Wolfgang Ebert (satirist)

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Grave of Wolfgang Ebert in the Westfriedhof in Munich

Wolfgang Ebert (born February 10, 1923 in Düsseldorf ; died September 26, 1997 in Munich ) was a German satirist and novelist.

Life

Ebert was the son of the conductor and composer Hans Ebert (1889–1952) and Sonja Ebert, née Himmelstein. In his autobiographical book The Porcelain Was So Nervous. In memoirs of a spoiled child , he drew a lovingly relentless portrait of his Russian-Jewish mother. Ebert grew up in Düsseldorf and Berlin and from 1937 to 1943 attended the Alpine Pedagogy in Davos , Switzerland , where he also graduated from high school.

From 1949 to 1953 he studied philosophy and German in Munich and Berlin . He then worked as a freelance journalist, from 1952 to 1954 in Hamburg and then until 1959 in Cologne, where he was an editor for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . He regularly contributed to Stern and Die Zeit , wrote humorous and satirical columns, glosses and short stories, and also worked for radio and television. Ebert lived in Munich from 1959.

In 1997 he succumbed to cancer. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described him in his obituary as a “bohemian with an alert political mind, a bizarre loner with a never-ending love for art [...] a guy who no longer exists”. The estate is in the Munich Monacensia .

Appreciations

  • 1984: Schwabing Art Prize for Literature
  • 1985: Austrian Government Special Prize at the International Journalism Prize of the City of Klagenfurt
  • 1988: Ernst Hoferichter Prize
  • 1993: European Feuilleton Prize from the Moravian-Silesian Writers' Association of the City of Brno

Works

  • The hard way. Radio opera libretto. NWDR Hamburg 1952.
  • The gangsters of Valence. Radio play. 1957. TV play and theater play Cologne 1959.
  • The dance out of line. Radio play. 1958.
  • Harmonies. Drama. Cologne 1961.
  • I really can't help it. Cologne 1961.
  • Carousel. Television game. 1962.
  • Soraya and me. Cologne 1963.
  • Snob Art. Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Wolfgang Ebert's party school. Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • Nobody listens to me. Düsseldorf 1969.
  • The Sunday murder. Drama. Aachen 1972.
  • Before us the flood. Vienna 1974.
  • The china was so nervous. Memoirs of a spoiled child. Autobiographical novel. Munich 1975.
  • Wolfgang Ebert's best stories. Munich 1978.
  • A perfectly normal neurotic. Autobiographical novel. Munich 1980.
  • Party tours. Munich 1981.
  • Pocket Theater. Munich 1982.
  • The sheet maker. Novel. Munich 1983.
  • What else is in store for us? Bergisch Gladbach 1985.
  • The art of showing off. Munich 1985.
  • I haven't been to Portofino. Munich 1986.
  • The little madhouse. Munich 1986.
  • Mr. Bellheim. Second prose. Bergisch Gladbach 1987.
  • Joking aside. Satirical forays. Gerlingen 1989.
  • German traffic, appreciated by Wolfgang Ebert. Munich 1989.
  • Stories from Mr. B. Munich 1991.
  • Potter. The fine art of having the last word. Hamburg 1994.

literature

  • Dorothea Friedrich: Ebert, Wolfgang. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh & Munich 1989, Vol. 3, p. 158.
  • Wolfgang Ebert , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/1997 from November 17, 1997, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on March 14, 2016 ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The day of the last party. On the death of Wolfgang Ebert. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , edition of September 19, 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German satirist and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1997
Place of death Munich