Rolf Bongs

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Rolf Bongs (born June 5, 1907 in Düsseldorf ; † November 20, 1981 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Rolf Bongs was the son of District Administrator Rudolf Bongs. He grew up in Düsseldorf and already learned the journalistic trade as a schoolboy while working on the Düsseldorf school newspaper . After he had passed his matriculation examination in 1928, he studied German, art history and philosophy at the universities in Munich, Berlin and Marburg. During this time he was a co-founder of the Marburg leaflets and made the acquaintance of the work of André Gides , which had a great influence on bongs.

In 1934 Rolf Bongs earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Marburg with a thesis on Heinrich von Kleist . His volume “ Gedichte ” from 1935 was banned by the censors of the Third Reich shortly after its publication, and the author was temporarily banned from writing . In the following years, Bongs, who had been married since 1937, exercised various activities; Among other things, he was a commercial clerk, sports teacher and journalist, and finally archivist and librarian . In addition, the Rabenpresse of the publisher VO Stomps in particular offered him an opportunity to publish his texts. From 1938 Bongs was employed by the Volksbund für das Deutschtum Abroad , for which he published two publications in 1942 about the resettlement of ethnic Germans from Soviet-occupied Poland, from the Generalgouvernement and from Bessarabia after the end of the raid, as agreed in the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty Poland described and justified. From 1941 to 1942 he was in charge of the Rheinisches Dichter-Archiv , in which manuscripts and materials by contemporary authors from the Prussian Rhine Province were collected. From 1942 he took part as a soldier in the Waffen SS and SS war correspondent in the Second World War in the Soviet Union, Italy and France.

After his release from a short American captivity, Bongs returned to Düsseldorf in 1945, where he worked as a journalist and critic and from 1955 as a freelance writer. He traveled to Greece and the United States several times. In 1971 he was a visiting professor for contemporary German-language poetry at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst . Bongs, who increasingly suffered from a severe rheumatic disease in the last years of his life , committed suicide in 1981.

Rolf Bongs' work includes poems, short stories, novels, essays, dramas and radio plays. Bongs' early poems tend towards New Objectivity , but an outspoken cult of ancient Greece, athletics and the male body also play an important role in his poetry . After his participation in the National Socialist propaganda apparatus during the Second World War and as a result of his vehement rejection of the current literary movements of the early Federal Republic , Bongs led a literary niche existence after 1945. It was only of importance for the reception of the work of André Gide, whom he admired, in post-war Germany. Bongs' estate rests in the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf .

Awards

Works

  • About the body , Marburg 1932
  • The shepherd's song , Berlin 1933
  • The runner , Marburg 1933
  • Singing , Berlin 1934
  • The Metamorphosis , Leipzig [u. a.] 1934
  • The valuation and validity of Kleist at the time of Romanticism , Leipzig [u. a.] 1934
  • Poems , Berlin 1935
  • Poems for townspeople , Düsseldorf 1935
  • The runners , Berlin 1935
  • Diary 1937 , Düsseldorf 1937
  • Accountability , Düsseldorf 1939
  • Shots 1811 , Leipzig [a. a.] 1939
  • A village is relocating , Berlin 1942
  • Hard, wonderful road to the west , Berlin 1942
  • Holy Juno , Düsseldorf 1942
  • Tears and smiles , Berlin 1942
  • Two poems , Gaiswaid / Westf. 1944
  • Ernst Heimrath in memory , Düsseldorf-Oberkassel 1946
  • On life in the shine of the secret , Düsseldorf 1947
  • Venice , undated undated
  • Conversation with André Gide , Düsseldorf 1950
  • Flight through the night , Düsseldorf 1951
  • The face of André Gide , Düsseldorf 1953
  • The fiery pillar , Emsdetten 1953
  • Rhenish picture book , Berlin 1954
  • Cock crow , Düsseldorf 1955
  • Wilhelm Buller Collection , Düsseldorf 1955
  • Düsseldorf merchants collect modern art , Düsseldorf 1956
  • Heart and time , Emsdetten / Westf. 1956
  • A footprint in Taranowka , Düsseldorf 1957
  • In the valley of the flight lane , Offenburg [u. a.] 1957
  • Crash , Emsdetten 1958
  • Monologue by a victim , Stuttgart 1961
  • The big eyes of Greece , Emsdetten 1963
  • Accountability , Emsdetten 1964
  • Zurich poem , Munich 1965
  • Judgment on a common soldier , Emsdetten 1966
  • Ascent to Kilimanjaro , Munich 1968
  • The London manuscript , Hamburg [a. a.] 1969
  • Tomorrow in Opatija , Darmstadt 1969
  • A to plus minus Zett , Darmstadt 1972
  • A man walks through the city , Düsseldorf 1972
  • Insel , Duisburg 1973 (together with Otto Piene)
  • Oberwelt , Düsseldorf 1977
  • An American girl , Emsdetten 1980
  • Poems , Munich 1981
  • I saw that the trees were beginning to go , Düsseldorf 1984
  • Evenings at Spoerri , Emsdetten 1989
  • Correspondance avec Rolf Bongs , Lyon 1994 (together with André Gide )
  • First sun

Editing

  • Leib und Leben , Wittingen 1933 (published together with Thilo Scheller and Johannes Vogel)

literature

  • Lothar Huesmann (Ed.): Encounters with Rolf Bongs , Emsdetten 1967
  • Willi Schäferdiek: Rolf Bongs, a contemporary writer , Munich 1970
  • Ursula Bongs: Rolf Bongs , Düsseldorf 1972
  • Wolfgang Paulsen: Experiment on Rolf Bongs , Darmstadt 1973
  • Agnieszka Rajewska-Perzyńska: Rolf Bongs. Dissociation of a writer in the field of tension between self-stylization and adaptation . Frankfurt a. M. 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Bongs, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1981
Place of death Dusseldorf