Helmut Heißenbüttel
Helmut Heißenbüttel (21 June 1921 – 19 September 1996) was a German novelist and poet. Among Heißenbüttel's works are Das Textbuch (The Textbook) and Marlowe's Ende (Marlowe's End). He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1969.
Helmut Heißenbüttel
- Born
- 1921 · Wilhelmshaven.
- Died
- 1996 · Glückstadt.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- writer · poet · playwright · essayist · literary editor · librettist · editing staff
- Fields
- essay
- Movements
- Group 47
- Honours
- Georg Büchner Prize · Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · Heinrich-Böll-Preis · Austrian State Prize for European Literature · Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg · Hugo-Jacobi-Preis
- Languages
- German
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His other awards include the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse (1979) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1990). Heißenbüttel was born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. During the Second World War, he was badly wounded at the Eastern Front so that his left arm had to be amputated. He married Ida Warnholtz in 1954; they had one son and three daughters. Heißenbüttel died of pneumonia on 19 September 1996 at a hospital in Glückstadt. His dying words were "wie ein Schokoladen-Milchshake nur knackig" ("like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy"). He was 75.
The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Work by Helmut Heißenbüttel is recorded in the collections of Tate, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Distinctions recorded are Georg Büchner Prize, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Heinrich-Böll-Preis and Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
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- 1.Jentzsch, Bernd. In: Walter Habel (Hrsg.): Wer ist wer? Das deutsche Who’s who. 24. Ausgabe. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-2005-0, S. 584.
- 2.In einem Essay berichtet der Literaturwissenschaftler Klaus Ramm Von der außergewöhnlichen Entstehungsgeschichte der "Zwei oder drei Porträts" von Helmut Heißenbüttel. Im BR Hörspiel Pool
- 3.BR Hörspiel Pool - Heißenbüttel, Zwei oder drei Porträts (2016)
- 4.Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte Heft 3–4/2021.
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