Werner Mitsch

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Werner Mitsch (born February 23, 1936 in Stuttgart ; † March 26, 2009 there ) was a German aphorist .

Life

Mitsch became a typesetter in 1950 . Since 1971 he has been writing aphorisms and sayings that have appeared in magazines and from 1978 in self-made books (in several editions). With around 40,000 aphorisms, he was one of the most productive German-speaking authors of this genre. Around a tenth of his work, which also includes Wellerisms and nonsense sayings, is based on modifications to idioms or proverbs . Several collections of ( spontaneous ) sayings printed Mitsch's texts without citing the source and often without mentioning his name.

As a result of severe myopia and heart surgery, Mitsch had been unable to work since 1985.

Mitsch died unmarried and childless. He was buried on April 8, 2009 in the Bad Cannstatter Steinhaldenfriedhof . His literary estate is managed by Christa Moll, owner of the aphorism website www.zitante.de .

Works

  • Spiders that don't spin, spin . Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1978
  • Fish that bark don't bite . Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1979
  • Horses that work are called donkeys . With drawings by Manfred Hofstetter. Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1980
  • Cross-eyed dogs do not bite . With miniatures by Manfred Hofstetter. Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1981
  • Bees that only live are called drones . With 28 miniatures by Manfred Hofstetter. Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982
  • The black under the fingernail . With drawings by Manfred Hofstetter. Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1983
  • Land rates . Letsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1986
  • Contradictions and contradictions . With drawings by Ulrik Schramm. Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim 1986
  • Whoever has the whale is in agony. 800 nonsense lines for all occasions . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987
  • New contradictions . With drawings by Ulrik Schramm. Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim 1988
  • Erik Liebermann : Please wait. Humor for the impatient . With timeless sayings from Werner Mitsch. Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim 1988
  • Reinhold Löffler : Pedal vortex. Caricatured wheel (gate) tours . With two texts by Karl Valentin and sayings by Werner Mitsch. Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim 1990
  • Beate Heinen : Life ... as it fits into the stocking . With sayings from Werner Mitsch. Kunstverlag Maria Laach, Maria Laach 1996

literature

  • Wolfgang Mieder : "Truths: phantasms from logic and everyday life." On the proverbial aphorisms by Werner Mitsch . Essay VIII in: Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbial Aphorisms. From Georg Christoph Lichtenberg to Elazar Benyoëtz . Edition Praesens, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7069-0036-X , pp. 124–140
  • Friedemann Spicker : The German aphorism in the 20th century. Game, picture, knowledge . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-10859-2 , especially pp. 677-680

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The man takes fun seriously . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , Saturday, February 21, 1987.
  2. ↑ First publication: October 9, 1971 anonymously in Hör Zu (Mieder 1999, p. 124).
  3. ^ Estimate by Christa Moll, zitante.de - Werner Mitsch . In 1987 the total was 30,000 ( Schwäbische Zeitung , 1987).
  4. ↑ Mieder 1999, p. 126.
  5. ↑ Mieder 1999, p. 129 f.
  6. ↑ Spicker 2004, p. 679.
  7. ↑ Mieder 1999, pp. 131-136 with further references
  8. ↑ Christa Moll: Entry from April 5, 2009 on zitante.de ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Mitsch, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2009
Place of death Stuttgart