Franz Richard Behrens
Franz Richard Behrens (* 5. March 1895 in Brachwitz (Wettin-Löbejün) , † May 1977 in East Berlin ) was a German poet of expressionism . He also worked as a screenwriter and journalist under the pseudonym Erwin Gepard and as a sports journalist under the pseudonym Peter Mohr .
Life
Behrens grew up in Berlin and Essen, attended the preparatory facility in Schildesche near Bielefeld from 1909 to 1911 and completed his training as a teacher from 1911 to 1914 in the seminars in Essen-West and Hattingen-Ruhr. His father, the national conservative member of the Reichstag, Franz Behrens , supported this choice of career, but he was skeptical about the artistic ambitions. Behrens never worked as a teacher, but volunteered for front service immediately after completing the seminar with the outbreak of the First World War . As a soldier in an anti-aircraft unit, he was initially deployed on the Eastern and later on the Western Front.
In February 1916, Behrens made his debut in Herwarth Walden's magazine Der Sturm with the poem Expressionist Artillerist . From 1917 to 1925, Behrens worked for the Sturm and published individual poems and prose texts there, as in Franz Pfemfert's Aktion . Behrens was only loosely connected with the poets of the Sturm circle, most likely with Kurt Heynicke . In addition to Arno Holz , August Stramm , who died in 1915, can be seen as Behrens' artistic role models . Behrens' first volume of poetry, Blutblüte , was published in 1917 by Der Sturm (Berlin). Blutblüte remained the only independent literary publication by Behrens.
After the First World War he worked briefly as an editor for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung before he became a dramaturge at the Berlin film company Art-Film . In addition to poems, he wrote the screenplay for Svend Gade's film Hamlet with Asta Nielsen and sports reports for the Kölnische Zeitung and columns for the Munich magazine Fußball . From 1923 to 1935 Behrens was the local editor for film, theater, records and sports for the Berlin daily Der Deutsche . From 1945 to 1961 he wrote weekly sports columns for the West Berlin newspaper Der Abend under the pseudonym Peter Mohr .
The now established term sound poem seems to go back to Behrens ; In any case, this poet was first mentioned in 1916.
His poem Oppauammoniak was written after the explosion of the Oppau nitrogen works .
Franz Richard Behrens is the older brother of Herbert Behrens-Hangeler
expenditure
- Blood bloom. The collected poems , work edition Volume 1, edited by Gerhard Rühm . edition text + kritik , Munich 1979, ISBN 3-88377-038-8 .
- Winged grenades. Poems, thoughts, sports stanzas, war reports, field diaries , work edition Volume 2, edited by Gerhard Rühm and Monika Lichtenfeld . Munich: edition text + kritik, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88377-507-X .
- Death praise. Field diary poems 1915/16 , work edition Volume 3, edited by Michael Lentz . edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-166-2 .
- My best friend - Hamlet. Scripts, cinema texts, film reviews, volume 4 of the work, edited by Gerhard Rühm and Monika Lichtenfeld . edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-167-9 .
- Shot light. Selected poems , edited by Michael Lentz . hochroth Verlag , Wiesenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902871-63-3 .
literature
- Michael Günther : B = stock exchange + brothel. Franz Richard Behrens. Word art, constructivism and the disappearance of lyric poetry , Lang Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern /, New York, NY / Paris / Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-45971-3 (= Munich studies on literary culture in Germany , volume 21, also dissertation at the University of Munich 1992).
- Mario Leis: Sport in Literature. Aspects of selected sports motifs in the 20th century , dissertation at the University of Siegen April 14, 1999, DNB 957062451 ( online, PDF 1.2 MB, 241 pages ).
- Kurt Möser: Poetischer Konstruktivismus - FR Behrens , in: Kurt Möser Literature and the "Great Abstraction" , Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1983, ISBN 3-7896-0146-2 (= Erlanger Studies , Volume 46, also a dissertation at the University of Konstanz 1982).
- Gerhard Rühm: radical word artist. How Franz Richard Behrens was rediscovered in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 260, Munich November 10-11, 1979.
- Gerhard Rühm: The war poems of Franz Richard Behrens , in: Jörg Drews (Ed.), The tempo of this time is no small matter. On literature around 1918 , edition text + kritik , Munich 1981, pp. 95–111, ISBN 3-88377-081-7 .
- Jürgen Schreiber: The poet's misfortune , in: Nature No. 2, 1990, p. 71 ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Richard Behrens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oppauammoniak ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- The Asta-Ode, a poem from Behrens' time in film
- Autobiographical sketch of July 20, 1918 and additional information (letter of August 2, 1918) to Franz Brümmer; In: Digital edition of the lexicographical estate of Franz Brümmer
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: The great talent from Brachwitz
- edition text + kritik: Author information
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Michael Günther, B = Börse + Bordell. Franz Richard Behrens. Word art, constructivism and the disappearance of poetry , Munich studies on literary culture in Germany 21, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1994, p. 52 u. 54.
- ^ Franz Richard Behrens: "Expressionist Artillerist" In: Der Sturm: Monthly magazine for culture and the arts. Berlin [including]: Verlag Der Sturm, issue 6, 1915/16, p. 130; Reprinted in: The Poets and the War. German poetry 1914-1918. Edited by Thomas Anz and Joseph Vogl. Munich, Vienna: Hanser 1982, p. 63f.
- ↑ a b Bernhard Spring: Franz Richard Behrens - The great talent from Brachwitz, in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 23, 2013
- ^ Edition text + kritik : Author information for Franz Richard Behrens
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Behrens, Franz Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet of expressionism |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brachwitz (Wettin-Löbejün) |
DATE OF DEATH | May 1977 |
Place of death | East Berlin |