Theodor Buhl

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Theodor Buhl (born June 1, 1936 in Bunzlau in Lower Silesia ; † April 8, 2016 ) was a German writer .

Life

Theodor Buhl spent his childhood in Silesia . During the Second World War , the family lived in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia from 1940 . In January 1945 they fled from the Red Army to Plagwitz in Lower Silesia. The escape route led via Dresden , where the Buhl family survived the Allied air raid on February 13, 1945 , and then back to Altreichenau and Bunzlau in what is now Poland . Again in Plagwitz, Buhl lived with his parents and siblings for a year under Soviet-Polish administration before they were expelled to the west in the summer of 1946 .

In West Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany , the Buhl family was housed in so-called refugee camps near and in Bergisch Gladbach until 1950 . From 1950, Theodor Buhl studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and at the University of Cologne . He then worked as a teacher and in teacher training for high schools.

Buhl also worked on literary works, which resulted in contacts with Heinrich Böll and Peter Rühmkorf .

Theodor Buhl was married and lived with his wife in Düsseldorf.

Literary work

Work and reception

An early from Buhl's literary work was included in the short prose - anthology stories from the literary agency that in 1986 in the renowned Düsseldorf Publishing hermits press in their bibliophile series "The other book, Edition Dusseldorf" appeared.

In his novel Winnetou August , Theodor Buhl also dealt with the destruction of Dresden by the air raids in February 1945, which he had witnessed as a child.

Buhl's debut novel Winnetou August was published in August 2010 by Eichborn Verlag in Frankfurt . The first versions of the strongly autobiographical work were already available at the end of the 1980s, and since then the text has been edited several times by Buhl. His first novel was received positively by the critics. For example, the reviewer Susanna Gilbert-Sättele noted in a preview of the "Autumn of Books" in the literary magazine Die Berliner Literaturkritik of Buhl's debut work: "The Silesian family history from the last years of the war impresses with its linguistic accuracy - beyond all nostalgic glorification and homeland fuss."

In his review in one of the subsequent editions of the Berlin literary criticism , Andreas Heiman found that Buhl's “late attempt” to recall “the brutal consequences of flight and displacement” had neither slipped into revanchism nor into kitsch. Buhl also describes terrible scenes without pathos, which is true even if the experiences described went to the limit of what can be represented literarily. Heiman's review was taken over by the dpa and appeared in the magazine Focus and in several regional newspapers across Germany.

In his review in the Tagesspiegel , the literary scholar and author Jan Röhnert summed up : “Theodor Buhl's outstanding debut novel 'Winnetou August' is far more than a valuable chapter in oral history because of its narrative qualities .” The novel in which “one confidently speaks of a life theme “May, close late, a gap in German post-war literature with all the more emphasis . Röhnert decided that Buhl should be mentioned together with Gert Loschütz , Reinhard Jirgl or Marcel Beyer even before them .

"Without taking false sides, Buhl shows the reader that displacement is always accompanied by immeasurable human suffering and moral depravity," said Simon Strauss in his review on sueddeutsche.de , the Internet portal of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Buhl reports of "humanitarian low points" and in their immediacy, these reading moments are as disturbing as they are disturbing: "You want to jump out of the reader's position and into the protective role."

Publications

  • Winter grain. The memoirs of Jule Andersen . Kindler, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-463-40637-4 .
  • Winnetou August . 1st edition, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6118-0 (novel).
  • Stories from the literary office. Short prose . Ed .: Klaus Ulrich Reinke, Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1986 (= The Other Book, Edition Düsseldorf), ISBN 3-87365-228-5 (with: Irene Aalenfeld, Rudolf Burow, Liane Dirks , Monica Lista, Norbert Scheuer ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanna Gilbert-Sättele : New Novels: Love and Family Twists . In: Die Berliner Literaturkritik , August 12, 2010. (Accessed September 3, 2010.)
  2. ↑ Andreas Heiman: Theodor Buhl tells his story . In: Die Berliner Literaturkritik, August 19, 2010. (Accessed September 3, 2010.)
  3. ↑ Andreas Heiman's review, distributed by the dpa, appeared on August 20, 2010 in Focus magazine ( online ) and in various regional newspapers such as Augsburger Allgemeine , Lübecker Nachrichten , Ruhr Nachrichten ( online ), Südkurier , Südwest Presse ( online ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )), Volksstimme and Westdeutsche Zeitung . (Retrieved September 3, 2010; updated September 9, 2014.)
  4. ↑ Jan Röhnert : Buhl makes an outstanding debut novel . In: Der Tagesspiegel from September 5, 2010. (Accessed September 5, 2010.)
  5. ↑ Simon Strauss: Humanitarian Low Points . On: sueddeutsche.de from November 15, 2010. (Accessed November 26, 2010.)
personal data
SURNAME Buhl, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunzlau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2016