Hermann Jung (writer)

Hermann Jung , pseudonyms : Erich von Ehrenfels-Meiringen , Jan von Werth (born August 12, 1901 in Rheinbrohl , † March 29, 1988 in Gemünden am Main ), was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Hermann Jung was the son of a school principal . He grew up in Duisburg . Jung completed a teacher training course and worked as a teacher from 1922 to 1924. He then switched to journalism . He was a volunteer and then an editor at the Duisburger General-Anzeiger . He later worked as a journalist in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main and undertook extensive long-distance trips as a reporter . Jung was the Spanish correspondent of several German newspapers and was interned in Spain after the end of the Second World War ; In 1946 he returned to Germany .

From 1952 to 1957, Hermann Jung was in charge of the feature section of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Mainz , and at the same time he was editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine Der deutsche Weinbau . From 1957 he lived as a freelance writer in Gemünden am Main .

In addition to his journalistic work, Hermann Jung wrote humorous novels in the 1920s and 1930s . From 1936 onwards he published a series of novels and travel reports which are to be regarded as part of the National Socialist propaganda and which were mostly published by the party's own Dusseldorf “Völkischer Verlag”; The volume Neutralität in Fesseln alone was distributed in an edition of 200,000 copies. All of Jung's books from this phase were on the list of literature to be sorted out in 1948 in the Soviet zone .

After 1945 Jung only published a few narrative works and a few volumes with travelogues ; the focus of his work was now on cultural-historical works on the subjects of beer and wine ; also his hobby , the collection of autographs , he devoted a band.

Hermann Jung was awarded the silver medal of the German Gastronomic Academy in 1978 and the German Wine Culture Prize in 1981.

Works

• The outlaws of the Böninghardt , Duisburg 1929
• Between heaven and Cologne Cathedral , Cologne 1930
• Army on secret routes , Cologne 1932
• Heinebein , Cologne 1932
• Kunibert the Fiese , Cologne 1932
• Linden landlady, you boy! , Warendorf 1933
• Fischer's Maathes and his cronies , Borna [u. a.] 1936
• Vandalized youth , Düsseldorf 1936
• Katja Suchominow's terrible days , Mainz 1938
• Teufel, Tempel, Tropenkoller , Mainz 1938
• The red and white Sphinx , Düsseldorf 1939
• Neutrality in Shackles , Düsseldorf 1940
• From sea to sea , Düsseldorf 1940
• Convoys slaves , Düsseldorf 1941
• When you sit with wine , Nuremberg 1943
• Wine tour in love , Rüdesheim am Rhein 1948
• My friend's wife , Lübeck 1949 (under the name Erich von Ehrenfels-Meiringen)
• Jungle, junks, manhunters , Frankfurt a. M. 1950
• Vabanque for four , Frankfurt a. M. 1950
• Vampires of the jungle , Frankfurt a. M. 1950
• The laughing wine , Duisburg 1951
• Nico Halbstück , Frankfurt a. M. 1952
• Gambrinus , Duisburg 1953 (under the name Erich von Ehrenfels-Meiringen)
• Immortal Bacchus , Duisburg 1955
• Arabia on the move , Munich 1958
• Greenhouse West Indies , Munich 1959
• Wine in art , Munich 1961
• Landscape on the Lower Rhine , Duisburg 1962 (together with Otto Marx )
• Grape Madonnas and Wine Saints , Duisburg 1964
• Beer - Art and Customs , Dortmund 1966
• Der Fetzer , Duisburg 1966
• Business cards of wine , Duisburg 1966
• 3000 years of Bocksbeutel , Würzburg 1970
• Foolish folk art , Duisburg [a. a.] 1970
• Ullstein autograph book , Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 1971
• Drink and Live , Dortmund 1973
• Wine bookplates from 21 countries , Würzburg 1973
• The Rhenish Delicious Food , Moers 1976

Editing

• Laughter at a broken world , Düsseldorf 1940
• Rhineland as it laughs , Frankfurt am Main 1971

literature

• Werner Böcking: A life under the spell of publication . In: Die Heimat , 56, Krefeld 1985, pp. 109–111
• Hermann Henkel: 50 years of extra on the world political stage - a visit to Hermann Jung in Gemünden am Main. Report in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) June 9, 1973 (Moers district edition).

Web links

• Biography at the Society for the History of Wine
• Newspaper article about Hermann Jung