Gerhard Branstner

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Gerhard Branstner (2nd from left)
on December 4th, 1967 in East Berlin

Gerhard Branstner (born May 25, 1927 in Blankenhain , Weimar district , Thuringia ; † August 18, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Branstner attended elementary school from 1934 and began a three-year administration apprenticeship in 1942. After two weeks at the front, he was briefly taken prisoner by the United States in 1945. Branstner was then in French (until 1947) and finally in Belgian captivity, from which he was released in 1947. As the son of poor parents (his father was a porcelain worker ) in the GDR from 1949 to 1951 he was given the opportunity to take his Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty in Jena . He then studied philosophy from 1951 to 1956 at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he later also worked as a lecturer. In 1953 Branstner married. The marriage resulted in two sons (born in 1955 and 1957) and a daughter (born in 1959). With a thesis on humor and its role in literature , he received his doctorate in 1963. phil. (later published as "Art of Humor"). From 1962 he was editor-in - chief at Eulenspiegel-Verlag and Das Neue Berlin, and in 1968 became a freelance writer. The volume I came, saw and laughed , published in 1973, contains eight settings of Branstner's poems. Branstner composed six of them, one Siegfried Matthus , another Wolfgang Pietsch .

In April 2000, Branstner became clear text based on his article published on March 14, 2000 in Junge Welt , Mr. Comrade Gysi! excluded from the PDS ; however, the exclusion was lifted again in June due to his objection by the party's federal arbitration commission.

Most recently he lived in Berlin, where, in addition to his work as an author, he mostly appeared at theater events and readings. His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

Works

  • 1959: "Is the aphorism a lost child?"
  • 1961: "Visiting Earth"
  • 1964: "Recently"
  • 1967: “The fateful visit. Detective novel "
  • 1968: “The journey to the lively star. Utopian novel ”; "The wisdom of humor"
  • 1969: "Nepomuk's Philosophical Short Anecdotes"
  • 1970: “The wrong man in the moon. Utopian novel "
  • 1971: "The Fool's Mirror"
  • 1973: “I came, saw and laughed. Ballads, anecdotes and aphorisms ”; "The Astronomical Thief"; " Alarm am See " (a police call 110 episode)
  • 1974: " From Heaven Up "; “Plebeiad”; "The Fool's Mirror"
  • 1976: "The Star Cavalier"
  • 1977: "The sky falls from the clouds"; "Canteen"
  • 1977: "The donkey as bailiff": Book publisher Der Morgen, (East) Berlin 1977.
    • 1979: as a Fischer paperback: “The donkey as a bailiff or the animal is also just a person” with drawings by Hans Ticha . Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22425-X .
  • 1980: "Art of Humor"; "Manual of Merriment"; "The Indiscreet Robot"; "The donkey as a bailiff", ISBN 978-3-88074-184-3
  • 1981: "The Ox Bet"
  • 1982: "Sprucksäckel"
  • 1984: "The actual theater"
  • 1985: "The Doom of the Miller's Daughter"; "The negative success"
  • 1987: "Cheerful Poetics"
  • 1988: "cheerful drama"
  • 1993: "Human - where to?"
  • 1996: "bourgeoisie"; "The principle of equality"
  • 1997: "Revolution on your knees"; "The Philosophical Law of Ecology"
  • 1998: "Rotfeder"; "The real person"
  • 1999: "The wit and essence of the art of living "
  • 2000: “ Marxism of the Beletage ”; "The world in a nutshell", ISBN 978-3-89706-895-7
  • 2001: "The cheerfulness system"
  • 2002: "The New World Offer"; "Counterworld"; "The wisdom of humor"
  • 2004: “Branstner's Breviary - The Communist Manifesto of Today”; "The Fool's Swing", ISBN 978-3-938142-11-0
  • 2006: "Philosophy of History", "Philosophy of Art" and "Sonny Girls" - In: "Die Pyramid", ISBN 3-928498-55-X ; "New Songs", ISBN 978-3-928498-75-3 ; "Curious Stories", ISBN 978-3-928498-57-9
  • 2007: "Liebengrün", autobiography, Kay Homilius-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-897068-50-8 ; "The Hornet - Philosophical pamphlets", ISBN 978-3-928498-78-4

Reviewers on Branstner

“A specialist in extremely humorous SF is Gerhard Branstner. His ... The journey to the lively star is a Swiftian journey through various grotesque states, including a state of newt capitalists or newt capitalists. The inhabitants of the 'Star of the Lively' play a linguistically cheerful game with reality. 'It is precisely through this cheerful game, which obscures seriousness, that reality is described all the more aptly.' "

- Franz Rottensteiner

literature

Web links

Sources, footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f leaflet [1973] from Henschel Verlag with a short biography of Branstner ( attached to the volume I came, saw and laughed ).
  2. ↑ Peter Feist: Endure contradictions - expulsion from the party against Gerhard Branstner as a Stalinist relapse of the PDS . In: Junge Welt from May 2, 2000 ( full text on marxismus-online.eu , accessed on April 9, 2013).
  3. ↑ Peter Feist: Kalaschnikow - Das Politmagazin , issue 16, issue 3/00, p. 45 f. ( Full text on marxismus-online.eu , accessed on April 9, 2013).
  4. ↑ PDS Berlin: Arbitration “Application for exclusion against Comrade Gerhard Branstner” ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv2007.sozialisten.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Decision of the Federal Arbitration Commission of June 24, 2000, accessed on April 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ Entry on berlin.friedparks.de , accessed on April 9, 2013.
  6. ↑ Heyne Science Fiction Magazine # 4 , ed. by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-30832-8 , p. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Branstner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenhain , Weimar District , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2008
Place of death Berlin