Bodo Homberg

Bodo Homberg (born March 4, 1926 in Rostock ) is a German writer .

Life

Bodo Homberg grew up in Rostock as the son of a traveling salesman. He attended elementary school, middle school and secondary school. He was interested in music from an early age, self-taught beginnings and first compositions for piano and orchestral music followed. On the side he took lessons from a conductor at the Rostock City Theater . 1943-44 he was an air force helper in Rostock. In 1944 he was obliged to do the Reich Labor Service and later called up for the Air Force in Oschatz . After the Klotzsche Air War SchoolIn February 1945 he was deployed on the Oder front in Angermünde, where he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In the prison camp, too, he worked with music, as a lyricist and choir director.

After his release in April 1948, he studied German, music and art studies at the University of Rostock and in West Berlin. He also worked as a journalist. During this time he joined the LDPD university group and took an active part in the power struggles of the university. In February 1950 he fled to West Berlin before being arrested. He gave up the plan to choose music as a profession and began to work as a writer. At the same time, he took part in a one-year course to obtain the Abitur, which he could no longer take because of the war events in Rostock. From 1951 he continued his studies and became a member of the Theater Studies Institute of the Free University of Berlin. This was followed by journalistic activities, Homberg wrote film and theater reviews, he was a freelancer at the SFB , as a lecturer and also for school radio and radio drama and worked for the television of the GDR. From the winter semester 1958 to the summer semester 1967 he was a private lecturer at the state engineering school "Beuth" in Berlin for German language and literature.

In 1955 Homberg received a travel grant from the federal government, which enabled him to stay in Switzerland, Spain and France. In 1954 he became a member of the " Protection Association of German Stage Writers and Composers ". In 1967 he moved to East Berlin. Here he married his long-time partner Aenne Keller, who worked as a dramaturge at the German TV broadcaster in Berlin-Adlershof.

Works

Unless otherwise stated, the novels were published by Union Verlag Berlin (Ost). Most of the articles in “Zettels Archiv” come from the author's drawer, as their publication in the GDR was not possible. Likewise: “My casual acquaintance. Not until 1990 in Walthari “Münchweiler / Rod.

Prose works

• “Time to look around” Four stories. (1976) 3 editions. (From: "Paraphrases about Ekkes" also published in Poland (Warsaw 1988))
• "Hide and Seek" Roman (1978) 2 editions
• "A dream of the world" story (1982) In: "The first house on the square" anthology Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin (1982)
• "Gossiping About a King" Novel (1983)
• "Bob's Funeral" Novel (1986)
• "The Hour of the Mole" novel (1989)
• "My fugitive acquaintance" story (1969) First published in "Walthari", magazine for literature, seventh year 1990 issue 13.
• “Germany ... partly - partly” A radio essay (1997) reading by the author on Deutschlandfunk Cologne on October 3, 1996
• “Boy with a cart” story. (2004) (published as pasticcio No. 6 "Zettels Archiv" Langenhagen 1998)
• "Moments memorables" Three stories and an essay: "Nachbedachtungen in modo requiescat in pace" (2002) (Published as pasticcio No. 18 in "Zettels Archiv" Langenhagen 2002)
• "Dead Race" story (2004) (published as pasticcio No. 18 in "Zettels Archiv" Langenhagen 2004)
• "Apparently dead" story (2004) (published as pasticcio no. 24 in "Zettels Archiv" Langenhagen 2004)
• "Das Mündel" story (2007) (published as pasticcio no. 36 in "Zettels Archive" Langenhagen 2007)
• "Breaking stones" novel (2005) (previously unpublished)

TV pieces

All TV plays and films were published under the pseudonym Christian Collin:

• "Oil for Frisco" television play (1958)
• "Die Geier der Helen Turner" TV play. (1959) As a play in various theaters in the GDR
• “Corruption in the Justizpalast” radio play based on Ugo Betti 1959 SFB
• "He goes over the fields" radio play (translation and adaptation after Moshe Shamir, Israel) broadcast at the SFB (1960)
• "Raststätte" TV piece (1960)
• "Dark Dreams" TV piece (1961)
• "Golf bei Sniders" TV piece (1964) (Also as a radio play on Radio Finland. Appeared as a supplement in "Theater der Zeit" issue 4/1965)
• “Mañaña, Mañaña” TV piece, also stage piece (music by Rudolf Wagner Regeny) (1965) Published in “Sinn und Form”: Seventeenth year 1965 Third and fourth issue
• “Plautus im Nonnenkloster” (based on CFMeyer), versified adaptation for television, music by Tilo Müller Medek (1970), published under: Christian Collin: “Hochzeit einer Nun” comedy. Freely adapted from CFMeyer in the Henschel Verlag Berlin Ost
• "Assassin" TV piece (1973)
• Film adaptations according to Theodor Fontane:
  • "Effi Briest" (1970) DEFA
  • "Schach von Wuthenow" (1974) DEFA

Stage plays

• "Eternal Homecoming" ("Odysseus 52") Public original reading in "Neue Lesebühne" Hagen in Westphalia (1952)
• "The career of Dr. Ritter “play. World premiere at the "Tribüne" Berlin West. (1954)
• "Spartacus" radio play (1955)
• "The Homecoming of the Prodigal Father" stage play (1957)

Editions

• “Tabakiana” poems of praise, abuse and thoughtfulness for all friends and opponents of blue smoke selected by Bodo Homberg with wood engravings by Heiner Vogel, Koehler and Amelang Leipzig (1972) 4 editions
• “Rundgesang und Gerstensaft” rhymes and inconsistencies about beer. Compiled and provided with an afterword by Bodo Homberg. Drawings by Martha-Luise Gubig. Union Verlag Berlin (1988)

Awards

• Sponsorship award for the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin West 1954
• Travel grant from the Federal Government 1955

Web links

• Literature by and about Bodo Homberg in the catalog of the German National Library

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• Gottfried Klöhn: Stations . At the time of transition between the Elbe and Oder “Walthari” magazine for literature Seventh year 1990 issue 13 Münchweiler / Rod.
• Erich Dauenhauer: Wanderer between West and East. Comments on the novel by Bodo Homberg "Walthari" Journal for Literature Seventh year 1990 Issue 13 Münchweiler / Rod.
• International bibliography on the history of German literature : 2. Half volume of the ten-year supplementary volume, pp. 515-516: Bodo Homberg: Personalbibliographie. Volk und Wissen Verlag Berlin Ost 1984 (up to the title: "Hide and Seek")
• Lexicon of German-speaking writers. From the beginning to the present. 20th century. Pp. 329-330 Georg Olms Verlag. Hildesheim-Zurich-New York 1993
• Der Spiegel , no.19 from May 5, 1954
• Berlin - a place to write. 347 authors from A to Z. Portraits and texts With a foreword by Walter Jens. Published by Karin Kiwus on behalf of the Akademie der Künste Aufbau-Verlag Berlin. 1st edition 1996.