Johannes Weidenheim

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Johannes Weidenheim , actually Ladislaus Jakob Johannes Schmidt (born April 25, 1918 in Bácstopolya , Batschka , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † June 8, 2002 in Bonn ) was a German writer .

After the Second World War, Weidenheim made a name for himself among Group 47 , above all through his novels Nothing but a Bit of Music (1947) and The Turkish Our Father (1955). After that, however, he was somewhat forgotten in literary criticism, but this did not diminish his immense productivity: Weidenheim wrote poems, stories, plays and over 30 novels. For his translations he was awarded the translator award of the Serbian PEN Center . One of his main themes was the longing for his lost Danube Swabian homeland - this longing, combined with the utopia of the peaceful coexistence of all peoples, also permeates his last novel Maresi from 1999. In 1956 he was one of the founding editors of the papers for German and international politics .

Works

  • Nothing but a little music , novel (1947)
  • The Turkish Lord's Prayer , novel (1955)
  • Meeting Place Beyond Guilt , Roman (1956)
  • Man what a time novel (1967)
  • Theodora , Roman (1993)
  • Return to Maresi , Roman (1994)
  • Maresi , Roman (1999)

Awards

1954 Prize in the Bertelsmann competition for novelists

literature

  • Johannes Schulz: Weidenheim, Johannes . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German . 12 volumes, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh [et al.] 1988–1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Weidenheim, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ladislaus Jakob Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Topola , Batschka , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2002
Place of death Bonn