Obituary F. W. Bernstein : The animal in me

it Must be a farewell is equal to the two lines which made him immortal? Or he can, because F. W. Bernstein's the word hobgoblin was championship the last in the Mortal, all too mortal, but for a while, to push? By his "Fresh poems", by 2017, Verlag Antje Kunstmann appeared, blew the sweet smell of death. "Time's up", it said. "It is so far. / We are already in injury time. / The final whistle! Now is risen! / Skeletons out, to the extent available; to the stage for the Finale! / World court!“ Such lines no longer pass the diaphragm test of the young years. In their bitter self-irony, she testified, frail, like amber, had become, instead of a pained Smile. But they realised that they still prefer to be in the direction of higher nonsense in the direction of higher literature.

With moritatenhaftem Threw, Wilhelm Busch indestructible vivacity as a draftsman, and Poet, is always closer to as a Vanitas-Schandmaul as Peter Rühmkorf, he tried to see the Inevitable in the eye. Amber mocking-lust was omnipresent. "Rilke invents the thing poem. / Some things he didn't seals,“ he wrote elsewhere. "The root brush is a: / In Rilke's works, you will find none. / Not one of all the poets / took care of brush to the Root.“ You must come first time, especially since the "Inspiration" proved to be noticeably unreliable companion: "As for me early in my demon cried, / I lay flat in the power deep. / I drive my lyric high / LYRIC HIGH / but still.“

Bravely, he prospected in the Comic, wherein it was inevitable that he returned some days with empty hands. At the end of acting verses emerged in the Wake of this poetic Sub-surface mining, but is delightfully effortless. In particular, animal poems, in which he reflected the Ridiculous of human life, had it done to him. Bernstein's "animal life" sums up the situation: "If it had us to care? / We don't care about that! / The life of our day-old rat is / was short. // There must be a longer life: / the of the piano. / Also sounds much better, is this life / as such as the rat hers.“

Restrained Temperament

The extremely polite and level-headed Swabian Göppingen, the shortened and his nickname in school put on, had to the artist becoming his real name Fritz Weigle on the initials of a silent artistic Talent. Among the illustrators and copywriters, which since 1981 by the spontaneous title of a group exhibition as a New Frankfurt school were, he had at least his own reserved Temperament and the need for a middle-class life without the pressure of a free existence. At the art Academy in Stuttgart, he had begun to study in 1957, and there Robert met Gernhardt, he moved in the following year, at the Berlin University of the arts.

a quarter of A century later, in 1984, he took over a professorship for cartoon, and picture story. Stations in the past, the College of education in Göttingen, where he trained as a drawing teacher, and high schools in Frankfurt and around Frankfurt were over, where he also taught English. As Chlodwig Poth, Hans Traxler, or Pit, Knorr, he came from the stables of the satirical magazine "Pardon", for which he invented of 1964, along with Robert Gernhardt, F. K. Waechter, the Supplement to "the world in a mirror".

"WimS", the "independent magazine for a clean world" in the magazine, with a defiant "Pro bono, contra malum" in the Signet, stirred up the traditional journalistic forms in the smallest space. In word, Strip and Cartoon the WimSler rehearsed the uprising of the nonsense against the crushing sense of post-war world assignments. In the form of the brainy polymath Arnold Hau, Alfred Edel film-embodied-in strongly, created the Trio, moreover, his own interpretation of the instance.

climate exchange in the case of the "Titanic"

not The spirit of this new departure years, equally immune to every education civil Pathos, such as the high-sounding Jargon, made in the Wake of the critique of Ideology of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno among the left Intellectuals of wide, could be permanent. While the specific type of irony, the amber and Gernhardt were, became a new lingua franca of the German comedians and cabaret istentums, grew up in the "Pardon" of the internal tensions. From 1979 to published amber in the competition, founded in "Titanic". From the subtle evils of their early years, it has developed today to a brutal cynicism, with amber not have been happy.

newspaper Today, F. W. Bernstein

Here it must now be finally cited the duration of the burner, which will still make the round, when Bernstein's self-forgetting: "The sharpest critics of the elks / were earlier." At least as durable a of other classics, however, is: "quail a world power? / Look at the quail! / Trips from the dark wood; I the degree of as who. / Quail quail is completely wrong. / About a hundred thousand Russians, / would need the Vatican to be broken / by the Pope and freed – Yes then: / quail quail Genghis Khan! But the quail is not only peaceful, / round and infinitely cute; / this appears to be sympathy. / Quail world, you will never!“ On Thursday, F. W. Bernstein, these Steglitz world of high Comedy of power, at the age of 80 years died.