Franz Richard Behrens

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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

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ a b Bernhard Spring: Franz Richard Behrens - The great talent from Brachwitz, in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 23, 2013
  4. ^ Edition text + kritik : Author information for Franz Richard Behrens
personal data
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