Detlef Berentzen

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Detlef Berentzen (pseudonym: Dr. Feelgood ; born February 16, 1952 in Bielefeld ; † July 18, 2019 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Berentzen attended elementary school in Bielefeld, Westphalia, and then the Ratsgymnasium .

Since 1971, after completing his commercial apprenticeship (Oetker) and making his first attempts at writing, he has lived permanently in West Berlin . There he studied economics and philosophy, wrote columns for scene magazines, worked in children's shops and collectives. From 1981 he wrote for the taz , of which he was part of the editorial team and management.

Berentzen was the founder of the magazine "enfant t.", Which he edited for five years. Working as a freelance journalist and author since 1987, he has since produced features and documentaries on politics, culture and literature for the ARD radio and television stations. His texts are in newspapers, magazines and books.

He was a member of the Documentary Film Working Group (AG DOK).

Works

Books
  • die taz - the book. Current eternity values ​​from ten years (with Mathias Bröckers and Bernhard Brugger), two thousand and one, Frankfurt 1989.
  • The Germans and their dogs. A special path in the history of mentality? (with Wolfgang Wippermann), Siedler, Munich 1999.
  • Hermann. Novel. Frankfurt, Dielmann, 2002, ISBN 3-933974-30-5 .
  • Why Schlund would rather paint. Narrative. Bielefeld: Pendragon, 2004, ISBN 3-934872-72-7 .
  • Maybe a fool like me. Peter Härtling; the biographical reader. Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2006, ISBN 3-462-03715-3 .
  • Guide dogs for the blind. Cultural history of a partnership, Ripperger & Kremers, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-943999-91-4 .
Radio features
  • Hermann, thinking about Germany. WDR 1994.
  • I moved in as a stranger ..., Peter Härtling on his 70th birthday. RBB, DLR, SWR 2003.
  • Germany - explained from the hat. SWR 2008.
  • SuperNanny goes children's shop, 40 years of anti-authoritarian education and the consequences. SWR 2008.
  • 30years after, looking for traces in the taz memory. SWR, RBB, WDR, MDR 2009.
  • Radio Days, soundtrack of a post-war childhood. SWR 2009.
  • I called after him ...! Try to find the dead brother. SWR 2010.
  • Renaissance of utopias. On the topicality of Ernst Bloch. SWR 2010.
  • The breath of words, Peter Härtling about writing to the limit. SWR 2011.
  • What remains? Or is nothing left ?, Erich Fried on his 90th birthday. SWR 2011.
  • Moravia memory space, literary foray through Olomouc. SWR 2012.
  • Berentzen: The Kornbrenner dynasty - viewed from the sidelines. SWR 2012.
  • Last words, an attempt to reconstruct a friendship. SWR 2013
  • Kinderschatten, Peter Härtling: Early years in Saxony. MDR 2013
  • Homecoming, viewing a post-war childhood. SWR 2014
  • Taste of radical lust, history and topicality of the Situationist International. SWR / WDR 2014
  • What remains? Letter to the dead father. SWR 2015
  • Nightmare parents evening ?. SWR 2016
  • Man's best friend, the Germans and their dogs. SWR 2017
  • The shooting of Benno Ohnesorg on June 2, 1967. SWR 2017
  • Utopia, The island as an ideal state by Thomas More, SWR 2017
  • Task force against home careers, multisystem therapy (MST). SWR 2017
  • Think along! Participate !, About Democratic Schools. SWR 2018
  • The 68ers: Get out of the educational disaster !. SWR 2018
  • The time you have left - old age and its philosophies. SWR 2018
  • School camps, learning without a classroom. SWR 2018
  • School theater, stage for life. SWR 2019
  • Update 40.0 The “daily newspaper” in the age of the digital natives. SWR, WDR 2019
TV feature
  • The German Shepherd, 100 years between good and bad, (camera: Frank Reinhold). WDR / ORB 2000

Web links

Wikiquote: Detlef Berentzen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Berentzen. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 58.
  2. ^ Obituary for Detlef Berentzen on SWR2 with some of his programs
personal data
SURNAME Berentzen, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feelgood, Dr. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2019
Place of death Berlin-Schöneberg