Hans Blickensdörfer

Hans Blickensdörfer (born February 21, 1923 in Pforzheim ; † December 27, 1997 in Hochdorf near Plochingen) was a German sports journalist and writer .

Life

Hans Blickensdörfer began his career as a sports journalist in 1948 as a volunteer with the sports world . He later became an editor at the Stuttgarter Zeitung . As a long-time head sports reporter for the Stuttgarter Zeitung and as an author for the French L'Équipe , Blickensdörfer shaped a completely new style of sports journalism.

Through storytelling and background knowledge, he also brought readers to sports reporting who were not just “results-oriented”. “The proof to the feature section was to provide that a sports journalist not only dreams of big muscles, but also knows what a subjunctive is," said Blickensdörfer.

Blickensdörfer became known to the general public through his books, especially his autobiographical novel The Beret , which became a bestseller overnight and was later translated into 18 languages. In it, Blickensdörfer tells of his imprisonment in French camps and prisons after the end of the Second World War and his numerous attempts to escape, which ultimately led him back to Germany. In 1990 the novel was filmed in a German-French co-production as a television split.

Works (selection)

• Tour de France: Tour of the Sorrows, Tour of the Fame , Union Verlag, Stuttgart 1963.
• A ball flies around the world , Union Verlag, Stuttgart 1965.
• The beret , Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1973, ISBN 3-453-00480-9 .
• Bonjour, Marianne , Wunderlich Verlag, Reinbek 1975, ISBN 3-8052-0240-7 .
• The Sons of War , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-05731-3 .
• Salt in coffee , Schneekluth, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-87203-163-5 .
• All because of my mother , Schneekluth, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-01854-0 .
• Pallmann (Roman) , Schneekluth, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7951-0785-7 .
• Nobody knows how it will end. Neverending Stories from Sport , Schneekluth, Munich 1983, ISBN 9783795108250 .
• The wind blows from the west , Schneekluth, Munich 1984, ISBN 9783795108366 .
• Champagne in the samovar. Novel of a lottery win , Schneekluth, Munich 1987, ISBN 9783795110017 .
• The doctor from Drüben , Schneekluth, Munich 1988, ISBN 9783795110642 .
• Double pass on the Volga , Schneekluth, Munich 1990, ISBN 9783795111410 .
• The Kaiser - The Franz Beckenbauer Story , Südwest Verlag, Munich1991, ISBN 3-517-01269-6 .
• A lieutenant in Paris , Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-87203-194-5 .
• Jürgen Klinsmann , Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 9783872032065 .
• Ball and beret are round: Memories , Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87203-241-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Blickensdörfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article about Hans Blickensdörfer in Die Zeit , issue 18, 1980