Bernhard Spring

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Bernhard Spring (born November 4, 1983 in Merseburg ) is a German literary scholar , journalist and writer .

Life

Having grown up in Merseburg and Geusa , Spring worked as a freelancer for the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and the Magdeburger Volksstimme from 2000 . At the same time, between 2001 and 2004, he published his first short stories and poems in the yearbooks of the Friedrich Bödecker Circle , albeit without being a member of it.

From 2005 to 2011 Spring studied German studies and history in Leipzig and Halle as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . During this time Spring founded two student literary newspapers in which he published his own texts, for which he also conducted unusual interviews. For example, he spoke to Günter Grass during the 2009 Bundestag election while driving through East Germany. The interview text was also taken into account abroad. In 2008 he received the first literary award from the State Home Association of Saxony-Anhalt for his short story Mid Mariechn off the swing . In the following years he received this award two more times.

Between 2012 and 2014 Spring was a doctoral scholarship holder in the graduate support program of the state of Saxony-Anhalt at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he was also a lecturer in literary studies. Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist.

Literary scholar

As a literary historian, journalist and author, Spring tries to keep alive the memory of Jewish authors, who were hushed up in Germany after 1933, in the daily press and also in scientific discourse. For example, he published on Berta Lask , Hans José Rehfisch and Carl Zuckmayer . With a collection of texts edited by him, he commemorated the Halle poet Alfred Wolfenstein . In his dissertation, Spring analyzed the dramatic work of several German-Jewish authors during the Weimar Republic.

journalist

Bernhard Spring was and is also active as a journalist. On his homepage he refers u. a. on contributions in the Augsburger Allgemeine , the Junge Welt , Lettre International , the Magdeburger Volksstimme , the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , the Standard , the Thüringer Allgemeine , the Vorwärts or the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania . He also publishes regularly in Eulenspiegel and in the satirical magazines Chieftain Eigener Herd and Das Blättchen .

Spring uses numerous pseudonyms that he takes from literary models. Between 2008 and 2011 he used the code names "Alexander Reschke" (from Günter Grass' story Doom ) and "Irene Moll" (from Erich Kästner's novel Fabian ) in order to more clearly separate his work as editor and editor in the journals he edited . In his reports he prefers to report on regional historical topics and thus contributes to the research and revitalization of the cultural history of Central Germany and especially Saxony-Anhalt . He is active nationwide and in other European countries with lectures on central German contemporary history. Due to his regular publications and lectures, Spring has been described as “one of the authors who are particularly well anchored in the public consciousness” of contemporary Saxony-Anhalt.

Spring became involved in journalism during the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 , advocating a temporary admission of refugees with appeals to humanity and Christian charity. As a signatory of a nationally recognized open letter, he directed a. a. at the side of the state parliament member Sebastian Striegel against the then chairman of the Philologists Association Saxony-Anhalt e. V. Jürgen Mannke, who portrayed refugees as "criminal and hormone-controlled". Mannke then criticized Spring and Striegel in his book In the Land of Secret Truths .

writer

Joseph von Eichendorff's first semester at the University of Halle in 1805 was overshadowed by a mysterious death in his crime debut, Follow a Landpartie (2010) . In his second Eichendorff crime thriller The Disappeared Countess (2011), Spring describes the industrialization in Anhalt in the 19th century.

In his 2013 novel Fliederbordell , for which he received the Walter Bauer scholarship from the cities of Leuna and Merseburg , his commissioner Till Thamm has to dive into the right-wing scene in Merseburg. In Männerblues (2014), Thamm is on the hunt for a serial killer in Merseburg, Halle an der Saale and in the Harz Mountains. Due to his Thamm thrillers, Spring is now one of the most successful crime novelists in Saxony-Anhalt.

With the novel Auszeit mit Tine (2015), Spring presented a literary homage to Saxony-Anhalt , especially the Burgenland district .

Some of his texts have been translated into Romanian and Armenian.

Publications (selection)

Novels

stories

  • Hit Luke! In: Jürgen Jankofsky , Siegfried Maaß (Ed.): Questions on Answers. Staßfurt 2003.
  • W3-34. In: Ingeborg von Lips (Ed.): Hallesche Anthologie. Halle 2012. ISBN 978-3-86977-046-8 .
  • Life and death in Weißenfels. In: Peter Godazgar (Ed.): Rest gently in Saxony-Anhalt. Short thrillers from the land of early risers. Hillesheim 2013. ISBN 978-3-942446-76-1 .
  • Hanna has to go. In: Junge Welt , January 5, 2013.
  • That was Liebermann. In: Eulenspiegel, No. 4, 2013.
  • That was the twenties. In: Eulenspiegel, No. 10, 2014.
  • Mid Mariechn off the swing. In: Saskia Luther (ed.): Heeme an Elbe, Saale and Unstrut. Halle 2016. ISBN 978-3-95462-647-2

Others

Awards

  • 2008: Literature Prize of the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt e. V. (for the story Mid Mariechn off the swing )
  • 2010: Literature Prize of the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt e. V. (for the story Off de Froinschafd )
  • 2012: Walter Bauer scholarship from the cities of Merseburg and Leuna (for the novel Fliederbordell )
  • 2014: Literature Prize of the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt e. V. (for the story Kinner, Kinner )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Democracy is not a fixed property . In: General German newspaper . In: September 26, 2009.
  2. ^ Staff literature studies. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
  3. ^ Bernhard Spring: Alfred Wolfenstein. Reading book. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2011.
  4. ↑ opac.bibliothek.uni-halle.de
  5. ↑ Bernhard Spring: What I haven't written In: WortGewand , No. 4 (2009).
  6. ↑ Sandra Rühr: Staging of Reading. Public literary readings from the mid-19th century to the present day . In: Ursula Rautenberg, Ute Schneider (Ed.): Reading. An interdisciplinary manual . Berlin 2015, pp. 853-882, p. 867.
  7. ↑ Detlef Färber: Foreign Minister of Art . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , October 9, 2018, p. 12.
  8. ↑ Ralf Langer: On site. Positions, projects, publications . In: Education server Saxony-Anhalt . 2016. pp. 49–58, p. 53.
  9. ^ Bernhard Spring: Completely opaque intentions . In: Eulenspiegel , 1/2016, p. 39.
  10. ↑ Ingo Salmen: Warning against sex with Muslims: misunderstanding or racism? In: Tagesspiegel , November 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ Thomas Krause: Teachers' Association warns girls against fast sex with refugees . In: Der Stern , November 6, 2015
  12. ↑ Jürgen Mannke: In the land of secret truths. On the scaffold of political opinion formation . Großröhrsdorf 2017
  13. ↑ Our guest was Bernhard Spring, Eichendorff crime writer. ( Memento from August 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Hessischer Rundfunk Kulturradio May 1, 2013.
  14. ↑ The trail leads to the lilac brothel. Saxon Newspaper , March 14, 2013.
  15. ↑ Till Thamm is investigating again.
  16. ↑ Local fare in the bookshelf.
  17. ↑ Bernhard Spring: Tacerne din lumea de dincolo. In: Lettre Internationale , Ediţia română No. 75, Bucharest 2010.
  18. ^ Bernhard Spring: Poems. In: André Schinkel , Jürgen Jankofsky (Ed.): When the icy days were finally over. Seal from Saxony-Anhalt. 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Spring, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg