Rudolf Günter Langer

Rudolf Günter Langer (born November 6, 1923 in Neisse ; † July 19, 2007 in Ingolstadt ) was a German writer and poet .

life and work

Langer grew up in Upper Silesia and came to Ingolstadt in Bavaria in 1945 after his escape. There he initially worked as a civil servant and then became self-employed as a salesman for jukeboxes and office machines .

Langer wrote his first poems during a stay in a field hospital during World War II . The experiences during the war shaped his literary work, in which he denounced lack of freedom, inhumanity and materialism from everyday situations. In 1973 he published his first work with "Ortswechsel". Other stories , volumes of poetry and a novel followed later .

The city of Ingolstadt honored the author in 1975 with the Ingolstadt Art Prize; Langer also received the Andreas Gryphius Prize in 1977 .

Works

• Change of location , Darmstadt 1973.
• The ship of fools sways , Munich 1986.
• Unstoppable , Munich 1987.
• The pyramid , Munich 1989.
• The kestrel and the dove , Munich 1990.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Günter Langer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Märkische Oderzeitung : Poet Rudolf Langer dies - writing as an obligation ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . July 21, 2007.
• Obituary in the Basler Zeitung on July 22, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literatur-Nachrichten: The poet Rudolf Langer has died ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . July 21, 2007.