Franz Joachim Behnisch

Memorial plaque on the house at Katzlerstrasse 11, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Franz Joachim Behnisch (born February 19, 1920 in Berlin ; † June 3, 1983 in Erlangen ) was a German writer .

Franz Joachim Behnisch grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg . In 1938 he passed his Abitur and was drafted into the labor service, which he performed in Silesia and the Saar-Palatinate . From 1938 to 1939 he attended the college for teacher training in Frankfurt (Oder) . After that, he began a study of the German language , history and biology at the University of Berlin . From 1940 he took part in the Second World War as an infantryman . In 1945, he fell into Soviet captivity , he in a camp in northern Russia spent and from which he was released 1948th From 1950 he continued his studies at the University of Munich ; In 1951 he passed his state examination there. From 1952 to 1979 he was a teacher of German and history at the Oberrealschule (later Kepler-Gymnasium) in Weiden / Upper Palatinate . In 1962 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Würzburg with a thesis on folklore .

Franz Joachim Behnisch was an outsider in the German literary scene who was shaped by his childhood and youth in Berlin and his inclination to play theater. He wrote novels , grotesques and poems , only a small part of which were published during the author's lifetime and, despite numerous positive reviews, found few readers. Ehrentraud Dimpfl, Weiden, takes care of his work posthumously.

Works

• Assisi , Heidelberg 1954
• The costumes of Nuremberg and the surrounding area from the 16th to the middle of the 19th century , Nuremberg 1964
• Rummelmusik , Munich 1966
• No longer in Friedenau , Freiburg 1982
• Libussa and other nifty stories , Berlin 1993
• Ice skating , Berlin 1995
• The Kaiser am Dach , Cologne 1998
• Lesson in parting , Cologne 1999
• Das Taschenweltchen , Cologne 2000
• Erase Cheremetyev, Sweet Bird , 2001
• Pristan Traverse , Cologne 2002
• There is a knock, Barin , 2003
• Old summer resort Agnetendorf , 2004
• Flower parade or the year 37 , Aachen 2004. ISBN 3-89086-669-7
• My very favorite pedal car , 2005
• So much ice, so much flame , 2006
• Im Gleisdreieck , Aachen 2006. ISBN 3-89086-604-2
• Space flights Time flights , Aachen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89086-546-1
• Medallion , 2008
• Passengers with payloads , 2011
• Digger wasps in: Akzente, issue 4/1962
• Greetings from a small German town, close to the border in beautiful surroundings in: Akzente, issue 2/1974
• Boutique Poggenpuhl in: Akzente, issue 6/1976

literature

• Simone Eva Lutz: The realization of the dream. On the valence and variability of the dream metaphor in the literary work of Franz Joachim Behnisch. Dissertation, Regensburg 2006.
• Bernhard M. Baron : Franz Joachim Behnisch on his 90th birthday. Time for a literary renaissance. In: Literatur in Bayern , Volume 26, Issue No. 101 / September 2010, Munich 2010, pp. 28–31. ISSN  0178-6857 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Joachim Behnisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Franz Joachim Behnisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Joachim Behnisch in the literature portal Bavaria