ABSTRACT
Rühmkorf studied in Hamburg, where he has continued to live. From 1958 to 1964 he was a reader for the Rowohlt publishing firm. He has combined his work as a poet throughout with polemical literary journalism since contributing in the 1950s to Studentenkurier and konkret. With Werner Riegel (1925-56) he proclaimed ‘Finismus’ as the last of the -isms in Zwischen den Kriegen. Blätter gegen die Zeit (1952-6), which was followed by Heiβe Lyrik (1956) and the anthology Irdisches Vergnügen in g (1959). Later essays include Über das Volksvermögen (1967), Walther von der Vogelweide, Klopstock und ich (1975), Strömungslehre I (1978), the Frankfurt poetry lectures agar-agarzaurzaurim. Zur Naturgeschichte des Reims (1981) and Bleib erschütterbar und widersteh (1984).
