Lothar Walsdorf

Lothar Walsdorf (1988)

Lothar Walsdorf (born October 16, 1951 in Zittau ; † July 5, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German writer and radio play author .

Lothar Walsdorf grew up without a father with mother and grandmother in a village near Bautzen , where he spent a lot of time alone in the forest. When his mother went blind and went to a nursing home, he was sent to the children's home in 1961. It was then that he began to write a diary, mostly in poetry. When he ran away from the home, he was taken to a home for the difficult-to-educate. Until 1967 he was in different children's homes. He escaped from a subsequent apprenticeship at an LPG before completing an apprenticeship as a chemical skilled worker in 1969. During this time he lived with a foster mother in Bautzen for a long time.

Until 1979 Walsdorf lived on in Bautzen. During this time he worked in various odd jobs in order to be able to write: co-driver, museum worker, window cleaner, restorer, water meter reader. After Franz Fühmann became aware of him, the Aufbau-Verlag prepared the publication of his first volume of poetry, Der Wind ist auch ein Haus . Lothar Walsdorf had lived in Berlin since the end of 1979 . At first he lived with an editor at the publishing house and then publicly asked for an apartment, which he then received in Königs Wusterhausen . Walsdorf later also worked as a radio play and theater author.

Lothar Walsdorf died on July 5, 2004 under as yet unexplained circumstances at the age of 52. His publisher only found out about this when he asked the residents' registration office.

"He left behind a literary work that is still waiting to be discovered" (Agnieszka Lessmann in the radio play calendar , DLF, May 21, 2005).

Works

• The wind is also a house. Poems. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1981.
• The noise blows green into the country. Children's book. 1982.
• In the glass light of the morning. Poems. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1983.
• I came over mountains. Poems. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1987.

Radio plays

• 1981: Wedding temporary - director: Ingeborg Medschinski (children's radio play - radio of the GDR )
• 1987: Die Mittagsfrau - Director: Peter Brasch (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1988: Monologues - Director: Horst Liepach (Broadcasting of the GDR)

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Walsdorf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lothar Walsdorf archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin