Hannsferdinand Döbler

Hannsferdinand Döbler (born June 29, 1919 in Berlin ; † December 25, 2004 in Hanover ), pseudonym Peter Baraban, was a German writer and librarian . He wrote novels and historical non-fiction books. His main work as a non-fiction author is the twelve-volume cultural and moral history of the world . Döbler became known as a novelist with an autobiographical trilogy of novels in which he dealt self-critically with his youth under National Socialism , his experiences as a soldier in World War II , in the Soviet prisoner of war and as a returnee .

Life

Hannsferdinand Döbler came from a family with a nationalist mindset; his father was an architect, his mother a librarian. Döbler passed his Abitur in 1938 - at the time of National Socialism - and then went through his Reich Labor Service . The professional officer took part in the Second World War and during which he was taken prisoner by the Soviets for four years .

From 1949 to 1952 Döbler completed an apprenticeship as a "qualified public librarian" in Cologne and then worked until 1958 as a librarian in Essen . In 1955 he made his debut as a novelist with One Eighth Salt. Novel of a young marriage . In 1959/60 he was editor of the Ruhrgebiet cultural magazine and then worked as press manager at a paint factory in Wuppertal . In 1965 he moved to Munich and published his first non-fiction books, from 1971 the multi-volume German cultural history.

In 1974 Hannsferdinand Döbler moved to Hanover , where he headed the cultural education department at the local adult education center until 1984 .

Meanwhile, at the age of 60, Döbler took part in the peace demonstration in Bonn's court garden in 1981 with a sign he had painted himself, but there he was irritated by questions about his own followers .

After 1984 Döbler devoted himself to his writings as a freelance writer.

According to his son, Hannsferdinand Döbler died in 2004 at the age of 85 after a brief illness. The writer was buried in the district cemetery in Hannover-Kirchrode .

Works (selection)

Novel trilogy

• signed Coriolan , Hamburg 1956, unabridged new edition with a new foreword by the author Frankfurt / M. 1983
• No alibi. A German novel 1919–1945 , Frankfurt / M. 1980
• Never again Holderlin. Novel of a return , Buxtehude 1998

Non-fiction

• Cultural and moral history of the world , 12 volumes, Gütersloh 1971–1974; Paperback in ten volumes under the title Döblers Kultur- und Sittengeschichte der Welt , Munich 1977–1979
• The Germans. Legend and Reality from A to Z. Lexicon on European Early History , Munich 1975, paperback edition in 2 volumes 1977; Special edition Munich 2000
• Witch madness. The story of persecution , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, new edition under the title Walpurgis Night and Satanskuss , Munich 2001
• From agriculture to cogwheel - 7000 years of early technical culture , text and chapter introductions by Hannsferdinand Döbler, rororo paperback edition 1969, 2 volumes, reprinted by Pawlak 1981

Awards

• 1981 artist grant for literature from the state of Lower Saxony
• 1985 Villa Massimo guest of honor
• 1998 Kurt Morawietz Literature Prize of the City of Hanover

literature

• Hannsferdinand Döbler. In: Killy Literature Lexicon Volume 3, De Gruyter 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020935-8 , p. 57/58
• Jürgen Lodemann : Hannsferdinand Döbler. In: Critical lexicon for contemporary German-language literature , edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-219-5
• Dieter Paul Meier-Lenz , Kurt Morawietz (ed.): Lower Saxony literary , volume 2: 100 author portraits , ed. on behalf of the Association of German Writers in Lower Saxony and Bremen eV Hanover, in cooperation with the Association of German Writers (VS) in the IG Druck und Papier, Lower Saxony region, Bremerhaven: Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Verlag für Neue Wissenschaften, 1981, ISBN 3-88314- 164-X , p. 145
• Little town miller. In: Of poet princes and other poets. Small history of literature in Lower Saxony , Volume 3: 45 portraits. From Arno Schmidt to Hans Pleschinski , ed. by Dirck Linck and Jürgen Peters, with photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum, Brigitte Friedrich et al., 1st edition 1996, Hanover: Revonnah, ISBN 3-927715-30-1 , pp. 53–57
• Hugo Thielen : Döbler, Hannsferdinand. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 135.

Web links

• Biography of Hannsferdinand Döbler in the Munzinger database
• Literature by and about Hannsferdinand Döbler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by and about Hannsferdinand Döbler in Die Zeit

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hugo Thielen: Döbler, Hannsferdinand (see section literature)
2. ↑ literatur-niedersachsen.de ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Munzinger biography
4. Jump up ↑ Anna von Münchhausen: Hannsferdinand Döbler / novel of a return , Die Zeit from September 15, 1989 (No. 38), last accessed on July 5, 2013
5. ^ NN : Hannsferdinand Döbler is dead , in the online edition of the Hamburger Abendblatt from December 29, 2004, last accessed on July 5, 2013
6. ^ Rolf Becker on new books on the subject of youth under Hitler, in: Der Spiegel 39/1980, online
7. ^ Review by Anna von Münchhausen in: Die Zeit September 15, 1989, No. 38, Online
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Literature in Lower Saxony ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Hannsferdinand Döbler in the Munzinger database
10. ↑ Note: Deviating from the city lexicon Hanover names 1999 as the year of the award