Emil Belzner

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Emil Belzner (born June 13, 1901 in Bruchsal , Baden , † August 8, 1979 in Heidelberg ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Emil Belzner came from a family of craftsmen. In 1917 he performed as a high school student support services on the railways in Rastatt and tells in his novel how he had broken into the train by chance, with the emigrant group to Lenin from Switzerland to Russia had traveled (the fictional encounter with Lenin theme of Belzner's last work). In the same year Belzner left school and started working for various newspapers . He also attended lectures at Heidelberg University .

In 1924 Belzner became head of the feature pages of the Badische Presse in Karlsruhe , in 1929 he moved to the Neue Badische Landeszeitung in Mannheim , in 1935, after a year of unemployment, to the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt and in 1937 to the Kölnische Zeitung . From 1938 he was editor of the magazine Kosmos in Stuttgart . After initial lyrical attempts, Belzner had published two verses in the 1920s and a novel about the First World War in the early 1930s . Two more novels appeared during the Third Reich , but these led to the fact that the author was classified as undesirable by the National Socialist rulers. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into a flak unit , but later dismissed as unfit.

From 1946 to 1969 Belzner directed the feature pages of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg ; after he was dismissed there - because of an article criticizing the Nazi past of the local manager at the time - he worked again for various newspapers.

Belzner was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and (until 1958) the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . In 1949 he was awarded the all-German Heinrich Heine Prize .

Works

  • Heimat songs . Leipzig 1918.
  • Last ride . Leipzig 1918.
  • The horns of Potiphar . Hanover 1924.
  • Ivan the fur trader or The Melancholy of Love . Lyric story, Frankfurt am Main 1929.
  • Marching - not dreaming . Hamburg 1931.
  • Columbus before landing . Frankfurt am Main 1934.
  • I'm the king . Berlin 1940.
  • The saffron eater . Hamburg 1953.
  • Juana's great sailor . Munich [u. a.] 1956.
  • The drive to the revolution or that journey . Munich [u. a.] 1969.
  • Luck with Fanny . Munich [u. a.] 1973.

literature

  • Roland Krischke: Emil Belzner (1901–1979) writer and journalist . Heidelberg 2002.
  • Roland Krischke: The literary work of Emil Belzner - presentation, analysis, complete bibliography . Heidelberg 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Buselmeier : Literary tours through Heidelberg . 3rd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-88423-257-6 , p. 208.
personal data
SURNAME Belzner, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1979
Place of death Heidelberg