Georg Hensel
Georg Hensel (born July 13, 1923 in Darmstadt ; † May 17, 1996 there ) was a German theater critic .
Life
Georg Hensel was the son of a train driver. After passing high school in 1941, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he served until the end of the war .
Hensel began his journalistic work in his hometown at the Darmstädter Echo . Here he climbed the career ladder from young editor to theater critic and head of the feature pages . In 1975 he went to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a theater critic and became its chief critic. He stayed on until 1989, when he retired for health reasons.
He was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1982 for his work and have fun in life in the FAZ about his own heart operation .
Hensel's theater reviews have appeared in several edited volumes. He was also the author of numerous books critical of theater. His work schedule gives an overview of the plays from antiquity to the present. The book was first published in 1966 and has been revised and expanded several times for numerous new editions. He also dealt with the playwright Samuel Beckett .
In addition, Hensel also excelled as a narrator. His first story, Nachtfahrt , was published in 1949. His memories, which appeared in 1994 under the title Lucky, were very well received by critics and readers.
Since 1984 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
After a long illness, Hensel died at the age of 72 in his hometown of Darmstadt. Georg Hensel was married and had a son.
Works (selection)
- Night drive 1949
- Bullfight
- Samuel Beckett , monograph
- Lucky - Scenes from a Life , Memoirs, Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-38995-5 .
- Schedule - a drama guide from ancient times to the present. Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1966, ISBN 3-899-96612-0 . (Two volumes, last revised in 1978.)
- The theater of the seventies
- Play it again: the theater of the eighties
- Lucky pennies. Pleasantly thinking about theater, literature and life. Collected essays. Insel-Verlag 1996
literature
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki : Only death and sex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1994, pp. 169–173 ( online article on the appearance of Hensel's autobiography Lucky ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Hensel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georg Hensel , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1996 from August 19, 1996, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
References and footnotes
- ↑ a b c d For love of the theater. On the death of the author and theater critic Georg Hensel . In: Schwäbische Zeitung (Ravensburg edition) of May 20, 1996; P. 8
- ↑ Georg Hensel: And have fun with life . In: FAZ of July 10, 1982.
- ↑ 1977–2004: An overview of all award winners. In: stern.de . July 1, 2003, accessed on July 10, 2019 (list of winners of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hensel, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1996 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |