Robert Wolfgang Schnell

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Robert Wolfgang Schnell, 1974 Photo by Dietmar Bührer
Robert Wolfgang Schnell 2, 1974
Robert Wolfgang Schnell 3, 1974

Robert Wolfgang Schnell (born March 8, 1916 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † August 1, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German writer (also director, actor and painter).

Life

Memorial plaque on Behaimstrasse 10 in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Robert Wolfgang Schnell's tombstone in the Ruhleben cemetery (currently grave of honor )

Robert Wolfgang Schnell came from a middle-class family. The father was a bank clerk, the grandfathers were merchants. Quick studied as an auditor Music and formed self-taught for painters . In 1937 he tried to be accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . His two applications were both rejected, which amounted to a professional ban. He then quickly moved to Mülheim / Ruhr, where he worked as an unskilled worker at the Deutsche Röhrenwerke. In 1941 he succeeded in being hired as a stage manager at the Landestheater in Schneidemühl and from there to the "German Theater in the Netherlands" in The Hague, which was occupied by German troops, where he staged his first opera. Convened in November 1944, he deserted to join the British troops in January 1945.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Schnell joined the KPD, in which he remained until it was banned in 1956. With his friends Willy Wenderoth and Ferdinand Röntgen he opened the "Ruhrkammerspiele Witten" in January 1946. His attempt as a theater director to create a political, anti-fascist theater based on the experience of the Nazi regime failed. His unsuccessful staging of Georg Büchner's “Leonce and Lena” at the municipal theaters in Düsseldorf in early 1947 became a stopover on the way to the German Theater in East Berlin, where Wolfgang Langhoff brought him in 1947 and where he worked as a director. Schnell lived in West Berlin from 1949 .

In the following years he carried out various activities, including working for the satirical magazine Ulenspiegel . In 1959 he and Günter Bruno Fuchs , a friend who remained a member of the KPD after the ban, the painter Sigurd Kuschnerus and Günter Anlauf, founded the backyard gallery " zinke " in Berlin-Kreuzberg , which existed until 1962. He was an honorary member of the New Friedrichshagener Poet Circle . In addition, he was elected as a founding member of the New Society for Literature (NGL) in its first Presidium, which was active from April 27, 1973 until the first ordinary general meeting of the NGL on October 29, 1973.

As a writer, Robert Wolfgang Schnell was primarily the author of conventionally realistically narrated novels and short stories , in which "little people" and outsiders are portrayed in their West Berlin milieu , which for the author constitutes an alternative to the criticized contemporary society. Schnell, who was a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the Eduard von der Heydt Culture Prize from the city of Wuppertal in 1970 . He became known nationwide in 1978 for his guest role as harbor pastor in the TV series MS Franziska .

He is the father of the filmmaker Reinald Schnell . Schnell lived as a freelance writer , painter and actor in Berlin-Charlottenburg until his death .

He found his final resting place in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin on the state-owned cemetery in Ruhleben in field XXIV-192.

Fonts

  • True rendering of the world . Lama, Munich 1961 (= Octopus Library Volume 3)
  • Stuff , stories. Luchterhand, Neuwied am Rhein and Berlin 1963 (1969 as a special edition by Luchterhand with the title The Farce of the Giant Breasts )
  • Ghost train , a duplicate key to life in Berlin. Neuwied am Rhein / Berlin 1964 (1973 as paperback in the Luchterhand collection 135)
  • Muzes flute , poems - stories - drawings. Luchterhand, Neuwied am Rhein / Berlin 1966 (1968 also as Fischer paperback 944)
  • Maid education . Luchterhand, Neuwied am Rhein / Berlin 1968 (1978 as a paperback in the Luchterhand collection 180)
  • Life is safe . Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.] 1968
  • Bonko , a picture book for children. Middelhauve, Cologne 1969 (together with Józef Wilkoń)
  • Pulle and Pummi , a novel for children. Middelhauve, Cologne 1969 (= Middelhauve Kinderbücherei 5), 1972 as dtv 7049 and 1995 as Fischer Taschenbuch 80075
  • Bachelor Christmas , Tales. Luchterhand, Neuwied am Rhein / Berlin 1970
  • A polar bear in Berlin . Berlin 1973
  • The transformed testament , (stories). Hammer, Wuppertal 1973
  • Four fathers , (with drawings by the author). Eremiten, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-87365-045-2 (= paperback 47)
  • The forester's great clock , a novel for children. Torchbearers, Hanover 1974
  • Holger lives in the zoo , a novel for children. Middelhauve, Cologne 1974 (= Middelhauve Children's Library 10) 1979 as DTV paperback 7369
  • A bag of raspberry sweets , stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied am Rhein 1976, ISBN 3-472-61208-8 (= Luchterhand collection 208)
  • The cheerful freedom and equality , four stories of the firm bond. Wagenbach, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-8031-0095-X (= Quartheft 95)
  • Speech at the opening of the new Hoffmann bookshop . Hoffmann, Eutin 1978 (= private print)
  • Tram and cuckoo clock , stories. Eulenspiegel, Berlin (GDR) 1979
  • Triangle of a butcher , (Bayreuth days). LCB edition, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-920392-74-4 (= LCB editions 64)
  • Have the bears got happier? Fifteen autobiographies. Wagenbach, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-8031-2098-5 (= Wagenbach's pocket library 98)
  • A pastor's way to a brothel , stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied am Rhein 1984, ISBN 3-472-86589-X
  • The cart with the bottled beer . Polyphem, Berlin 1986

