Florian Havemann

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Florian Havemann (born January 12, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German writer , painter and composer .

Life

The son of the well-known GDR regime critic Robert Havemann was arrested in 1968 for protesting against the violent ending of the Prague Spring . He is the youngest member of the group of East 68ers, which also includes Rosita Hunzinger, Hans-Jürgen Uszkoreit, Erika-Dorothea Berthold, Thomas Brasch , Sanda Weigl and Florian Havemann's brother Frank. All protesters sat for three months in the remand prison of the MfS Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and were convicted in October 1968 of " agitation against the state ". While all other convicts had their sentences suspended on probation in November, Florian Havemann was transferred to the Luckau youth prison. In 1971 Florian Havemann fled to the West.

Havemann's flight gave the singer and GDR dissident Wolf Biermann the impetus for the song Enfant perdu ; He performed this among others at his most famous concert on the eve of his expatriation in Cologne on November 13, 1976. In the song Biermann sharply criticizes Havemann and his escape: “Whoever leaves the East / he has run away from himself at our expense”, “there he is the left clown” and with an ambiguous “he is over” and “ Departure is everywhere ”. Biermann, now in the west himself, sent Havemann bad wishes: "Let go, let go of the rushes, / so that we can see in the east / that he who falls away falls."

The singer's massive public criticism of the 24-year-old Havemann, which was widespread through the television broadcast of the concert and the discussion on expatriation, contains a tragic element. Biermann, according to his own statements later, tried to prevent the feared expatriation by interspersing these and other statements that were more in line with the system.

Havemann studied stage design at the University of the Arts in West Berlin after fleeing . In 1999 he became a lay judge at the constitutional court of the state of Brandenburg (proposed by the PDS , ten year term). In 2002 he accepted the candidacy of the PDS for the Bundestag on the Saxon state list .

Havemann is active as an author of plays - Speer (via Albert Speer ), Rosa (via Rosa Luxemburg ) and others. a. - and, as a composer, has also presented several theater pieces as well as written and performed a piano cycle. From October 2005 to October 2011, together with Daniel Küchenmeister and Helge Meves, he was editor of the online magazine for unfinished thoughts , for which the Berlin author and journalist Thomas Wieczorek also wrote.

Under the title Havemann , he wrote a 1,100 page long, so-called "factual novel" about the life of his grandfather, his father and his own. The work made headlines even before it was published in November 2007, in particular because Havemann assumes that Wolf Biermann had sexual contact with Margot Honecker , Minister of Education at the time , the wife of State Council Chairman Erich Honecker , shortly before his expatriation . After a previously unnamed protagonist of the novel saw himself vilified, Suhrkamp Verlag issued a cease and desist declaration and recalled the book from the bookstore on December 21, 2007. A new, shortened edition was published in September 2008. The book was previously available as a download with blackening. The Berlin Regional Court has awarded an anonymous plaintiff compensation for her mention with real names and denunciation as a femme fatale .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Punished for agitation against the state. In: New Germany . October 29, 1968, p. 2.
  2. ^ Probation granted , Neues Deutschland, November 15, 1968, p. 2
  3. ^ In the trap , Regina General: Interview with Florian Havemann, Der Freitag , June 4, 1999
  4. ^ Former constitutional judges of the state of Brandenburg
  5. ^ The name of the father ( memento of November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Der Tagesspiegel , November 17, 2007
  6. ↑ Suhrkamp withdraws "Havemann" , Spiegel Online , December 21, 2007
  7. ↑ Havemann Biography: Blackened the Internet , Spiegel Online , February 5th 2008
  8. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 1, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Havemann, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, painter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin