Jens Rehn

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Jens Rehn (born September 18, 1918 as Otto Jens Luther in Flensburg ; † January 3, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Jens Rehn grew up in Berlin as the son of the chamber virtuoso Paul Luther. After attending grammar school and conservatory , from 1937 onwards he embarked on the career of an officer in the Navy . During the Second World War he was in command of the submarine U-135 from June 4, 1943 to July 15, 1943 . In 1943 he ran for four years in captivity , he in Africa , Canada and England spent.

From 1947 to 1949 he was a freelancer, from 1950 to 1981 editor of the literature department of the RIAS in Berlin . In the years 1954 to 1958, he completed his studies of philosophy , English literature and musicology at the Free University of Berlin . In addition to his work as an editor, Rehn composed, wrote a number of radio plays and traveled extensively to East Asia , India and the USA .

His novel Nothing in Sight , in which he processed his war experiences, received a lot of attention and was described by Marcel Reich-Ranicki as a "parable of great clarity and suggestiveness"; the critic wrote: " We should not forget the book Nothing in Sight : It is both in one - a historical and an artistic document." Nothing in sight received great praise from Gottfried Benn. In the expressionist science fiction novel The Children of Saturn , Jens Rehn addressed the topics of nuclear war and radiation death in 1959.

Jens Rehn, who was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany , received the Berlin Art Prize "Young Generation" in 1956 and a Villa Massimo scholarship in 1979 .

Works

  • Nothing in sight. Berlin-Frohnau, Neuwied am Rhein, Luchterhand 1954. New edition with afterword by Ursula März: Schöffling, Frankfurt / Main 2018. ISBN 978-3-89561-149-0 .
  • Fire in the snow. Darmstadt [et al.] 1956.
  • Rondo and Scherzo funèbre. Stierstadt im Taunus 1958.
  • The children of Saturn. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1959. Paperback: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1975.
  • The sugar eater. Neuwied a. Rh. 1961.
  • The new bestiary of German literature. Bull town 1963.
  • Data, images, notes, faults. Berlin 1964.
  • Kyushu-nikki. Bull town in the Taunus, 1965.
  • The simple life or the quick death. Baden-Baden 1967.
  • Morning red. Stuttgart 1976.
  • The white sphinx. Herford 1978.
  • After Jan Mayen and other stories. Darmstadt [et al.] 1981.
Editing
  • The Ten Commandments. Reinbek near Hamburg 1967.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ, January 6, 1983
  2. Gottfried Benn: Nothing in sight. To: Jens Rehn, nothing in sight. In: Gottfried Benn: Vermischte Schriften. Autobiographical writings. Collected works edited by Dieter Wellerhoff. III. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt / Main 2003. Page 1798–1802. ISBN 3-86150-610-6 .