Gerhard Bungert

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Gerhard Bungert (2009)

Gerhard Bungert (born November 11, 1948 in Spiesen, today Spiesen-Elversberg ) is a German writer, journalist and presenter.

Life

Gerhard Bungert passed his Abitur at the State Realgymnasium in Neunkirchen (Saar) . He then studied cultural studies, sociology and psychology at the Philosophical Faculty of Saarland University in Saarbrücken . After completing his studies, Bungert was a local reporter for the Saarbrücker Zeitung and a musician at the Saarland State Theater. He has been working as a freelance publicist since the mid-1970s. From 1988 to 1995 he was artistic director of the “Kulturforum Saarbrücker Schloss”, which presented cultural events. At the beginning of the nineties, Bungert and Charly Lehnert, an author and publisher from Saarbrücken, founded the "Wintringer Hof media center" with the services of media advice, communication training and artist placement.

Bungert's first marriage was to actress Alice Hoffmann , with whom he had a daughter. He is married to Roswitha Jülicher in his second marriage. Bungert lives and works in the south of France and Gran Canaria .

Literary and journalistic work

Gerhard Bungert (caricature by Bernd Kissel)

Gerhard Bungert wrote books and texts that mainly describe Saarland history and the lifestyle of the Saarland population. In total, he published more than 40 monographs with a total print run of almost 500,000 copies. As a freelance author and presenter, he worked for the Saarländischer Rundfunk in the radio and television sectors. He wrote numerous glosses and skits, reports and features, but also several dozen radio plays. He also wrote pieces for the Hessischer and Südwestrundfunk . He also published nine plays and wrote texts for Saarland songwriters . From 1980 to 2000 he gave several hundred dialect lectures with the title "Typisch Saarländisch". Bungert has also made a name for himself as a publisher of anthologies .
One of his main topics is the Saarland dialect , the peculiarities and characteristics of which he devotes himself to in numerous publications. In addition, he deals with regional history, Saarland cuisine and other set pieces of Saarland identity. Bungert is considered to be a co-founder of the Saarland identity. Among others he wrote texts for Fritz and Gerdi Weissenbach, Manfred Sexauer and Ilona Kleitz (later "Christians"), Peter Maronde , Jan Hofer , Alice Hoffmann (Vanessa Backes and Hilde Becker) and Gerd Dudenhöffer ( Heinz Becker ). In 1985, Gerhard Bungert and Charly Lehnert led the state election campaign for Oskar Lafontaine in Saarland, in which the SPD obtained an absolute majority from the opposition. Both had similar tasks in mayor and state elections in Saarland , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .

honors and awards

Works (selection)

Saarland regional history

  • with Klaus-Michael Mallmann : Eckstein is the trump card. A popular piece about the beginnings of the trade unions on the Saar . Self-published, Saarbrücken 1979.
  • with Klaus-Michael Mallmann: Miner's stories from the Saar . Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1979, ISBN 3-922807-01-1 .
  • with Klaus-Michael Mallmann: Coffee table and coal theft. More miner stories from the Saar . Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1980, ISBN 3-922807-10-0 .
  • with Klaus-Michael Mallmann: With Mussik and Lyoner. Third part of the miners' stories from the Saar . Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1981.
  • with Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerd Schuster: The way to unity. Stations of the miners' movement on the Saar . Berg-Verlag, Bochum 1981, ISBN 3-922741-01-0 .
  • Sellemols. Stories from the Saarland. Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1981, ISBN 3-922807-03-8 .
  • Everything you always wanted to know about Saarland, but never dared to ask. An educational book . Queisser-Verlag, Dillingen 1981, ISBN 3-921815-38-X .
  • as publisher: Typically Saarland. Impressions and expressions from the most recent state . Weidlich, Frankfurt 1982.
  • with Marlene Grund (ed.): Karl Marx, Lenchen Demuth and the Saar . Queisser-Verlag, Dillingen 1983, ISBN 3-921815-42-8 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: I just make sense. Mentality and way of life in Saarland. Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 3-926320-07-9 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: clubs in Saarland. Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1988, ISBN 3-926320-05-2 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: The Saarbrücken Castle. To the past and present. Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1989, ISBN 3-926320-15-X .
  • with Charly Lehnert: We are the princes. Pictures of the citizen's castle . Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1989, ISBN 3-926320-20-6 .
  • The Holy Cows of the Saarlanders. Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1996, ISBN 3-926320-48-6 .
  • as publisher: Straßen im Saarland. Nationalists and militarists as namesake . Blattlausverlag, Saarbrücken 2014, ISBN 978-3-930771-90-5 .

Saarland regional language

  • Fauschd. Goethe's Urfaust in Saarland . Queisser-Verlag, Dillingen 1980, ISBN 3-921815-31-2 .
  • Graad selääds. Swear words in Saarland. From Affezibbel to Zewegriwwler. Queisser-Verlag, Lebach 1981, ISBN 3-88874-502-0 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: Everything chatted. Saarland idioms and proverbs. Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1983, ISBN 3-921815-43-6 .
  • as editor: You can chat with us. Dialect poems from the Saarland . Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1984, ISBN 3-922807-33-X .
  • Here with us and elsewhere. Stories and dialect poems . Queisser-Verlag, Lebach 1986, ISBN 3-921815-59-2 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: Meins & Meiner. Affectionate words in Saarland. From asses to sugar schnapps . Queisser-Verlag, Dillingen 1986, ISBN 3-921815-56-8 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: So talk to me. Idioms, vocabulary and grammar in Saarland . Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 3-926320-09-5 .
  • A hundred words in Saarland. Basic vocabulary . Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 3-926320-11-7 .
  • Saarland. So gossip so shout to me. Vocabulary, language history, grammar, spelling. Illustrated by Bernd Kissel . Geistkirch-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3-946036-51-7 .

Saarland cuisine

  • with Charly Lehnert (Ed.): Gudd gess. A Saarland cookbook. In cooperation with SR3 Saarlandwelle and the association of cooks in Saarland. Queisser-Verlag, Lebach 1984, ISBN 3-921815-53-3 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: Das Lyoner Buch . Queisser-Verlag, Lebach 1985, ISBN 3-921815-45-2 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: The main thing - it tastes good. Eating, drinking and celebrating in Saarland . Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1987. ISWBN 3-926320-06-0
  • with Charly Lehnert: Grumbeer book. Everything about the potato. History and stories, songs and recipes . Queisser-Verlag, Lebach 1987, ISBN 3-921815-60-6 .
  • with Charly Lehnert: Across de Gaade. The Saarland soup book . Lehnert-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1989, ISBN 3-926320-18-4 .
  • Enjoy the meal. Culinary memories of a Saarland resident. Stories, information, comments . Perlenschnur publishing house, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816719-1-9 .

literature

  • Egon Ecker: Gerhard Bungert - thoughts on his book "Sellemols - Stories from the Saarland". In: Spiesen-Elversberger Heimatkalender 1982. P. 82 ff.
  • Bernd Philippi (Ed.): Saarland in the text. Authors introduce themselves. Hempel, Lebach 1991, ISBN 3-925192-80-8 .
  • Günter Scholdt: Border and Region. Literature and literary history in the Saarland-Lorraine-Luxemburg-Alsace border region. Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel 1996, ISBN 3-930008-29-7 .
  • Oliver Schwambach: Why talk to me like I talk to. Gerhard Bungert explains Saarland from A to Z. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. November 9, 2016, p. B3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 37 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken September 3, 1998, p. 782 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on June 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Bungert, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and moderator
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiesen, today Spiesen-Elversberg