Henning Boëtius

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Henning Boëtius ( pseudonym Uwe Bastiansen ; born May 11, 1939 in Langen , Hessen ) is a German writer .

Life

Henning Boëtius grew up as the son of Eduard Boëtius on Föhr and in Rendsburg . He studied German and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on Hans Henny Jahnn , the results of which have not gone unchallenged, as a doctor of philosophy.

He then worked until 1973 at the Freie Deutsche Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main on the historical-critical edition of Clemens Brentano's works . In the 1970s, after giving up his work as a Germanist , Boëtius fell into a deep life crisis that temporarily led him to social isolation. He tried his hand at various professions, including as a musician, painter and goldsmith , was a househusband , but then lived at times without a permanent residence . In the 1980s, under the influence of the publisher Vito von Eichborn , he began to write fiction texts that were published by Eichborns Verlag and enabled Boëtius to become a freelance writer. The author lives in Berlin today . He is the father of the German marine biologist Antje Boetius .

Henning Boëtius is the author of an extensive work, which primarily includes novels , but also essays , poetry , children's books , dramas and radio plays . Boëtius takes the subject matter of many of his works from the German literary history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition, a number of detective novels was created around the figure of the Dutch commissioner Piet Hieronymus. Boëtius found final recognition as a literary author with the novel “Phönix aus Assche”, which deals with the fire of the Zeppelin LZ 129 in Lakehurst , which Boëtius' father Eduard had witnessed in 1937 as one of the surviving officers.

In addition to his literary works, Boëtius has also written several non-fiction books on ecological topics and translated works from Norwegian . He is also the author of the Troll Minigoll novel trilogy , which has been re-published in an updated edition since 2005.

Works

Audio book

  • Phönix aus Asche (2000), unabridged reading by Philipp Schepmann , audio book on 4 MCs or 6 CDs.

Editing

Translations

Literature on the work

  • Büssgen, Antje: Life as a test of poetry - criticism of aestheticism in Henning Boëtius' fictional poet (auto) biography “I am someone else. The Life of Arthur Rimbaud ”. In: Facts and Fictions. Strategies of fictional biographical portrayals of poets in novels, drama and film since 1970. Ed. By Christian von Zimmermann. Tübingen: Narr 2000, pp. 207-250.
  • Zimmermann, Christian von: Individuals, poets, eccentrics - Henning Boëtius' biographical approaches to Brentano, Lenz, Günther and Lichtenberg. In: Facts and Fictions. Strategies of fictional biographical portrayals of poets in novels, drama and film since 1970. Ed. By Christian von Zimmermann. Tübingen: Narr 2000, pp. 101-118.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The study "The Order of the Underworld". Regarding the relationship between author, text and reader using the example of Hans Henny Jahnn's "Fluss ohne Ufer" and the interpretations of his interpreters , he critically examines the research results of Boëtius 'dissertation and demonstrates the subjective bias of Boëtius' way of working as a literary scholar by means of comprehensive comparative text analyzes .

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personal data
SURNAME Boëtius, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bastiansen, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Langen , Hesse