Arno Reinfrank

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Arno Reinfrank (born July 9, 1934 in Mannheim ; † June 28, 2001 in London ) was a German writer , publicist and translator . He preferred to work in the genres of poetry , prose , drama , radio play and film art . He also made a name for himself as a Palatinate dialect poet .

Life

Reinfrank grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . During the time of National Socialism , his family was persecuted by the rulers: The father, a chemical skilled worker at IG Farben (today BASF ), was deported as an anti-fascist to a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp , the son and his mother had to hide in Schwarzach from 1941 to 1945 ( Odenwald) live.

Reinfrank began writing poetry in 1946, and public readings and publications began in 1950. For two semesters he was a student at the German School of Journalism in Aachen with grants from BASF and the Ludwigshafen city administration. From 1951 he worked as a journalist in Paris and as a dubbing copywriter in Berlin . In 1954 he married Helene Feistmann (1915–2011), a Jew from Berlin. In 1955 he left the Federal Republic to protest against rearmament and studied English literature and history at the London Polytechnic from 1956 to 1958 . Since 1965 he worked as a freelancer. Work and study stays took him to the Soviet Union and the ČSSR , France , the Netherlands , Ireland , Luxembourg , Sweden , Italy and the USA . The author , who wrote in German until his death, most recently lived in London. In Germany he is honored as a writer from Speyer because of his biographical references , where his estate is also kept.

membership

Works (selection)

  • Before the university , poems. Steinklopfer Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1959
  • The powder factory u. a. Stories from Ithopia . Steinklopfer Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1960
  • Temporary victories , poems. Steinklopfer Verlag, Egnach 1963
  • Germany songs to the organ grinder. Satirical ballads. total-hirsch-verlag, Berlin 1968
  • For a new Germany. Early verses and songs. PIT, Berlin 1971
  • The maneuver takes place on Straubs' veranda. Piece in two acts. PIT, Berlin 1976
  • Plutonium has no odor. Piece in five acts. PIT, Berlin 1978
  • Poetry of Facts 5: Breaks of Security - Poems. dahlemer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1989
  • Poetry of Facts 6: Millennium Intercession - Poems. dahlemer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1991
  • Poetry of Facts 9: Pictures of a Weird World - Poems. Publishing house Peter Guhl, Rohrbach 1996
  • The distant blue of the Palatinate , poems. Publishing house Peter Guhl, Rohrbach 1996
  • The deadly nightshade and other stories . dahlemer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1997
  • Moi Pälzer Werterbuch: From the mother joke of colloquial language . The nose, Ludwigshafen 2003
  • The Road to Fame - From the Estate. Publishing house Peter Guhl, Rohrbach 2004
  • The distant blue. A music-listening book . Palatina Viva and Marsilius Verlag, Speyer 2004

Further works as well as excerpts and complete directory in the Web Links section :

  • Literature dictionary Rhineland-Palatinate: Arno Reinfrank
  • Arno Reinfrank: Life and Works Directory

Awards

Commemoration

The one-year retrospective Arno Reinfrank was held in the Palatinate State Library in Speyer in 2004 . A review of a writer's life opens.

Since 2006, the city of Speyer has awarded the Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize, named after Reinfrank, every three years in his memory .

literature

  • Thomas Dullien: Arno Reinfranks “Poetry of Facts”. Non-fiction from a new perspective . A bridge between Science and Literature. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City UT March 1984, OCLC 18700448 (129 pp., Dissertation University of Utah [Ed. English]).
  • Jeanette Koch: Arno Reinfrank, contemporary witness - poet - lateral thinker . Marsilius-Verlag, Speyer 2001, ISBN 3-929242-24-9 .
  • Konstantin Kaiser : The soft and the hard - Arno Reinfrank (1934–2001) . In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance . 18th year, No. 4 , February 2002, ISSN  1606-4321 , p. 5 .
  • Sigfrid Gauch : Arno Reinfrank. Living in the culture of emigration . In: Rhineland-Palatinate work on books and libraries . Issue 22. Speyer 2004.
  • Eckhart Pilick : Arno Reinfranks Poetry of Facts . In: Rhineland-Palatinate work on books and libraries . Issue 22. Speyer 2004.
  • Guy Stern : Arno Reinfrank (1934-2001). Poet from the Palatinate in exile - author of the “Poetry of Facts” . Ed .: Centrum Judaicum (=  Jewish miniatures . Volume 84 ). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941450-02-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Adam: Helene Feistmann "I stayed a German" (= Jewish miniatures . Volume 179). Published by Centrum Judaicum . Hentrich & Hentrich , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-118-3 ( publisher information ( memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Meyer: Ideals of humanism and the Enlightenment. In: Mannheimer Morgen , July 9, 2019, accessed on May 17, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize. Press release on the homepage of the city of Speyer, accessed on May 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ Arno Reinfrank. Review of a writer's life . Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center. Palatinate State Library, Speyer 2004, OCLC 254070058 .
personal data
SURNAME Reinfrank, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2001
Place of death London