Hans Bemmann

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Hans Bemmann (1922-2003) was a German writer, born in Groitzsch near Leipzig. He studied German language and literature and musicology in Innsbruck, and from 1954 worked as an editor for the Austrian Borromäuswerk, a Catholic library association, continuing in Bonn from 1956 to 1987. He lectured in German studies at the Pädagogische Hochschule Bonn from 1971 to 1983 and taught at the Bonner Bibliothekar-Lehrinstitut until 1993. In the 1960s he published under the pen name Hans Martinson. His literary breakthrough came in 1983 with the fairy-tale novel Stein und Flöte, which has since been translated into many languages. Later novels include Erwins Badezimmer (1984), Stern der Brüder (1986) and the trilogy Die Verzauberten (1990-1998). In 2002 he received the Rheinischer Literaturpreis Siegburg.

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• Stein und Flöte (1983) · Stein und Flöte (The Stone and the Flute) Core Canon

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• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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