Friedl Brehm

Friedel Karl Brehm (born May 21, 1917 in Duisburg ; † April 8, 1983 in Tutzing am Starnberger See ) was a German publisher , editor and author .

Friedl Brehm Verlag

In 1957 he founded the "Friedl Brehm Verlag". Friedl Brehm was particularly committed to Bavarian-Austrian dialect poetry .

Friedl Brehm was an unconventional small publisher who put all of his income from his job as an editor at the Starnberger Landkreis-Redaktion of the Süddeutsche Zeitung into his publishing house.

The publishing house existed until 1989. In 2003 the Friedl Brehm publishing house was re-established in Feldafing. It is listed as an imprint at Arabella-Versandbuchhandlung GmbH, Feldafing.

"Schmankerl" and "Edelgammler"

In order to offer young dialect authors a forum, Friedl Brehm and Christian Buck founded the biannual literary magazine "Schmankerl" in 1969. Around the same time, Brehm founded the literary magazine "Edelgammler", which only existed for a short time. The “Schmankerl” soon developed into the Bavarian mouthpiece of the “New German Dialect Poetry” (Hoffmann / Berlinger), which tried to distinguish itself clearly from the “tumbling” native poetry. In addition to Bavarian, Austrian and Alemannic poetry and short prose, the “Schmankerl” booklets also contained essays on literary history. The sometimes sprawling readers' letter discussions in the magazines testify to the intensity with which the arguments about language, dialect and politics took place. After Friedl Brehm's death in 1983, the magazine was continued by Joseph Berlinger and Harald Grill until 1986.

reception

“Everything about Friedl Brehm was designed to arouse opposition - a trait that certainly also has something defiantly infantile about it; It is difficult to say that Friedl Brehm would ever have been “grown up”, let alone age-wise. He defied the most unalterable "laws of nature", so I have him z. B. never seen a coat and even in the dead of winter only wear summer clothes. He wanted to remain the eternal rebel, a "dialect rocker", as Felix Mitterer described him in his obituary, "who wears shoulder-length, white hair, a peace badge on his chest, plus blue jeans and wooden slippers". Nothing gave him more thieving pleasure than disappointing thoughtless preconceived expectations, especially those of a Bavarica publisher with a Gamsbarthhat and Grandeln in front of the “Wampen”. “The museum guards would not have let him in where literature is required to wear a tie and where you are only allowed to appear quietly,” said his author Josef Wittmann. And where traditional costume was compulsory - which was the case for a long time at dialect evenings - then just his appearance and appearance became a nuisance. "( Bernhard Setzwein ) ^[Source?]

“Brehm is one of the most bizarre figures among publishers in the Munich area. He runs his shop stubbornly and tolerantly, obsessed with optimism and generosity, a publishing cheeky badger whose survival on the merciless book market causes his friends to be constantly amazed. ”( Hermann Unterstöger , Süddeutsche Zeitung ) ^{[Complete source!]}

Authors from Friedl Brehm Verlag

Gustl Angstmann , Joseph Berlinger , Bernhard C. Bünker , Christian Buck , Dullijöh , Helmut Eckl , Harald Grill , Margret Hölle , Benno Höllteufel , Felix Hoerburger , Herbert Kapfer , Adolf Layer , Josef Marx , Joseph Maria Lutz , Hanns Meilhamer , Felix Mitterer , Hanns Christian Müller , Wolfgang Oppler , Rainer Panitz , Gerhard Polt , Carl-Ludwig Reichert , Hardy Scharf , Werner Schlierf , Alfons Schweiggert , Bernhard Setzwein , Albert Sigl , Ossi Sölderer , Bernhard Ücker , Josef Wittmann .

Honor

In Tutzing, a stele donated by Josef Wittmann on the Johannishügel commemorates Friedl Brehm.

literature

• Fernand Hoffmann , Joseph Berlinger : The new German dialect poetry. Trends and authors illustrated using the example of poetry . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / New York 1978, ISBN 978-3-487-06544-1 .
• Walter Flemmer (Ed.): Because we're happy. The great book of Bavarian poetry from two centuries . W. Ludwig Verlag, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm 1986, pp. 28-30, ISBN 978-3-7787-3266-3 . (Friedl Brehm and his authors)
• Bernhard Setzwein : "Always against those in power". The Bavarian publisher Friedl Brehm . In: Owls, Heretics, Comedians. Writers in Bavaria . W. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-7787-2114-8 , pp. 159-202.
• Lothar Altmann: My God, the noble bum. Friedl Brehm . In: Münchner Palette, 41st year, spring 1999, pp. 15-17.
• Klaus Bovers: Against rulers and idyllic poets . In: MUH. Bavarian Aspects, Issue 15, Winter 2014/2015, pp. 22–25.

Web links

• Homepage of the publisher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Setzwein: Käuze, Heretic, Comedians. Writers in Bavaria. Munich 1990, p. 157.
2. ↑ Sandra Sedlmaier: Friedl Brehm Monument remains in Tutzing . In: merkur.de, May 11, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2017.