Johannes Kühn (3 February 1934 – 3 October 2023) was a German writer and poet.
Biography
Born in
Tholey
Tholey () is a municipality in the Sankt Wendel (district), district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately west of Sankt Wendel, and north of Saarbrücken.
History
Local history
The first traces of settlement in t ...
on 3 February 1934, Kühn grew up in a family of miners. In 1948, he enrolled at the , but dropped out in 1953 without a diploma. He studied at
Saarland University
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and the
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...
as a guest student from 1956 to 1961. From 1963 to 1973, he worked for his brother's engineering company.
During this time, he also wrote dramas, poems, and fairy tales, which failed to gain much attention at first.
Following his time as an engineer, Kühn traveled through
Saarland
Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in ...
and wrote poems on nature. However, at the start of the 1980s, he gradually stopped publishing poems. However, his works were published by and he received very positive responses.
His life was represented in the 2018 film ''Papier, Stift, Kaffee und Zigarren – Der Dichter Johannes Kühn'', directed by Gabi Heleen Bollinger.
Johannes Kühn died on 3 October 2023, at the age of 89.
Works
Poems
*''Vieles will Klang, immer wieder'' (1957)
*''Saarländische Anthologie'' (1958)
*''Stimmen der Stille'' (1970)
*''Salzgeschmack'' (1984)
*''Ich Winkelgast'' (1989)
*''Am Fenster der Verheißungen'' (1992)
*''Meine Wanderkreise'' (1990)
*''Blas aus die Sterne'' (1991)
*''Gelehnt an Luft'' (1992)
*''Wenn die Hexe Flöte spielt'' (1994)
*''Leuchtspur'' (1995)
*''Lerchenaufstieg'' (1996)
*''Wasser genügt nicht. Gasthausgedichte'' (1997)
*''Hab ein Aug mit mir'' (1998)
*''Em Guguck lauschdre'' (1999)
*''Mit den Raben am Tisch'' (2000)
*''Gedichte'' (2001)
*''Nie verließ ich den Hügelring'' (2002)
*''Ich muß nicht reisen'' (2004)
*''Gärten ohne Grenzen'' (2004)
*''Ganz ungetröstet bin ich nicht'' (2007)
*''Zu Ende ist die Schicht. Bergmannsgedichte'' (2013)
*''Und hab am Gras mein Leben gemessen'' (2014)
*''Besitzlos, den Schmetterling feiernd'' (2018)
*''Und schwebe ab in eine ganz andre Welt. Gedichte & Zeichnungen'' (2020)
Plays
*''Die Totengruft'' (1966)
*''Kampf um die Möbel'' (1968)
Prose
*''Zugvögel haben mir berichtet. Märchen'' (1988)
*''Ein Ende zur rechten Zeit. Erzählung'' (2004)
Audiobooks
*''Künstlerbegegnungen'' (2005)
References
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1934 births
2023 deaths
German male writers
German poets
Saarland University alumni
University of Freiburg alumni
People from Bernkastel-Wittlich