Stefan Schoblocher

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Stefan Schoblocher (born November 6, 1937 in Vaskút , Hungary ; † March 1, 2020 in Jena ) was a Hungarian-German writer .

Life

Stefan Schoblocher was born in 1937 in Vaskút, southern Hungary, as the son of a self-employed wheelwright . The grandmother's fairy tales left formative impressions and some textbooks inspired him to continue spinning. After attending a Hungarian school for three years, he, his parents and his grandmother were expelled to Görlitz as Hungarian Germans in 1947 . Attending school in Görlitz meant it was difficult to switch to another language of instruction. He made many mistakes in dictation, which was an incentive for him to get better. Thanks to his ambition, he made rapid progress and became an avid book reader. He preferred true and fictional adventures, everything from Roald Amundsen's expedition report to the shipwrecked classic Robinson Crusoe . He was not quite able to create his own stories.

In Görlitz he completed an apprenticeship as a model maker from 1953 to 1956 . After working in the learned profession and serving in the army with the border police , in 1959 he took up a pedagogy course until 1962 at the institute for teacher training " Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander " in Löbau . Only then did he arrive at closed exotic stories that were published in newspapers and anthologies (and the following also in booklet series ). From 1962 to 1972 he worked as a teacher at a polytechnic high school and a special school in Görlitz. Between 1962 and 1968 he was very productive in the field of adventure narration; it took him about a week to write a story. As he called it, there was "friction" with his employer because he was overly busy with his publications. They didn't even satisfy him because he was aware that they were just childish fantasies . These consumables have nothing to do with real literature - he admitted - which is why he sought serious studies in Leipzig at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" , which was only possible as a distance learning course in addition to his professional activity. In retrospect, he saw the distance learning period from 1969 to 1972 as the most important station in his educational path . He particularly remembered his sponsor, the writer Klaus Walther .

In 1972 he became a teacher trainer for university and children's literature at the Institute for Teacher Training in Potsdam . He recognized writing as his true calling and made the decision in 1975 to quit in Potsdam in order to build on what he had learned in distance learning with a one-year special course in Leipzig. In 1976, towards the end of the special course at the Literature Institute and on the way to becoming a freelance writer, he applied to the Writers' Association for a scholarship for his novel endurance test . The novel , which was partly played in the KVP ( Kasernierte Volkspolizei ), did not receive this funding because of the description of solemn debauchery and allegedly sloppy style. What was published two years later by the GDR military publishing house under the title Return to S. is, according to the Volkswacht, a “good story”. In 2019 Schoblocher published the novel again under the title Return to Straps .

From September 1976 Stefan Schoblocher was freelance. His first novel semester for Jürgen from 1977 had needed several attempts and four revisions. A second edition was published in 1981. In 1978 Schoblocher moved to Jena and in 1979 he was accepted into the GDR writers' association, Gera district .

In reunified Germany , he took the pseudonym "Stefan Raile". In 1995 and 2000 he received a scholarship from the Kulturfonds der neue Bundesländer foundation . The volume of short stories Dachträume , published in 1996, was his first attempt to confront the memories of his expulsion from the village of Vaskút, on the edge of the Puszta . In 2002 he was awarded the BdV ( Federation of Displaced Persons ) Thuringia culture prize for literature . In his last novel - already marked by illness - he took on the fate of the author Johanna Bleschke , who was born in Jena in 1894 and who wrote under the pseudonym "Rahel Sanzara" but died of cancer at the age of 41. The tolerant narrator's fictional autobiography, All or Nothing , was published in 2016. He continued to publish old and new short stories . In the foreword to the collection of stories Im Bannkreis der Memories (2018), he admitted: "I consider the whole thing to be my most personal volume, which comprehensibly links the serious effects of the change on me and my literary work with the consequences of my expulsion from Hungary."

Stefan Schoblocher died on March 1st, 2020 in Jena.

Works

Published under Stefan Schoblocher

  • Brando's secret (= the new adventure ; part 202). New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1962.
  • Imre is being hunted. German military publisher, Berlin 1963.
  • The gallows period (= small series of narrators ; issue 47). German military publisher, Berlin 1964.
  • Tatort Viktorienhof (= small series of narrators ; issue 62). German military publisher, Berlin 1965.
  • Flood (= The New Adventure ; Part 242). New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1965.
  • Miguel and the Rebel (= series of narrators ; issue 144). German military publisher, Berlin 1968.
  • Semester for Jürgen. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1977.
  • Return to S. Roman. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978.
  • Uprising in Tenochtitlán (= series of narrators ; issue 306). Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00439-0 .
  • Leiner's confession (= series of narrators ; issue 314). Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00609-1 .
  • A chance for Mario Hertel (= series of narrators ; issue 323). Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-327-00819-1 .

