Rudolf Hagelstange

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Rudolf Hagelstange at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1977

Rudolf Hagelstange (born January 14, 1912 in Nordhausen ; † August 5, 1984 in Hanau ) was a German writer .

Life

Hagelstange attended the humanistic grammar school in Nordhausen, studied philology and physical exercise in Berlin from 1931 to 1933, and made two long trips to the Balkans in 1933 and 1936. From 1936 to 1938 he volunteered at the Nordhäuser Zeitung , where he worked as a feature section editor from 1939. In 1938 he became Central German champion in the pole vault.

In 1939 he attended the Reich Press School . During the Second World War , which took him to France in 1940, he was with the intelligence service, and in 1944 war correspondent in France and Italy. When he returned from an American captivity , he published his first volume of poems with 35 sonnets : Venetian Credo . After a year in Nordhausen, he moved to Westphalia ( Hemer in Sauerland ) and then in 1948 to Lake Constance (residence in Unteruhldingen ). In 1968 he moved to Alsace. From 1971 until his death in 1984 he lived in Erbach (Odenwald) and was buried there.

His work is broad; he worked as an editor, poet , novelist and essayist.

Drawing by Joachim Lutz in 1949

In addition, he represented German post-war literature on many trips abroad. Together with Hans Erich Nossack , Hagelstange was in 1961 as a representative of the German writers at the celebration of the 100th birthday of Rabindranath Tagore in New Delhi . As a chronicler of the Olympic Games he went in 1960 to Rome and in 1964 to Tokyo . In the 1980s he headed the Federal Association of German Authors .

The city ​​library in Nordhausen has been named after him since 1992 .

Awards and honors

In Hanau, where he died while staying in a friend's garden house, a path was named after him. Munich also dedicated a street in the Oberföhring district to his memory as early as 1985.

Works

  • I am Cornelia's mother , story. Drawings by Friedrich Graf, Haacke Verlag, Nordhausen 1939.
  • The bow is drawn , poems. Rupert-Verlag, Leipzig and Darmstadt 1943. Further editions followed after 1945.
  • Allegro. An Italian sheet of pictures with verses . Helmut Bibow with verses by Rudolf Hagelstange. Ed .: Unit 43402. As part of the troop support in Germany-occupied Italy, published by Mondadori, Verona 1944.
  • Venetian creed , sonnets. Officina Bodoni, Verona 1945 [This edition was apparently published before the end of the war in occupied Italy.]
  • Venetian creed , sonnets. Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1946 [first edition in Germany. At the same time an edition appeared in the Insel branch in Leipzig.]
  • Current of Time , Poems. Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1948.
  • Meersburg elegy . With a drawing by Fritz Deringer. Tschudy-Verlag, St. Gallen 1950.
  • Balthasar , story. With 8 original woodcuts by Frans Masereel . Tschudy-Verlag, St. Gallen / Wiesbaden, Insel Verlag 1951.
  • Ballad of the Buried Life . Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1952.
  • Between star and dust , poems. Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1953.
  • It is in our power. Thoughts and experiences , essays. Munich, Piper 1953.
  • Rudolf Hagelstange speaks: The Venetian creed . Record, Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg 1958.
  • The song of the shell , travel diary. Piper, Munich 1958.
  • To be frank: essays and speeches . 1958.
  • The night of Mary. A Christmas book . Illustrated by Carlos Duss. Publishing house Die Arche, Zurich 1959.
  • Playball of the gods. Records of a Trojan Prince , novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1959 [Awarded the Julius Campe Prize.]
  • The dolls in the doll. A trip to Russia . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1963.
  • Time for a smile. Cheerful prose . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1966 [Paperback: Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt / Main, Hamburg 1968]
  • The cross-eyed lion or How do you like America? . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1967 [Other editions appeared.]
  • Altherrensommer , novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1969 ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from December 8, 1969 to March 15, 1970 ) [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-423-00812-1 ]
  • Go it alone. 6 fates . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-455-02670-2 [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-423-00862-8 ]
  • It was in the whale at Ascalon. Epiphany legend . With 14 linocuts by Eduard Prüssen . Piper, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-492-01911-0 .
  • Venus in Mars , love stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1972 [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-01025-8 . Licensed edition for the Gutenberg Book Guild: Frankfurt / Main, Vienna, Zurich 1974]
  • The general and the child , Roman. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-462-01000-X [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-01222-6 ]
  • The great Filou. The adventures of the Ithacian Odysseus . With original woodcuts by Karl-Heinz Hansen-Bahia. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-7672-0298-0 .
  • Travel weather , travelogues. List Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-471-77776-8 [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01272-2 ]
  • The great Filou. The adventures of the Ithacian Odysseus . With 12 illustrations after woodcuts by Karl-Heinz Hansen-Bahia. List Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-471-77799-7 [paperback: dtv, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-423-01431-8 ]
  • Laughed tears. Capricorn wanted poster , memories. List Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-471-77827-6 [paperback: dtv, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-01513-6 ]
  • And it happened at night. My Christmas book . With wood and linocuts by HAP Grieshaber . List Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-471-77838-1 [Paperback: dtv, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-01595-0 ]
  • The last nights . With illustrations by Bernhard Kühlewein. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-579-03733-1 .
  • The last nights . With etchings by Eduard Prüssen . List Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-471-77850-0 .
  • People and faces . List Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-471-77855-1 .
  • The house or Balser's rise , Roman. List Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-471-77853-5 [Paperback: Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-20366-3 ]
  • The decline. From Balser's house to the Käthe-Kollwitz-Heim , Roman. List Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-471-77861-6 [Paperback: Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-548-20571-2 ]

literature

  • Rudolf Hagelstange. The writer and poet from Nordhausen am Harz. A reader , published by the city of Nordhausen , le petit verlag & agency
  • René Wintzen: Rencontre avec Rudolf Hagelstange, in Roland Mager Ed., Zs. Documents. Revue mensuelle des questions allemandes. Documents-Verlag, Offenburg April 1953. pp. 289–416 (only in the French edition)
  • Rudolf Hagelstange , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1984 of October 1, 1984, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hagelstange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Hagelstange Nordhausen.de, accessed on March 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Wikipedia correction: Rudolf Hagelstange "was not in the SS", article in the online edition of Darmstädter Echos from January 12, 2012. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 19, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de
  3. ↑ actual name of the author: René-Charles-Jean Wintzenrieth, b. June 13, 1924 (according to BNF ); died January 24, 2015 Asnières-sur-Seine , buried on the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.


personal data
SURNAME Hagelstange, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1984
Place of death Hanau