Hubert Bear
Hubert Bär (born June 17, 1942 in Sonneberg , Thuringia ; † May 8, 2015 ) was a German writer and literary scholar .
Life
Hubert Bär was born in Thuringia and grew up in various places in Upper Franconia and Northern Baden . He has lived in and around Heidelberg since 1962 , where he studied German and Romance languages and graduated with a doctorate . From 1973 to January 2003 he was a teacher at a vocational school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .
In addition to literary studies and German didactic work, there are numerous publications of poetry and prose on the radio , in literary journals , in newspapers , magazines and anthologies by him. From 1993 to 1997 he was literary editor of the magazine for literature and art, Passagen . From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the jury of the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg . From 2005 to 2010 he was co-editor of the Rhein-Neckar-Brücke series .
Hubert Bär was a member of the authors' group of German-language crime literature ( Das Syndikat ) and of the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg, of which he was a member of the advisory board from 2002 to 2006. In 2002 he founded the VS Rhine-Neckar regional group. On behalf of this group, he organized various reading series, for example literature from the region - literature from Baden-Württemberg, LitLife, in cooperation with the Heidelberg city library and the support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg until 2010 . In cooperation with the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, he also organized readings in the Ladenburg district archive .
Book publications (selection)
- 1977: Nature and society at Scheerbart. Genesis and implications of a cultural utopia . Promotion. Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 978-3-930122-09-7 .
- 1991: Legends Burned . Novel. Pfälzische Post , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1991, ISBN 978-3-926912-15-2 .
- 1995: head murders . Weird crime stories. Verlag Joachim Lösch, Speyer 1995, ISBN 978-3-930122-09-7 .
- 2009: The Heidelberg campus murder . Kurpfalz thriller. Wellhöfer-Verlag, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-939540-30-4 .
- 2010: The Heidelberg tunnel murder . Kurpfalz thriller. Wellhöfer-Verlag, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-939540-65-6 .
- 2012: The Heidelberg speculator murder . Wellhöfer-Verlag, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-939540-96-0 .
Awards
In 1992 Hubert Bär received the first prize in prose for his short story Die Wohnung in a literary competition organized by the Education and Science Union in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hubert Bär in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hubert Bär's website , accessed October 31, 2010
- Short biography in the list of authors in the Rhineland-Palatinate literature dictionary, accessed on October 31, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bear, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sonneberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2015 |