Burkhard Nadolny

Burkhard Nadolny (born October 15, 1905 in Saint Petersburg , † July 2, 1968 in Chieming am Chiemsee ) was a German writer .

Life

Burkhard Nadolny comes from an East Prussian family and was the son of the diplomat and later German ambassador in Moscow , Rudolf Nadolny . He spent his childhood years in Berlin , Stockholm and Constantinople , then officially studied law in Geneva , London , Marburg and Jena , but on the side with more zeal, art history , plus physics , electrical and radio engineering . For several years he worked as an inventor and flight instructor .

As a consultant in a foreign trade organization of the Reichsgruppe Industrie (AGK = Export Association for War Equipment), he married the secretary Isabella Peltzer in 1941 , who later wrote feature articles, short stories and, from 1959, novels. The marriage resulted in son Sten Nadolny , who became a writer.

Burkhard Nadolny made his first literary attempts during the Second World War , in which he had been a soldier since 1942. In the summer of 1945 he was arrested for his work for the intelligence service in the course of automatic arrest and interned in a camp until the summer of 1946. After his release he lived with his wife, son and in-laws in their house in Chieming am Chiemsee . From 1952 to 1954, at Ernst Schnabel's request, he directed the Echo of the Day on Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ( Hamburg ), and then returned to Bavaria to work as a freelance writer. He was a frequent guest of Group 47 and had a long-term exchange of ideas with Peter Bamm , Barbara Bondy , Jürgen Eggebrecht , Günter Eich , Horst Mönnich , Werner Jörg Lüddecke and Hans Werner Richter .

Works

• Michael Vagrant , Roman, Hamburg 1948
• The face in the mirror , novellas, Hamburg 1948
• Thrake, A journey on the coasts of the Balkans , short stories Munich 1949
• The destroyed voice , radio play 1950
• The masks of Madame Meloine , Roman, Hamburg 1950 under the pseudonym Friedrich Ocker
• Concert for bats , Roman, Darmstadt 1952
• The Geishas of Captain Fisby , radio play, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk 1952
• The Geishas of Captain Fisby , television play, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk 1953
• People help people , television game 1954
• Maaruf , radio play 1954
• Jena , radio play 1954
• The green thumb , radio play, 1955
• The grandfather clock , radio play 1956
• Staying friends , anthology for Edelstahlwerke AG, Krefeld. Munich 1957
• Felix Heinrich Schoeller and the art of papermaking in Düren . A life picture from the early days. Baden-Baden 1957
• The miracle of rags, wood and straw , anniversary publication for the company Reflex Papier, Düren 1958
• Princess Anthaja , Roman, Tübingen 1959
• Yugoslav Adriatic , illustrated book, Munich 1961 and Zagreb 1965
• Humanity in War , Bundeswehr educational film, 1962
• The Cauvenburg case , Roman, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1962
• We are left with amazement , anthology, Munich 1964
• Varta. A company of the Quandt Group 1888-1963 , company chronicle, together with Wilhelm Treue , Munich 1964
• The big story , radio play, 1966
• World records, sporting successes, 50 years of BMW . Munich 1966
• Louis Ferdinand. The life of a Prussian prince , biography, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1967
• Hamburg - Merkur's own city , picture book Hamburg January 1968, text, together with Hans Bütow and Siegfried Lenz

swell

• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Nekrolog 1936–1970, p. 471
• Hans Werner Richter: Letters from and to Hans Werner Richter , ed. by Sabine Cofalla, Munich 1997
• Heinz Ludwig Arnold: Die Gruppe 47 , special volume text + criticism, 2nd edition, Munich 1986
• Sten Nadolny: The discovery of slowness , Munich 1983 (dedicated to "my father Burkhard Nadolny 1905-1968"), special edition 2007, there the autobiographical epilogue
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 950 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhard Nadolny in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isabella Nadolny: A tree grows over the roof . dtv, 1980, p. 173, 195 .