Karl-Heinz Berndt

Karl-Heinz Berndt (born March 2, 1923 in Guben , Niederlausitz ; † April 21, 1993 ; pseudonyms : Lentz de Barrinkh, Kai Berg, H. von Bern, Karl-Heinz Berndt Guben, Berndt-Guben, KH Berndt-Guben, Berny Gubane, Berndt Guben, Carolus Heibe, JJ van Johst, John B. King, Michel Pinscher, Will Turek) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Karl-Heinz Berndt attended a grammar school in Drossen , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1941 . He was then drafted into the Air Force . During the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans , most of which he spent in the United States . In 1946 he was released to Freiberg / Saxony . In 1947 he moved from the Soviet occupation zone to Frankfurt am Main . There he began a study of German literature and classical philology , but he after a short time in favor of journalistic broke activities. During the Berlin Airlift he worked as a helper in the airlift kitchen and had one and a half days off after 16 hours of work, which he spent on writing. The result was the Wild West novel Der Texasreiter , which was published in 1949 by Anker Verlag. He had to sue for the fee for this, however, became known in this way and got a job as a local reporter for the Frankfurter Rundschau ; he had also started writing trivial literature . From 1950 onwards, numerous of his works - mostly from the genres of adventure , wild west and crime novels - appeared either in booklet form or as loan books . His greatest success was the adventure series Der Pfeifer , published in 23 serial volumes from 1952 to 1954 , which Bamberg's Karl May Verlag republished in an edition edited by Hans Wollschläger in the 1960s .

In the second half of the 1950s , Karl-Heinz Berndt stayed for a long time as an exchange editor at the Chicago Tribune in the United States ; the focus of his literary work now shifted to the writing of social novels . From 1963 Berndt was an editor in the Bonn studio of the Second German Television . In the following years he restricted his writing activities, whereby the novel Der Unheld , published in 1964, can be seen as an attempt to write “serious” literature, according to critics. From now on, Berndt published his stories , essays and poems mainly in anthologies .

Karl-Heinz Berndt was a member of the media industry union and the Gabinete Literario de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . Since the 1960s he lived mainly in Bonn , later also on Gran Canaria . He died of cancer.

Works

Circle of the incorruptible, Frankfurt am Main 1950

A modern coyote, Frankfurt am Main 1950

The Texasreiter, Eulenthal 1950 (under the name KH Berndt)

Death in the Paternoster, Frankfurt / Main 1950

The forgotten murder, Frankfurt am Main 1950

The bloody carpet, Frankfurt am Main 1951 (under the name JJ van Johst)

Flames at midnight, Hamburg 1951 (under the name JJ van Johst)

The omnibus of death, Hamburg 1951 (under the name JJ Johst)

An enigmatic call, Hamburg 1951 (under the name JJ van Johst)

The strangler von Husum, Frankfurt / Main 1951 (under the name Kai Berg)

The ruler, Frankfurt am Main 1952 (under the name John B. King)

The Abused, Frankfurt a. M. 1952 (under the name Will Turek)

Der Pfeifer, Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] (under the names KH Berndt-Guben and Berndt-Guben)

1. Love, Rum and Powder Keg, 1952
2. Corsairs, knots, captains
3. Thieves, daggers, diamonds
4. Muskets, girls, traffickers
5. Bengali, bamboo, brahmins
6. Soldiers, thugs, cronies, 1952
7. Cannons, clubs, competitors, 1952
8. Marshes, stones, slavers
9. Drunkards, Satan, Zanzibar
10. Ducats, swords, informers, 1953
11. Mountains, bears, beaver hunters
12. Curses, flames, shotguns
13. Robbers, ranchers, gunmen
14. Friends, fire, trackers
15. Marina, Morenos, Marauders
16. Pirates, beatings, gunpowder smoke
17. Pesetas, plague, pirate loyalty
18. Rebels, rats, predators, 1953
19. Tyrants, devils, Trinidad
20. Alert, agents, Africa
21. Ropes, Terror, Gravedigger, 1954
22. Hell, heroes, hara-kiri
23. Heaven, Hell, Hero's Death, 1954

Prairie Murder , Frankfurt am Main 1952 (under the name John B. King)

Manitoba , Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] 1953 (under the name Berndt-Guben)

That the bones cracked !, Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1954 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Captain of the President, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] (under the name Berndt Guben)

1. Captain Thomas, 1954
2. The spy, 1954
3. Long live the Republic !, 1954
4. Bandits, smugglers, deserters, 1954

Last Who Shoots, Menden, 1955 (under the name John Jersey)

Duel in the twilight, Sinzig (Rhine), 1956 (under the name John B. King)

Duel with flashlight, Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

The baptism of fire, Sinzig (Rhine) 1956 (under the name John B. King)

Flames over the Colorado, Sinzig (Rhine) 1956 (under the name John B. King)

Holliday and the gloves, Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Vertigo around 17 corners, Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

The Tick of Mrs. Slaughter, Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

A skull is around, Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Broken by fame, Sinzig (Rhine) 1956 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Abuse has bad luck, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

At the grave in the mountains, Sinzig (Rhein) 1957 (under the name John B. King)

At the Beard of the Prophet, Rheydt 1957 (under the name Berndt Guben)

Capulin stands upside down, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

You must die, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

The last way out, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Lumpen unter sich, Sinzig (Rhein) 1957 (under the name John B. King)

The murder trumpet, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

Front company Leman, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

The eerie passage under the Hazienda, Sinzig (Rhine) 1957 (under the name John B. King)

Foiled uprising, Sinzig (Rhine) 1957 (under the name John B. King)

Fateful letter, Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Berny Gubane)

It started in the night, Düsseldorf 1958 (under the name H. von Bern)

Louisiana Rhapsody, Düsseldorf 1958 (under the name Lentz de Barrinkh)

And if it were in front of you again ..., Düsseldorf 1958 (under the name Carolus Heibe)

Night over the Mississippi, Düsseldorf 1959 (under the name Lentz de Barrinkh)

Caribbean Nights, Düsseldorf 1960 (under the name Lentz de Barrinkh)

The lady and the philistine, Hemer-Sundwig 1964 (under the name Lentz de Barrinkh)

Der Unheld or Die Carmina Michaelis, Bad Godesberg 1966 (under the name Michel Pinscher) Hohwacht Verlag Lothar von Ballusek

Orjana, Star of the Naked, Frankfurt am Main 1971 (under the name Berndt Guben)

The return of Amadeus Abendroth, Itzehoe 1977

Hitlerjunge Hasenkohl or Die from the year '23, Düsseldorf 1980 (under the name Karl-Heinz Berndt Guben)

Completely apolitical poems, Bonn 1988 (under the name Berndt Guben)

Black, red and gold. Biography of a flag, Berlin [u. a.] 1991 (under the name Berndt Guben)

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personal data
SURNAME	Berndt, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barrinkh, Lentz de (pseudonym); Berg, Kai (pseudonym); Bern, H. von (pseudonym); Guben, Karl-Heinz Berndt (pseudonym); Berndt-Guben (pseudonym); Berndt-Guben, KH (pseudonym); Gubane, Berny (pseudonym); Guben, Berndt (pseudonym); Heibe, Carolus (pseudonym); Johst, JJ van (pseudonym); King, John B. (pen name); Pinscher, Michel (pseudonym); Turek, Will (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guben , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1993