Published under Stefan Raile

  • Xopil, fighter for the king. An Aztec boy experiences the conquest of Mexico (= Anne Frank Shoah library ). Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8251-7053-5 .
  • Montezuma's death (= Winsener booklets ; booklet 9). Hans Boldt Literaturverlag, Winsen Luhe / Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-928788-14-0 .
  • Roof dreams. Stories (= VUdAK books series literature ; volume 4). With an afterword by Helmut Rudolf. Association of Hungarian German Authors and Artists, Budapest 1996, ISBN 963-8333-00-6 .
  • (as co-author :) turnaround times. Texts from the Thuringian literature competition. Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow 1995. Stories about German history. Published by Siegfried Pitschmann , Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931505-19-7 .
  • (as co-author :) childhood memories. Cheerful and contemplative things from home. Sentence type Plauen, Plauen 1998, ISBN 3-00-002840-4 .
  • Hungarian stories (= Winsener Hefte ; Issue 12). Hans Boldt Literaturverlag, Winsen Luhe / Weimar 1998, ISBN 978-3-928788-25-0 .
  • (as co-author :) Little European stories. Stories. Published by Hans Boldt. Hans Boldt Literaturverlag, Winsen Luhe / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-928788-28-0 .
  • The hanged dolls. Novel. Scheffler Verlag, Herdecke 2001. ISBN 3-89704-153-7 .
  • I was with Cortés Capitán. Scheffler Verlag, Herdecke 2002, ISBN 3-89704-254-1 .
  • The melon in the fountain. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 3-89812-245-X .
  • In God's vineyard. A trip to Israel (= reports and travel reports ; Volume 1). GSG-Medien, Waiblingen 2005, ISBN 3-937984-07-0 .
  • (as co-author :) Findings 2000. Hungarian German Anthology (= VUdAK books series literature ; Volume 9). Association of Hungarian German Authors and Artists, Budapest 2005, ISBN 963-8333-11-1 .
  • In the dust of the years. Stories. Docupoint-Verlag, Magdeburg 2005, ISBN 3-938142-66-9 .
  • Mandrok's first case. Crime story. Docupoint-Verlag, Magdeburg 2006, ISBN 3-938142-94-4 .
  • One has courage. Adventure stories from now and then, from near and far. Docupoint-Verlag, Magdeburg 2006, ISBN 3-939665-05-3 .
  • Battle for Tenochtitlán. Two historical novels. Docupoint-Verlag, Magdeburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939665-23-6 (contains I was with Cortés Capitán and Xopil, fighters for the king ).
  • (as co-author :) Affair. Literature from German-speaking minorities in Europe. Edited by Manfred Peters. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-85256-476-0 .
  • Companion of the eagle. Narration (= Winsener Hefte ; Issue 32). Hans Boldt Literaturverlag, Winsen Luhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-928788-70-0 .
  • Last farewell. Novel. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2011, ISBN 978-3-936455-11-3 .
  • All or nothing. Novel about Rahel Sanzara (= The White Series ; Volume 8). Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2016, ISBN 978-3-943768-59-6 .
  • From Vaskút to Görlitz or longing for Snow White. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7427-4315-2 .
  • (revised version, cover imprint “Stefan Raile”, sometimes bibliographed with “Stefan Schoblocher” :) Fight for Tenochtitlán. Two historical novels. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7427-4314-5 .
  • On the way to Sándor. Stories. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7427-3262-0 .
  • Under the spell of memory. Stories against oblivion. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95914-165-9 .
  • Late love by the sea. Love stories. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7427-1285-1 .
  • On different fronts. Stories. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7427-0616-4 .
  • (New edition :) Adventure stories from now and then, from near and far. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7485-9781-0 .
  • Return after exertions. The adventures of the soldier Ronny B. Roman. HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7485-6049-4 .

Awards

  • 2002: Culture Prize for Literature from the BdV (Association of Expellees) Thuringia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dieter Fechner , Hedwig Völkerling: Thuringian authors of the present. A lexicon . Quartus Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2003, ISBN 3-931505-47-2 , Raile, Stefan, p. 151 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Brigitte Böttcher (Hrsg.): Inventory 2. Debutants 1976–1980 . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1981, Stefan Schoblocher, p. 122 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Melitta Ruge: Writing is hard work. In conversation with the Jena writer Stefan Schoblocher . In: People's Watch . Gera August 4th 1979, art discussion.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Schoblocher, Stefan. In: thueringer-literaturrat.de. Thüringer Literaturrat eV, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ -snh-: A good story . In: Liberal Democratic Newspaper . Hall January 20, 1979.
  6. ↑ a b Jens-Fietje Dwars : The past is never dead. Memory of the Jena author Stefan Schoblocher. In: literaturland-thueringen.de. Thuringian Literature Council V., accessed on July 8, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schoblocher, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raile, Stefan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaskút , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2020
Place of death Jena