Hans Frick (writer)

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Hans Frick

Hans Frick (born August 3, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 3, 2003 in Huelva , Spain ) was a German writer .

Life

Hans Frick - illegitimate son of a factory worker and a Jewish art dealer - grew up with his mother. As a “ half-Jew ” he lived in constant fear of persecution during the Nazi era . From 1936 and 1944 he attended elementary school in Frankfurt / Main and then did a commercial apprenticeship . After that, he carried out various activities, including a. Unskilled workers , office workers and sales representatives . From 1964 he lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main and in Portugal . He was married in second marriage since 1970. After his ten year old son was killed in a traffic accident, Frick fell into a deep personal crisis that led to alcohol addiction . After the publication of the novel Die Flucht nach Casablanca in 1978, Frick gave up writing and moved to the Algarve in Portugal, and to Spain in the late 1980s.

Hans Frick died after a long and serious illness in a hospital in Huelva, Spain .

reception

Hans Frick was the author of novels, radio plays and screenplays . Many of his works have personal experiences of the author as the background, such as the book Henri the Death of His Son, Diary of a withdrawal Frick's alcohol addiction and The Blue Hour . This novel, which was published for the first time in 1977, is hardly available today even in antiquarian books. With the book, Frick left an important document about the Nazi era in Frankfurt's Gallus district .

Franz Dobler sees in the book The Blue Hour the autobiographical “report of the 1930 born about his youth in Frankfurt during the Nazi and post-war years and about the miserable life of his mother. They lived on Ginnheimer Strasse, then on Lahnstrasse, and everywhere the mother was insulted as a 'dirty Jew whore' because she had an illegitimate child from a Jewish art dealer. The half-Jew Hans Frick grew up with the fear that the Nazis could pick him up at any time (and he knew what they did with the Jews). "For Monika Sperr , Frick tells" of the difficult life and death of his mother, although he was concerned about the extreme scarcity and strive for truthfulness. In this strict restriction to the essentials, the renunciation of embellishment or intellectual expansion of facts, images and memories, there is a magic that turns this book, which actually only conjures up bitter experiences, into a moving document of the fate of a proletarian woman. "The book, for Sperr, a self-questioning of the author, ends in the post-war period with the death of his mother, and the last pages of the latter “are among the most beautiful and moving that I have ever read because of the restraint and caution with which a son tries to make death easier for his mother have".

In 1985 the Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless filmed the novel “The Blue Hour” under the title “Hans, a boy in Germany”. The film is considered to be a successful translation of Frick's childhood memories into haunting visual language.

Hans Frick, who was a much-discussed author in the sixties and seventies , mainly because of his treatment of the subject of coming to terms with the past , and whose existential parable of the novel Mulligan's Return (filmed in 1977 by Helmut Käutner with Helmut Qualtinger in the title role ) was sometimes compared by literary criticism with works by Kafka was largely forgotten after the publication of his last novel.

Works

  • Breinitzer or The Other Debt. Rütten & Loening, Munich 1965
  • Stefan Kaminsky’s plan. Rütten & Loening, Munich 1967
  • The interrogation. Taxi for Mr. Skarwanneck. Stages of a memory. Heinrich-Heine Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1969
  • Henri. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1970
  • Mulligan's return. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1972
  • Diary of a withdrawal. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1973
  • Danny's dream. Bertelsmann, Munich etc. 1975
  • The blue hour. Bertelsmann, Munich 1977
  • The escape to Casablanca. Steinhausen, Munich 1980
  • Breinitzer. Rogner & Bernhard Verlags KG, Munich 1979; 1980 also at Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar, series Edition New Texts .

Web links

Commons : Hans Frick (Writer)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Frick: The blue hour
  2. ↑ In the footsteps of Hans Frick , article in the Frankfurter Rundschau of March 24, 2014, accessed on August 17, 2017
  3. ↑ Franz Dobler: FROM HELL. On the death of the writer Hans Frick.
  4. ↑ a b Monika Sperr: Actually only died , Die Zeit , No. 43/1977
  5. ^ "Hans - A Boy in Germany" on filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Frick, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frick, Hans Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2003
Place of death Huelva , Spain