Jens Korbus

Jens Korbus (born July 13, 1943 in Sichelberg , East Prussia ) is a German writer. His literary focus is on stories about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his environment.

Life

Author Jens Korbus

Korbus grew up in Koblenz and studied German and philosophy in Bonn and Düsseldorf . After passing the first state examination, he was a research assistant at the University of Düsseldorf for one year. This was followed by a legal clerkship and until his retirement he was a teacher of German and philosophy at a grammar school in Koblenz. He was also an employee in trainee lawyer training.

Awards

1988 First winner of the Fachinger Kulturpreis for his "Letter to Goethe". [In the jury including Prof. Herbert Heckmann , the then President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .]

Publications

• Cagliostro. Magician's Notes. 1990, ISBN 3-7347-9109-X .
• Goethe's power. A Goethe novella. 1999, ISBN 3-7448-7367-6 .
• Communicative interpretation. Subtle signals in texts. 2010, ISBN 978-3-934795-76-1 .
• The young Schweighard. Five stories. 2010, ISBN 978-3-934795-81-5 .
• Jan Karbarek. Narrative. 2013, ISBN 978-3-934795-30-3 .
• I brockner. Crime narrative. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7347-9017-1 .
• Heavy days. A Thomas Mann novella. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7347-4657-4 .
• Amber fly. Narrative. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7460-6910-4 .
• Just a fate. Narrative. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7386-2053-5 .
• Charlotte. A speaking piece about Goethe, Eckermann and Charlotte von Stein. 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-4939-0 .
• Imhoff's dream. Narrative. 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-1672-0 .
• Your heart can take anything. Narrative. 2016, ISBN 978-3-8370-4116-3 .
• Goethe's beautiful woman from Milan. Novella. ISBN 978-3-7412-4152-9 .
• German summer days. Novella. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-0720-4 .
• Last night in Sierpc. Novel. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7412-7268-4 .
• Whether it's wrong what I feel Narrative. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-7785-7 .
• Brandt Warner. Narrative. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-6547-0 .
• Life in Weimar. Narrative. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-6029-3 .
• Entertainment of German ascendants. Two stories and a story cycle. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-5611-1 .
• My Goethe. Anthology of the Goethe stories. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-3229-7 .
• The story of Alfonso and Queen Reineclaude. Narrative. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-2399-8 .
• Alt-Muhl. The four Koblenz stories. Anthology. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-0832-0 .
• The present / Karlsbad is dancing. Two Goethe stories. 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-3332-2 .
• Dream out of your head. Narrative. 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-5107-4 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung 01.18.1989 .
2. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung 09.11.2013 .
3. ^ Rhein-Zeitung December 18, 2004 .
4. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung November 5, 2014 .
5. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung 2.4.2015 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Korbus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage www.jenskorbus.de