Erich Lissner

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Erich Lissner (born July 22, 1902 in Chemnitz ; died November 8, 1980 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German journalist.

Life

Erich Lissner attended the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium in Dresden and after graduating from high school in 1922/23 studied at the Dresden Art Academy with the painter Richard Dreher . In 1923 he went to the first Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar. Lissner was friends with Jakob Hegner , Otto Dix , Oskar Kokoschka , Walter Hasenclever , Kurt Schwitters and Carl Sternheim and went to Hellerau for performances by the Mary Wigman dance school . From 1925 he studied archeology, ethnology, philosophy and art history in Berlin, Cologne and Munich.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, a further career at a university or a public museum was blocked for him as a democrat, and Lissner now worked in the private sector, initially as an advertising copywriter at Werner & Mertz in Mainz and from 1938 in the advertising department of the Kalle chemical factory in Wiesbaden . During this time he wrote a "Wurstologie" . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medical soldier .

After 1945, Lissner was considered “unencumbered” and in 1946 Golo Mann brought him to the Hessischer Rundfunk as editor-in-chief of the literature department. In 1948, Lissner moved to the editorial office of the Frankfurter Rundschau and until 1969 headed the newspaper's feature section.

Fonts (selection)

  • From Germany's past: an Erdal picture book . Ed. Erdal-Fabrik. Mainz: Werner & Mertz Aktiengesellschaft, 1937
  • Wurstologia or It's about the sausage . Frankfurt am Main: Hauserpresse, H. Schaefer, 1939
    • Sausage against sausage . Freiburg i. Br .: Hyperion, 1965

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SURNAME Lissner, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1980
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe