Otto Rombach

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Otto August Rombach (born July 22, 1904 in Böckingen , today in Heilbronn , † May 19, 1984 in Bietigheim-Bissingen ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Rombach was born in Böckingen, but moved to Bietigheim with his parents as a toddler in 1905. He comes from a family of artists; his father August Rombach was a painter, brother Richard became a cameraman at UFA in Berlin and his brother Hermann Rombach became a painter and draftsman.

Otto Rombach initially worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung and later in Berlin. As a writer , he became famous in 1928 with poems, plays, novellas, radio plays and historical novels such as Der Junge Herr Alexius (1940), but above all with Adrian the Tulip Thief (1935), filmed in 1966 as the first German television series in color and on 25. January 2009 in the Altonaer Theater, Hamburg, premiered as a play (stage adaptation by Martin Chlupka).

He wrote short stories, novels, plays, poems and travelogues.

The Otto Rombach scholarship for talented young musicians, painters and writers is named after him, which the city of Heilbronn awards annually from a Rombach foundation.

Awards

In 1941, Rombach was awarded the Swabian Poets' Prize , a Nazi literature prize launched by the Württemberg Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, Christian Mergenthaler, in 1935. In 1964 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Medal of Honor of the City of Heilbronn and became an honorary citizen of the city of Bietigheim. Since 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Académie Berrichonne in Bourges , France. The Baden-Württemberg state government honored him in 1969 with the title of professor. In 1981 he was awarded the State Medal of Merit, and in 1984 the Bietigheim-Bissingen city library was renamed the Otto-Rombach library . In Furtwangen in the Black Forest there is an Otto-Rombach-Weg , in Heilbronn-Böckingen, his birthplace, there is the Rombachstraße.

Works (selection)

  • Gazette poetry. Poems by a Young Journalist (Poetry, 1928)
  • Adrian, the tulip thief. A picaresque novel (1936)
  • The steadfast geometer. A novel from the young Danube (1938, reprinted 1952 as Cornelia and the steadfast geometer )
  • The young Mr. Alexius (historical novel about a merchant of the Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft , 1940)
  • Gordian and the Riches of Life (novel, 1952)
  • The good king René (historical novel, 1964)
  • Italian travels (travel report, 1967)
  • Forward, backward, my track. Stories from My Life (Autobiography, 1974)
  • Happy country. On Lake Constance and Neckar, between Ries and Rhine (travel report, 1976)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The official name for today's term Minister of Culture was Minister of Culture in Württemberg until around 1950 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rombach, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rombach, Otto August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Boeckingen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1984
Place of death Bietigheim-Bissingen