Klaus-Erich Boerner

Klaus-Erich Boerner (born May 6, 1915 in Erfurt , † 1943 in the Soviet Union ) was a German writer.

Life

Klaus-Erich Boerner was the son of a doctor; his mother died shortly after he was born. He attended high school his hometown, then in Rinteln and in Hersfeld where he was Easter 1934, the school-leaving examination. Instead of studying German, he became a bookseller. After an apprenticeship at Koehler & Amelang in Leipzig from autumn 1934 to spring 1937, he was already working there as a publishing editor.

In autumn 1937 he became a soldier with the 71st Infantry Regiment in Erfurt. War broke out even before his release. Klaus-Erich Boerner was in France and Russia, most recently in Stalingrad . On January 31, 1943, he was captured; since then he has been missing.

Already in the first years at grammar school, Boerner showed a fine feeling for language and style. Poems from the years 1931 to 1934 appeared in 1935 in Das September-Büchlein . This month he loved before everyone, in it he put his vacation. As a primary school student, he wrote Ursula , which first appeared in print as a narrow ribbon in 1936. At the beginning of 1938, Companion of my Summer appeared and was made into a film. A deep love for nature, music and theater filled him completely.

Despite his youth, Klaus-Erich Boerner is said to have had an excellent knowledge of human nature; his calm, level-headed reflection made him look at the events of the day with growing concern. He was refused the Kleist Prize in 1941. From Stalingrad he dedicated a new collection of poems to friends at Christmas 1942: The Meadow Organ . During his last vacation, he wrote in his friends' guest book: “After one and a half years, once again in Germany and been human! Thank you very much!"

On August 1, 1950, Klaus-Erich Boerner was declared dead by the local court in his hometown.

Works

• Ursula. From Thomas Wiesner's papers . Keysersche Buchhandlung, Erfurt oJ [1935]. 4th edition. 1937, after the war 140th thousand until 1966
• The immutable heart (novel from a German family)
• Companion of my summer
• The meadow organ (poems)

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Erich Boerner in the catalog of the German National Library