Hans Joachim Sell

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Hans Joachim Sell (born July 25, 1920 in Neustettin / Pomerania ; † May 30, 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer who also published under the pseudonym Nikolaus Steigert .

Life

Sell ​​grew up in Berlin and joined the German Wehrmacht in 1938 , of which he was a captain until the end of World War II . In the story The Long Obituary for the Fallen Friend , he describes how he and his adjutant tried in the end phase of the war to avoid the soldiers entrusted to them from being burned to death by undermining orders and conducting war.

After the war, he studied philosophy with Adorno , Max Horkheimer and Gadamer at the University of Frankfurt am Main , as well as German and ethnology . He also received a doctorate in ethnology. After receiving his doctorate, he worked for the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing for two years, where he set up the Political Club Access to Politics . In 1960 Sell founded the German Miguel de Unamuno Society in Baden-Baden. 1960–1968 he was a foreign correspondent in Spain , until his work permit was revoked by the Franco government because of his overly critical reporting. These years were dealt with in the book Demons Tugging in Spain's Fur . Trips to Africa and Latin America followed. Finally, in 1978, Sell settled in Freiburg as a freelance writer. Sell ​​had been a member of the German PEN Center since 1965 .

Sell ​​was since 1950 with the widowed Gertrud Princess zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich born in 1940 . Baroness von Werthern-Beichlingen (1913–1987) married and thus u. a. Stepfather of the literature professor Wilhelm Solms , the publicist and journalist Dorothea Countess Razumovsky and the FDP politician Hermann Otto Solms . One of Sell's two sons is the economist Friedrich L. Sell .

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Hans Joachim Sell was at home in many literary genres. He wrote novels , short stories , essays , travel texts, radio plays and aphorisms. Even poetry belongs to his work of more than 30 books published. In 1953 his first novel Chantal was published . His best known work is probably The Red Priest .

Selection of works:

  • Chantal . Novel. Pfullingen, Neske, 1953
  • Partisan . Novel. Düsseldorf-Cologne, Eugen Diederichs, 1961
  • Temptation Spain. Experience and experience . Düsseldorf / Cologne, Diederichs, 1963
  • Demons tug at Spain's fur. Records from a land of limited opportunity . Hamburg, Christians, 1968
  • Destruction of a park . Black stories. First edition, Hamburg / Düsseldorf, Claassen, 1973. ISBN 3-546-48320-0
  • Counter talks . Düsseldorf, Claassen, 1975. ISBN 3-546-48321-9
  • The red priest . A spanish experience. 1st edition, Duesseldorf, Claassen, 1976. ISBN 3-546-48322-7
  • The Portuguese invitation . Seals. Düsseldorf, Erb, 1980. ISBN 3-88458-014-0
  • The reverse . Novel. Basel, Stroemfeld / Frankfurt am Main, Roter Stern, 1983. ISBN 3-87877-210-6
  • Monarchy of Poverty: A Travel Journal from Peru . Waldkirch, Waldkircher Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-87885-083-2
  • The end of benevolence . Traces and signs in a changing world. - 1st edition, Freiburg i. Br., Dreisam-Verlag, 1986. ISBN 3-89125-226-9
  • The marriage of Sancho Panza . Four stories. Waldkirch, Waldkircher Verlag, 1989. ISBN 3-87885-194-4
  • The fence . Stories of infidelity. Konstanz, Rosgarten-Verlag, 1990. ISBN 3-87685-123-8
  • The fading image of a rider . Novella in letters. Karlsruhe, Braun, 1990. ISBN 3-7650-8075-6
  • Joseph Conrad visits his translator . A fantastic story. Karlsruhe, Braun, 1994. ISBN 3-7650-8149-3
  • Artemis' hiding place . The story of an observation. 1st edition, Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger, 1998. ISBN 3-89155-213-0
  • The hotel, the bonbonniere and the slim neck . Poetic forays. - 1st edition, Freiburg, Modo-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-922675-59-X
  • The back view of a woman in the swimming pool . Novel. 1st edition, Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger, 1999. ISBN 3-89155-219-X
  • The love street . Light muse on the go. 1st edition, Freiburg (Breisgau), Schillinger, 2002. ISBN 3-89155-276-9

Sells works were last distributed by the Schillinger publishing house in Freiburg in the edition Hans Joachim Sell. All of them are currently (2014) no longer available and only available as antiquarian items.

Awards

selection

Sell ​​received the Kogge Literature Prize of the City of Minden in 1973 , the Charles Péguy Prize in 1977, the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize in 1980 , the Andreas Gryphius Prize in 1993 and the Maria Ensle Prize of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 1996 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of the Eugen Diederichs publishing house, in: Hans Joachim Sell, Partisan, Düsseldorf-Cologne 1961
personal data
SURNAME Sell, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Increases, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustettin , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2007
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau