Hans Heinrich Formann

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Hans Heinrich Formann (born August 27, 1939 in Prague , † September 28, 2016 in Gunzenhausen ) was an Austrian writer and journalist .

Life

Hans Heinrich Formann was born in Prague in 1939 and came to Austria in 1945. After graduating from high school in Linz , he studied newspaper science and art history at the University of Vienna . Formann was editor of a Linz daily newspaper from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he was dramaturge at the State Theater Linz and at the Württemberg State Theaters in Stuttgart . Formann worked until 1980 as a socio-educational employee in the open youth work of the Stuttgart youth centers and as a cultural journalist and critic for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten , then as a freelance writer . Since 1980 he lived in Igelsbach , a district of the Absberg market ( Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Middle Franconia ). After a long illness, Hans Heinrich Formann died in Gunzenhausen in September 2016 and found his final resting place in a family grave in the Grinzinger Friedhof in Vienna .

Works

  • Manuel and the giraffes , 1965
  • Heap birds , 1965
  • Sweets for giant children , 1966
  • A bottle kingdom for the earth , 1967
  • A yo-yo for everyone , 1968
  • Society for an evening , ballet libretto, 1968
  • Circles of Eternal Shores , Lyric Cantata, 1968
  • Three chants from the century of the Lysistrata , Lyric Cantata, 1969
  • Mrs. Nowaks Held , radio play (Prod. ORF-OÖ 1971)
  • The hourglass , radio play (Prod. ORF-OÖ 1971)
  • Flugwetter , radio play (Prod. DRS 1980)
  • Giant children in the bottle kingdom , dramas, Austria. Publishing house, 1973

Poetry and lyrics

  • The incident
  • The crux of the matter
  • Encircling the object
  • Diary of a peacemaker
  • Nothing moves
  • In certain circumstances
  • From the roof to the cooing street
  • The mystification
  • In backpack
  • At that time the floods in the border region / Pierrot
  • Bars will smile

Short stories and texts have appeared in the following volumes, among others:

  • Innsbruck '65 , 1965
  • Innsbruck '67 , 1967
  • Quieter Homeland , 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968
  • The plow , 1966
  • Midnight Stories , 1969

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Formann, Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2016
Place of death Gunzenhausen