Martin Morgner

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Martin Morgner (born February 13, 1948 in Stollberg / Erzgeb. ) Is a German writer and historian .

Life

From 1966 to 1970 Martin Morgner studied at the University of Economics in East Berlin . He then worked as a research assistant, seasonally as a waiter on the island of Hiddensee and as a puppeteer. From 1973 to 1975 he did military service in the National People's Army of the GDR as a construction soldier (refusal of arms). From 1975 to 1985 he was engaged as a puppeteer and dramaturge on the stages of the city of Gera; In addition, he completed a distance learning course to become a theater scholar at the Leipzig Theater Academy . Since 1972 he has been observed by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR and persecuted because of his commitment to pacifism, the establishment of an artists' commune in Mecklenburg ("KüGeMeck") and his connections to the opposition scene. Morgner processed his dissidence in autobiographical documentations and essays (see works below). The pieces, lyrics and poems he wrote in the GDR were permanently censored by the cultural bureaucracy ; z. For example, the play Kasper saves a tree was premiered in 1986 as the first staging of a drama on the subject of environmental policy in the GDR after several changes .

After the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, he was elected as a member of Bündnis 90 in the Hohenschönhausen district council in Berlin . During this time he worked as a documentary for the Robert Havemann Society in Berlin. He was engaged as dramaturge and director at the Altenburg-Gera theater from 1994 to 1997, and from 1999 to 2001 as a dramaturge at the theater in Chemnitz . From 2005 to 2008 Morgner worked as a research assistant for the Senate Commission for the processing of the university history of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (see works below). After completing his studies as a historian (2006 to 2009), he was awarded a doctorate by the Philosophical Faculty of the FSU Jena in 2012. phil. PhD. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Historical Institute of Jena University.

Research priorities

Works (selection since 1984)

literature

Stage plays

  • The lighter (after Hans Christian Andersen ) . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1989 (first performance Gera 1984)
  • About the hedgehog that shouldn't be any more. Libretto for an opera for children . Kolog-Verlag, Berlin 1986 (first performance Gera 1986) - composer: Herbert A. Mitschke
  • Wing flaps. Rock drama . (First performance Dresden 1986) - Composer: Herbert A. Mitschke
  • Kasper saves a tree (first performance planned in 1984, realized in 1986, Theater Gera)
  • Mr. Novak and the mouse woman. Musical . (First performance Chemnitz 2001) - Composer: Herbert A. Mitschke
  • Hops. Three heroine lives in three pieces . Netzbandt-Verlag, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-937884-04-2 (contains: "Hopf", "On the Island" and "The Snow Queen" (after Hans Christian Andersen)).

Poetry

  • Walking times. Poems and graphics . 2nd modified edition. Netzbandt-Verlag, Jena 2008, ISBN 3-937884-05-X (+ 1 CD: Artists: Kay Frotscher and Susanne Vent). Graphics: Jana Mohring.

Documentation and scientific articles

Non-fiction

  • Code name "mask". The Mecklenburg Artists' Community 1980/81. A documentation (= series of publications of the Robert Havemann Archive. Vol. 2). Robert Havemann Society, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9804920-0-1 .
  • Got into the mill. Portraits of politically persecuted students at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1967 to 1984. Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-86160-408-2 .
  • GDR students between adaptation and freaking out. Disciplinary cases at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1965 to 1989. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-709-7 .
  • Thuringia 1949–1990. Historical travel guides through the GDR. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-237-5 .

Autobiographical documentation

Essays

  • Theater-Zwang 90. In: Barbara Büscher, Carena Schlewitt u. a .: Free theater. German-German Society eV Documentation 40. Hagen 1991, ISBN 3-923064-56-X , pp. 132-141.
  • In search of traces of those who think differently at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1961 to 1989 . In: Uwe Hoßfeld u. a .: University in Socialism, Vol. 2 . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 , pp. 2240-2256.
  • Held together. Or: How three students won an unexplained paper war . In: Tobias Kaiser, Heinz Mestrup (eds.): Political persecution at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1945 to 1989. Scientific studies and personal reflections on clarifying the past, Berlin 2012, pp. 378–425, ISBN 978-3-86331 -047-9 .
  • Research experience. For a differentiated consideration and clarification of student political opposition at GDR universities after 1961 . In: the university. journal for science and education, Institute for University Research (HoF), Halle-Wittenberg 2013, pp. 109–122. ISBN 978-3-937573-37-3 .
  • Compound the decomposition or cure from the leprosy. In: Lutz Niethammer ; Roger Engelmann (Ed.): Stage of dissidence and dramaturgy of repression. A cultural conflict in the late GDR. Göttingen 2014, pp. 319–346, ISBN 978-3-525-35035-5 .

Prizes and awards

  • 1982: Main prize of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR with the ensemble of the stages of the city of Gera / puppet theater
  • 1984: Main prize of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR with the ensemble of the stages of the city of Gera / puppet theater
  • 1984: Prize in the piece competition of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR for "The Lighter"
  • 2003: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Gera

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Decomposed time. Song of the puppet. Netzbandt-Verlag, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-937884-00-9 .
  2. ↑ Code name "MASK". The Mecklenburg Artists' Community 1980/81. A documentation (series of publications by the Robert Havemann Archive; 2). Robert Havemann Society, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9804920-0-1 .
  3. ↑ Decomposed time. Song of the Marionette, pp. 267–274.
  4. ↑ http://www.jenacenter.uni-jena.de/Martin_Morgner.html .
personal data
SURNAME Morgner, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giera, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollberg / Erzgeb.