Translations

  • Leo Lionni : Alexander and the Aufziehmaus , Cologne 1971
  • Leo Lionni: The largest house in the world , Cologne 1969
  • Leo Lionni: In the rabbit garden , Cologne 1976

Writings in separate editions

Edited by Michael Fisch :

  • Volume 1: True Reproduction of the World. Collected Stories I (1961–1963) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 2: Ghost Train. A duplicate key to life in Berlin. Roman (1964) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 3: Life is Safe. Collected Stories II (1964–1969) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 4: Maid Education. Roman (1968). Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936324-18-2
  • Volume 5: Developing Reality. Selected poems (from the estate). Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936324-19-0
  • Volume 6: Three men in the fire. Collected Stories III (1970–1986) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 7: Pulle and Pummi. Five novels for children (1969–1974) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 8: Collected Letters (1946–1986) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 9: Documents on Life (1946–1986) / (not yet published)
  • Volume 10: The life of St. Hermann Katz. Roman (from the estate). Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936324-97-2

Filmography

  • The Oyster and the Pearl (1961; director)
  • Am Siel (1961/62; speaker, commentary)
  • The Rosenstock (1962; director)
  • Algerian partisans (1962; commentary)
  • Rheinstrom (1962; speaker, commentary)
  • A Workers' Club in Sheffield (1965; Speaker)
  • Blinker (1968/69; actor)
  • Taxi for Mr. Skarwannek (1968/69; actor)
  • The St. Pauli Hour Hotel (1970; actor)
  • The Trojan Armchair (1971; screenplay)
  • Pulle + Pummi (1972; template)
  • A happy existence (ZDF 1974; actor, screenplay)
  • Upbringing by a maid (1974; template)
  • Richer by two experiences (ZDF 1976; actor, screenplay)
  • Trial of Medusa (1976; actor)
  • MS Franziska (series 1977/78; actor)
  • Carnival Monday is not a public holiday (ZDF 1978; screenplay, actor)
  • Attention customs! (ARD 1980; screenplay, actor)

Secondary literature

  • Robert Wolfgang Schnell: painter, writer, actor . Edition Berlin 750, Berlin 1984
  • Robert Wolfgang Schnell on his seventieth birthday , published by his friends. Black on white publisher, Barmen / Bayreuth / Berlin 1986
  • Jörg Aufenanger: Remembering the poet over pea soup and beer . In: Wuppertaler Zeitung , December 20, 2000.
  • Michael Fisch: Bibliography Robert Wolfgang Schnell . Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89528-262-6 (= bibliographies on German literary history, volume 9)
  • Hans Albrecht Koch: Bibliography Robert Wolfgang Schnell . In: Informationsmittel für Libraries 8 (2000) pp. 1–4
  • Bernt Ture von zur Mühlen : Bibliographies in Aisthesis Verlag: Brinkmann, Heißenbüttel, Piontek and Schnell. In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 34, April 27, 2001, p. 247.
  • Michael Fisch: portrait of the author . In: Thomas Kraft (Hrsg.): Lexicon of contemporary German literature . Nymphenburger, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-485-00989-X , pp. 1135-1137
  • Ralph Gerstenberg: From the Wupper to the Spree. A Berlin publisher rediscovers Robert Wolfgang Schnell's books - just in time for the 20th anniversary of his death . In: tip , No. 16/2006, p. 67
  • Ralph Gerstenberg: Boheme and class struggle - the writer Robert Wolfgang Schnell , interview with the editor Michael Fisch about the life and work of Robert Wolfgang Schnell. In: Deutschlandfunk on August 1, 2006
  • Ralph Gerstenberg: Robert Wolfgang Schnell: The life of St. Hermann Katz - third volume of the work edition . In: Deutschlandfunk on August 8, 2006
  • Andreas Schäfer: Thinking, writing, drinking - How the bohemians found their way to Kreuzberg. In: Tagesspiegel , August 6, 2006, p. 27.
  • Ole Petras: At the monuments of the time - To Robert Wolfgang Schnells poetry book development of reality . In: literaturkritik.de 4 (April) 2007 (online edition)
  • Uwe Eckhardt: The writer and painter Robert Wolfgang Schnell (1916–1986) and his hometown Wuppertal. Notes and materials. In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , 21 (2012), pp. 91–110.

Web links

Commons : Robert Wolfgang Schnell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralph Gerstenberg: Outsiders in Wuppertal. Novel from the estate of Robert Wolfgang Schnell . Deutschlandfunk , June 8, 2006.
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, all information in this section is based on: Uwe Eckardt: The writer and painter Robert Wolfgang Schnell (1916–1986) and his hometown Wuppertal. Notes and materials . (PDF) In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , 21, 2012, pp. 91–110.
  3. ↑ Thomas Propp: There must be order, said the anarchist. Thomas Propp made a trip to the poet Günter Bruno Fuchs in 1981 . West Berlin 1985, p. 86
personal data
SURNAME Quickly, Robert Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1986
Place of death Berlin