Hans Woerner

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Hans "Hanne" Wörner (* 1904 in Aldekerk , Geldern district; † 1963 ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Training and military service

His parents were a royal customs officer and a housewife who decided that Hans would become a bank clerk. After graduating from high school, he worked in a coal mine and graduated from the mining academy. During this time he married his first wife and began writing short stories .

In 1930 he spent his vacation on Wangerooge . He worked there as a lighthouse keeper and met the married Dorothea Aschenbrenner from Berlin, as manageress worked in the Berlin fashion industry know. The couple fell in love and they divorced, moved to Hanover and had two daughters, Heidi (1935) and Imme (1941). Wörner wrote his first novels in Lower Saxony and worked as a journalist for various publishers and newspapers, who was politically active in his articles. He was successful, his novels were published in Berlin and the family moved there.

In 1939 Wörner was called up for military service and was flown out of Stalingrad wounded . His family was "bombed out" in Berlin and fled to relatives in Silesia. While Wörner was sent to the Western Front, the family fled under air raids by train and on foot to Berlin and on to a village near Bremen. Wörner was captured by the English on the Dutch border in 1945 and, since he spoke good English, he became a prison spokesman.

After the Second World War

After being a prisoner of war , Hans Wörner published Wild West novels for 50 Pfennig under the names Tom Colt and Ralph Forell in Bastei Verlag . He became editor- in- chief in Osnabrück and later at the Braunschweiger Zeitung . In addition to novels, he published political essays in booklet form. Including titles such as “SPD. What happened ”,“ What does Martin Niemöller bring us ”and“ This is how the new Barras looks ”. In the 1950s, he traveled through Germany for the star , interviewing celebrities and politicians. The Verleger Union wrote about him: "He drew his information exclusively from direct conversations. For two years he took every hitchhiker in his car who waved in the street. Was as good with Dr. Adenauer as with Niemöller, spoke for half the nights Dr. Schumacher as good as with trade unionists, bankers, refugees, professors, returnees. " His TEX reports for the Frankfurter Abendpost were considered a new kind of journalism, and his novels were published in Stern and other media.

In Braunschweig, Hanne Wörner wrote his most famous novel "We found people". It appeared for the first time in 1948 and was published repeatedly until 1986 (most recently by Ullstein Verlag ). He quit, became a freelance journalist and worked a. a. for Der Spiegel, where he did political interviews. A lawyer managed to cheat him, the family got into money problems and his problems in professional and private life grew. In 1963 he cut his wrists in the bathtub.

About the novel: We found people

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In the novel We found people published in 1948, Hans Wörner processed his impressions of the war on the brutalization of people in extreme situations, on hunger, power and oppression and the two atomic bombs and their effects. The book was published by Ullstein until 1986. The film rights were probably sold to the USA in the 1950s. A first script was written, but it was never made into a film.

Works

  • König am Jykän: Roman . Keil Verlag, Berlin 1940.
  • Student pilot Ungenat: Roman. Publishing house August Scherl, Berlin 1941
  • The dancer on the rope of lies: Roman . German publishing expedition, Stuttgart 1942.
  • The way through the city: Roman . Keil Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • We found people: the novel of an expedition . Limbach, Braunschweig 1948.
  • Escape to Daniela: Roman . The New Harvest, Berlin 1949.
  • New man in our city: novel of an adventurous experience . New harvest, Berlin 1950.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to LCAuth no2012147329 born in 1903. Query date: July 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Woerner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wörner, Hanne (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldekerk , district of Geldern
DATE OF DEATH 1963