Ernst Johann

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Ernst Johann (born December 23, 1909 in Schifferstadt ; † April 1, 1980 in Groß-Gerau ) was a German writer and journalist ( pseudonym Jakob Dennhardt).

Life

Ernst Johann was the second oldest of nine children of a butcher family in Schifferstadt (Palatinate). After graduating from high school, he studied literary and art history, sociology and economics in Heidelberg , Leipzig and at the Sorbonne in Paris . He was an "apprentice" at the 1936 closed "Speyerer Zeitung". He received his doctorate in 1935 on "The German book publishers of naturalism and neo-romanticism" and was a freelance journalist in Berlin until 1936 . a. for the Berliner Tageblatt and Die Dame . After a short time as an editor at the “Allgemeine Zeitung” in Nordhausen (Harz), he designed the feature section of the Kölnische Zeitung with Gerhard F. Hering . Johann was drafted into the military in 1943 and released from American captivity in 1945.

As early as 1946 he published poems by Heinrich Heine , French poems and letters by Stendhal in Oswald Dobbeck Verlag (Speyer) . A publication "Was ist Demokratie" appeared in 1947. From 1946 to 1948 he was editor-in-chief of the newly founded Die Rheinpfalz . Then he was in charge of “Das Kulturelle Wort” at what was then Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden . From 1952 to 1956 he worked as editor-in-chief at S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . A period of freelance work as a columnist and filmmaker followed.

He was the first television critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . For the Gutenberg Book Guild he published a Goethe, a Schiller and a Lichtenberg edition, as well as the successful Rowohlt monograph on Georg Büchner .

From 1960 to 1978 he was Secretary General of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . As a member and temporary treasurer of the German PEN , he maintained contacts and friendships with the writers of his time. His literary knowledge was inexhaustible and his advice was valued by the then Federal President Walter Scheel . Ernst Johann was a "homme de lettre" all his life. In 1980 Ernst Johann died in his house in Groß-Gerau . He was married and has two daughters who live in Nauheim and Berlin .

Awards and honors

Ernst Johann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class and the Johann Heinrich Merck Honor of the City of Darmstadt .

Ernst Johann Literature Prize

In September 2011, the city council of Johann's birthplace Schifferstadt decided to award an Ernst Johann Literature Prize every three years , endowed with 2000 euros. The first award ceremony took place in 2012. Suggested authors who publish in German and who do justice to Ernst Johann's literary work will be considered.

Works

  • The German book publishers of naturalism and neo-romanticism , Weimar 1935
  • The air swing. Tryst, little prose , Berlin 1947
  • What is democracy A popular representation , Speyer 1947
  • The sculptor Kurt Schwippert , Düsseldorf 1948
  • Fashion never stops. Before the fall of man and even more afterwards , Stierstadt im Taunus 1956
  • The year of the butcher. The Lissner Wurstologia of another band , Wiesbaden 1958
  • Georg Büchner in self-productions and pictorial documentation , Hamburg 1959
  • Little story of the film. From kaleidoscope to wide screen , Frankfurt a. M. 1962
  • German, as it is not in the dictionary , Frankfurt a. M. 1967
  • Germany, your people from the Palatinate , Reinbek 1971
  • Unseemly things , Frankfurt a. M. 1974

Editing

  • French poems in the best German translations , Speyer 1947
  • What is democracy A popular representation , Speyer 1947. (Reprinted in: " Lust an Literatur - passion for democracy ", 2017.)
  • Stendhal (ie Henry Beyle). His life in letters , Speyer 1948
  • Goldsmith Oliver: The country preacher of Wakefield, Roman , Stuttgart 1956
  • Lines of life; Friedrich Bischoff. Shape, essence and work , Tübingen 1956
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: poems, selections u. Nachw. , Frankfurt a. M. 1957
  • Goethe, novels, Wilhelm Meister's wandering year, the elective affinities. The tale. Novella. With post from Ernst Johann , Frankfurt a. M. 1957
  • Goethe, travels in Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany with follow-up from Ernst Johann , Frankfurt a. M. 1958
  • Pocket dictionary of German literature, new edition, supplemented and possibly by Ernst Johann , Munich 1959
  • Lever Johann Peter, Biblical stories told to children, edited and provided with an afterword by Ernst Johann , Frankfurt a. M. 1961
  • Wilhelm II. German Kaiser, speeches by the emperor, speeches, sermons and toasts by Wilhelm II. Ed. By Ernst Johann , Munich 1966
  • Büchner Georg, Complete Works, with copy by Ernst Johann , Frankfurt a. M., Zurich 1968
  • Inside a war: pictures, letters, documents. 1914-1918. Edited by Ernst Johann. Scheffler publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1968. Further editions by the Gutenberg book guild and dtv .

literature

  • Markus Maier: Ernst Johann - writer, journalist, editor. Biography and bibliography of a writer from the Palatinate. Nikolaus-von-Weis-Gymnasium, Speyer 1986. (Technical work.) (Reprint and continuation of the bibliography in " Lust an Literatur ... ")
  • Lust for literature - Ernst Johann and the Ernst Johann Literature Prize of the city of Schifferstadt. Edited by Lenelotte Möller, Martina Kees and Franz Dudenhöffer. On behalf of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science. Speyer: Druckmedien Speyer GmbH, 2017. ISBN 978-3-932155-42-0 . (With biography, speeches at the award ceremony, bibliography etc.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Hill: In love with the brave Gazette. In: Die Rheinpfalz (Speyerer Rundschau edition), April 14, 2011, ZDB -ID 1212851-x .
  2. ↑ Available in the Palatinate State Library , call number 2a 5568
personal data
SURNAME Johann, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennhardt, Jakob (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Schifferstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1980
Place of death Gross-Gerau