Heinz Rein

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Heinz Rein ( pseudonym : Reinhard Andermann ; born March 9, 1906 in Berlin ; † January 16, 1991 in Baden-Baden ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinz Rein worked as a bank clerk in the 1920s after completing a bank apprenticeship. He later also worked as a sports journalist . In 1935, the politically active left-wing author became unemployed; The National Socialist rulers imposed a writing ban on him in 1934 . Rein was temporarily in Gestapo custody ; During the war he was obliged to do compulsory service with the Reichsbahn.

After the end of the Second World War , he worked for a few years (until 1950) on the “Cultural Advisory Board for Publishing” at the “German Administration for National Education”. In addition to novels and narratives, the plot of which is primarily set in contemporary history (see below in the catalog raisonné), Rein wrote literary reviews that were published in the SED magazine Einheit - Theoretical Monthly for Socialism in 1947/48 . In 1949 he published the anthology Unterm Notdach. Berliner Erzählungen (Berlin: Aufbau, 167 p.), According to the preliminary remark on behalf of the chairman of the "Cultural Advisory Board", Erich Weinert . In 1950 an “attempt at a first cross-section” of the narrative prose published in Germany after the war was published under the title Die neue Literatur ; In addition to his own contributions, it includes two reviews of his successful novel Finale Berlin by Hans Mayer (pp. 315–319) and Walter A. Berendsohn (pp. 319–324). After Johannes R. Becher started a campaign against Die neue Literatur in magazines of the GDR, which led to the publishing house taking the book off the market and Rein being suspended as a member of the “Cultural Advisory Board”. He then lived as a freelance writer in the GDR. After breaking with the SED in the early 1950s, he moved to West Germany. There he lived in Baden-Baden until his death.

With his books about the end of the war and the immediate post-war period in Berlin, he is an East German representative of rubble literature . In the GDR, some of his books were only printed with difficulty and with delay. After moving to the West, he mainly wrote short stories, but also satires and cabaret texts.

Fritz J. Raddatz wrote an epilogue for the new edition of his novel Finale Berlin in 2015 . The novel appeared in a preprint from October 6, 1946 to February 16, 1947 in the Berliner Zeitung , the book edition was published in 1947. The book had a circulation of 100,000 copies in 1951 and was one of the first bestsellers of the German post-war period.

Works (selection)

  • Berlin 1932 , Berlin 1946
  • Final Berlin , Dietz, Berlin 1947
    • Final Berlin . Revised and improved by the author. Gutenberg Book Guild, 1980
    • New edition: Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-483-5 .
    • from it: 2 stories: February day 1945. Knock sign VVN , Berlin 1948
  • Girls on the bridge , Berlin 1948
  • The new literature. Attempt of a first cross-section. Berlin 1950
  • On a winter night , Berlin 1952 (written 1948/49)
  • Just a bird's nest , Gütersloh 1964
  • The bitter fruit , Sankt Michael 1984
  • Signorina Rita is on loan , Berlin 1988
  • Two trumps up front , Frankfurt 1988
  • Regardless of losses , Klagenfurt 1988
  • The flood did not go away , Frankfurt 1988
  • Summer with Veronika , Bad Salzuflen 1988
  • No more corrida , Neckargemünd 1989
  • Anyone who stepped into the fat bowl , Erftstadt 1989
  • An anti-etiquette , Klagenfurt 1991
  • Friendship with Hamilton in 1975

Editing

  • (Ed.): Unterm Notdach , Berlin 1949

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Katrin Hillgruber: Im Schatten der Blockwalter , Review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 9, 2015, p. 34
  2. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp: The silent Germany. Resistance literature and its reception . In: Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945-1949 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 267-316, here 306 .
  3. ↑ Walter Lennig: A novel against forgetfulness . In: Berliner Zeitung . Vol. 2, No. 233 , October 5, 1946, pp. 3 .
  4. ↑ Carsten Wurm: Short story and allegorical story. The share of anthologies in the development of prose . In: Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): German memory. Berlin contributions to the prose of the post-war years (1945–1960) . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1999, p. 167–197, here p. 168 f .
  5. ↑ Among other things “The great literature of the little man - The Fallada” in August 1948. See also (anon.) “Kanonade: Rein-Fall”, in: Der Spiegel , May 4, 1950, p. 37: “In of the monthly 'Einheit' and in its Marxist sense Rein regularly criticized the new prose. "
  6. ^ Carsten Wurm: Anthologies in the Aufbau-Verlag 1945-1990 . In: Günter Häntzschel (Hrsg.): Book scientific research . Year 2005, No. 5: Literature in the GDR as reflected in its anthologies, 2005, p. 29–46, here p. 31 .
  7. ↑ “Regrettable and harmful. Comments on a 'New Literature' ", in: Berliner Zeitung , No. 83, April 7, 1950, p. 3, under the title" In my own case "also in Sonntag , No. 15, 1950.
  8. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp: The silent Germany. Resistance literature and its reception . In: Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945-1949 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 267-316, here 312 .
  9. ↑ New Germany . Vol. 5, No. 95 , April 23, 1950, pp. 11 .
  10. ↑ The mirror . May 4, 1950, p. 37 .
  11. ^ Claus-Ulrich Bielefeld: A book like his time, full of cracks and fissures . Review, in: Literary World , April 18, 2015, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Rein, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andermann, Reinhard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1991
Place of death Baden-Baden