Karl Wolfgang Barthel

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Karl Wolfgang Barthel (born May 9, 1929 in Berlin ; † December 20, 2018 ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Barthel was born in Berlin in 1929 as the son of the poet and writer Max Barthel (1893–1975) and his wife Luise geb. Möbius (1898–1998) born. He attended elementary school in Berlin and grammar school in Dresden, which he left in 1949 after obtaining his university entrance qualification. From 1947 to 1950 he studied English in Leipzig and Berlin and from 1958 to 1960 pedagogy in Worms.

Professionally, he worked in Berlin from 1950 to 1957 as a reporter for “ Stern ”, “ Spiegel ” and “Constanze” and during this time interviewed numerous well-known personalities from theater, film and politics such as Heinz Rühmann, Karlheinz Böhm, Paul Hubschmid and Luise Schröder. 1957/58 he represented the "Constanze" in Düsseldorf. From 1958 to 1960 he edited an advertising magazine while studying.

From 1960 to 1965 he was a lecturer in a specialist educational publisher in Bad Godesberg, and from 1965 until his retirement in 1989 he was part of the education department of Bayer AG in Leverkusen, where he looked after commercial apprentices with high school diplomas. Since 1987 he has been working as a choral songwriter. Since then, over 1,200 settings by him have appeared.

Barthel lived in Berlin and was widowed. From 2003 he lived with Irina Magritz, the widow of the architect, painter and graphic artist Kurt Magritz .

Publications

  • Funding through Demand , Cologne 1995
  • Years like poetry ; Edition Fischer, Frankfurt, 2000, ISBN 3-8301-0113-9
  • Little people, big people ; Weltbuch Verlag, Dresden, 2010, ISBN 3938706201
  • Dresden is burning ; Weltbuch Verlag, Dresden, 2010, ISBN 3-938706-18-X
  • Kastner, Lenin, my father and I ; Weltbuch Verlag, Dresden, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938706-20-6
  • Elmar Gunsch speaks poems by Karl Wolfgang Barthel , CD, Herzogenrath 2010
  • My inner eye , contribution to the anthology "With secret eyes", Tübingen 2010
  • Love and porcelain , Herzogenrath 2011
  • The poet and the dictators , biography about Max Barthel, Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87956-356-2
  • Man without a mask ; Kulturmaschinen , Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940274-32-8
  • Dr. Laternus , Herzogenrath 2011
  • Nobody is available at the moment
  • With cats and dogs there is a lot going on
  • Precious time
  • Fire from Heaven in the anthology "Traces of Fire"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schlaraffia Berolina: Current. Retrieved on July 28, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Barthel, Karl Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 2018