Nino Erné

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Nino Erné (born October 31, 1921 in Berlin ; † December 11, 1994 in Mainz ) was a German journalist, writer and literary translator.

Life

Giovanni Bruno Erné grew up in Berlin, Milan and Trieste , the hometown of his father Antonio Luigi Erné (-1946). His "half-Jewish" mother Wendeli was an actress and came from Hamburg , she was the sister of the physicist Hans Reichenbach . The parents moved to Italy in 1923 and back to Berlin in 1928, where they separated. Nino had an older sister, Eva. Nino Erné was a student at the Landschulheim am Solling , he remained undisturbed as an Italian in Germany during the National Socialist era , studied German, philosophy and English in Berlin and Munich and received his doctorate in 1944 with Rainer Maria Rilke on the subject of floating stress as an art form in poetry . In Munich he met his first wife Beatrice, with whom he had their son Marcel in 1947. After the end of the Second World War, he tried his hand at various bread-and-butter professions, including working for a short time as a translator for the US military government , as a teacher at the Falckenberg School and as a dramaturge at the Munich Kammerspiele . In 1950 he became editor of the magazine "Antares" in Mainz. In the 1950s he was a publisher's editor at Fischer Verlag and Blüchert Verlag in Hamburg. In Aix-en-Provence , he worked as a German teacher at the university for two years . In the meantime he had married his second wife Tatjana. 1959 began his career as a television journalist with the NWDR in Hamburg. In 1963 he switched to ZDF and in 1966 became its correspondent in Rome . From 1973 he worked as the responsible cultural editor in the main editorial office of the station in Mainz, where he has lived since then. In his professional activity, Erné has been responsible for a large number of television productions.

Literary work

Erné's first literary publication was a volume of poetry in 1946. Erné has written a number of novels, short stories and poems, but also essays, newspaper columns and reviews, without a particularly strong response from the critics, especially since it was mainly published by Bertelsmann Lesering . Erné was also a literary translator into German: from French by Honoré de Balzac , André Maurois and Georges Brassens , from English by Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle , from Italian by Leonardo Sciascia , Carlo Collodi , Riccardo Bacchelli , Italo Calvino , Pier Paolo Pasolini and Dino Buzzati .

"Art of the story" is a publish Erné first 1956 novella about this literary form that was introduced at German studies seminars of universities as reading a time.

Erné also worked under the name Gur Bland.

Honors

When the Roswitha Prize was awarded in 1981, Erné was asked to give the laudatory speech for Hilde Spiel . In Mainz, Erné received the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize in 1979 , the Gutenberg plaque of the city of Mainz in 1986 and the Hannes-Gaab-Teller in 1991, and in 1987 France appointed him Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes académiques . The Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf is keeping Erné's literary estate.

Fonts (selection)

  • The pensive beggar. Poems , Karlsruhe: Stahlberg, 1946
  • Art of the Novella , Wiesbaden: Limes, 1956 (1961, 1995)
  • Young man in the light rail. 13 stories , Munich 1959
  • The ideal and life. Essays , Hamburg 1960
  • Monologue of the Frog King. Novella , Wiesbaden 1966
  • Marble poems. Poems , Ahrensburg 1967
  • Italy sweet and sour. Essays , Munich 1975
  • Obituary for Othello. Roman , Munich 1976
  • Declaration of love to a city. A poem , Mainz 1978
  • Cellar pub and ivory tower. Roman , Munich 1979
  • Passengers. Stories from four decades , Munich 1981
  • Rome. One day - one night. Roman , Karlsruhe 1982
  • Children of Saturn. Three novels . Stuttgart 1987
  • Donna Anna's confession. A novella , Hanover 1991
  • From the friendliness of Mainz, Mainz 1991
  • Old man in Manhattan , Paderborn 1994
  • The white pavilion. Roman , Paderborn 1995
  • White, black-patterned wings: from the diaries , Bramsche: Rasch 1986
  • Nino Erné: Memories of Uncle Hans in: Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen (Ed.): Hans Reichenbach. Selected writings: 1909-1953 , Reidel, Dordrecht 1978

literature

  • Charis Goer, Stefanie Nölle (eds.): Nino-Erné-Bibliography 1944 - 1995: Directory of primary and secondary literature , Paderborn: Igel-Verlag 1996 ISBN 3-89621-010-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio Luigi Erné at DNB
  2. Charis Goer, Stefanie Nölle (Ed.): Nino-Erné-Bibliography 1944-1995: Directory of primary and secondary literature , p. 194
  3. Antares. French booklet f. Art, literature, etc. Science , Mainz: Association z. Promotion of the German-French Kulturaustausches eV, Mainz 1952 to 1960. Journal at DNB ISSN  0517-9823
  4. Literary bequests in Rhenish archives , Düsseldorf, 2006
  5. Nino Erné Bibliography 1944 - 1995 Review at the University of Siegen