Horst Bingel

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Horst Bingel (born October 6, 1933 in Korbach ; † April 14, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer , poet , graphic artist and editor .

Life

Bingel spent his childhood in Thuringia and the Ruhr area . In 1947 he moved to Hessen . After attending the High State School in Hanau and an apprenticeship as a bookseller (1948), he studied painting and sculpture at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau from 1954 to 1956 .

From 1956 to 1957 he was editor of the German book market and then from 1957 to 1969 editor and later also editor of the Streit-Zeit-Schrift .

In 1965 he founded the Frankfurt Forum for Literature “in order to give a broader range of readers access [to literature].” In the course of this, he became a prominent figure in Frankfurt am Main : “Everyone knew Horst Bingel back then because he read poems aloud in the tram . ”- The film The Suitcase of Felix Lumpach was shot by the director Gerd Winkler based on texts by Horst Bingel and premiered on October 13, 1966 in Berlin with the main actor Hanns Dieter Hüsch .

Bingel published several poetry and prose anthologies. He was involved in the organization and organization of numerous international authors' meetings and was a member of the PEN For the Association of German Writers (VS) - today in ver.di - he headed the VS Congress Fantasy and Responsibility in Frankfurt am Main in 1974 and became the Federal chairman elected. In 1976 he resigned after violent arguments in the course of which Dieter Lattmann and Martin Gregor-Dellin gave up their positions on the board. In addition, he was from 1971 to 1974 and after the task of the federal chair from 1977 to 1978 chairman of the VS-Landesverband Hessen.

From 1983 to 1985 he was appointed city ​​clerk in Offenbach am Main .

From 1954 he lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main, he was married to Barbara Bingel (* 1953).

Act

Horst Bingel wrote mostly short, casual and surprising poems and stories that are characterized by wit, irony, punch line and bizarre and intricacy. Themes were the city, love, nature, politics, society and death.

His political poetry resembled songs that unveiled the grotesque and paradoxical. The writer Karl Krolow called his poems "written for the moment and for the moment", but his work remains topical.

His laconic remarks were shorthands with the task of rebelling against conventional thought patterns and thus disillusioning the reading public.

honors and awards

Works (selection)

Poems

  • Little Napoleon . Hermit press, Stierstadt im Taunus, 1956.
  • Guest on the anchor winch . Hermit press, Stierstadt, 1960.
  • We're looking for Hitler . Scherz, Munich, 1965.
  • Song for cement . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M., 1975, ISBN 3-518-06787-7 .
  • Taxing the snow . Orte-Verlag, Oberegg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85830-156-7 .
  • Relay race , with woodcuts by Johannes Vennekamp, ​​afterword by Guntram Vesper, Corvinus Presse 2011

stories

  • Felix Lumpach's suitcases . Insel, Frankfurt, a. M., 1962.
  • Mr. Sylvester lives under the roof . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, 1967 (dtv 445).

as editor

  • Zeitgeichte: German political poetry since 1945 . Piper, Munich, 1963.
  • Literary fair 1968: hand presses, leaflets, avant-garde magazines. Metopen Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1968. Bibliography, catalog.
  • as editor, then as editor: Streit Zeit Schrift , 1956–1969, various publishers a. Places.
    • (as editor, edited by VO Stomps ): Vol. 5, No. 1, Gottfried Benn today. European publishing company for the emeritus press, Frankfurt a. M., 1964.
    • Vol. 6, No. 2, Ernst Jünger: Facts. Heinrich-Heine Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1968.
    • Vol. 7, No. 1, Pornography: Documents, Analyzes, Photos, Comics. Heinrich-Heine Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1969. That was the last issue of the magazine.
  • Imagination and responsibility (documentation, 3rd writers' congress of the VS id IG printing and paper). Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1975, ISBN 3-436-02163-6 .

Contributions

  • Working on tandem: A book . Pawel-Pan-Presse, Dreieichenhain, 1975 (graphics).

literature

  • Braided on the bike . Special edition Horst Bingel of the literary magazine orte . orte-Verlag, Zelg-Wolfhalden / Switzerland, August 2000, ISSN  1016-7803
  • Bingel, Horst (Ps. Hobi). In: German Literature Lexicon. 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Vol. 2. Ed. By Konrad Feilchenfeldt . K. G. Saur, Bern / Munich 2001 ISBN 3908255023 , Sp. 657 f.

Movie

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Horst Bingel: Horst Bingel . In: Barbara Bingel: We were students at the High State School. What they are, what they remember . Hanau 1989. ISBN 3-7684-0915-5 , pp. 49-55.
  2. ↑ Horst Bingel - from bookseller to writer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary on hr-online .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
  3. ↑ The total of 16 issues of the Streit-Zeit-Schrift were published from 1956 by the Eremitenpresse , 1960–1964 by the European Publishing House for the Emeriten-Presse, 1966 ff. By Scherz Verlag and 1968 ff. By Heinrich-Heine Verlag, where Horst Bingel published at least five volumes of Streit-Zeit-Bücher and two Streit-Zeit-Bilder books at the same time .
  4. ^ Horst Bingel (1933-2008) - Writer: Frankfurter Forum für Literatur on www.horstbingel.de.
  5. ↑ So Karl Heinz Bohrer in: Jürgen Kaube : Die Ungeheuerlichkeit des Tages Erlebens. Karl Heinz Bohrer on his intellectual biography. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 8, 2017, No. 57, p. 9/11, here p. 9.
  6. ^ Uwe Wittstock : Writer Horst Bingel died . In: Die Welt from April 16, 2008.
  7. ^ Karl Krolow: Epilogue to: Song for cement (see works).
personal data
SURNAME Bingel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Korbach
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2008
Place of death Frankfurt am Main