Hartmut Barth-Engelbart

Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (pen names, among others Carl Hanau, HaBE), (born April 1947) is a German author, songwriter and graphic artist.

Barth-Engelbart was born in 1947 as the eighth of nine children in a Protestant family of Michelstadt.^[1] After completing his schooling, he was a reserve officer candidate from 1966, finally a trainer with the Bundeswehr.^[2] In 1968, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Frankfurter Rundschau, 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.^[1]

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.^[1] From 1971 to 1974 he was a lecturer 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 (AjLE) and the GEW-Landesvorstands.^[3]

In 1974, Barth-Engelbart became a member of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW),^[1] for which he unsuccessfully ran for office in the state elections in Hesse in 1978.^[4] A party expulsion due to lack of "line loyalty" preceded his resignation in 1979.^[1]

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.^[3]

Since he was not immediately taken into the school service, in 1978, he worked until 1991 in different jobs.^[1] In 1980, he became member of the Gewerkschaft Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr [de], the strike leadership and the ÖTV regional board, then worked again, from 1991, in the school service.^[3] In 1993, he became a civil servant, working as a primary school teacher.^[1]

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 of the Ensemble Modern, Barth-Engelbart organized several readings between 1991 and 2004.^[5]

In September 2003, Barth-Engelbart initiated the Hanau Resistance Readings at Freiheitsplatz on the Viennese model.^[6]

• Anthologie 2009 - Die Würde des Menschen ist. Literaturforum Hanau/Main - Kinzig ISBN 3-940372-10-2/ISBN 978-3-940372-10-9
• „C'est la vie“ oder was sind wir doch für Schweine geworden, Amsterdam 1991. ISBN 3-89408-306-9.
• Eine Abrechnung mit dem Rechnen. In Karlheinz Burk: Die neue Schuleingangsstufe, Beltz: Weinheim, Basel 1998. 147 p. ISBN 3-407-62387-9.
• Osterspaziergang. In Menschenversuch, Collage-Roman, Edition Gallas: Munich 2000.
• Menschenversuch, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-00-007341-8.
• Lakonisches Lächeln. Erzählung, Yedermann: München-Riemerling 2001. 99 p. ISBN 3-935269-14-5.
• „Grenzgänger“, Collageroman zwischen Polen und Deutschland, in 17 × Lyrik&Prosa, Hanau 2001. ISBN 3-927040-00-2.
• 26 Gedichte & Poeme, in 7 × Krieg und Un-Frieden, Hanau 2003. ISBN 3-927040-00-2.
• Widerstandslesungen in Hanau. In: El Awadalla, Traude Korosa (editor): ... bis sie gehen. Vier Jahre Widerstandslesungen. Ein Lesebuch. Sisyphus: Klagenfurt 2004. ISBN 3-901960-19-8. p. 151-ff.
• Unter Schlag Zeilen: befreite Worte – gebrochene Reime zur Lage, Zambon-Verlag [de], Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-88975-107-5.
• Zora, Zambon-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, 58 p. ISBN 3-88975-128-8.

• Literature by and about Hartmut Barth-Engelbart in the German National Library catalogue