Günter Bruno Fuchs

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Memorial plaque for fox in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Günter Bruno Fuchs (1975)

Günter Bruno Fuchs (born July 3, 1928 in Berlin ; † April 19, 1977 there ) was a German writer and graphic artist .

Life

Honorary grave of Günter Bruno Fuchs in the Columbiadamm cemetery with the tombstone of Günter Anlauf

After a short frontline deployment as an air force helper in World War II , Fuchs was captured in Belgium. Fuchs did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and initially worked as a laborer. After the end of the Nazi regime, Fuchs joined the KPD , of which he remained a member beyond the ban on his party (1956). After difficult early years and a short detour to East Berlin , where he worked as a school helper, he studied at the University of Fine Arts and the master school for graphics in Berlin. In 1952 he lived as a freelance writer and graphic artist in Reutlingen and after 1957 in West Berlin . In 1959 he founded the zinc gallery with Robert Wolfgang Schnell and Günter Anlauf . Together with Schnell, he was also an honorary member of the New Friedrichshagener Poet Circle . In 1957 he received the Art Prize of the Youth from the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden . Under his patronage, the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop was founded in 1963 in a Berlin-Kreuzberg backyard with graphic designers Uwe Bremer , Albert Schindehütte , Johannes Vennekamp and Arno Waldschmidt . In 1967 he illustrated the volume of poetry The Table We Are Sitting at by Elisabeth Borchers with three monotypes. In 1969 he left the artist collective “Werkstatt Rixdorfer Drucke”. In 1971, Günter Bruno Fuchs was appointed a full member of the PEN Center Germany .

His literary work includes poems, stories, novels, radio plays and children's books, some of which he illustrated with his own graphics. He was influenced by Peter Hille . In the 1960s he wrote Berlin city stories in Berlin dialect about pub-goers, car-washing fathers, police officers and people with the typical Berlin repartee. He always designed the typographies and graphics of his books himself.

He is buried in the Columbiadamm cemetery. His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin from 1990 to 2015 .

Memorial event

On the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday, a commemorative event with readings from his works took place on July 3, 2018 in the Buchhändlerkeller in Berlin. Jürgen Tomm moderated the event, the reading was given by Hanspeter Krüger. The following companions of the artist were present: Uwe Bremer , Ali Schindehütte and Johannes Vennekamp . The artist Aldona Gustas was among the visitors .

Publications (selection)

  • The betrayed Messiah . Essay on the poet Wolfgang Borchert, Progress Verlag 1953
  • The return of St. Francis . Three Legends, Quell Verlag 1954
  • The morning . Brunnquell, Metzingen 1954
  • Gypsy drum . Poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1956
  • The boys from Teufelsmoor . 1956
  • After the house search . Hermit Press 1957
  • Police hour . Story, Hanser 1959
  • Breviary of a sword-swallower . Hanser 1960
  • Drinking meditations . Luchterhand 1962
  • Crumb-taker or 34 chapters from the life of the animal voice imitator Ewald K. Hanser 1963
  • The tit violin . Contemporary nonsense verses. (Ed.), Hanser 1964
  • Bum singing . Poems & Chansons, Hanser 1965
  • Mr. Eules Kreuzberg bar dream . Hanser 1966
  • A fat man is walking . Middelhauve 1967
  • Leaves of a court poet . Hanser 1967
  • Between head and collar . 32 true stories and 13 pictures, Wagenbach 1967
  • Report by a town musician from Bremen . Hanser 1968
  • 21 fairy tales of 3 lines each . Polyphem hand press print 1968
  • Primer stories and three woodcuts . Friedenauer Press 1969
  • Resident Guide . Prose poems, Hanser 1969
  • Travel plan for West Berliners on the occasion of a trip to Moscow and back . Friedenauer Press 1970
  • Günter Bruno Fuchs's reading book . Hanser 1970
  • The gatekeeper Sandomir . Hanser 1971
  • New primer stories . Literary Colloquium 1971
  • From the life of a good-for-nothing . Hanser 1971
  • Touring stage . Beltz & Gelberg 1974, ISBN 3-407-80512-8
  • Rats are given away . Ullstein 1974, ISBN 3-548-03066-1
  • The arrival of the great messy in a neat time . Poems, pictures and stories, Wagenbach 1977, ISBN 3-8031-2039-X
  • Collected primer stories and last poems . Hanser 1978, ISBN 3-446-12416-0
  • Learned profession of a bird . Poems, stories & pictures. Leipzig, Reclam 1981
  • Adventurous stories without adventure . Heyne 1981, ISBN 3-453-35806-6
  • The fatherland hums comfortably . Poems, fairy tales, sayings and all kinds of jokes (compiled by Michael Krüger ), Hanser 1984, ISBN 3-446-14179-0
  • I can reach the door handle . With illustrations by Winand Victor , Hauschild Verlag 1985, ISBN 3-920699-70-X
  • Works in three volumes . Munich, Hanser 1990–1995, ISBN 3-446-15811-1

Sound carrier

  • One ear washes the other - the most beautiful texts by Günter Bruno Fuchs , read by himself: with a full throat, with crafty accentuations, smacking Berlin-like lisps , Wagenbach's Quartplatte 19, Berlin, 1980

literature

  • Thomas Propp: There has to be order, said the anarchist - a trip to the poet Günter Bruno Fuchs and back . Lüneburg 1985, ISBN 3-924253-10-2 .
  • Aldona Gustas : 20 years of Berlin painter-poets - Günter Bruno Fuchs . Exhibition from October 18 until December 6, 1992, gallery in the Tempelhof town hall (catalog).
  • Georg Ralle: Günter Bruno Fuchs and his literary precursors Quirinus Kuhlmann , Peter Hille and Paul Scheerbart . 1992, 309 S., Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1992
  • Dietrich Segebrecht : Günter Bruno Fuchs in Reutlingen 1952–1958 - Profession: bricklayer, now writer . Marbach 1992, ISBN 3-928882-65-1 .
  • Heike Friauf: The fox and the birds: thought walk for Günter Bruno Fuchs. With poems and thoughts by Christoph Meckel, Günter Bruno Fuchs, Johannes Bobrowski, Klaus Völker, Anja Fuchs, Peter Hille . Berlin-Friedrichshagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025111-5 .
  • Maria Lypp : Children 's view and traveling stage - on the texts by Günter Bruno Fuchs.

Web links

Commons : Günter Bruno Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Propp, there must be order, said the anarchist. A journey to the poet Günter Bruno Fuchs undertaken by Thomas Propp in 1981, Westberlin 1985, p. 86.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Günter Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES GBF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1977
Place of death Berlin