Hans Bemmann

Hans Bemmann (* April 27, 1922 in Groitzsch in Leipzig, † 1 April 2003 in Bonn ) was a German writer.

Life

Hans Bemmann was born on 27 April 1922 in Groitzsch near Leipzig. Spent his youth the son of a Protestant minister in Grimsby / Sachsen, Leipzig, Wiesbaden and Vienna. Hans Bemmann first began in 1940 with a medical degree in Vienna, interrupted by labor service, the Wehrmacht and the war effort in Russia, where he was employed as a surgical assistant at the main dressing stations. The study, he became after the war continued to Physikum. But immediately afterwards he moved to German literature and musicology, the study of which he graduated in 1949 with a musicological thesis. Since 1954 he was a lecturer at the Austrian Borromäuswerk ( Austrian library work ) and continued this activity in Bonn in 1956 continued. Until 1987 he was a lecturer there until 1993 lecturer at Bonn Librarian Training Institute and from 1971 to 1983 lecturer for the subject " German " at the Pedagogical University of Bonn. In the 1960s he published under the pseudonym Hans Martinson.

About the artwork

His literary breakthrough came in 1983 with the fantasy literature related fairy tale novel Stone and the Flute that tracks the adventures of a young man named eavesdropper in an idyllic fairytale world. A magical stone and a magic flute should it actually open the way to happiness, but his lack of knowledge of human nature and naivety let him abuse his power and take fateful decisions. Eavesdropper life story is interwoven with his love story.

The follow-up novel Erwin's bathroom, written as a series of letters, takes the reader into a dictatorship that controls the population through a systematic simplification of the language. The good-natured linguist Albert S. accidently stumbles into an underground movement, the Erwin is derived from its illegal microfiche library from his bathroom out. Albert is also the love of his life and learn to see the world by means of ambiguous language new. The idea of manipulation by targeted use of language is also found in George Orwell's dystopia 1984.

The star of the brothers is also located in the modern world, and traces the life of two brothers in a society that moves on the road to dictatorship after. A musician and a geologist select in the opposite sides of the political spectrum, only to meet again at the end.

The damaged goddess leads a fairy tale researchers on a journey from reality into the world of fairy tales. The encounter with him a charming woman throws him into a fairytale world in which he examines courts and ultimately finds. The novel mixed our world with the fairy tale, and the hero can see our world less cold and mechanical.

The gardens of the Lioness, although to read as a standalone novel, is a continuation of the damaged goddess, in which the woman is her story. This book is distinguished by the choice of words and sentence structure from the previous novel, so that the author so that the representation of another world of sensations succeeded impressively.

The third part of this series is Massimo Battisti. Here we find the resolution of many ambiguities in the person of the magician Massimo Battisti.

Works

• Hunters in the park. Narrative. (1961 ) - under the pseudonym Hans Martinson
• Annoying visit. Novel. (1963 ) - under the pseudonym Hans Martinson
• The clerical joke (1970 ) - Editor
• Stone and the Flute, and that's not all. A fairy tale novel. (1983)
• Erwin's bathroom, or the danger of the language. (1984)
• Star of the brothers. (1986)
• Trilogy " Enchanted " The damaged goddess. (1990)
• The gardens of the lioness. (1993)
• Massimo Battisti - From one who wanted to learn the spells. (1998)

Awards

In 1987 he was awarded the Evangelical Book Prize 2002 and the Rhineland Prize for Literature Siegburg.