Henning Boëtius
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
- 1967 utopia and decay - on the structure of Hans Henny Jahnn's novel "Fluß ohne Ufer" , Bern: Lang (dissertation 1966)
- 1981 Troll Minigoll from Trollba , Darmstadt: Stylus. ISBN 3-923305-32-X .
- 1985 The other Brentano. Selected, transcribed, introduced and commented on. 130 years of literary scandal , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn ISBN 3-8218-0125-5 .
- 1985 The lost Lenz , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0126-3 .
- 1986 Self-poems , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0127-1 .
- 1986 Stones from the coast , Stuttgart: Spectrum. ISBN 3-7976-1424-1 .
- 1986 as Uwe Bastiansen, together with Gerhard Schneider: How dangerous is radioactive radiation? (Non-fiction book), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-1109-9 .
- 1987 as Uwe Bastiansen: The energy carrier of the future: Hydrogen (non-fiction book), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-1111-0 .
- 1987 Beauty of the wilderness - the short life of Johann Christian Günther (novel), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0130-1 .
- 1988 The Moonstone Sonata , Stuttgart: Spectrum. ISBN 3-7976-1441-1 .
- 1989 The Gnome - Lichtenberg-Roman , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0129-8 .
- 1991 Laura's portrait (novel), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0128-X .
- 1992 Joiken (Roman), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0131-X .
- 1992 Swan song , Bad Homburg (??)
- 1994 Blendwerk (Roman), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0241-3 .
- 1994 What is beauty or why is a good poem a good poem , Bad Homburg vdH [reproduced as an unsalable manuscript]
- 1995 I am someone else - the life of Arthur Rimbaud (novel), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0242-1 .
- 1996 Der Walmann (novel), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN 3-8218-0243-X .
- 1997 Undine's death (novel), Munich: Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-75002-4 .
- 1998 The Ruby Collar (Roman), Munich: Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-75018-0 .
- 1999 Death in Weimar (novella; with 16 lithographs by Johannes Grützke ), Gifkendorf: Merlin . ISBN 3-926112-83-2 .
- 2000 Phoenix from Ashes (novel), Munich: Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-75046-6 .
- 2001 Der Lesereiser - a guest at German bookstores , Gifkendorf: Merlin . ISBN 3-87536-219-5 .
- 2002 Rome can be very hot (Roman), Munich. Gold man. ISBN 3-442-75077-6 .
- 2002 Death at Wannsee (novella), Gifkendorf: Merlin . ISBN 3-87536-231-4 .
- 2004 The blue galley (novel), Munich: Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-75100-4 .
- 2005 The hydrogen turnaround - a new form of energy supply (non-fiction book), Munich: dtv. ISBN 3-423-24449-6 .
- 2006 Der Strandläufer (Roman), Munich: btb. ISBN 3-442-75151-9 .
- 2006 History of Electricity (non-fiction book), Beltz & Gelberg, ISBN 978-3-407-75326-7 .
- 2008 Berliner Lust (detective novel), Munich: btb. ISBN 978-3-442-75191-4 .
- 2010 The whole world in one sentence: Language and writing workshop for young poets (together with Christa Hein ), Beltz & Gelberg ISBN 978-3-407-75349-6 .
- 2011 The dark paradise - The discovery of the deep sea (together with Antje Boetius ), Bertelsmann Verlag ISBN 978-3-570-10052-3 .
- 2017 Der Insulaner (Roman), Munich: btb. ISBN 978-3-442-75678-0
- 2020 the white abyss. A Heinrich Heine Roman (novel), Munich: btb. ISBN 978-3-442-75076-4
Audio book
- Phönix aus Asche (2000), unabridged reading by Philipp Schepmann , audio book on 4 MCs or 6 CDs.
Editing
- Justus Möser : Harlequin , Bad Homburg vdH [u. a.] 1968
- Daniel Georg Morhof : Lessons of the German language and poetry , Bad Homburg vdH [u. a.] 1969
- Poetry theories of the Enlightenment , Tübingen 1971
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : The Death of Adam , Stuttgart 1973
- Clemens Brentano : The other Brentano , Frankfurt am Main 1985
Translations
- Jens Bjørneboe : Haie , Gifkendorf 1984
- Hans Henrik Jæger : The Bible of Anarchy , Gifkendorf 1997
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
- ↑ 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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning Boëtius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tagesspiegel article from August 22, 2002: Trip to Charlottenburg
- aenneglienkeagentur.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boëtius, Henning |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bastiansen, Uwe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Langen , Hesse |