Ernst-Adolf Kunz
Ernst-Adolf Kunz , pseudonym Philipp Wiebe (born September 19, 1923 in Gelsenkirchen ; † November 9, 1981 ), was a German writer and ran the ruhr-story press agency with his wife Gunhild , which sold authors' texts to newspapers and magazines.
Life
Kunz was born in Gelsenkirchen as the son of a doctor. After his time in boarding school (1938–41 in the Landschulheim Burg Nordeck ) he was drafted into the army and was in Vienna and Delbrück because of an injury he had sustained in Hungary . He was later moved to Attichy , where he met Heinrich Böll and they became friends. After the war he was u. a. worked as an actor and salesman and founded an advertising agency, which soon went bankrupt.
The idea for a press agency that sells writers' texts to newspapers and magazines probably came to him in 1952: the ruhr story . Heinrich Böll, who was friends with Kunz, helped him significantly with this business. He marketed authors such as Wolfdietrich Schnurre , Paul Schallück , Josef Reding , Siegfried Lenz .
From 1953 onwards, Kunz began to write and market short stories himself under the pseudonym Philipp Wiebe. But he also wrote theater reviews, travelogues and reports. He also wrote for radio and television .
The archive of the ruhr-story press agency is located at the German Literature Archive in Marbach .
Awards
- 1954: SDR narrator award
- 1963: Book of the month (In front of our door )
Fonts
- Father bathed every day . Droste, Düsseldorf 1960.
- In front of our door . Mohn, Gütersloh 1963.
- Herbert Hoven (Ed.): Hope is like a wild animal. The correspondence between Heinrich Böll and Ernst-Adolf Kunz 1945–1953 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst-Adolf Kunz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst-Adolf Kunz in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Ulrich von Bülow: In the network. From now on, the German Literature Archive in Marbach will guard the estate of Siegfried Lenz , online: kulturstiftung.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ernst-Adolf Kunz in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- ↑ See the contribution by Ulrich von Bülow: In the network. From now on, the German Literature Archive in Marbach will guard the estate of Siegfried Lenz , online: kulturstiftung.de .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kunz, Ernst-Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiebe, Philipp (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and press agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1981 |