Wolfgang Weyrauch

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Wolfgang Weyrauch (born October 15, 1904 in Königsberg , † November 7, 1980 in Darmstadt ; pseudonym: Joseph Scherer ) was a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Weyrauch was the son of a land surveyor . After attending grammar school and taking the final examination , he attended an acting school in Frankfurt am Main from 1924. This was followed by engagements as an actor at stages in Münster, Bochum and at the Harz Theater in Thale between 1925 and 1927 . From 1927 to 1929 Weyrauch studied German, Romance studies and history at the University of Frankfurt .

From 1929 he worked as a freelance writer : from 1929 to 1933 as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Zeitung , from 1932 to 1938 for the Berliner Tageblatt and from 1933 to 1934 for the Vossische Zeitung . At the same time he began writing radio plays . During the 1930s Weyrauch also worked as a publishing editor and published his first books. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a corporal in an air intelligence unit . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in August of the same year.

From December 1945 to 1948 Weyrauch was editor of the Berlin magazines Ulenspiegel and Ost und West . From 1950 to 1958 he was an editor at Rowohlt-Verlag in Hamburg , from 1959 he was a freelance writer again, first in Gauting near Munich and from 1967 in Darmstadt.

Wolfgang Weyrauch was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Association of German Writers . Since 1951 he took part in the meetings of Group 47 , since 1967 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

Services

Wolfgang Weyrauch, who emerged as a journalist and author of the new radio play medium in the 1930s, shaped the direction of a clear-cut literature in 1949 in the anthology he edited, Thousand Gramm : He characterized the radical new beginning of German literature after the end of the Third Reich . After 1945, Weyrauch himself mainly wrote radio plays, short stories and published numerous anthologies .

Awards and honors

Works

General

  • Main. A legend . Berlin 1934
  • Whirlpool and spring . Berlin 1938
  • A band for the night . Leipzig 1939
  • An island story . Berlin 1939
  • Study for a novel . Jena 1942 (In: The XXth Century , Nov. 1942, pp. 498–500)
  • The lovers . Leipzig 1943
  • On the moving earth . Berlin 1946
  • Of the mercy of happiness . Berlin 1946
  • The lovers . Munich 1947
  • The League of David . Hamburg u. a. 1948
  • Lark and Sparrowhawk . Munich 1948
  • Written on the wall . Hamburg 1950
  • Please my older daughter . Vienna 1952
  • The conflagration . Karlsruhe 1952
  • Report to the government . Frankfurt a. M. 1953
  • The Negro's Minute . Hamburg 1953
  • Singing so as not to die . Hamburg 1956
  • Darkness never hits . Berlin 1956
  • Anabasis . Hamburg 1959
  • My ship, that's called Typhoon . Olten 1959
  • The year . Munich 1961
  • The Japanese fishermen . Weinheim 1961
  • Dialogue with the invisible . Olten 1962
  • The green tent. The Japanese fishermen . Stuttgart 1963
  • The track . Olten 1963
  • Dialogue about new German poetry . Itzehoe-Vosskate 1965
  • Come on . Munich 1965
  • The first house was called Peace . Munich 1966 (via SOS Children's Villages ; Albert Schweitzer Book Prize)
  • Something is happening . Olten 1966
  • Conversations from pedestrians . Munich 1966
  • Stories to write on . Neuwied 1969
  • Flight over Franconia and Hesse . Braunschweig 1970
  • A clown says . Weinheim 1971
  • How are you? Neuwied 1971
  • With your head against the wall . Darmstadt 1972
  • The end of Frankfurt am Main . Stuttgart 1973
  • Poems . Darmstadt 1974
  • Almost every day . Darmstadt 1975
  • Dear T. Düsseldorf 1976
  • The comma after . Pfaffenweiler 1977
  • 2 litanies . Dreieich 1977
  • Pedestrians, B-level, Hauptwache, escalator, up, down . Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Hans Dumm . Cologne 1978
  • A sip of reason (Lichtenberg) . Darmstadt 1978
  • Focus on Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1979
  • A poem, what is it? . Hanover 1980 (together with Fritz Deppert)
  • Epilogue for Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1981
  • It would be better otherwise . Wurzburg 1982
  • Testimonials & Witnesses . Büdingen 1982
  • Beheaded three times . Assenheim 1983
  • Proust begins to burn . Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • Atom and aloe . Frankfurt 1987
  • Resume . Dreieich 1988
  • That was everywhere . Darmstadt 1998

Translations

  • Jehanne Jean Charles: Scream if you can . Bonn 1960 (together with Margot Weyrauch)

Editing

  • 1940 . Berlin 1940
  • The Berlin book . Leipzig 1941
  • The ploughshare . Berlin 1947
  • Reading book for adults . Lorch, Württ. U. a. 1948
  • A thousand grams . Hamburg u. a. 1949
  • Expeditions . Munich 1959
  • I live in the Federal Republic . Munich 1960
  • All of these streets . Munich 1965
  • Poetry from this period 1965/66 . Esslingen 1965 (together with Johannes Poethen )
  • State of emergency . Munich 1966
  • Our whole life . Munich 1966 (together with Geno Hartlaub , Martin Gregor-Dellin , Heinz Piontek and Heinrich Vormweg )
  • Spring reading . Munich 1967 (together with Benno Reifenberg )
  • Poetry from this time 1967/68 . Munich u. a. 1967 (with Johannes Poethen )
  • 11 authors over 1 decade . Berlin 1970
  • From Darmstadt to Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1972 (together with Fritz Deppert)
  • The cellar book . Darmstadt 1973
  • New expeditions . Munich 1975
  • Calendar book . Cologne 1977
  • My grandfather's smile and other family stories , Düsseldorf 1978
  • Outcrops . Modautal-Neunkirchen 1978
  • Declarations of love . Darmstadt 1978 (together with Fritz Deppert)
  • Love stories . Gütersloh 1979
  • Literary March . Munich 1979 (together with Fritz Deppert and Karl Krolow )
  • My poem is the world . Frankfurt am Main
    • Vol. 1. 1780 to 1912 . 1982
    • Vol. 2. 1912 to 1982 . 1982

Radio plays

literature

See also

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Weyrauch, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherer, Joseph (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1980
Place of death Darmstadt