Horst Mönnich

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Horst Mönnich (born November 8, 1918 in Senftenberg ; † January 31, 2014 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee ) was a German writer .

Life

Horst Mönnich attended the Realgymnasium in Senftenberg, where he passed the final exam. Then studied it German and journalism in Berlin . He took as a soldier of the Air Force on World War II in part and came in 1945 after his evacuation from the Courland Pocket in British captivity . From 1948 he was part of the editorial team of the Hamburger “ Sonntagsblatt ”. Since 1952 he lived with his family as a freelance writer in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee.

During the Nazi era , he made his debut in 1942 with the volume of poetry Die Zwillingsfähre , which also contained poems by his twin brother Günther Mönnich, who died at an early age. The book was indexed in the Soviet Zone in 1946 , as was his book Russian Summer in 1953 in the GDR , published in occupied Riga in 1944 .

In the 1950s and 1960s Mönnich mainly published travel reports on the Federal Republic and the GDR, in the 1970s historical accounts of German industrial companies such as Stinnes , Thyssen and BMW . In addition, Mönnich was the author of radio plays . His novel Die Autostadt led to a long-standing legal dispute with the Volkswagen factory , which in 1955 enforced that some passages had to be deleted. In accordance with the development of the Volkswagen factory, Mönnich revised Die Autostadt several times. In 1960 the book had already reached a circulation of 110,000 copies. It was reprinted by several publishers.

Horst Mönnich belonged to Group 47 and had been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1972 . In 1947 he received the NWDR Radio Play Prize and the Ernst Reuter Prize in 1967 and 1970 .

Sten Nadolny dedicated his novel Weitlings Sommerfrische to Mönnich .

Works

  • The twin ferry, Kallmeyer, Wolfenbüttel 1942 (also contains works by Günther Mönnich)
  • Russian summer , Riga 1944
  • The Autostadt , Munich [u. a.] 1951
  • The cuckoo call , Wolfenbüttel 1951
  • The land without dreams , Braunschweig 1954
  • From people and cities , Munich 1955
  • Vampire trial file , Hamburg 1955
  • Only the dead have finished learning , Braunschweig 1956
  • Good morning old earth! , Munich 1958
  • In seven cities , Munich 1959
  • Departure for the Revier , Munich 1961
  • Journey through Russia , Munich 1961
  • Fourth place , Stuttgart 1962
  • Reunion , Munich 1964
  • Job im Moor , Hamburg 1966
  • Entry permit , Hamburg 1967
  • Departure for the Revier, departure for Europe , Munich 1971
  • Quarantine in no man's land , Hamburg 1972
  • An agent from Dortmund , Düsseldorf 1974
  • Labyrinths of Power , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Journey to a new world , Düsseldorf 1978
  • At the end of the rainbow , Munich 1980
  • BMW , Düsseldorf
    • 1. Before the sound barrier , 1983
    • 2. The Tower , 1986
  • Youth Village , Munich 1984
  • Born nineteen hundred and eighteen , Munich 1993
  • The Autostadt. Volkswagen novel. Completely revised new edition, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3939569053

Editing

  • Love , Munich 1978
  • Just love , Munich 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Mönnich. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 708, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ a b Auto Firmenfeind , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 1, 2014, p. 34
  3. ^ The twin ferry on the list of literature to be discarded , 1946, no. 8040
  4. ↑ Russian Summer on the List of Discarded Literature , 1953, No. 3433
  5. ↑ Edition note on the verso of the title page of the 1960 edition.
personal data
SURNAME Mönnich, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2014
Place of death Breitbrunn am Chiemsee