Hans Bernhard Schiff

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Hans Bernhard Schiff (pseudonym: Wolfgang Geyse ; born March 20, 1915 in Berlin ; † September 10, 1996 in Saarbrücken ) was a German author.

Life

Schiff grew up in a bourgeois family, his uncle was Reich Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau . He passed his Abitur in 1934 in Halle (Saale) . Before completing his studies, Schiff left Germany with his family, then studied for a few years in London and Geneva and then took up a position as a teacher in Provence in 1943 . When he came to Saarbrücken in 1947 as Jean Bernard Schiff, he took a position as a teacher. A year later he was appointed head of the literature department of Saarland Radio , where he had previously worked as a translator. In 1956, Schiff switched back to the profession of teacher at a Saarbrücken secondary school.

For many years he was chairman of the Saar Regional Association of the Association of German Writers . The Hans-Bernhard-Schiff Literature Prize of the City of Saarbrücken, endowed with € 5000, is named after Hans-Bernhard Schiff .

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Schiff's work is shaped by the confrontation with Friedrich Nietzsche and his own painful experiences of persecution, exile and the collapse of the European canon of values ​​by the National Socialists and the Second World War .

Honors

Works

  • You were not born free ...: cheerful - or mostly cheerful verses . Rohr Verlag, Kaiserslautern 1954.
  • The white flame of the cherry tree: poems . Rohr Verlag, Kaiserslautern 1955.
  • Little cloud . Publishing house Viernheim, Viernheim 1956.
  • The redheads: the logic of the contradictory. Attempt to interpret the red-haired and the Celtic people . Minerva-Verlag Thinnes & Nolte, Saarbrücken 1960.
  • Marsyas or The Unfinished Death . Self-published, Saarbrücken 1964.
  • Monologues of the West . Publishing house Viernheim, Viernheim, Zurich 1964.
  • Earth where I live: poems and ballads . Augartenverlag Szabo, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-900147-22-1 .
  • Don Quixote and the Children: The Story of a Snowman . Bläschke Verlag, St. Michael 1980, ISBN 3-7053-1156-4 .
  • The safest hiding place is the public: aphorisms . Verlag der Handzeichen, Düsseldorf / Alfeld 1992, ISBN 3-88889-004-7 .
  • Under the roofs of Paris Verlag der Handzeichen, Düsseldorf / Alfeld 1994, ISBN 3-88889-012-8 .
  • So I thought - more soon . Verlag der Handzeichen, Düsseldorf / Alfeld 1995, ISBN 3-88889-005-5 .
  • Odysseus at the fair: nineteen stories . With illustrations by Riccardio Vecchio. Gollenstein Verlag, Blieskastel 1995, ISBN 3-930008-15-7 .
  • Second book: poems . Hart Verlag, Volkach 1997, ISBN 3-930840-06-5 .
  • Ruth Wahlster (ed.): The dreamers of reality - Hans Bernhard Schiff for the hundredth. Memories, analyzes, bibliography. Bexx GmbH, St. Ingbert 2015, ISBN 3981753429 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Villa Fledermaus cultural journal
  2. ^ Schiff ( Memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Lexicon of Saarland Biographies
personal data
SURNAME Ship, Hans Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ship, Jean Bernard; Geyse, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1996
Place of death Saarbrücken