Manfred Franke

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Curt Manfred Franke (born April 23, 1930 in Haan , Rhineland ; † July 4, 2020 in Marburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Manfred Franke was the son of a post office clerk from Hilden , where he also spent his childhood and youth and attended elementary school and the Helmholtz high school from 1936 to 1951 . After graduating from high school , from 1951 he studied German , modern history , philosophy and folklore at the universities of Marburg and Frankfurt am Main . In 1957 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the " Schinderhannes " in Frankfurt am Main. He then worked as a volunteer and later as a permanent employee for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart . In 1963 he switched to Deutschlandfunk in Cologne , where he headed the science and education editorial team from 1969 and the special programs editorial team from 1978.

Manfred Franke wrote narrative prose , radio features and radio plays . His book Until the Enemy Comes, deals with the events immediately before and after the end of World War II in Franke's hometown of Hilden ; Murder courses is a documentary collage about the pogrom night of 9/10. November 1938 in Hilden, where it claimed the highest casualties in terms of population.

Manfred Franke was a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 1962 he received the Feature Prize from Radio Bremen .

In the last years of his life, Manfred Franke lived in Marburg, where he died on July 4, 2020 at the age of 90.

Works

  • The Schinderhannes in German folk tradition , Frankfurt / Main 1958 (under the name Curt-Manfred Franke)
  • A life on trial , Stuttgart 1967
  • Until the enemy comes , Stuttgart 1970
  • Murders. 9./10.XI. 1938. A record of fear, mistreatment and death, of finding traces and their rediscovery , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1973
  • Albert Leo Schlageter. The first soldier of the 3rd Reich. The demythologization of a hero Prometh, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-922009-38-7
  • Schinderhannes. The short, wild life of Johannes Bückler, retold according to old protocols, letters and newspaper reports , Düsseldorf 1984
  • The Rheingold. The self-invention of the inventor Heinrich Hermann Kurschildgen , in: Hildener Jahrbuch 1993 NF Vol. 9, pp. 37–84
  • Life and novel of Elisabeth von Ardenne, Fontanes “Effi Briest” , Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-1024-8
  • Beyond the woods , the writer Ernst Wiechert as a political speaker and author, Cologne 2003
  • Grimm without bells. Ambivalences in political thinking and acting of the writer Hans Grimm , Cologne 2009
  • On the way to a new résumé - a repetition , shverlag Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89498-264-5
  • Obituary for a teaching body , Cologne 1984 a. 2010 - Hilden Yearbook 2012

Editing

  • Streets and squares , Gütersloh 1967
  • Experienced time , Stuttgart 1968
  • Schinderhannes , Berlin 1977
  • 47 and eleven poems about Cologne , Cologne 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Schmidt: Hilden: literary chronicler and contemporary witness. Rheinische Post , July 10, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franke, Curt Manfred (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2020
Place of death Marburg