. He also became the "Magister Ludi" the German Anagrammdichter . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1977
Creator
- Mautz, Kurt, 1911- (Person)
- Gomringer, Eugen, 1925- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book + sleeve pages (offset) (95 pages)) ; 20.7 x 14.7 x 1.6 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
box shelf
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Munich, West Germany : Relief Verlag. Nationality of creator: German. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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