Ulrich Becher

Ulrich Becher ( born January 2, 1910 in Berlin, † April 15, 1990 in Basel ) was a German writer and playwright. He is the father of Martin Roda cup.

Life

Ulrich Becher was born in Berlin as the son of lawyer Richard mugs and pianist Elisabeth Ulrich. After visiting the outdoor school community in Wickersdorf where the musical talents were specially trained, he began studying law in Berlin. At the same time he began training as a painter. Already during his school years he had made the acquaintance of George Grosz, who recognized his photographic talent and took him as a single master student.

But his skills were also on poetic territory. From 1932 he was a member of PEN and appeared cup novella men make mistakes when Rowohlt, but in 1933 his work was cast as "degenerate " works on the pyre. The day after the Reichstag fire left cup Germany and lived henceforth in various European cities such as Vienna, Paris, Prague and London. On November 11, 1933, he married a former fellow student of the Faculty of Law, Dana Roda, daughter of the famous Austro- Hungarian writer Alexander Roda Roda and subsequently took Austrian citizenship.

As the son of the Swiss pianist Elisabeth Ulrich he hoped to live in Switzerland as a writer, but in the eyes of the Swiss authorities repudiated his anti-fascist attitude towards the principle of neutrality. The Aliens Police denied him a work permit and advised him to emigrate abroad. Thereupon the Bechers the group to Hermann Mathias Goergen followed, with the pair in March 1941 managed to escape to Portugal to Brazil.

Efforts to obtain a visa for the United States dragged on for three years. When they finally got the entry permit, they moved in 1944 to New York at the in-laws.

1948 Ulrich Becher returned back to Europe with a theater piece The Bockerer in the luggage, which he had co-authored with Peter Preses. The piece should be in Vienna was a great success. In 1954 he settled in Basel. 1969 appeared processed thematically Rowohlt his autobiographical novel embossed " Marble hunting ", in which he alleged and actual threat, the loneliness and abandonment after 1938 of a politically persecuted in Austria exiled to Switzerland journalists. In 1976 he received the complete works price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation.

His estate is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern and in exile archive of the German National Library in Frankfurt.

A selection of his books, prints and drawings from the twenties and thirties was issued in May 2012 in the gallery Red bookseller in Berlin. It seemed a small publication with color illustrations of his work. The exhibition was opened, among others, Martin Roda cup.

Works

  • Men make mistakes. Narratives. Rowohlt, Berlin 1932
  • No one. Modern-day mystery play. Julius Kittl Nachf., Ostrava 1934
  • The conquerors. Stories from Europe. Foreword by Ernst Glaeser, Oprecht, Zurich 1936
  • The Tale of the robber, the policeman was. Moritat. Foreword by Willy Keller. Notgemeinschaft German anti-fascists, Rio de Janeiro 1943 series. Notbücherei German anti-fascists, 1
  • The Bockerer. Tragic farce. Together with Peter Preses. Sexl, Vienna 1946
  • Journey to the blue day. Verses. People's Voice, St. Gallen 1946
  • The Piper of Vienna. Together with Peter Preses, 1950
  • Nightingale wants to fly to the Father. A cycle Newyorker novels in four nights. Sexl, Vienna & Weismann, Munich 1950
  • Brazilian Romanzero. Frick, Vienna & Classen, Zurich 1950
  • Shortly after the fourth novel. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957; Arco again, Wuppertal 2011 ISBN 978-3-938375-45-7
  • Games of the time. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957
  • Men make mistakes. Stories of the compass. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1958
  • The heart of the shark. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1960
  • Games of the time. Volume 2 Berlin 1968
  • Men make mistakes. Twelve short stories. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1970
  • Your thing, Madame! and other stories. Build, Berlin ( GDR ) 1973
  • Marble hunting. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1969; again Schöffling, Frankfurt 2009
  • The profile. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973
  • William 's ex - casino. Novel. Benziger, Cologne 1973
  • New York stories. Benziger, Cologne 1974
  • Siff. Selective identification of friend and foe. Essays. Benziger, Cologne 1978
  • Franz Godfather Kindt. Romance by a German godson of Francois Villon in fifteen Bänkelsängen. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin 1979
  • From the inadequacy of reality. Ten not so nice stories; Lenos, Basel 1983
  • The conquest of a small town. Spoken theater, drama. In the best selection of Books, No. 483, Stuttgart 1983 ISBN 387070196X; again Thomas Sessler, Vienna 2001
  • Away from the rodeo. Amendment. Lenos, Basel 1991
  • "I live in the Apocalypse ." Letters to the parents. Ed. & introd Martin Roda cup in collaboration with Dieter Häner. Theodor Kramer Society, Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-901602-39-9
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