Bengta Bischoff

Bengta Bischoff 1965

Bengta Bischoff (born April 4, 1909 in Hamburg , † April 3, 1987 in Kaltenkirchen , Segeberg district ) was a housewife (Hamburg captain's widow) and lay narrator, who became known as a novelist .

life and work

Bischoff's debut novel 6 Correct was highly praised by critics, which encouraged her to write more writings. Details about her person remained unknown, the only thing that is certain is that she did not publish under a pseudonym and that she lived in a social flat near Herbertstrasse in St. Pauli .

Signature Bengta Bischoff

6 correct ones were discovered by Peter Rühmkorf , the novel was published in 1966 as a handwriting by Rowohlt . The big wish-fulfillment of a main lottery prize is his topic, and her connection of housewife dreams with authentic milieu descriptions with strong traits of oral tradition resulted in a special mixture. The success encouraged her to write her second novel of the same kind, The Yellow House on Pinnasberg or The 36 Eros Brothers of St. Pauli , about a man's brothel (the "yellow house"), then an unheard of topic outside of pornography , which was also made into a film has been. In the 1970 film adaptation by Alfred Vohrer, Bengta Bischoff herself acts as the narrator. After her third novel, she fell silent literarily.

Publications

6 correct. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1963.
The yellow house on Pinnasberg or The 36 Eros Brothers of St. Pauli. First edition Konkret-Verlag, Hamburg 1970; 3rd edition, Luebbe Verlagsgruppe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-10488-9 .
- (Film adaptation) The yellow house on Pinnasberg .
Lenchen in love. Novel. Lübbe Verlagsgruppe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-10501-X .

literature

Peter Rühmkorf : Bengta Bischoff or the biased innocence. In: Gerhard Schmidt-Henkel , Horst Enders , Friedrich Knilli , Wolfgang Maier (eds.): Trivialliteratur. Essays. Berlin 1964, pp. 85-91.
In short KP . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1970 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Bengta Bischoff - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Bengta Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library
Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from October 15, 1963.

Individual evidence

↑ The correspondence is in his estate in Marbach .

personal data
SURNAME	Bischoff, Bengta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lay narrator and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1987
Place of death	Kaltenkirchen , Segeberg district

[1] The correspondence is in his estate in Marbach .