Wolfgang Weyrauch

Wolfgang Weyrauch (* 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 surveyor. After attending high school and passing the matriculation examination he attended from 1924 a drama school in Frankfurt am Main. This was followed between 1925 and 1927 engagements as an actor at theaters in Münster, Bochum and am Harz theater in Thale. From 1927-1929 Weyrauch studied German and Romance Languages ​​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, 1932-1938 of the Berliner Tageblatt and 1933-1934 Vossische newspaper. At the same time he began writing radio plays. During the 1930s Weyrauch also worked as a book editor and published his first books. From 1940 to 1945 he participated as a Lance Corporal an air message unit in the Second World War. In 1945, he fell into Soviet captivity, from which he was released in August of the same year.

From December 1945 to 1948 Weyrauch was editor of the magazines published in Berlin Ulenspiegel and East and West. From 1950 to 1958 he was a lecturer at the Hamburg Rowohlt Verlag, 1959 then again freelance writer, first in Gauting near Munich and since 1967 in Darmstadt.

Wolfgang Weyrauch was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Association of German writers. Since 1951, he participated in the meetings of the group 47, since 1967 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Services

Wolfgang Weyrauch, who had emerged in the 1930s as a journalist and author of the new medium radio play, coined in 1949 in which he edited anthology thousand grams of the direction of a clear-cutting literature: This he characterized as demanded by his radical new beginning of German literature after the end of third Reich. Weyrauch self-written after 1945, especially radio plays, short stories, and published numerous anthologies.

Awards and honors

Works

Generally

  • The Main. Berlin 1934
  • Vortex and source. Berlin 1938
  • A band for the night. Leipzig 1939
  • An island history. Berlin, 1939
  • " Study on a novel". Jena 1942 ( In: the XX century, November 1942: 498-500. )
  • The Lovers. Leipzig 1943
  • On the moving earth. Berlin 1946
  • From mercy of fortune. Berlin 1946
  • The lovers. Munich 1947
  • The Davidsbündler. Hamburg et al 1948
  • Lark and Sperber. Munich 1948
  • Written on the wall. Hamburg 1950
  • Please my older daughter. Vienna and Others 1952
  • The conflagration. Karlsruhe 1952
  • Report to the government. Frankfurt 1953
  • The minutes of the Negro. Hamburg 1953
  • Singing not to die. Hamburg 1956
  • Nothing can happen to the darkness. Berlin 1956
  • Anabasis. Hamburg 1959
  • My ship, ie typhoon. Olten and Others 1959
  • The year. Munich 1961
  • The Japanese fishermen. Weinheim 1961
  • The green tent. The Japanese fishermen. Stuttgart 1963
  • Dialogue on new German poetry. Itzehoe - Kate Voss 1965
  • Come Munich 1965
  • The first house was peace. Munich 1966
  • Conversations of pedestrians. Munich 1966
  • Stories to continue writing. Neuwied and Others 1969
  • Flight over Franconia and Hesse. Braunschweig 1970
  • A clown says. Weinheim 1971
  • How are you? Neuwied and Others 1971
  • With your head through the wall. Darmstadt 1972
  • The end of Frankfurt am Main. Stuttgart 1973
  • Poems. Darmstadt 1974
  • Almost every day. Darmstadt et al 1975
  • Dear T. Dusseldorf 1976
  • The comma after. Pfaffenweiler 1977
  • 2 litanies. Dreieich 1977
  • Pedestrian, B- level, main station, escalator, up, down. Frankfurt 1978
  • Hans Dumm. Cologne and Others 1978
  • A sip of Reason ( Lichtenberg). Darmstadt 1978
  • Focus Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1979
  • A poem, what is it?. Hannover 1980 ( together with Fritz Deppert )
  • Epilog for Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1981
  • Anders 's would be better. Würzburg 1982
  • Certificates and witnesses. büdingen 1982
  • Three times beheaded. Aces Home 1983
  • Proust begins to burn. Frankfurt 1985
  • Atom and aloe. Frankfurt 1987
  • CV. Dreieich 1988
  • It was everywhere. Darmstadt 1998

Translations

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

Editorship

Obergefreiter PEN International Andreas Gryphius Prize Heinz Piontek Karl Krolow Integrated Authority File
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