Hartmut Barth-Engelbart

Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (pen names, 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. 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 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.

In 1974, Barth-Engelbart became a member of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW), A party expulsion due to lack of "line loyalty" preceded his resignation in 1979.

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

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. .