Rudi Benzien

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Rudi Benzien (born January 18, 1936 in Berlin ; † October 20, 2018 there ) was a German writer .

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His father was a farmer, his mother a seamstress. Rudi Benzien spent the first years of his life in Woldegk . In 1939 the family moved to Berlin, where he started school in 1942. Between 1943 and 1945 he lived on the run from the bombing raids with his mother in Pomerania and Silesia , from where they fled to Bavaria in 1945 . In 1946 the family returned to Berlin.

From 1951 to 1953 Rudi Benzien completed vocational training as a machine tool fitter. He then worked as a revolver lathe , from 1954 to 1956 as a construction worker and from 1956 to 1958 as a lathe operator .

In 1958 he followed the call that young industrial workers should become teachers and took up a job as a pedagogical employee in a leisure facility in the Berlin-Mitte district . From 1961 to 1963 he graduated from the Berlin Teacher Training Institute and then worked as a factory teacher in Berlin-Oberschöneweide .

From 1965 to 1980 Rudi Benzien was editor of the youth magazine Neues Leben , since 1977 deputy editor-in-chief. In 1977 he published his first book for young people ( guitar or stethoscope ) with the Neues Leben publishing house , which had five editions. In 1980 he became a member of the GDR Writers' Association and was a freelance writer from 1980 to 1991. In 1991 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the parenting journal "kinderwelt", which ceased publication in May 1991. He then became a disability pensioner.

He was divorced, had two daughters and a son. He lived in Berlin until his death.

Works

  • 1977: guitar or stethoscope. New Life Publishing House , Berlin
  • 1979: Berlin, here I am. New Life Publishing House, Berlin
  • 1980: Pierre. Young World Publishing House, Berlin; Weltkreis, Dortmund
  • 1982: Sister Tina. New Life Publishing House, Berlin
  • 1987: with Hans-Dieter Bräuer, Walter Florath: Berlin . Edition Leipzig ISBN 3361009774
  • 1989: John Lennon Report. New Life Publishing House, Berlin
  • 1997: Simon's journey to the Once Upon a Time star. Pictures Cornelia Kestner. Sassenverlag, Neustrelitz
  • 1997: Jonas tell me about Paris. Verlag am Park , Berlin
  • 1998: The Bavarian year. Fragment of a childhood in Germany. Alt-Friedrichsfelde 73, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudi Benzien. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Benzien, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2018
Place of death Berlin