Edi Hornischer

Edi Hornischer (aka Eduard Hornischer; pseudonym Eddy Horn, Edi the Friday poet and others , born December 16, 1934 in Prague ; † February 24, 2001 in Ochsenfurt ) was, as he himself wrote, "by profession a legal servant, but by calling a humorist " .

In his “curious job” ( Eckhard Henscheid ), in which he worked for 47 years, he achieved cult status as the “poetic office manager ” of a large law firm . In his calling he wrote and composed well over 500 songs, for 30 years he was the Friday poet with a weekly column Edi for Main Post, Schweinfurter Tagblatt and Fränkisches Volksblatt and published 17 volumes of humorous poetry , aphorisms and adaptations .

1934-1952

Edi Hornischer went to school in Prague until 1948 , where his family came from. His talent for languages ​​was noticed early on. With his classmates he had the reputation of a "walking lexicon", which he did not abandon even in his professional life. However, he suffered from various illnesses and over the years developed a fear of changes in location and surroundings, which, for example, made it impossible for him to acquire a driver's license and, since the 1960s, to make public appearances increasingly impossible. The involuntary move in 1948 from Prague to Franconia , where the parents settled in Obernbreit , was the only trip of his life worth mentioning.

He was in the 1950s with the Main Post - Editor Rudi Wolf duo The dud occurred. They anticipated what would become “ comedy ” decades later . For a few years he also made it as head of the band Die Zeitzuzer to locally acclaimed appearances and worked with the musician, music publisher and composer Heinz Schiegl ("Jonny Sivo"), also wrote numerous texts to melodies by Otto Englisch and others. After his only close friend Otto Knöchel (Segnitz) died, who had finally become his music publisher, he moved almost exclusively between work and home in public. He gave up songwriting and composing.

Poet and humorist

Edi Hornischer was "a poet bursting with humor in some ingenious lines, but at the same time a difficult person" (Klaus Grüner). He received recognition from fellow poets, writers and celebrities: Eugen Roth , Robert Lembke , Erich von Däniken , Dieter Thomas Heck , and even the soccer player Sepp Maier wrote forewords to his books. Frank Elstner , Dieter Hildebrandt , Ilona Christen , Dagmar Berghoff and even Willy Brandt , whom he once animated to write a poem of his own, which he sent back with a dedication, read and praised it, singers like Freddy Breck and the "Singing Cellar Master" Peter Fischer took his songs in their repertoire; Authors and journalists such as Eckhard Henscheid , Hans Michael Hensel and Wolfgang Oechsner made a pilgrimage to Obernbreit to interview the poet who was unable to travel.

Enrico de Paruta , Elmar Gunsch , Rudi Büttner and others disposed of almost everything from him on radio and television. On June 28, 1998, Max Schautzer described Hornischer in his show Every Sunday as his “house-and-yard reimer”. There is a reason why it became this: Edi served Schautzer's office - like many others - just as happily as he did mostly free of charge with presentable humor, sometimes even by fax during the broadcast.

Successes and failures

But even after Prof. Julius Hackethal had personally reviewed the bibliophile volumes Edis kleine Bettlektüre and Das Blaue vom Himmel in 1996 (“The greatest thing I have ever read of diaphragmatic texts”), Hornischer's cat poems in 1997 in an anthology of the Ullstein-Verlag next to Maupassant and Tucholsky were printed, and after the language professor Christoph Gutknecht also included him in his anthology "Lauter Words über Words" with two works in 1999, his verses did not rise above the usual number of copies. Edi Hornischer declined all invitations to talk shows and radio broadcasts, and punished the clairvoyant Jan Michael Deon alias Schamabandi, who had predicted world fame for him in 1981. Eckhard Henscheid , who had already announced in pardon in 1976 that Hornischer's texts were "an idea too witty to secure broad fame for himself" was closer to life .

He even declined an invitation from Alfred Biolek to Cologne, although they seriously wanted to let him fly in by helicopter on his show, if only he would finally come out in public. And when his publisher got together an entire theater ensemble in Marktbreit on his 60th birthday in 1994 to perform his works, it was a huge success - without Edi.

Sickness and death

He died on Shrove Saturday 2001. As a pensioner, he never left his apartment - except on the last way to the hospital. His own inscription is written on his grave in Marktbreit : “A poet rests here, unfortunately he / it remained unknown as long as he wrote. / Today he hopes, while it rots, / that you all read it diligently. "

Records (selection)

Singles

• Detlef Kraus and the Peckies: Leberfleck -Jack [Hornischer / Hüttner / Kuntze / Göttsche] Ariola 45 025 A no year.
• Harry Wittmann: First a schnapps and a beer [Jonny Sivo / Eddy Horn] Supertone SU 331 B 1980.
• Stefan Dorano: Come on, old cowboy, ride [Hans Kunz / Eddy Horn] Supertone 5571 undated
• Stefan Dorano: A six in the lottery [Wolde-Flach / Hornischer / Hupp] Supertone 5572 undated
• Stefan Dorano: Cafe Oriental [Alstone / AGTabet / Schwabach] Favorite PF 21 oJ + Akkord PA 21 oJ
• Mönnichkirchen quintet: That sounds like it wasn't true [E. Hornischer / St. Rolan / W. Fink] Supercord VM 2028 A
• Ernst Clarin: Jonny travels on large ships [Gärtner-Volkmann / Text: Edi Hornischer] XYZ 1 B 603 A o.
• Ernst Clarin: A real seaman [Theo Rappold / Edi Hornischer] XYZ 1 B 603 B o. J.
• Rudi Borrel and the Contis: Honeymoon Saloon [Berkers / Horn] Abanori AB 2025 A no year
• Eddy Rosé and the Eddi-Bäumler-Trio: Gina (Beguine) [Horst Raszat / Otto Englisch / Edi Hornischer] Austria Tanzmusik TM 507 A no year

EP

• Peter Fischer: Four songs by the poet office manager Edi Hornischer. Abanori ABS 630 no year

Contains In Ochsenfurt am Main [Hornischer], Das Gasthaus am Main [Sivo / Plamann / Hornischer], Franconian girls, Franconian wine is not yet available on a sick note [Sivo / Hornischer / Plamann] and Not only the wine tastes good [Hornischer].

