Horst Brandstätter (Author)

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Horst Brandstätter (born January 15, 1950 in Stuttgart , † August 19, 2006 in Baden-Baden ) was a German author , bookseller , antiquarian , gallery owner , historian and editor . At times he also worked as a features journalist , editor and theater dramaturge for Claus Peymann, among others . Brandstätter has presented and edited numerous publications on topics from Baden-Württemberg's cultural and regional history, especially on the historical freedom fighters of the state.

childhood and education

The son of a painter and a secretary grew up in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. After leaving school, Brandstätter completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Stuttgart-Degerloch from 1968 to 1970. He did his community service in the Dietenbronn Neurological Clinic. Then he and his wife Ulrike Brandstätter trained as a qualified librarian in Ulm, which they completed by 1974.

Working life

From 1973 to 1976 Brandstätter worked as a journalist for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. As a freelancer, he wrote numerous articles on the literature and history of Baden-Württemberg. From 1974 to 1975 he was employed as an editor for the specialist journal for public librarianship "Buch und Bibliothek" in Reutlingen. The friendship with the Stuttgart bookseller Wendelin Niedlich and the publisher Andreas Meyer gave Brandstätter access to the Stuttgart cultural scene. In 1976/77 he worked under Claus Peymann as a dramaturge at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart.

From 1977 he began researching the Hohenasperg fortress. The first result of this research was the radio feature "Asperg - Freedom lives on the mountains", which was broadcast on Süddeutscher Rundfunk. For this he received the Schubart Literature Prize of the city of Aalen in 1978 . The book "Asperg - a German prison" appears in the same year by Wagenbach-Verlag.

From 1978 to 1982 Brandstätter and his wife ran the "marbacher buchladen" in Marbach am Neckar .

Brandstätter lived in Öhningen from 1982 to 2004, initially as a freelance writer. In 1993 he opened - again together with his wife - an art gallery in the "former torkel of the monastery" , which was connected to an antiquarian bookshop . In this art gallery exhibitions by well-known contemporary painters and graphic artists, including Jan Peter Tripp , Johannes Grützke and Arno Waldschmidt, as well as numerous author readings took place. Inspired by Brandstätter, Johannes Grützke created the three-part Hecker train for the outer facade of the Constance Citizens' Hall.

In 2004 the gallery and second-hand bookshop were relocated to Baden-Baden. In 2006 Horst Brandstätter died of cancer.

Awards and grants

Publications (selection)

editor

  • Asperg: a German prison: the Swabian democratic hump and its inmates: pastors, clerks, merchants, teachers, common people and other republican breed: with digressions about informers and sympathizers in old and new times , Berlin: Wagenbach 1978, ISBN 978-3- 8031-2045-8 , another edition published by the House of History Baden-Württemberg , Ubstadt-Weiher: Verlag Regionalkultur 2015, ISBN 978-3-89735-928-4
  • Edited with Jürgen Holwein: Stuttgart: Poets see a city; Texts and images from 250 years , Stuttgart: Metzler 1989, ISBN 978-3-476-00671-4 .
  • Emma Herwegh: In the interests of the truth. On the history of the German democratic legion from Paris, by a high traitor. Libelle (Verlag) 1998. ISBN 978-3-909081-08-0
  • Johannes Vennekamp : Work 1999–2003 , catalog book for the exhibition in the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen and in the Stiftung Schloss Fachsenfeld, both 2003, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, Gifkendorf: Merlin-Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-87536-240-4 .
  • Ed. With Anton Hunger: The David principle: Power and powerlessness of the small ones / Wendelin Wiedeking , Berlin: Wagenbach 2003, ISBN 978-3-8031-2481-4 .

author

  • From poetry and traditional costumes , [Linolschn .: Axel Hertenstein], Pforzheim: Hertenstein-Presse 1990
  • together with Bernd Neuzner: Wagner: teacher, poet, mass murderer , including Hermann Hesse's novella Klein and Wagner , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn 1996, series Die Other Bibliothek , ISBN 978-3-8218-4459-6 .
  • Justinus Kerner : Kleksographien: Hades pictures were created kleksographically and explained in verse , with an afterword edited by Horst Brandstätter, Stuttgart: Lithos-Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-88480-025-6 .
  • Theodor Lessing : Badenwyler March and Der Lärm (Lessing), Stuttgart; Berlin: Mayer 1999, ISBN 978-3-932386-20-6 .
  • (Contribution to) 30 years of Rixdorfer Drucke workshop ; 1963–1973 Berlin, 1974–1993 Gümse; Catalog of an exhibition that was shown in Reutlingen, Wilhelmshaven and in the Gutenberg Museum Mainz between 1993 and 1994. Published by the Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen. With text contribution. by Horst Brandstätter, Heinz Ohff and Andreas J. Meyer, Gifkendorf: Merlin-Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-926112-36-1 .
  • The Lost Honor Criminal: A True Story by Friedrich Schiller; brought to light anew and relied on the republican freedom of the reading public with investigations into the life of poets and robbers , Waldburg: Demand 2005, ISBN 978-3-935093-40-8 , first edition Berlin: Wagenbach 1984, ISBN 978-3-8031 -2117-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see page about Brandstätter at the Stuttgart City Library
  2. ↑ on the librarian see page of Info3-Verlag about Brandstätter ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.info3-verlag.de
  3. ↑ Horst Brandstätter. Retrieved on August 11, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Brandstätter, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, gallery owner and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2006
Place of death Baden-Baden