Kurt Bartsch

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Bartsch's grave in the Schöneberg III cemetery

Kurt Bartsch (born July 10, 1937 in Berlin ; † January 17, 2010 there ) was a German poet , playwright and prose writer .

Life

After attending high school, Bartsch worked in various professions, including a. as a passenger, coffin seller, office worker, corpse bearer, warehouse worker and assistant editor. From 1964 he studied at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. After the XI. In the plenary session of the SED Central Committee , he broke off his studies. From 1969 worked at the Volksbühne in Berlin and at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . Because of a protest note to Erich Honecker , he was expelled from the GDR Writers' Association in 1979 and moved to West Berlin in 1980 with a permanent visa . Bartsch died on January 17th, 2010 in his native Berlin. Bartsch acquired a grave at the Friedenau artists' cemetery during his lifetime , where he was finally buried.

Bartsch belonged to the circle of the Saxon Poet School , in which he played a central role. His lyrical work in the publications Zugluft , Kalte Küche and Die Hölderlinie is characterized by parodies, portraits and poems of mockery. The theater text collection The Belly and Other Song Games is a collection of social studies in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht . His book Kaderakte is a mixture of poetry and short prose and, together with the novel Wadzeck, deals with the power structures in the GDR. In his novel Fanny Holzbein , he tells the story of the last days of the war in Berlin's city center in impressive, pictorial language.

He received the Bambi for his scripts for the series Our Teacher Doctor Specht . In 1996 he received the German Television Award for his numerous television films . He was married to the writer Irene Böhme since 1974.

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Kurt Bartsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Kurt Bartsch, in: Michael Opitz, Michael Hofmann (Hrsg.), Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur , Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-02238-7
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, playwright and prose writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2010
Place of death Berlin