Bruno Schönlank (writer)

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Bruno Schönlank (born July 31, 1891 , † April 1, 1965 in Zurich ) was a German poet , playwright , novelist and radio play author . He was the son of the journalist Bruno Schönlank .

After attending high school and an agricultural school, he worked as a bookseller's assistant. Following a peace demonstration in 1915, he was arrested and then drafted. During the November Revolution he was temporarily close to the Spartacus group . Until 1933 he worked as an editor of several social democratic newspapers. In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland and settled in Zurich.

His works are characterized by left, social democratic positions and an abstract symbolic style. He is regarded as a working-class poet, and his speaking choirs are especially important for the development of this genre.

His estate is in the possession of the Fritz Hüser Institute .

Works (selection)

  • In these nights. Poems. Berlin: Verlag Paul Cassirer, 1917.
  • A gold ring, a dark ring. Poems. Berlin: Verlag Paul Cassirer, 1919.
  • Burning time. Tragedy. Berlin: Seehof, 1920.
  • Big city. Choral work. Berlin: E. Laub, 1923.
  • Big city fairy tale. Berlin: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, 1924. New edition: Das Kraftbonbon and other big city fairy tales . Berlin: Gutenberg Book Guild, 1928.
  • A spring mystery. Dramatic choral work in five acts. Berlin: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, 1925.
  • Be consecrated! A chorus for the youth consecration. Berlin: Arbeiterjugend-Verlag, 1927.
  • Agnes. A novel from the time of the socialist law. Berlin: Der Bücherkreis, 1929. New edition: Berlin: Info-Buchverlag, 1948.
  • Feverish time. Choirs and cantatas. Arbon: Genossenschaftsdruckerei, 1935. German Exile Archive 5248 (contains choruses written between 1919 and 1932).
  • Swiss fairy tale. Zurich: Fraumünster-Verlag, 1938.
  • Let bread be me. Selected poems. Zurich: Oprecht, 1940.
  • My animal paradise. Zurich: Artemis-Verlag, 1949.
  • Spark game. Zurich: Alpha-Presse, 1954.

literature

  • Jon Clark; Wilfried van der Will:  Schoenlank, Bruno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Kurzbach: Lexicon of authors , 1950.
  • Kürschner German literary calendar .
  • Lexicon of socialist German literature , 1973.
  • Clark, Jon: Bruno Schönlank and the workers' speaking choir movement , 1984. Zugl .: Bremen, Univ., Diss., 1979.
  • Kurt Böttcher (Ed.): Lexicon of German-language writers , 2, 1993.
  • Walther Killy : German Biographical Encyclopedia , 1998.
  • Andrea Teubel (ed.): Bruno Schönlank - a poet of the big city: reading book and inventory of his literary estate , 2004.
  • Schoenlank, Reinhold . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schönlank, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, playwright, novelist and radio play writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1891
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1965
Place of death Zurich