Ernst Günther Bleisch

Ernst Günther Bleisch (born January 14, 1914 in Breslau ; died September 24, 2003 in Munich ) was a German writer, journalist and radio editor.

Life

After his school days at Elisabethan in Breslau , Bleisch first became a bookseller, then a soldier in World War II . Together with his mother, he came to Bavaria in 1945 as a displaced person in the small town of Steinmühle near Mitterteich in the Upper Palatinate Stiftland . In October 1946 the two then moved to Munich, where Bleisch spent the rest of his life. From 1947 he worked there as a freelance writer, journalist for Münchner Merkur and as an author for Bavarian Broadcasting .

Bleisch's poems had already appeared in the Silesian anthology Das neue Lied der Heimat in 1941 . The first volume of poems, Traumjäger , was published in 1954 and reveals his elective affinity with Georg Britting . Heinz Piontek wrote in 1983 on the occasion of the collection of poems Zeit ohne Uhr with texts from the years 1952 to 1982: “Anyone who knows only little or nothing about Bleisch's poetry will be surprised to meet a poet here who is apparently one of the dying variety of poets . The poet's business is not the rigor, the collected, the artistic, the high flight of thoughts, but play, music, colors, dreams. ”Some of his poems were set to music by Ernst August Voelkel and Fritz Jessler.

As an employee and later editor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bleisch was also the author of numerous radio plays and audio episodes, including the song from Silesia - a reminder of a German landscape - broadcast by the then Radio Munich in autumn 1948 .

In 1972 he succeeded the late Florian Seidl as head of the Munich water lily circle and from 1978 first chairman of the Wangen circle . He was also a member of the Toucan Circle .

His estate is in the Munich Monacensia .

Appreciations

• 1956 Eichendorff Literature Prize of the Wangener Kreis for dream hunters (at the time awarded as a good- for- nothing travel grant )
• 1961 Honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1963 Karl von Holtei Medal from the Breslau Collection in Cologne
• 1966 sponsorship award for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
• 1969 Schwabing Art Prize
• 1977 Toucan Prize
• 1985 Andreas Gryphius Prize
• 1989 Special Prize of the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony
• 1989 Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 1990 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1992 stay as guest of honor at Villa Massimo , Rome

He also received a prize from the German Schiller Foundation .

Works

• Dream hunter. Poems. 1954.
• Frostfire. Poems. Munich 1960.
• Georg Trakl. Genius of the Germans. Biography. 1964.
• Mirror writing. Poems. Munich 1965.
• Oboe ghetto. Poems. Munich 1968.
• Carmina wet nurses . Poems. 1973.
• Salt search. Poems. Dortmund 1975.
• West-Eastern Lamento. 1977.
• Time without a clock. Selected poems collected 1952–1982. Poems. 1983.
• Encounter on the Neisse. Narrative. 1984.
• The man with the lucky bag. Prose. 1987.
• The little irritations. 1989.
• The unloved paradise. Poems from the Villa Massimo. 1993.
• The wild heart. Poems. 2000.
• Vulnerable to romances. Poems. Freiburg i. Br. 2002.

Editor:

• Cheerful people from the Neisse. Smirking story from Silesia 1958. New edition Landshut 2008, ISBN 978-3-7612-0315-6 .
• Magic of Silesia. Silesian master tales. 1959.

literature

• Bernhard M. Baron , “Reunion with the Wondreb”. From a Stiftland homage by the Silesian poet Ernst Günther Bleisch , in: Heimat-Landkreis Tirschenreuth Vol. 27/2015 , Pressath, ISBN 978-3-939247-70-8 , pp. 129-134.
• Volker Busch: Bleisch, Ernst Günther. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 1, p. 585.
• Klaus Hildebrandt: The poet Ernst Günther Bleisch. . Attempt to appreciate his work. In: Schlesien Vol. 29 (1984), No. 2.
• Arno Lubos : The Silesian Poetry in the 20th Century. Munich 1961.
• Karl Ude: Ernst Günther Bleisch (January 14, 1914 - September 24, 2003). A Silesian Schwabinger. In: Alfons Schweiggert, Hannes S. Macher (Hrsg.): Authors in Bavaria. 20th century. Bayerland Verlag, Dachau 2004, p. 219.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Günther Bleisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Günther Bleisch in the literature portal Bavaria
• Ernst Günther Bleisch in the culture portal West-Ost

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted in: Bernhard M. Baron : Ernst Günther Bleisch . Literaturportal Bayern, accessed on February 17, 2016.
2. ↑ Bleisch holdings ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Monacensia.  
3. ↑ List of the award winners ( Memento of the original dated February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.