Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham

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Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham , actually Rainer Hengsbach, (born June 22, 1950 in Berlin ; † December 28, 2012 there ) was a German poet and writer .

life and work

Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham has been studying natural sciences with a focus on geology / palaeontology and biology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Tübingen since 1968 and from 1983 onwards, several semesters of prehistory in Tübingen. He was active in paleontological and evolutionary research for twenty years and has published notable articles in scientific journals since 1973. At times he worked as a museum educator.

In 1989 Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham made a "change of subject" to literature. Through intensive self-study and contacts to relevant university institutes, he acquired the necessary professional competence. Already during his youth and student days he had occasionally written poems , which he did not publish. From the end of the 1980s, more and more new poems and first prose manuscripts were written. His first two books were published in 1994: a sociogram of the US mentality in comparison with Germany and an experience report on the tone of voice in German authorities.

Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham's actual literary field of work was poetry . Since 1994 he has published 17 volumes of poetry and published two extensive anthologies with selected poems under the title " Flußgeschiebe ". The subject of his poetry touches all areas of human existence. In many poems he documents the fears and dangers, but also the hopes of people in the modern world. With pointed verses he criticizes the negative influences of the zeitgeist on our thinking and acting.

As a poet, he is one of the staunch representatives of traditional forms of lyric poetry . In each of his volumes of poetry, he tried in a final chapter to deal with individual aspects from the field of tension between traditional and "modern" poetry. Under the title " Thoughts on Poems. Comments on the Poetry Discussion ", these contributions were published in 2001 as an independent book. In principle, Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham did not take part in literary competitions.

Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham, who also published articles and poems in literary magazines and anthologies and, when he founded Beggerow Buchverlag since 1993, was also active as a small publisher , was a member of the " Society for Contemporary Poetry ", the " Interest Group of German-Speaking Authors " and the " German Language Association ". He was the third generation to write. His grandfather was the publishing editor and freelance writer Arno Hach (1877–1945, missing). Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham has re-edited some of his works.

Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham was married to Karin Manke-Hengsbach.

Works

  • USA for newbies and prejudices. A comparison from a German perspective . Mattsee near Salzburg 1994 (pseudonym: Uwe Bornfeld).
  • Do right and do not shy away from anyone in Germany. Experiences of a West German with his (legal) state . Mattsee near Salzburg 1994 (pseudonym: Gero Padelück).
  • Cross-section - checksum negative. Poems . Mattsee near Salzburg 1994.
  • Sweet and sour and not entirely kosher. Poems . Mattsee near Salzburg 1995.
  • Directions of flow. Poems . Berlin 1996.
  • Seen in the light. Poems . Berlin 1997.
  • Mock battles. Poems . Berlin 1998.
  • Location determination. Political poetry. Poems . Berlin 1999.
  • Mixed double. Poems . Berlin 1999.
  • Secular sonnets. Poems . Ammerbuch 2000.
  • Preliminary gleanings. Poems . Ammerbuch 2001.
  • Thoughts on poetry. Comments on the lyric discussion . Ammerbuch 2001; 2nd greatly expanded edition, Berlin 2009.
  • River debris. A selection of poems . Ammerbuch 2002.
  • Reading stones. Poems . Ammerbuch 2003.
  • Sign of cancer. Four stories . Ammerbuch 2003.
  • Fault areas. Poems . Ammerbuch 2004.
  • Fields of expectation. Poems . Ammerbuch 2005.
  • Deep fractures. Poems . Ammerbuch 2006.
  • But what remains, the poets create. Career and insights of a dropout. An outline of life . Berlin 2006.
  • Aftershocks. Poems . Berlin 2007.
  • River debris II. Collected poems . Berlin 2008.
  • Word perspectives. Poems . Berlin 2009.
  • Waypoints. Poems . Berlin 2010.
  • Ruptures. Poems . Berlin 2012.
  • Shifts. 19 essays on language - and God and the world . Berlin 2012.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2006/2007 . Vol. 65, KG Saur Verlag Munich and Leipzig 2007, Vol. I, p. 466.

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personal data
SURNAME Hengsbach-Parcham, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hengsbach, Rainer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2012
Place of death Berlin