Karl Reinhold Döderlin

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Karl Reinhold Döderlin (born July 2, 1917 in Stuttgart ; died July 2, 2004 in Hohen Neuendorf ) was a German writer.

Life

Döderlin was the son of a gardener. After completing his apprenticeship as a mechanic and businessman, he worked as a laborer and archival assistant and studied art and theater history autodidactically and with Artur Kutscher at the University of Munich . During the Second World War, he served as a soldier for five years. After the end of the war, he lived in Munich, was in charge of the Munich features section of the Deutsche Tagespost from 1949 to 1951 and wrote art and theater reviews. Here he was together with his future wife Inge Lina Pollmann, the journalist Rolf Seeliger and Peter Hornung co-founders of Gruppe 50 , a short-lived literary association that founded the magazine Die Gruppe from 1951 to 1952 . Published sheets for young literature . In May 1951 he took part in the 1st All-German Culture Congress in Leipzig and published a committed article against provincialism and small-mindedness in New Germany , which in the FRG of those years led to corresponding reactions in the form of a professional boycott. In 1952, the author, who was thoroughly Christian-Catholic, moved to the GDR, where he wrote as a theater critic for the Neue Zeit , then as deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Bildende Kunst and from 1953 worked for the Berlin radio .

In his poetry, which appeared in the volume Law and Metamorphosis , which was published in 1954 , he shows a slow detachment from a traditional natural poetry taught by Mörike. His early poems in particular show epigonal-neo-romantic features. The prose volume Noah's Ark does not swim , published in 1959, received little attention.

Since the 1960s he lived in Hohen Neuendorf on the outskirts of Berlin, where he also died in 2004 on his 87th birthday.

Works

  • Law and transformation. Poems from 20 years. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  • Noah's Ark no longer floats. Berlin 1959

literature

  • Sylvia Adrian: Dödelin, Karl Reinhold. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh & Munich 1989, vol. 3, p. 89 f.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , sv
  • GDR writer. Edited by Günther Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai and Paul-Günter Krohn. 2. unchangeable Edition. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1975, sv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Fischer, Thomas Dietzel: German literary journals 1945-1970: A repertory. De Gruyter, Berlin 1992, p. 332 f.
  2. ^ First German Culture Congress, Leipzig, May 16-18, 1951.
  3. ^ Edition of June 20, 1951.
personal data
SURNAME Doederlin, Karl Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bundschuh, Jost (pseudonym); Döderlein, Karl Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2004
Place of death Hohen Neuendorf