Wolfgang Rohner-Radegast

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Wolfgang Rohner-Radegast (* 1920 in Rehna (Mecklenburg); † July 7, 2002 in Freiburg ) was a German publisher , teacher and writer .

Academic and professional career

Rohner-Radegast studied Oriental Studies , Psychology , German Studies , Romance Studies , Art History and Philosophy at the universities in Berlin, Breslau, Leipzig, Zurich, Freiburg and Heidelberg. In 1949 he received his doctorate on a topic on Franz Kafka .

From 1949 to 1954 he worked as a publishing editor at Ernst Klett Verlag in Stuttgart. Here he discovered the British author Malcolm Lowry and his novel Unter dem Vulkan , which was published in a translation by Clemens ten Holder in 1951, for the German reading public .

After editing, Wolfgang Rohner-Radegast worked as a Waldorf teacher for two years . From 1956 to 1980 he took on lectureships at the Goethe Institute , including three years in India.

Wolfgang Rohner-Radegast has worked as a writer since 1980.

Works

  • Semplicità . Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Germering . Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Whispered forest . Poems, Edition Literarischer Salon published by Focus Verlag , Giessen 1988
  • Kinderblitz, Jambudvipa from the Great Sutra Kinderblitz (circumnavigator) (1924–1994). Volume I (first and second book.) Edition Isele, Eggingen 1999.
  • Last exit poetry . Edition Isele, Eggingen 2002.

Honors

2001: Maria Ensle Prize from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation

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personal data
SURNAME Rohner-Radegast, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehna (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2002
Place of death Freiburg