Hannes Schwenger

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Hannes Schwenger (born December 26, 1941 in Meiningen ) is a German literary scholar , journalist and writer .

Life

Hannes Schwenger was born in Meiningen / Thuringia ; he grew up in Würzburg . There he studied German. In 1963 he went to Berlin and continued his studies there, which he completed in 1974 with a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin . In the same year he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation and, together with Hartmut Frech, researched the “Author training / international comparison” for the conference “Author training at the integrated comprehensive university ”.

In 1977/1978 Schwenger worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Media Studies and Literary Sociology at the TU Berlin with Friedrich Knilli . He still held a teaching position at the Institute for Journalism at the Free University of Berlin , but never tried to get a professor title , but always worked as a freelancer . After a long break from university operations, Schwenger was a research associate at the SED State Research Association , which was founded with the support of the Presidium of the Free University of Berlin. From 1996 to 1999 he worked on a project on the fine arts of the GDR and again from 2002 to 2004 on a project on behalf of ARD .

In addition to his academic activities, he has been a publisher since the early 1960s and has worked as an editor, editor-in-chief or publisher for various cultural magazines, for example for the sonde (1960, with Karl Heinz Roth , among others ), Literatur Revue (1962), Berlin im Spiegel (from 1963), Today (1966) and the Berliner Extra-Dienst (from 1967). As a freelance author, reviewer and publicist, he published in parallel on radio at Sender Freies Berlin , Südwestfunk , RIAS and the England editorial team of Deutschlandfunk as well as in print media such as the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Zeit , the Vorwärts , the Tagesspiegel , the Welt and the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology .

He produced several extensive series on literary and cultural topics for Deutschlandfunk. From 1989 to 1992 he was co-editor of the "Edition Malerbücher", from 1989 to 1995 co-editor and editor of the magazine Litfass .

As a book author, among other things, his satirical and ironic collection of quotes by and about Klaus Schütz , entitled Words of the Governing Klaus, attracted some attention. This collection of quotes was only 28 pages long and resembled the Mao Bible in structure, form and appearance . In 1966 and 1969, respectively, his two critical books on Christian sex education and on Christian education tracts received great attention.

Sociopolitical engagement

After moving to Berlin in 1963, Hannes Schwenger joined the SPD . In 1967 he decided to leave the country temporarily in protest against the grand coalition. From 1967 he belonged with Walter Barthel , Martin Buchholz , Carl Guggomos , Rainer Hachfeld and Horst Tomayer to the editorial collective of the Berliner Extra-Dienst . He was involved in the APO's “dispossessed Springer” campaign of 1968 as editor of the Berlin Extra-Dienst , designed the logo and distributed articles by Springer journalists from the Nazi era . Schwenger received this in East Berlin from Hans Joachim Kittelmann , member of the GDR journalists' association and employee of the Ministry for State Security . A special issue of the Extrablattes (forerunner of the Berlin EXTRA service ) about "Nazis at Springer" was financed by the GDR . Schwenger claims to have noticed attempts by the Stasi to exert influence even then and - in contrast to Günter Wallraff , whose publisher he was managing director of "Edition Voltaire" from 1969 to 1972 - resisted. A boycott of Axel Springer AG rejected Hannes Schwengersbauer, also in contrast to Günter Wallraff, always, and later also wrote lyrics for itself Springer leaves. The Protection Committee Freedom and Socialism , which he and other intellectuals founded in 1976, first campaigned for the release of Jürgen Fuchs and then for the release of other political prisoners in the GDR. Schwenger made contact with relatives of the prisoners, looked after them and made public the otherwise anonymous individual fates in the Federal Republic. From 1996 to 1998 he contributed the experience he had gained as an employee of the SED State Research Association .

A big link to his scientific and creative work was not least his trade union work , which internally did not shy away from critical consideration of the unionized writers' association. Schwenger was one of the initiators of the “Literature Producers” group and the book trade and publishing group in the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union . At IG Medien he was chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) from 1971 to 1977 , then later on the board of the VS regional association in Berlin and until 1995 managing director of the Federal Association of Visual Artists .

