Erwin K. Münz

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Erwin Karl Münz (born December 6, 1912 in Mannheim ; † March 1, 1978 in Konstanz ) was a German writer and poet .

Life

He was born as the son of Karl Münz and Rosa Münz, b. Lutz, born in Mannheim. There he also graduated from elementary school and grammar school with a high school diploma. Even before he finished school, he published his first collection of poems, War Youth , to which Walter von Molo wrote the foreword. Münz attended the drama school of Herbert Maisch and Hubert Moest , was a concert reporter and then second dramaturge at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In 1933 further studies followed in Heidelberg (theater studies, French, English, German) and Munich (French, history, German). He became head of the student theater and passed the directing examination with Meyer-Fürst at the Residenztheater. Then he was Karl Vossler's assistant . His first lecture was called Utopian Socialists in France . He was the editor and author of the Great Circle , initiated by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber , which published works by Franz J. Weinrich, Ilse Stach and Josef Magnus Wehner .

In 1935/36, Münz's writings such as The Mother of God strides across the Danube were banned. In 1938 Münz was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer because he was not a full-time writer. He visited Belgium as part of his French studies. Back again, he passed the 2nd state examination for the higher education service in 1937 and the 2nd teaching examination for the primary school service in 1938. He taught at elementary schools in Munich and in Haßgau, after which he was an assessor at the advanced school (grammar school) in Kaiserslautern. In the meantime he had married Maria Dahnes. He passed his interpreting exam in Berlin with distinction. During the war he was first used in France as an interpreter for higher command staff, including General Erwin von Witzleben . In 1941/42 he was forcibly assigned to the Russian Northern Front. After illness and recovery, he returned to France (Paris, Blois, Marseille, Avignon). As he was relatively independent, he was able to help politically and racially persecuted people escape, even as a customs officer. For this he received a state reception in Tours in the early 1950s . Back in Russia, he fled the Red Army in 1945 and was imprisoned for a few more weeks in the English internment camp Neuengamme , a former concentration camp.

After the war he resumed his writing and journalistic work and school work and became an employee of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . He gave lessons with the school brothers in Illertissen and at the Deutschordensgymnasium in Bad Mergentheim . In addition, he held numerous lecture and recitation tours between Cologne and Munich and guest lectures at the University of Tübingen (Romance seminar and theological faculty). In 1963 he was appointed to Nancy by the Foreign Office to set up and manage the Goethe Institute . He taught German classical literature from the 17th to 19th centuries at the University of Nancy. Münz received the title of professor and became a specialist advisor for French at the Stuttgart High School Office . He now lived in Heilbronn , where he also taught at the Theodor Heuss grammar school. In addition to all these activities, many publications appeared (short stories, novels, monographs, plays). He worked at Esprit (Paris), at Gateway to the World (Alfred Döblin, Baden-Baden), a Belgian theater magazine and several German daily newspapers.

In 1975 he retired from school and moved to Constance. He worked at the university there , was a cultural advisor at the “Franco-German Association” and worked at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk II in the music and literature section. His novel Prozess Medusa was filmed and broadcast on ZDF in 1976 under the direction of Wolfgang Staudte .

Münz died on March 1, 1978 at the age of 65 from complications from lung cancer.

Works

  • War youth , 1931
  • with Henri Brochet: The curmudgeon, the soldier, the boot and the arch devil , 1948
  • with Jozef Boon: How Little Red Riding Hood rose from the dead , 1949
  • with Marie Noel: We are waiting for a light , 1950
  • The defeat. Shaping the story , 1953 novellas, pillar publisher
  • France , 1953 a monograph, Glock and Lutz
  • The gates of hell ... , 1960 Roman Josef Kechtverlag (French Revolution)
  • The woman in the red night , 1961 Roman Knechtverlag
  • The dragon did not win Roman, Glock and Lutz (end of the tsarist empire)
  • France. Culture of Nations 1 , 1964
  • Trial Medusa , 1964 Roman Zsolnyverlag
  • France , 1964
  • My Annette from Meersburg , 1979
  • with Richard Bauer : Memories of the Munich Aquarium. An entertainment establishment a hundred years ago , Munich 1982
  • with Eva Maria Graf: A guest in old Munich. Memories of hotels, pubs and cafés , Munich 1982

editor

  • with Elisabeth Münz: Written by and to Karl Valentin . A collection of materials from 1903 to 1948 , Munich 1978

translator

  • Jean Baelen, The Acropolis in Light , Weil am Rhein 1960

literature

  • 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979 , Heilbronn 1979, pp. 120/121.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Dietrich Schlüter: Christian literature and its canonization since 1945. Diss., Univ. Dortmund, 2001, p. 324.
personal data
SURNAME Münz, Erwin K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münz, Erwin Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1978
Place of death Constancy