Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (

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s, among others ''Carl Hanau'', ''HaBE''), (born April 1947) is a German author, songwriter and graphic artist.

Life

Barth-Engelbart was born in 1947 as the eighth of nine children in a Protestant family of Michelstadt.Ruth Dröse: ''Psychogramme einer Provinzstadt mit vielen Wespennestern. Hartmut Barth-Engelbart schreibt an einem Hanau-Roman und liest „Werkstücke“ daraus in der Schweinehalle vor''. In

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Nr. 209 vom 9 September 1998, (Lokalrundschau) After completing his schooling, he was a reserve officer candidate from 1966, finally a trainer with the Bundeswehr. In 1968, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the

, but it lasted only one day, because on the following day he took part in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in Frankfurt and fell from a canopy in the wake of political confrontations and broke his ankle joints on both feet. Barth-Engelbart began studying psychology and pedagogy in 1969, changed to primary school pedagogy after four semesters and passed his second state examination in 1978. From 1971 to 1974 he was a

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at a primary school in Frankfurt-Rödelheim and a member of the strike committee of the lecturers. In 1972 he became a member of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft junger Lehrer und Erzieher" (Association of Young Teachers and Educators) at the

Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft The Education and Science Workers’ Union (german: Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, GEW) is a trade union in Germany. It has a membership of 280,343 and is one of eight industrial affiliates of the German Confederation of Trade Unions. ...

(AjLE) and the GEW-Landesvorstands.''Berufsverbote und die GEW'', In HEZ Zeitschrift der GEW Hessen, booklet 5 May 2012, In 1974, Barth-Engelbart became a member of the

Communist League of West Germany The Communist League of West Germany (''Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland''; KBW) was a Maoist organization in West Germany which existed from 1973 until 1985. The KBW contested the general elections in 1976 and 1980 in West Germany and was ra ...

(KBW), for which he unsuccessfully ran for office in the state elections in Hesse in 1978. A party expulsion due to lack of "line loyalty" preceded his resignation in 1979. From 1974 to 1978, Barth-Engelbart was deputy chairman of the staff council of the study seminar; from 1974 to 1976, he was involved in setting up the GEW Group and GEW chairman in Bruchköbel-Süd. He was expelled from the GEW in 1978, as a result of an incompatibility decision against the KBW. Since he was not immediately taken into the school service, in 1978, he worked until 1991 in different jobs. In 1980, he became member of the , the strike leadership and the ÖTV regional board, then worked again, from 1991, in the school service. In 1993, he became a civil servant, working as a primary school teacher. According to his own statements, he was a primary school teacher and children's choir leader until 2006. Since then he has been working full-time as a writer, songwriter and graphic artist. Together with the composer and saxophonist

Wolfgang Stryi Wolfgang Stryi (4 March 1957 – 22 February 2005) was a German composer, bass and double bass clarinetist, tenor saxophone player and a permanent member of the Ensemble Modern. Life and career Stryi was born in Rottweil. For twenty-four years, ...

of the Ensemble Modern, Barth-Engelbart organized several readings between 1991 and 2004. In September 2003, Barth-Engelbart initiated the Hanau Resistance Readings at Freiheitsplatz on the Viennese model."Deutsche Werte" In '' Junge Welt'' dated 18 December 2004,

Publications

* Anthologie 2009 - Die Würde des Menschen ist. Literaturforum Hanau/Main - Kinzig / *''„C'est la vie“ oder was sind wir doch für Schweine geworden'', Amsterdam 1991. . *''Eine Abrechnung mit dem Rechnen''. In Karlheinz Burk: ''Die neue Schuleingangsstufe'', Beltz: Weinheim, Basel 1998. 147 p. . *''Osterspaziergang''. In ''Menschenversuch'', Collage-Roman, Edition Gallas: Munich 2000. *''Menschenversuch'', Munich 2000. . *''Lakonisches Lächeln. Erzählung'', Yedermann: München-Riemerling 2001. 99 p. . *''„Grenzgänger“, Collageroman zwischen Polen und Deutschland'', in ''17 × Lyrik&Prosa'', Hanau 2001. . *''26 Gedichte & Poeme'', in ''7 × Krieg und Un-Frieden'', Hanau 2003. . *''Widerstandslesungen in Hanau''. In: El Awadalla, Traude Korosa (editor): ''... bis sie gehen. Vier Jahre Widerstandslesungen. Ein Lesebuch.'' Sisyphus: Klagenfurt 2004. . . *''Unter Schlag Zeilen: befreite Worte – gebrochene Reime zur Lage'', , Frankfurt am Main 2005. . *''Zora'', Zambon-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, 58 p. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barth-Engelbart, Hartmut 1947 births Living people People from Michelstadt German male writers Communist League of West Germany politicians