Thomas Valentin

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Thomas Valentin (born January 13, 1922 as Armin Gerold Valentin in Weilburg ; † December 22, 1980 in Lippstadt ) was a German writer . His father was Otto Valentin from Gießen , his mother Lina nee. Gelbert from Löhnberg .

Life

Valentin lived with his parents in Weilburg's neighboring community of Löhnberg until 1925. The family moved to Weilburg in 1925, where he attended elementary school and from 1932 to 1936 the Philippinum grammar school . From 1936 he went to high school in Dillenburg , where he passed his Abitur in 1940 . He then studied literature , history , philosophy and psychology in Giessen and Munich . From 1947 he was a teacher in Lippstadt in Westphalia for fifteen years ; from 1955 to 1958 he ran the local adult education center on a voluntary basis .

After the success of his first novel, Hell for Children , published in 1961, he worked as a freelance writer based in Lippstadt from 1962; he often spent the summer months in Italy on Lake Garda and on Sicily . From 1964 to 1966 he was chief dramaturge at the Stadttheater in Bremen . He was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1981 he was posthumously awarded the Adolf Grimme Gold Prize for the screenplay for the television play Grabbes last summer (together with Sohrab Shahid Saless (director) and Wilfried Grimpe (actor)).

Thomas Valentin has written time-critical novels , short stories , plays and screenplays . They often describe problems of children and adolescents. Peter Zadek filmed the novel Die Unberatenen in 1966 as a TV production and in 1969 as a feature film under the title Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame ; the film was awarded a Silver Bear at the 1969 Berlinale .

The city of Lippstadt, also the seat of the Thomas Valentin Society , founded in 1996 , has been awarding the Thomas Valentin Literature Prize every four years since 1993 . The city library there has been named after him since 1997.

Works

  • Hell for children , Hamburg 1961
  • The manhunt , Hamburg 1962
  • The unadvised , Hamburg 1963
  • Night trains , Hamburg 1964
  • Natura morta , Hamburg [et al.] 1967
  • Die Unberatenen , Berlin 1967 (with Robert Muller)
  • Hangover in the theater , Cologne 1968
  • The fish in a red scarf , Hamburg [among others] 1969
  • Mr. Appelhans and Monsieur Firlefanz , Cologne 1971 (together with Kurt Halbritter )
  • The green cloud , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972 (together with Alexander S. Neill)
  • Schorschi is Schorschi and even more adventure , Munich 1973
  • Anna and Totò , Paderborn 1974
  • Family ties , Reinbek near Hamburg 1974
  • Youth of a student councilor , Düsseldorf 1974
  • Adlerhöhe , Reinbek near Hamburg 1976
  • Love story , Düsseldorf 1980
  • No man's light , Düsseldorf 1980
  • Morning news , Frankfurt / M. [inter alia] 1980
  • Cages of Freedom , Frankfurt / M. [inter alia] 1980
  • Grabbes last summer , Berlin [ao] 1980
  • Snow from Etna , Frankfurt (M) [ua] 1981
  • Thomas-Valentin-Reader , Paderborn 1997
  • Works in individual volumes , Oldenburg
    • Vol. 1. Hell for Children , 1998
    • Vol. 2. Manhunt or Journey to Yourself , 1998
    • Vol. 3. The Unadvised , 1999
    • Vol. 4. Still life with snakes , 1999
    • Vol. 5. Grabbes last summer , 1999
    • Vol. 6. Morning news. Cages of Freedom , 2000
    • Vol. 7. Snow from Etna , 1999
    • Vol. 8. Der Hausfreund , 2001
    • Vol. 9. Anna and Totò , 2002
    • Vol. 10. Death of a Mannequin , 2002
    • Vol. 11. Nobody's Light. Memories of Hermann Hesse , 2002
    • Vol. 12. Hangover in the theater , 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Valentin, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1980
Place of death Lippstadt