Biography of Bel

Henry Theodore Belll December 21 - July 16 - German writer, translator, Nobel laureate in literature. Henry Bulle was born on December 21 in Cologne, in a liberal Catholic family of a artisan. He studied at the Catholic school for a year, then continued his studies at the Köln gymnasium Kaiser Wilhelm. He worked as a joiner, served in a bookstore. After graduating from high school in Cologne, Bell, who wrote poetry and stories from early childhood, turned out to be one of the few students in the class that did not join the Hitler Youth.

At the end of the classical gymnasium, he worked as a seller’s student in a Bukinistic store. A year after graduation, he was sent to work in the labor camp of the Imperial Labor Service.

In the summer of the year, Bulle entered the University of Cologne, but already in the fall he was called to the Wehrmacht. During the Second World War - the infantryman fought in France, participated in battles in Ukraine and in Crimea. In the year, Bulle married Anna Marie Czech, who gave birth to him two sons. In April, Bulle surrendered to the Americans. After captivity, he worked as a carpenter, and then returned to the University of Cologne and studied philology there.

Bulle began to be printed in a year. The first works - the story “The train comes on time”, a collection of stories “Traveler, will you come when in spa ...” and the novel “Where were you, Adam? In the year, Bell became a member of Group 47 [1]. In the year in the program article “recognition of the Ruin literature”, a kind of manifesto of this literary association, Bell called for the creation of a “new” German language - simple and truthful related to specific reality.

In accordance with the proclaimed principles, Bully's early stories are distinguished by stylistic simplicity, they are filled with vital concreteness. Bellya’s stories collections “Not only for Christmas”, “The Silence of Dr. Murka”, “The City of Habituals”, “When the War began”, “When the war ended”, both readers and criticism found a response. In the year, the writer received the Group 47 Award for the story “Black Sheep” about a young man who does not want to live according to the laws of his family, this topic will later become one of the leading in Bellol's work.

From stories with uncomplicated plots, Bell gradually moved to more voluminous works: in the year he published the story “And did not say a single word”, a year later - the novel “House without the owner”. They are written about the recently experienced, they recognized the realities of the first, difficult post -war years, the problems of the social and moral consequences of the war were touched upon.

The next large work of Bellus was a noticeable phenomenon in German literature - the eyes of the clown, together with his wife, was translated into the German language of American writers - Bernard Malamud and Jerome Salinger. In the year, Bellon received the prestigious German prize of George Bukhner. He held this post up to a year. In the year on television, the premiere of the documentary film “Writer and his city: Dostoevsky and Petersburg” took place.

In the year, Bell visited Moscow, Tbilisi and Leningrad, where he collected material for him. Another trip took place a year later, in the year, but only to Leningrad. In the year, he became the third of the German writers after Herman Gesse and Nelly ZAS, awarded the Nobel Prize after the Second World War [1]. In many ways, the decision of the Nobel Committee was influenced by the release of the writer’s new novel “Group Portrait with a Lady”, in which the writer tried to create a grandiose panorama of the history of Germany of the 20th century.

Henry Bellon tried to execute in the press with a demand to conduct an investigation into the death of RAF members [the source is not indicated days]. His story “The lost honor of Katarina Blum, or how violence arises and what it can lead to” was written by Balle under the impressions of attacks on the writer in the West German press, which, not without reason, dubbed him “inspirer” of terrorists.

The central problem of the “lost honor of Katarina Blum”, as well as the problem of all the later works of Bell, is the invasion of the state and the press into the personal life of a common person. The last works of Bellus tell about the danger of state supervision of their citizens and the “violence of sensational headlines” - “Careful Siege” and “Image, Bonn, Bonn” published in the year the novel “Under the Concer of Care” by Fursorgliche Belagerung, written in the year, when the press was overwhelmed by the materials about the terrorist group of Baader and Minhof.

The novel describes the destructive social consequences arising from the need to strengthen safety measures during mass violence. In the year, the novel “What will happen to the boy, or some business on the book part” came out in the year. WAS SOLL AUS DEM JUNGEN BLOSS WERDEN, Oder: Irgend Was Mit Bucern - Memories of Early Youth in Cologne. Bell was the first and, perhaps the most popular in the USSR, the West German writer of the young post -war generation [2], whose books were published in Russian.

From the year in Russian, more than 80 stories, stories, novels and articles of the writer were published, and his books were published in much large circulations than in the Homeland, in Germany.The writer has repeatedly visited the USSR,,,,,,, however, was known as a critic of the Soviet regime. In his previous period, Bulle illegally took the manuscripts of Solzhenitsyn to the west in the previous period, where they were published.

As a result, Belll's works were prohibited from publication in the Soviet Union [2]. The ban was lifted only in the middle of the X with the beginning of perestroika. In the year, the previously unknown novel of the writer - “Soldier's inheritance” Das Vermachtnis, which was written in the year, came out, but was published for the first time. In the beginning of the X, they found in the attic of the house of Bellu [who?

After creation, this novel was an author himself, a burdened family and in need of money, “disassembled” into many separate stories in order to receive a greater fee. He was buried on July 19 in Bornheim-Mertyen next to Köhn with a large accumulation of the people, with the participation of colleagues-writers and political figures. In the year, the Heinrich Bullya Foundation was created in Cologne - a non -governmental organization that interacts with the Green Party of its branches in many countries, including Russia.

The fund supports projects in the development of civil society, ecology, human rights.