Paul Wiens

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Paul Wiens (1959)

Paul Wiens (born August 17, 1922 in Königsberg ; † April 6, 1982 in East Berlin ) was a German poet , translator and author of radio plays and screenplays in the GDR .

Life

Vienna was born to a Jewish mother in Königsberg . But he spent his childhood in Berlin until his mother emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 when the National Socialists " seized power " . After passing high school, he began studying philosophy in Geneva and Lausanne . 1943 Paul Wiens was convicted military morale in Vienna arrested in St. Pölten and in Arbeitserziehungslager Oberlanzendorf (otherwise 1938-1954 Vienna Lower Austria ) detained until the war ended.

After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Berlin via Weimar in 1947 , where he worked as an editor and translation editor for the Aufbau Verlag until 1950 . He also published his first poems and youth songs ( Enteistert von Berlin , 1952). From 1952 he was a freelance writer and mainly wrote poetry and texts for mass songs. Wiens also wrote scripts, for example for Frank Vogel's film … and also your love (1962), which justifies the construction of the wall , and for Konrad Wolf's Sun Seeker (1958). The film deals with the "production battles" during the uranium mining of the Soviet-German stock corporation Wismut and was premiered in 1972 because of its thematic connection to the manufacture of nuclear weapons due to a veto by the former Soviet Union. He also translated works by Pablo Neruda , Wladimir Majakowskij , Nazim Hikmet and others into German. Wiens was co-editor of the poetry series "Answer us" and in 1982, until his death, was editor-in-chief of the influential literary magazine Sinn und Form .

Paul Wiens was temporarily vice-president of the Kulturbund of the GDR and from 1961 to 1969 chairman of the Berlin district association of the GDR writers' association. In 1964 he became a member of the German PEN Center East and was its executive committee member from 1980.

Grave of Paul Wiens

Paul Wiens was buried in the artist department of the Berlin central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde . His estate is in the literary archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Wiens' daughter Maja Wiens from his first marriage to Erika Lautenschlager (1921–1989) also works as a writer (Roman Traumgrenzen , Berlin: Neues Leben 1983 / screenplay Hidden Fallen DEFA 1991).

State Security staff

In the 1960s, Vienna worked as a “social informant” with the MfS . At the end of the 1960s he interrupted this activity for a few years because of “ideological stomach aches”, then continued as IM from 1972 until his death . He also worked repeatedly for the Soviet KGB . Vienna's "handed over private letters addressed to him, provided detailed denunciating information about writers from East and West and reported on international authors' meetings in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Yugoslavia," said Joachim Walther in his standard work, Security Area Literature . He provided reports about his GDR colleagues Jurek Becker , Wolf Biermann , Franz Fühmann , Stefan Heym , Sarah Kirsch , Heiner Müller , Ulrich Plenzdorf and Erwin Strittmatter , about the western writers Heinrich Böll , Günter Grass , Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Peter Härtling , about Soviet authors such as Lew Kopelew and Andrei Sakharov and about his third wife, the writer Irmtraud Morgner , who divorced him in 1977. He received several state awards for his spying activities.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Vienna, Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Annegret von Wietersheim: But - my favorite is loud. Ambivalences in the biography and lyrical work of Paul Wiens. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2014 (Diss. University of Bremen 2014).
  • Annegret von Wietersheim: Paul Wiens: "Meteors". A reassignment of authorship. In: lendemains. Attempto 162/163, volume 41, Tübingen 2016, pp. 264–269.

Web links

Commons : Paul Wiens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presentation of the films from an official GDR perspective in: Film and TV Art of the GDR . Berlin (East) 1979, pp. 184-186 u. 331.
  2. ↑ s. Archive entry .
  3. ↑ Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin: Ullstein 1999, especially pp. 709-722; Quote: p. 709.
  4. ^ Rainer Schmitz: Culture: The Grass Files. In: Focus Online . March 1, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www1.wdr.de
personal data
SURNAME Vienna, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, translator and author of radio plays and screenplays
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1982
Place of death East Berlin