Within the New Society for Literature (NGL), Schwenger initiated the author and artist publishing house " Edition Mariannenpresse " in 1979 , which he also ran on a voluntary basis until the end of 2008 and 2009 (when the last book edition he published) was published.

Works

Poetry and prose

  • In black yarn . Poems. Publishing house of the magazine “die sonde”, 1961
  • The fall of the west through spinach. Poems and prose. Wood engravings by Klaus Büscher. Ed. Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1986
  • Piece of wall . A fairytale story. Graphic by Klaus Büscher. Ed. Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1996
  • Robert flies . A ghost story. Etchings: Rainer Bonar . Ed. Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2002

Non-fiction

  • The world view of Catholic vulgar literature. Special series from yesterday and today . Verl. Yesterday u. today, K. Hirsch, Munich 1965
  • Words of the governing Klaus. Extra service, Berlin 1968
  • berlin word guide . New words from the governing Klaus. Extra service, Berlin 1969
  • Anti-sexual propaganda. Sex politics in the church. rororo sexologie, Reinbek 1969
    • In Italian by Anna Giberti: La propaganda antisessuale . Bompiani, Milan 1972
  • Literary producers! . Handbook, together with Frank Benseler and Hannelore May. Edition Voltaire, Berlin 1970
  • For an IG culture. The union question, an alliance question. Flyer, together with Martin Walser . Edition Voltaire, Berlin 1971
  • Author training at the integrated comprehensive university. Research report, together with Hartmut Frech. 1973
  • The end of immodesty. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Writer and union. Ideology, superstructure, organization. Luchterhand Collection, Neuwied 1974
  • Solidarity with Rudolf Bahro . Letters to the GDR. rororo currently. 1978
  • Literary production. Between self-realization and socialization . Metzler Collection , Stuttgart 1979
  • In the year of the big brother. Orwell's German reality . Piper series , Munich 1983
  • Ernst Reuter . A civilian in the Cold War . Biographical portrait, Piper series, Munich 1987
  • The Protection Committee for Freedom and Socialism . Special issue of the magazine “Europäische ideen”. Afterword by Jürgen Fuchs . 1995
  • The Polish division of the Association of German Writers . Series of publications by the SED State Research Association , Berlin 1999
  • New contributions to Leonhard Frank . Add. with Peter Cersowsky, Hans Steidle. Leonhard Frank Society, Würzburg 2003

Editorships

  • Berlin, for example. Poetry, prose and graphics from both parts of Berlin. Staneck Verlag, Berlin 1964
  • Berlin in the resistance . Staneck, Berlin 1965
  • Make art and live from art . Conference report of the Evangelical Academy Loccum . 1975
  • Carl Friedrich Marc . Saxon childhood. Ullstein Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Hour one . Post-war literature anthology. Together with Bernd Schmidt. dtv, Munich 1982
  • Leonhard Frank : Three out of three million. New edition commented in the afterword. Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1982
  • People in the office . From Kafka to Martin Walser . dtv , Munich 1984
  • Double decker . Poetry, prose and graphics from all over Berlin. T. Müller, Berlin 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sed-staat.de research association SED-Staat at the Free University of Berlin
  2. ↑ fu-berlin.de journal of the research network with Article detecting Hannes Schwengersbauer
  3. ↑ dhm.de Logo for the “Dispossessed Springer” campaign, button in the DHM database
  4. ↑ dradio.de (no longer available) ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Meeting of the Association of German Writers (VS) in Saarbrücken in memory of the VS events "damaging" in 1984. By Jens Brüning in a calendar sheet from 2 April 2004, Deutschlandradio Berlin
  5. ^ Edition Mariannenpresse gives up - The Berlin Edition Mariannenpresse, founded in 1979, will cease to appear at the end of the year , reported in the Börsenblatt on October 9, 2008, online at boersenblatt.net

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personal data
SURNAME Schwenger, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen