Rainer Hohberg

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Rainer Hohberg (born May 18, 1952 in Eisenach ) is a German writer .

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Rainer Hohberg grew up in Eisenach and studied there from 1968 to 1972 at the Institute for Teacher Training. After his first book was published in 1975, he studied from 1976 to 1979 at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . He then worked in Jena as an editor of a series of city history publications. He has been a freelance writer since 1985, interrupted by teaching from 1990 to 1994. From 1984 he was a candidate, from 1989 until its dissolution he was a member of the GDR Writers' Association . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Thuringia District in the Association of German Writers (VS). He is a co-founder and board member of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis Thuringia as well as a member of the Literary Society of Thuringia. As chairman of the Friends of Hummelshain Castle , he is committed to maintaining the historic castle ensemble in his home town of Hummelshain .

Hohberg writes radio plays, books for children and young people and books on Thuringian cultural history. For his first radio play "Die Mutprobe" (1984), which tells of political conflicts in Jena high school students during the National Socialist era, he received the children's radio play award of the GDR radio. A preferred genre is the fairy tale, whereby in the game with the miracle he repeatedly allows references to reality to shine through. In several books on the legendary landscape of Thuringia, he tries to explain the real background of historical legends. In addition, he writes regularly for daily newspapers such as the “Thüringer Allgemeine” and the “Ostthüringer Zeitung”. In 1990 Hohberg was the town clerk in Tübingen . In 1995, 2000 and 2008 he received literary grants from the state of Thuringia and in 2012 the honorary award of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis Thuringia for his commitment to literary work with children. In 2017 he received a scholarship from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation.

Works

  • 1975: The boy from Eisenach, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach . Gebr. Knabe Verlag Weimar .
  • 1980: The Lambton Lindworm . Gebr. Knabe Verlag. Weimar. Children's book.
  • 1987: Box Tilt . Postreiter publishing house . Hall. Children's book.
  • 1990: The night is not dark at all . Postreiter publishing house. Hall. Picture book together with Manfred Bofinger .
  • 1996: Thuringian castles - amazing. A literary landscape of castles . Wartburg publishing house . Weimar
  • 1998: On a treasure hunt… Museum tour with Leo Löwenzahn through Thuringia . Weimar
  • 1998: Thuringia. Mysterious, mysterious, legendary . (DIE SCHWARZEN FÜHRER), Eulen Verlag , Freiburg i.Br.
  • 1998: Kunterbunt around the year . The Thuringian children's book. Hain Verlag Rudolstadt
  • 2000: The ramshorn knight . Modern fairy tales by R. Hohberg. Edited by Wulf Kirsten. EDITION SHELL LIME. Wartburg publishing house. Weimar
  • 2000: Fairy tales from Thuringia . Edited and commented by R. Hohberg. Quartus publishing house . Jena
  • 2000: Germany. Mysterious, mysterious, legendary . (MA). Owls Publishing House. Freiburg in Breisgau.
  • 2001: Profiles from the Saale-Holzland district. Citizens of our time . EDITION PROFILE
  • 2002: Timm & Tina and the little castle ghost . Radio play for children. TMMD production. Weimar, new edition as CD 2006
  • 2003: Jena Profile. Citizens of our time . EDITION PROFILE
  • 2004: Once upon a time there was a two-horn . Children's book (MA) Sauerländer / Patmos-Verlag . Dusseldorf
  • 2005: A botanical fairy tale garden, plant fairy tales and portraits , Echinomedia-Verlag . Thalbürgel 2005, 3rd edition and audio book 2011
  • 2006: bread and roses. The life of St. Elisabeth in sagas and legends (together with Sylivia Weigelt) Wartburg Verlag. Weimar
  • 2007: The Hummelshain hunting castles and the Rieseneck hunting grounds . (together with Claudia Hohberg) Friends of Hummelshain Castle. Hummelshain
  • 2007: Thuringian legendary secrets . Tauchaer Verlag . Series of FACTS. Taucha
  • 2008: Thuringia. A travel companion to 283 mysterious places of legend . Mediengruppe König , Greiz
  • 2009: barrel picker. Kinds and bad habits of the Thuringians , together m. S. Weigelt, Tauchaer Verlag
  • 2010: On a treasure hunt with Leo Löwenzahn and Lisa. The great Thuringian museum guide for children . ed. v. Museum Association of Thuringia , Weimar
  • 2011: kites. Fairy tales from all over the world . Steffen Verlag , Friedland
  • 2012: About dragons, witches and enchanted souls (Thuringia - simply legendary - Vol. 1), Sutton Verlag , Erfurt
  • 2012: True stories about hunting in Thuringia , Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha
  • 2012: Ratzekahl unpacks, Luther for children , audio book, TMMD Weimar, Weimar
  • 2015: See you soon in the forest , children's book (MA), Klak Verlag, Berlin
  • 2015: Mysteries from the Thuringian world of legends , Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha
  • 2016:  The New Hummelshain Castle . (with Claudia Hohberg), Verlag Schnell & Steiner Regensburg, Regensburg 2016  
  • 2016:  Ghostly things from the Thuringian world of legends, Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2016

Working for the radio

  • 1984: the test of courage . Berlin radio. 1984. Directed by Maritta Huebner.
  • 1985: The tractor king . Berlin radio. Directed by Manfred Täubert.
  • 1986: How the rat Ratzekahl experienced its green miracle . Berlin radio. Directed by Rüdiger Show.
  • 1987: Time to think about Sherlock Holmes . Berlin radio. Directed by Rüdiger Show.
  • 1988: The crocodile's head . Berlin radio. Directed by Rüdiger Show.
  • 1988: Sherlock Holmes goes swimming . Berlin radio. Directed by Rüdiger Show.
  • 1991: The new Bremen Town Musicians . Berlin radio. Directed by Rüdiger Show.
  • 1997: Father's organism or a car goes crazy . Radio fairy tale. SFB, NDR and WDR.
  • 1997: The Syrila Sun Bell . Radio fairy tale. SFB, NDR and WDR.
  • 2017: When the jumping men came. Ghost hunt in central Germany . Original sound feature. Deutschlandradio, directed by Matthias Kapohl . 

literature

  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Rainer Hohberg (born 1952), p. 104-109 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hohberg, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach