Bernhard Schulz (writer)
Bernhard Schulz (born April 22, 1913 in Lindlar ; † March 24, 2003 in Osnabrück ), also known by his newspaper abbreviation bezet , was a German journalist and writer . There is a risk of confusion with the culture editor of the same name for the Berliner Tagesspiegel .
Life
Bernhard Schulz, son of a Sparkasse employee, grew up in a village in the Oberbergisches Land . Early on, he read next to Karl May and Ludwig Ganghofer also Fontane and Tolstoy . After attending the dwarf school in Lindlar, Schulz came to the Paritätische Höhere Lehranstalt in Engelskirchen and the Humanist Gymnasium in Wipperfürth .
His career aspiration was to become a journalist. In Bergisch Gladbach he volunteered at the Rheinisch Bergische Zeitung . He then worked as an editor, freelance journalist and lecturer in Eckernförde , Hanover and Berlin .
After eight years of military service, war and imprisonment, he returned to Osnabrück , the original home of the family, where he was the features editor of the Neue Tagespost until retirement . At the same time he also wrote for other newspapers such as Die Welt . He published many short stories and 24 books.
He was friends with the Hamburg literary agent Werner Lüning. His work is shaped by the experiences of the Second World War , which he went through from beginning to end. He repeatedly reports on events on the western and eastern fronts , for example in the longer story The Crows of Maklaki , which is based on an actual incident. This story spread in a Russian translation in Russia and made the author famous there too.
Works
- The earth is calling (1934)
- The Lion Banner (1937)
- In the West (1941)
- Life's last consolation in Alderney (1941)
- The Severe Need (1942)
- The heart clenched into a fist (1943)
- The Street of the Fathers (1944)
- Spiral staircase to happiness (1951)
- Picnic on the Mediterranean (1961)
- Maklaki's Crows (1967)
- Blue Hour (1969)
- Narrated by Candlelight (1973)
- The Coo of the Pigeons in Summer Time (1976)
- Back then in the village (1976)
- Evening with cinnamon stars (1977)
- Mister Walrus or the Desire to Do Good (1979)
- Boots for Maruschka (1986)
- Poetry of the dirt roads (1989)
- Ruprecht with the wooden leg (1993)
- Back then - village stories from the Bergisches Land (1996)
- Afternoon of Slow Warming (1999)
- To Auschwitz for the weekend and other stories (2000)
- Winter stories from the Bergisches Land (2002)
- The dandelion is not crushed by kettledrum or turning to security (2018)
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website for Bernhard Schulz, with articles from his estate and information about his works
- Stories by Bernhard Schulz about the Hümmling
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website www.bernhardschulz.de, accessed on July 21, 2015.
- ^ Information from son Ansgar Schulz-Mittenzwei on April 14, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schulz, Bernhard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | bezet |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindlar |
DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 2003 |
Place of death | Osnabrück |