Fred Oberhauser

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Fred Oberhauser (2009)

Fred Oberhauser (born July 15, 1923 in St. Ingbert ; † February 7, 2016 there ) was a German cultural journalist .

Vita and work

Fred Oberhauser worked for the Saarländischer Rundfunk as an editor for literature and cultural criticism on radio from 1955 to 1986 and is best known for his series of reading books and the series Drive after us . He was also the editor responsible for art and culture in the Saar-Lor-Lux area as well as television editor and presenter of the weekly television program Kulturspiegel .

Oberhauser also published renowned literary guides. His main work is his “Literary Guide Germany”, published in 2008. This almost 1500 page reference work lists more than 7000 writers with their personal local references. For the first time, the work takes West and East German literary sites into account. In addition, Fred Oberhauser has made a great contribution to promoting young Saarland writers. In the early 1980s, Oberhauser founded the St. Ingbert Literature Forum, which still exists today and is successfully continued by Gerhard Sauder .

Oberhauser was married to the Germanist Gabriele Oberhauser, with whom he had two sons. He lived and worked in St. Ingbert in Saarland until his death.

Honors

  • 1994 Carl Zuckmayer Medal from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1997 Honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of Saarland University
  • 2013 Award of the title of professor (honorary professorship ) by the Saarland state government

Works (selection)

  • with Hajo Schedlich: Dear fatherland may be quiet , foreword by Carl Amery, Rheinsberg Verlag Lentz, Munich 1962 DNB 454317778 .
  • with Karl-Friedrich Geißler (Ed.): Doppelspur. From Ausonius to Zuckmayer. A Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland gleanings. Palatinate Publishing House, Landau 1984, ISBN 3-87629-070-8 .
  • with Gabriele Oberhauser: Literary guide through Germany. An island travel encyclopedia for the old federal states and Berlin (= Insel-Taschenbuch , Volume 527). 3rd edition, unchanged reprint of the edition from 1984, Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-32227-2
  • with Hans Bender : Black Forest and Upper Rhine. The literary guide (= Insel-Taschenbuch , Volume 1330). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-458-33030-5 .
  • with Nicole Henneberg: Literarischer Führer Berlin (= Insel-Taschenbuch , Volume 2177). 3rd, corrected edition, Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-458-33877-2 .
  • The Saarland. Art, culture, etc. History in the triangle between Blies, Saar and Mosel (= Dumont art travel guide ). Dumont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4951-3 .
  • as editor with Martin Baus, Bernhard Becker: I want to inhale the time, A Saarpfalz reading book. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2005, ISBN 3-935731-49-3
  • with Axel Kahrs (Ed.): Literarischer Führer Deutschland. Fundamentally redesigned and updated. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-17415-8 .

literature

  • Fred Oberhauser, Karl-Heinz Ohlig , Gerhard Sauder : Laudation: “But we are given not to rest on any site”. Literature topography, word of thanks, honorary doctorate : "Doctor philosophiae honoris causa" (= Saarbrücker Universitätsreden , Volume 41), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, award of an honorary doctorate on July 7, 1997, OCLC 41982687 .
  • Martin Baus, Bernhard Becker, Reiner Marx (eds.): Almost a kingdom of heaven at the Bliesfluss: Fred Oberhauser, the nestor of literary topography, on his 90 birthday , anthology , edited by Martin Baus on behalf of the Saarpfalz-Kreis (= Saarpfalz-Lesebuch , Volume 2). Conte, St. Ingbert 2013, ISBN 978-3-941657-89-2 ( Festschrift ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Miller: Fred Oberhauser has died. ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: sr.de. Saarländischer Rundfunk , February 8, 2016, accessed on February 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ See references.

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personal data
SURNAME Oberhauser, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary critic, editor of literary guides and radio journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert , Saar area
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2016
Place of death St. Ingbert , Saarland , Germany