LP

• Peter Fischer: Greetings from Franconia; among others with

Franconian girl, Franconian wine is not yet available on a sick note [Sivo / Hornischer / Plamann], Here in beautiful Franconia [Horn], The inn on the Main [Sivo / Plamann / Horn], Nice, so nice [Sivo / Horn], Not just that Wine tastes good [horn]

Books

• A book by Edi, cheerful poems with and sometimes without morals. Preface by Eugen Roth. Marktbreit: Verlag Siegfried Greß, 1971. Bound (linen) and paperback edition, 2nd edition 1994 Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey.
• Goodbye to the world, 82 suggestions for passing away. With a foreword by Hans Theobald. Kitzingen: Bernhard Högner Verlag, 1972. [Four editions; 3rd edition 1992 Nördlingen: Willi F. Plamann Verlag; 4th edition 1997 Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey.]
• Leipziger Allerlei, cheerful sayings from Edi's kitchen . Foreword by Robert Lembke . Kitzingen: Bernhard Högner Verlag, 1974.
• Edi's hymn book for adults, 99 puns in three-four time. Obernbreit: Musikverlag Otto H. Knöchel, 1975.
• Plem-plem, 82 suggestions to drive you mad. With drawings by Harald Schmaußer and a foreword by Erich von Däniken . Ochsenfurt: Wingenfeld Verlag, 1976.
• Muckefuck & strong tobacco. With drawings by Harald Schmaußer, no foreword by Dieter Hildebrandt , but with half an Ottifanten by Otto . Ochsenfurt: Wingenfeld Verlag, 1978.
• Not a book by Edi, a bestseller. Foreword by Schamabandi, afterword by Joachim Fernau . Ochsenfurt: Wingenfeld Verlag, 1981; 2nd edition 1993 Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey.
• How must I laugh as bright as silver. Preface by Sepp Maier . Ochsenfurt: Ursula Zeitz Verlag, 1983; 2nd edition 1998 Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey.
• Salmagundi from the anus mundi or: all sorts of things from the hinterland. With a hint from Werner A. Widmann. Nördlingen: Willi F. Plamann Verlag, 1985.
• Edi's hymnbook for children over eighteen, 99 puns in two-four time. Obernbreit: Musikverlag Otto H. Knöchel, 1989.
• The dog in bed and other rhyming everyday things. With a foreword by Jimmi, Edis Hund, Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey, 1990.
• Edi's rhymes. With drawings by Markus Stempl and a front text by Dieter Thomas Heck , Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey, 1992.
• Edi's little bedside reading. With drawings by Harald Schmaußer. Selected and edited by (hmh.), Edis editor. Segnitz: Zenos Verlag 1994. (Selection from books 1–10).
• Edis Limericks. With drawings by Markus Stempl and a foreword by Gerhard Schlesinger. Kitzingen: Sauerbrey Publishing House, 1995.
• The blue of the sky. With drawings by Harald Schmaußer. Selected and edited by (hmh.) Edis editor. Segnitz: Zenos Verlag 1995. (Selection from 1–12 and 14).
• News from Limerickshausen. With drawings by Markus Stempl and a foreword by Gerhard Schlesinger., Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey, 1998.
• Edi's little Goethe breviary. Published on the occasion of the 250th birthday of the poet prince . Designed by Carmen Wolf. Kitzingen: Verlag Sauerbrey, 1999. Reduced special edition 2000 (digitally reproduced private print on loose cardboard sheets).

literature

• Lucky that there are Schnurrli. Fun stories for cat lovers. Berlin: Ullstein, 1997.
• Klaus Grüner: ‹The classic double existence: Edi Hornischer, Friday poet.› - ‹Feuilleton› No. 1. Italo Svevo on the 70th anniversary of death. Segnitz near Würzburg: Zenos Verlag 1998, 56 f. ISBN 3-931018-81-4 .
• Klaus Grüner: ‹The lonely poet. Edi Hornischer died at the age of 66. ›- Kitzingen: Kitzinger Zeitung, February 26, 2001.
• Christoph Gutknecht: Loud words about words. Munich: CHBeck 1999.
• Julius Hackethal: 'Amusing things from Edi's verse -fools.' - Eulalia. Journal for Eubios Gesundhilfe. Issue 20. Riedering: 2nd half of 1996, 132 ff.
• Eckhard Henscheid: ‹The cheerful masochist who believes in the power of the press.› - Pardon. Hamburg: May 1976, 76-82.
• Hans Michael Hensel: 'Foreword.' - Edi Hornischer: Edi's little bed reading. Segnitz: Zenos Verlag 1994, 12-15.

Web links

• Edi Hornischer's cat poems
• Christoph Gutknecht: Loud words about words.