Rudolf Lorenzen

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Rudolf Lorenzen (born February 5, 1922 in Lübeck ; † November 27, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer .

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Lorenzen grew up in Bremen . He attended secondary school and trained as a ship broker . During the Second World War he was in the labor service and soldier . After the end of the war, he studied graphics and then worked in the advertising industry , including as a copywriter in the Bavarian province.

Since 1955 Lorenzen lived in Berlin, where he initially worked as a journalist for daily newspapers , periodicals and radio . The journalist and author Annemarie Weber (1918–1991), whom he later married, encouraged him to write literary texts. With one of his first works, the story Kein Soll mehr und kein haben under the title Der Junge Mohwinkel at the time , he surprisingly won a writing competition organized by the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1957 .

Motivated by the success, Lorenzen worked as a writer ever since. Among other things , he wrote essays , feature articles , reports and satires , but also short stories and short stories . As early as 1959 his first novel Everything But a Hero was published ; For the extensive work he had reworked the material from his award-winning story. The Group 47 then invited him to attend their meetings; Lorenzen, who saw himself as a loner, but renounced it. His second novel Die Beutelschneider followed in 1962. On the side, he began working on television documentaries , radio plays and feature films .

When many editors stopped publishing narrative prose in the mid-1980s , Lorenzen also had to forego the further production of stories and feature pages. The volume of stories Kein Soll mehr und kein haben , which contains a selection of his stories from the period from 1955 to 1980, was published on February 5, 2007 on his 85th birthday and as the start of a comprehensive retrospective at Verbrecher Verlag .

He said of his work: "People are all fooling themselves - that's my topic."

Works (selection)

bibliography

  • Anything but a hero , first edition: Ullstein, Berlin 1959; edit again Paperback edition: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982; New edition: Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2002; Licensed edition: Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 2002; Paperback edition: Piper, Munich u. a. 2004; New edition with a new afterword: Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2007, new edition with an afterword by Lothar Müller : Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943167-45-0
  • The bag cutter , Ullstein, Berlin 1962; New edition: Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-93-5
  • Bad Walden. Or El sueño de la razón produce monstruos , the newly revised version of Greetings from Bad Walden. Murder on Super 8 (original edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981) Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940426-13-0 .
  • Antics, Piefke and trumpets. Summer theater and garden concerts in Berlin , Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1987 (together with Wolfgang Jansen), ISBN 3-926175-36-2 .
  • Cake Walk or a Catalan Journey into Anarchy , Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 1999
  • No more debits and no credits. Stories , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-83-6
  • Paradise between the fronts. Reports from Berlin (West) , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940426-29-1
  • Rhythms that moved the world , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940426-28-4
  • It works without love , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940426-60-4
  • The cough Mary. Berliner Momente , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943167-18-4
  • Online text: Little Bob dies on Sundays , Junge Welt magazine , April 7, 2007, weekend supplement , 4th contribution: Short story by Rudolf Lorenzen

Radio plays

  1. "Cake Walk or A Journey into Anarchy"
    Production: RIAS , Berlin 1988, 79 minutes
    Director: Götz Naleppa
    Speaker: Hermann Treusch , Angela Winkler , Ulrich Wildgruber , Christine Oesterlein, Hans Teuscher , Marie Teresa Reinoso, Elke Petri, Sylvester Groth , Elisabeth Trissenaar
  2. "Rosinante wants to go to America"
    Production: RIAS , Berlin 1993, 55 minutes
    Director: Bärbel Jarchow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Hofer: "I tell myself something" , interview with Rudolf Lorenzen in: Lübecker Nachrichten of August 1, 2010, p. 19
  2. ↑ Rudolf Lorenzen has died , obituary from his Berlin publishing house
  3. ↑ Hermann Hofer: The great unknown in German literature In: Lübecker Nachrichten of August 1, 2010. P. 19
personal data
SURNAME Lorenzen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2013
Place of death Berlin