Josef Fendl

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Josef Fendl, 2008

Josef Fendl (born January 17, 1929 in Schönbühl , Straubing-Bogen district ) is a Bavarian writer . His work mainly includes Bavarian poems , short stories and radio features .

Life

As a "Lower Bavarian guest worker in the Upper Palatinate", Josef Fendl was a teacher in Regensburg and Neutraubling for almost 40 years and a home nurse in the southern district of Regensburg , of which he was a member, for over 30 years . From 1968 to 1990 he not only designed the school newspaper of the Staatliche Realschule Neutraubling - he also edited 45 booklets of the “Contributions to the History of the Regensburg District” and from 1999 to 2010 the Straubinger Calendar , Germany's oldest home calendar (2016: 420th year). The “literary broom-maker” has published over 60 books in the meantime and is known all over the country as a spirited reciter of his taunts, sayings and pub aphorisms . The special love of the "white and blue wandering preacher" belongs to the Bavarian language and local history. Among other things, he is a member of the small dialect poets group " Sindlbacher Kreis" founded in the summer of 1981 on the initiative of Georg Gick .

Contributions by the dialect poet are contained in 120 anthologies and reading books. Between 1983 and 1992 he edited and spoke about 20 programs for Bayerischer Rundfunk . Since the 1950s he has been writing newspaper articles and magazine articles under the pseudonyms Peter Muhr, Martin Staudacher, Josef Schwarz and Michael Paintner.
Josef Fendl is a consultant for the Hanns Seidel Foundation .
Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1998 contains a detailed entry.
“55 years of pleasure in writing. A Documentation ”appeared in 2004 on his 75th birthday.

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

editorial staff

  • Wörth , city between river and mountain. Regensburg 1979

Poetry

  • Nothing like a lot of sayings. I-III . Pfaffenhofen (Ludwig) 1975–1979

prose

  • Historical stories from the Bavarian Forest . Hof (Oberfränkische Verlag-Ges.) 1981
  • The devil in the oven . Straubing (Attenkofer) 2001
  • The kidnapping from the crib . Dachau (Bayerland) 2006
  • Behind the stalls of the Christkindlmarkt . Straubing (Attenkofer) 2007
  • The last lover . Straubing (Attenkofer) 2007

Illustrated books

  • with Erich Klimek : 30 years in Neutraubling . Studio-Dr., Regensburg 1981
  • with Erich Klimek: Menzinpah - Wenzenbach . 1982
  • "... towards the forest" . Texts and drawings from the Bavarian Forest. Buch und Kunst Verlag, Amberg 1997, 27 illustrations
  • with Peter Löffler: "on the way ..." . Studio Druck, Regensburg 2007

Quotes

  • "'It is a shame that you are not there,
     as my barn is burning down,' said the farmer to the fire eater in the circus, 'you could have eaten up!' "
  • "'He's no really warm!' Said the sexton, as he carried out an apostle figure during the church renovation,
    - meanwhile he had smacked bricklayer."
  • “'Even stealing has to be learned!' The prisoner said to the pastor
    , as he knows that he is eager to help."
  • A very short saying: "'We give your future a home' was advertised by the coffin carpenter in the newspaper."

Other dialect poets and researchers

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ "Trademark" of Fendl's proverbs: " (joke leader, saying) ..., → said it ..., → ... (joke point with surprise effect) "
  2. ↑ 35 years of Sindlbacher Kreis - rhymes and inconsistencies from the Upper Palatinate in the Sindlbach sports center. Neumarkt TV, October 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: The culture award goes to Alois Achatz . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Fendl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbühl , Straubing-Bogen district