Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich

Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich

Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich (born August 4, 1932 in Hanover ; † November 22, 1986 in Dannenberg (Elbe) ) was a German writer .

Life

Fröhlich was born in Hanover and dealt with his childhood there in his stories Tandelkeller (1967) and Using my brother (1974). His unfinished novel The House of the fathers joined the Tandelkeller to where he describes the exceptional circumstances of the close co-existence and truncations in the laid in the basement of residential and business premises that there from father to shelter from the bombs during the air raids on Hannover in Second World War were relocated.

When he was 10 years old, the family - his father was a wine merchant - moved to Werxhausen near Duderstadt . In Duderstadt he attended the Eichsfeld grammar school. He then studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Detmold. Since he composed several compositions for piano and string quartet in serial technique and struggled with twelve-tone music, he finished his music studies. He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. He then worked as an antiquarian, in the advertising industry and as an editor at Claasen-Verlag.

From 1961 Fröhlich wrote articles for the radio, numerous radio plays and worked as a literary critic a. a. for Die Welt, FAZ and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He wrote eight novels, in which he partly used an experimental narrative style that was influenced by his musical training, later he switched to a more conventional, psychologically oriented narrative technique. He also wrote essays, short stories and a Schubert biography. As a literary critic, he has mainly discussed the literature of the 1920s and, due to his musical training, music literature. He was particularly interested in Franz Kafka , Ernst Weiß and above all in Hans Henny Jahnn .

He lived u. a. in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Vienna , Rome, on Lake Garda, in Munich and in Tuscany. He had study visits, scholarships and teaching assignments in Detmold, Rome (Villa Massimo), Austin ( University of Texas ) and Lüchow-Dannenberg (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), where he died of a heart attack on November 22, 1986.

family

Hans J. Fröhlich was married twice and has three children, a daughter from his first marriage to Anna Katharina Fröhlich . She still lives with her family on Lake Garda and is a writer. In 2011 she was nominated for the Leipzig Book Prize for her novel “Kream Korner”. The two sons from their second marriage, Johannes and Benjamin Fröhlich, live in London and Munich, respectively. Benjamin Fröhlich founded the label permanent vacation with a friend.

Friends and companions

Was happy u. a. friends with Walter E. Richartz , Uwe Herms , Hans Wollschläger , Eckart Klessmann and Peter O.Chotjewitz. During his stay in Vienna he maintained contacts with Sándor Weöres , Jan Rhys, Robert Stauffer etc. He lived with Michael Krüger in a joint apartment in Munich for several years.

Fröhlich was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Awards

He received the following awards:

• 1969 the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo ,
• 1970 the honorary gift of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry,
• 1975 the advancement award of the Hermann-Kesten-Preis,
• 1977 the special prize of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and
• 1983 an artist grant from the state of Lower Saxony for literature.

Works

• But it doesn't matter! Ephraim Lechberger from Wilna shared the adventures and opinions of a silent listener in the restaurant "Zum Leviathan" , Hamburg 1963
• Tandelkeller , Frankfurt am Main 1967
• Engels Kopf , Frankfurt am Main 1971
• Based on my brother , Munich 1974
• In the garden of feelings , Munich [among others] 1975
• Schubert , Munich [et al.] 1978
• Attempts to intimidate , Munich 1979
• Mit Feuer und Flamme , Munich [ao] 1982
• The quintessence of peculiarity , Mainz 1982
• No line that does not experience, no line as it is experienced , Mainz 1983
• The House of the Fathers , Munich [among others] 1987
• Essays on literature and music , Mainz 1996

Editing

• Maximilian Harden : Heads , Hamburg 1963
• Fairy tales from around the world: France , Munich 1978
• My landscape , Mainz 1985

Translations

• Carlo Goldoni : The Liar , Cologne 1986
• Carlo Goldoni: Servant of two masters, Cologne
• Carlo Goldoni: The coffee house, Cologne

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 3, p. 503
• Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of World Literature , Vol. 1, 3. neubearb. Edition, Stuttgart: 1988, p. 496
• Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature (with a list of works and references)
• Henning Rischbieter : Hannoversches Lesebuch, or: What was written, printed and read in and about Hanover , Vol. 2: 1850 - 1950 , 2nd edition, Hanover: Schlütersche, 1991, ISBN 3-87706-359-4 , p. 301 -305
• E. Wolffheim: Fröhlich ... , in Dirck Linck , Jürgen Peters (Ed.): From poet princes and other poets. Small history of literature in Lower Saxony , vol. 3: 45 portraits. From Arno Schmidt to Hans Pleschinski , with photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum, Brigitte Friedrich a. a., pp. 93-97
• Hugo Thielen : MERRY, Hans Jürgen. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 123; online through google books
• Hugo Thielen: Happy, Hans Jürgen. 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. 197.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich at literaturatlas.de }

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hugo Thielen: FRÖHLICH ... (see literature)
2. ↑ Andreas Weigel: The House of the Fathers, Tandelkeller and a fragment ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), book review on the page lyrikwelt.de