Werner Walz

Werner Walz (born December 9, 1910 in Stuttgart ; † June 14, 1994 there ) was a German writer.

Life

Werner Walz was born in Stuttgart on December 9, 1910, the youngest of three children. He graduated from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and then studied law in Tübingen, where he was also awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He worked for a short time as a lawyer, was drafted during World War II and after the war went to the former German Federal Railroad as a legal advisor . From 1957 until his retirement in the early 1970s, he took over the advertising department as head of the advertising and information office for passenger and freight traffic. Well-known Deutsche Bahn advertising slogans such as "Everyone talks about the weather. We don't." (1966).

His first novel, Die schwimmende Insel , which can be seen as the forerunner of existentialism , was initially accepted by a large German publisher, but was not published because of the pessimistic tendency, which was no longer appropriate in 1934. Only his third novel, The Great Year , reached a circulation of 25,000 copies. In his later novels, Walz dealt with the war experience and the occupation and post-war period. His war novel Die tödlichen Tage (1955) was reviewed by Hermann Hesse in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. His play Menschen von Morgen (1954) was premiered by the Inseltheater Karlsruhe . After the publication of further novels and volumes of poetry, he devoted himself increasingly to writing non-fiction books on trains and cars from the 1970s onwards.

In 1991 Werner Walz was invited to the Villa Massimo in Rome as a guest of honor.

Werner Walz lived and worked in Karlsruhe , Walldorf, Friedrichsdorf and from 1978 until his death in 1994 in Stuttgart. He was married twice and had two sons and a daughter.

Works

• The floating island , novel, 1933.
• The great year , Roman, Hohenstaufen-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1942
• The Mantis , Roman, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1948
• Die Straße, picture book, together with Marigard Bantzer, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, 1950
• People of Tomorrow , drama, 1954
• The deadly days , novel, Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hamm , 1955
• Time to turn back , play, 1955
• Altamira, novel, written under the pseudonym Lasko Vézère, Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Rastatt, 1960
• A leaflet of poems, volume of poetry, 1960
• The evening wind goes in the tree, picture book, together with Marigard Bantzer, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, 1961
• hirsch, volume of poetry, Josef Keller Verlag, Starnberg. 1971
• The beautiful posters of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, Boldt Verlag, Bonn, 1971
• Transport markets of the railways , published by Werner Walz and Hans Hermann Waitz, Hestra-Verlag Darmstadt, 1972
• Advertise - how do you do it? Eisenbahn-Fachverlag, Heidelberg / Mainz, 1977
• Railway experience, non-fiction book, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1977
• Die Eisenbahn in Baden-Württemberg, non-fiction book, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980
• Where the car began, non-fiction book, Verlag Stadler, Konstanz, 1981 (from 5th edition 1989: Daimler-Benz: Where the car began )
• In the sign of the comet, Roman, Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin, 1984
• Germany's railways 1835-1985, non-fiction book, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1985
• Galaxien , Gedichte, 1986, from Loeper Verlag, Karlsruhe, ISBN 3-88652-068-4
• Hohenzollern und seine Bahnen, non-fiction book, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the blurb of The Deadly Days .
2. ↑ Inseltheater in the Karlsruhe City Wiki