Werner Hörnemann

Werner Hörnemann (1985)

Werner Gerhard Hörnemann (born September 15, 1920 in Homberg-Hochheide ; † February 21, 1997 in Bonn ) was a German author and publisher .

Live and act

Hörnemann was born as the son of the master butcher Eberhard Hörnemann and his wife Claire, nee. Gerling, born. After graduating from high school , Hörnemann was drafted into labor and then military service. At the end of his regular service, the war began. He remained a soldier. In May 1945 he heard about the end of the war on the radio while in his flak position in southern France. He got home from there by bicycle in an adventurous way, without falling into captivity.

After the war, Hörnemann studied German and art history at the University of Bonn under Heinrich Lützeler . It was there that he met his wife Brigitte Bender and they married in 1954. He was a member of the Thursday Society in Alfter near Bonn, a group of artists who set themselves the task of "making up for the lost years of the war through [...] intensive intellectual exchange." He earned his living by writing books for young people and Radio plays.

His breakthrough came in 1952 with the book for young people, "Die gefesselten Gespenster". This book was an unusual success for the time. It has been in the market for more than 60 years.

It was through this work that the Gütersloh Bertelsmann Verlag became aware of Hörnemann and offered him a position as editor for books for young people. Hörnemann held various positions over the next 16 years, including founding the Mosaik Verlag and most recently as publishing director at Bertelsmann. In 1969 he got out there and founded his own publishing house in Bonn, which mainly published non-fiction books. In 1990 he sold his publishing house to the Oetker Group in Bielefeld and returned to writing.

Under the pseudonyms Gerhard Reims and Gerd Hochheide , Hörnemann wrote non-fiction books in the fields of gardening and cooking and worked as a translator from English.

Hörnemann died in Bonn in February 1997 of complications from pneumonia . He is buried in the Bonn-Röttgen cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

• Gusti sends the alarm. illustrated by Moritz Graf von Schall . Paulus, Recklinghausen 1950.
• Port pirates. illustrated by Willy Maria Stucke . Glöckner, Bonn 1950.
• The red chief's ransom. illustrated by MO Deister Sarstedt. Borgmeyer, Bonn 1951.
• The shackled ghosts. Herder, Freiburg 1952.
• Ali and the robbers. illustrated by Hann Trier . Herder, Freiburg 1953.
• The secret of Don Mirabilis. illustrated by Hans-Georg Lenzen . Herder, Freiburg 1954.
• The Lecturer's Luck. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1961.
• Rübezahl. illustrated by Margret Radich . Hörnemann, Bonn 1970.
• Organic gardening: step by step. illustrated by Angela Paysan. Hörnemann, Bonn 1982.
• Gardening organically. Maier, Ravensburg 1985, ISBN 3-473-43206-7 .
• Wrapping paper for Thomas Mann. In: Bonn - Years of Awakening. General-Anzeiger, Bonn 1986.
• The lazy gardener. Hörnemann, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-87384-329-3 .
• Spices, herbs, condiments. Hörnemann, Bielefeld 1990, ISBN 3-928193-07-4 .
• This is how you learn to garden organically. Goldmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-10469-6 .
• Hanno between two worlds. Bitter, Recklinghausen 1993, ISBN 3-7903-0482-4 .
• A forest goes on a journey. Bitter, Recklinghausen 1994, ISBN 3-7903-0512-X . (Reading sample)
• Corsica adventure. 1st edition. Verlag Kessel, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941300-91-0 . (Reading sample)

literature

• Roland Gööck : Market niches. In: Book Market. No. 9, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 212.
• Sybil Countess Schönfeldt : The focus is on friendship. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. No. 76, Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 2261.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Trier : As a freedman in early spring in Bonn. In: Bonn - Years of Awakening. General-Anzeiger, Bonn 1986.
2. ↑ Werner Hörnemann: The tied up ghosts: A rather strange story about 7 boys, 2 animals, 1 car and the like. a spook . Herder, Freiburg 1952 ( dnb.de [accessed on August 21, 2020]).