Rudolf Braunburg

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Rudolf Braunburg (born July 19, 1924 in Landsberg ad Warthe , † February 21, 1996 in Waldbröl ) was a German pilot and writer.

Life

Braunburg spent his youth in the Netherlands. At the age of 16 he wrote his first novel, which, however, was destroyed in a bomb attack and therefore never published. He was a fighter pilot in World War II . After the war he studied pedagogy and philosophy . To finance his studies, he worked as a jazz saxophonist and ghostwriter .

After completing his studies, he worked for seven years as a teacher at a Rudolf Steiner School in Hamburg. In 1955 he went to Deutsche Lufthansa and was a flight captain until 1979.

After starting out as a navigator and copilot on the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Douglas DC-3 , Braunburg became a flight captain , first on the DC-3, then on the Convair CV-440 Metropolitan , later again on the Super Constellation and, after the start of the jet Era on the Boeing 727 , the Boeing 707 and finally on the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 .

During his active time as a flight captain, Braunburg was also chairman of the Cockpit Association , where he campaigned for the concerns of the cockpit crews in Germany and their working conditions.

In addition to his work as a teacher and pilot and afterwards Braunburg wrote over 70 novels and non-fiction and youth books. His best-known works include “Heaven betrayed”, “The shot” and “Behind Walls”. He also published numerous articles on environmental protection, jazz and aviation, the best-known German expert of which he was long considered.

Rudolf Braunburg last lived in Waldbröl . He had been married to his wife Annemarie, a former stewardess , since 1969 .

Works

  • Closer to Heaven than Earth (1957)
  • Cranes at Kebnekaise (1959)
  • Don't Go to Dalaba (1961)
  • Buckle up, please (1961)
  • Shadow flight (1962)
  • Shanghai is way too far (1963)
  • Lighter Than Air (1963)
  • All my flights (1965)
  • The business and private aircraft (1965)
  • Atlantic flight (1966)
  • The eighth ocean (1967)
  • Rio in Installments (1968)
  • September flight (1968)
  • Mexican logbook; Lebanese logbook; Logbook New York (1968)
  • Gina and the Stratosphere (1968)
  • Dream Flight Over Africa (1969)
  • Dew over the desert. A Journey Through Israel (1969)
  • Profession: Stewardess (1969)
  • Maybe about Monschau (1970)
  • Elephants on Kilimanjaro (1970)
  • Stopover (1970)
  • Occupation: flight captain (1971)
  • A Heaven of Adventure (1971)
  • Pirate Course (1972)
  • Monsoon thunderstorm (1974)
  • Germany flight (1975)
  • Journey through Masuria (1975)
  • The Angel on the Cloud (1975)
  • Icarus Always Dies (1975)
  • Around the World in 30 Days (1975)
  • The Slayer (1976)
  • From DC 3 to DC 10. A pilot's life (1976)
  • Night Launch (1977)
  • Heaven Betrayed (1978)
  • Crane in the sun. The history of Lufthansa (1978)
  • No Landscape for People (1979)
  • Flying Pieces (1979)
  • Clouds are thoughts that are in the sky (1979)
  • Don't be afraid to fly (1979) 
  • No Spring for Flamingos (1980)
  • Password Königsberg (1980)
  • Man with Jumbo in a Thunderstorm (1980)
  • Down to Santiago (1980)
  • Sydney with champagne (1980)
  • Green Men on Radar (1981)
  • Above the Clouds (1981)
  • No Spring for Flamingos (1980)
  • Watermills in Germany (1981)
  • Masurian Gold (1981)
  • A Life on Wings (1981)
  • Don't Go To Dalaba (1981)
  • Zeppelin to, Zeppelin to (1982)
  • Hong Kong International (1982)
  • The last voyage of the "Hindenburg" (1982)
  • The Freedom of the Birds (Dream Flight Over Africa) (1983)
  • The Black Hunt (1983)
  • Taurus (1984)
  • Dragon Fall (1984)
  • Find me in the sky - unexpected meeting with Saint-Exupéry (1984)
  • In the orbit of the planet - A logbook (1984)
  • A dove falls from the sky (1984)
  • The Track of the Crane (1985)
  • Just Under Heaven (1985)
  • Man dies with the forests (1986)
  • Smoking Wells (1986)
  • The Shooting (1987)
  • His Greatest Flight (1987)
  • When Flying Was Still an Adventure (1988)
  • No Return to Manila (1988)
  • Inverted flight (1988)
  • Jungle Escape (1989)
  • Behind Walls (1989)
  • En Route - Autobiography of an Aviator (1990)
  • In the Shadow of the Wings (1990)
  • The Crane Sacrifice (1991)
  • The history of Lufthansa (1991)
  • Aviation and Aviation (1993)
  • Departure 9:30 a.m. (1994)
  • The Crowded Sky (1994)

items

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the television series No fear of flying ( Claus Spahn , WDR) Rudolf Braunburg worked as a flight captain.

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personal data
SURNAME Braunburg, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg ad Warthe
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1996
Place of death Waldbröl