Bastian Müller (writer)

Bastian Müller ( pseudonym for: Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Müller ; born August 22, 1912 in Leverkusen ; † October 5, 1988 ) was a German writer .

Life

Bastian Müller completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and went hiking through France and Italy in the late 1920s . Later he lived for a while as a freelance writer in Worpswede . After the Second World War he worked as a film dramaturge in Berlin and at various radio stations (e.g. as an employee of Peter von Zahn in the NWDR studio in Cologne). Bastian Müller's literary work includes novels , short stories , documentary radio plays and features . The (anti) war novel Behind God's Back , published in 1947, ran four editions at short intervals and received controversial, but mostly approving, reviews. A review of the novel under the heading Bastian Müller - Remarque II? appeared in Die Welt on December 4, 1948.

Horst Denkler has in his book Werkruinen, Lebenstrümmer. Literary traces of the 'lost generation' of the Third Reich drew attention to Müller's prose works that were published before 1945 and destroyed National Socialist values, and emphasized that Müller's first work, The Owls, deserved attention to this day.

Works

• The owls , Berlin 1939
• Life without a dream , Berlin 1940
• Oh, how is it possible then , Berlin 1944
• Christine , Berlin 1944
• Behind God's Back , Hamburg 1947; New edition Bremen 2012
• Brother, go and ring the bell , Diez / Lahn 1948
• Two stories , Berlin 1948
• Love stories , Hamburg 1965

literature

• Behind God's back . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1949 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bastian Müller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Denkler : Ruins of works, ruins of life. Literary traces of the 'lost generation' of the Third Reich . Tuebingen 2006
2. ↑ The Rediscovery Great premiere for a new novel edition. In: Kreiszeitung.de. August 28, 2012, accessed May 10, 2020 .