Werner Ehrenforth

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Werner Ehrenforth (born January 24, 1939 in Masuria ; † February 25, 2002 in Leipzig ) was a German aphorist .

Life

Ehrenforth, who had lived in Leipzig since the 1970s, initially had a lot of jobs. He was: “Well worker, tractor operator, waiter, quality controller, stoker, business economist” and studied theology . Before the fall of the Berlin Wall , the trained engineering economist worked as a research assistant in the development department at TAKRAF . In 2002 he succumbed to several years of cancer .

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Ehrenforth wrote aphorisms that are based to a large extent on the "reversal of the common sense of words, phrases, ways of thinking" and, since he was also the author of short stories , often carry on phrases with animal metaphors . In particular, the volume The immortal mayfly contains separate chapters with "manipulated proverbs [p. 21–33], extended idioms [p. 46–56] and invented Wellerisms [p. 69–76]. ”The paremiologist Wolfgang Mieder sees Ehrenforth as a“ virtuoso in the field of innovative sagas ”who succeeded in an indirect“ socio-political cultural criticism ”. The indirectness is also emphasized by the literary scholar and aphorism researcher Friedemann Spicker , who, however, judges Ehrenforth's work more critically overall and states “transparent” linguistic techniques as well as predominant political system conformity.

Ehrenforth's aphorisms were often plagiarized and published, for example, as "football slogans".

Ehrenforth was not only an author, but also edited volumes of aphorisms by Friedrich Hebbel and Ludwig Börne , which were later even distributed as licensed editions in the Federal Republic of Germany . He also intended to publish a Nietzsche volume, which, however, did not come about after the end of the GDR .

Books

Volumes of aphorisms

  • Sitting discomfort. Aphorisms . With an afterword by Gerhard Branstner . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1979
  • New sitting complaints. Aphorisms . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • The immortal mayfly. Aphorisms, fables and other cheekiness . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1984
  • Known sitting complaints. Aphorisms . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1988 (This book brings together the volumes Sitzbeschorben and Neue Sitzbeschränkt .)
  • Old sitting complaints. Aphorisms . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1990.

Editions

  • Friedrich Hebbel: The combed brain. Aphorisms . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1984
  • Ludwig Börne: The state paper of the heart. Fragments and aphorisms . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1986

literature

  • Wolfgang Mieder: "Sitting between two stools - many of them finish their lives." On the proverbial aphorisms by Werner Ehrenforth . Chapter VII in: Wolfgang Mieder, “Building (dismantling) locks.” Proverbs, anti-proverbs and loan proverbs in literature and media . Edition Praesens, Vienna 2010, ISBN 3-7069-0607-4 , pp. 133–151
  • Friedemann Spicker: The German aphorism in the 20th century. Game, picture, knowledge . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-10859-2 , especially p. 628 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complainant Werner Ehrenforth turns 60 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 23, 1999, p. 22.
  2. ↑ a b c d Thomas Mayer: The Leipzig Werner Ehrenforth, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the alleged wisdom of German footballers . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 5, 2001, p. 16.
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Mayer: Remembering Ehrenforth. Aphorist and a poet too . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of February 27, 2002, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Eckart Krumbholz (Ed.): No mincing of words. Aphorisms and epigrams . Tribüne Verlag, Berlin 1982, p. 91.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Branstner: A small comment . In: Sitzbeschorben , reprinted in: Well-known Sitzbeschorben , pp. 125–128, here p. 127.
  6. ↑ Mieder 2010, p. 144.
  7. ↑ Mieder 2010, p. 135.
  8. ↑ Mieder 2010, p. 146.
  9. ↑ Bodice 2010, p. 133.
  10. ↑ Spicker 2004, p. 628.
  11. ↑ Spicker 2004, p. 629.
  12. ↑ "Directly or indirectly 109 times have been written off" (Ehrenforth). See article in the LVZ from January 5, 2001.
  13. ↑ Max Merkel : Objections. Football sayings from the edge of the field . Edited by Hans-Dieter Schütt and Raymund Stolze . Sportverlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-328-00584-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenforth, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Masuria
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2002
Place of death Leipzig