Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg

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Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg ( pseudonym : Benno Frank , born August 15, 1915 in Berlin-Mariendorf ; † September 2002 ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg was the son of a businessman and shipowner . From 1922 he lived with his parents in Schwerin , from 1928 he attended high school in Norden (East Friesland) . At the age of thirteen, he was hired on a fishing steamer in Emden in 1928 and made it to Iceland and Greenland . In the following year he repeated his escape attempt and this time came to Spitzbergen . From 1929 to 1931 he attended a secondary school in Hamburg and from 1931 to 1933 a private school in Detmold . He then completed an internship on a Mecklenburg estate. After that he did his labor service in Emsland until 1934 . A bicycle trip to Italy followed, which took him to Sicily. From there he crossed to North Africa and stayed for a while in Tripoli ( Libya ) and in the Sahara , where he made the acquaintance of members of the anti-Italian resistance movement of the Tuareg .

After his return to Germany, Kohlenberg completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Aachen from 1935 to 1937 . At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the flak . He took part in ethnological and geographic lectures at the University of Bonn as a guest student . In 1941 he passed the Abitur for gifted students in Berlin . Kohlberg was a soldier in the air intelligence force and was stationed in Athens , Crete , the Balkans and most recently in Prague . He became an American prisoner of war, from which he returned to Aachen in 1946.

Kohlberg lived in Aachen as a freelance writer. 1950/51 he was also an employee of the " Aachener Nachrichten ". From the 1950s he made frequent trips with his own sailing yacht to Denmark , to the Dutch North Sea coast and through the English Channel . He later traveled to Algeria , Tunisia and Libya with the help of a scholarship . From 1959 to 1962 he was editor of the sailing sports magazine " Die Yacht ". Kohlberg spent the last years of his life in the Belgian border town of Eynatten .

Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg wrote books for young people in which he partly dealt with historical topics, especially early modern voyages of discovery, and partly processed his own travel experiences. In addition, manuals for sailors and non-fiction books on ethnological topics and pre-astronautics were created . He also translated non-fiction books from English.

In 1946, Kohlenberg was one of the founding members of the " West German Authors' Association " in Düsseldorf . He was a member of the Humboldt Society .

Awards

Works

  • The street of the vagabonds , Zurich 1948
  • When the Khamsin blows , Esslingen [u. a.] 1949
  • Battle of the Tuareg , Düsseldorf 1950
  • Pirate hunt , Düsseldorf 1951
  • Störtebecker's best man , Düsseldorf 1951
  • With a secret mission in See , Munich 1953
  • Death and the devil against Federmann , Düsseldorf 1953
  • Freedom of the Seas , Düsseldorf 1954
  • Per in the Greenland Ice Sheet , Munich 1954
  • Under red sails , Munich 1954
  • Herring hunt in the North Sea storm , Munich 1955
  • I round the cape , Düsseldorf 1956
  • Kara, the wolf blood , Munich 1956
  • Sailing trip with rope and bobble , Munich 1959
  • Ben Ali and his herd , Stuttgart 1963
  • Brennendes Land , Stuttgart 1964 (under the name Benno Frank)
  • The jungle region , Stuttgart 1964 (under the name Benno Frank)
  • The Little Indian Book , Stuttgart 1965
  • The little trapper book , Stuttgart 1966
  • The sunken city , Stuttgart 1966 (under the name Benno Frank)
  • The Little Book of the Wild West , Stuttgart 1967
  • Ethnology , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1968
  • The inland waters of the Netherlands , Bielefeld [u. a.] 1970
  • Unraveled prehistory , Munich [a. a.] 1970
  • The waters around Denmark , Bielefeld [u. a.] 1972
  • The Canal , Bielefeld 1974
  • Marco Polo , Balve (Sauerland) 1974
  • Alexander v. Humboldt , Balve (Sauerland) 1975
  • The mysterious JJ , Balve (under the name Benno Frank)
    • 1. Among the rebels , 1975
    • 2. Leap into the green hell , 1975
    • 3. Treasures in the Jungle , 1975
  • With sealed order , Balve / Sauerland 1976
  • Sven Hedin , Balve / Sauerland 1976
  • The Iron Man , Balve / Sauerland 1977
  • The Islands of Deception , Balve / Sauerland 1978
  • Kara is looking for a friend , Menden / Sauerland 1978
  • Apocalypse , Munich [u. a.] 1981
  • The wreck in Tierra del Fuego and other fantastic stories , Menden / Sauerland 1981
  • Three roses for the knight , Munich [u. a.] 1988
  • A sword for the emperor , Munich 1989
  • Störtebeker , Munich 1991
  • The Emperor's Medicus , Munich 1995

Editing

  • It happened at midnight , Stuttgart 1964
  • Islands under the Southern Cross , Stuttgart 1970

Translations

  • Basil W. Bathe : From the Crusades to the Cruises . Bielefeld 1972
  • Henry Mangles Denham : The Adriatic . Bielefeld 1968
  • Henry Mangles Denham: The Aegean Sea . Bielefeld 1970
  • Henry Mangles Denham: The Eastern Mediterranean . Bielefeld 1968
  • Henry Mangles Denham: The Tyrrhenian Sea . Bielefeld 1969
  • Eric C. Hiscock : Atlantic Cruise with Wanderer III . Bielefeld 1969
  • Douglas Phillips-Birt : You went out to sea . Bielefeld 1972
  • Alec Rose : With "Lively Lady" alone around the world . Bielefeld 1968
  • Mark Twain : Tennessee Morals and Other Stories . Stuttgart 1964

literature

  • Heinz Martin Werhahn: Karl F. Kohlenberg , Aachen 1982

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kohlberg, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Benno (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Mariendorf
DATE OF DEATH September 2002