Ulrich Schacht

This article is about the writer and journalist. For the politician see Ulrich Schacht (politician) .

Ulrich Schacht, 2012

Ulrich Schacht (born March 9, 1951 in Stollberg in the Ore Mountains ; † September 16, 2018 in Förslöv , Sweden ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Ulrich Schacht was the son of a Russian officer and a German. In 2011, he addressed the search for his Russian father in Frozen Summer. Looking for my Russian father .

Ulrich Schacht was born in 1951 in the Hoheneck women's prison , where his mother was imprisoned. In the summer of 1951 it was taken from his mother and given to foster parents in Wismar . The mother was released early in January 1954 and the son was returned to her care.

After an apprenticeship as a baker and a special maturity examination , he studied Protestant theology in Rostock and Erfurt from 1970 to 1973 .

In 1973 he was sentenced to seven years in prison in the GDR for " subversive agitation ". In 1976 he was the Federal Republic of Germany ransomed and released there.

From 1977 to 1998 he lived in Hamburg , where he studied political science and philosophy .

From 1984 to 1998 he worked as a feature editor and chief reporter for the culture of the newspapers Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag and as the author of various periodicals, including Süddeutsche Zeitung , Volksstimme , Donaukurier , Focus , Rheinischer Merkur , Die Zeit , Cicero , Merkur , Sinn und Form , The political opinion , liberal , Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , Junge Freiheit und Tumult. Quarterly for Consensus Disruption .

In 1994 he and Heimo Schwilk edited the anthology The Self-Confident Nation . As a guest author he wrote for The Axis of the Good .

Schacht was a member of the German-Israeli Society , the Federal Republic of Germany's Authors 'Association , the Hamburg Authors' Association and the PEN Club as well as deputy chairman of the Friends of the Quarterly Tumult Association . Quarterly for Consensus Disruption .

From 1991 to 1995 he initiated artist expeditions to the Arctic regions of Norway and Russia.

The freelance author and publicist since 1998, who was a member of the Hamburg Authors' Association, the Society for Contemporary Poetry , the German-Israeli Society and the PEN Club, most recently lived in Sweden , where he lived in September 2018 at the age of 67 died as a result of a heart attack .

Political positions

From 1976 to 1992 Schacht was a member of the SPD . In 1997 he ran on the list of the Union of Free Citizens as a non-party member for the Hamburg Parliament . He was a co-founder of the Evangelical Brotherhood of St. George, founded in 1987 on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Falster , which he has since headed as Grand Commander . After emigrating to Sweden, he sympathized with the Sweden Democrats .

Schacht was a speaker for the study center Weikersheim (2012) at conferences of Compact (2012/2013), the Library of Conservatism (2016), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Hamburg Authors' Association (2008) as well as the memorial library in honor of the Victim of communism (1992-2017).

Schacht criticized the 1968 movement in articles and lectures . Because of his work for numerous conservative to right-wing conservative newspapers, some scholars and journalists classify him as a representative of the New Right .

In 1995, together with other publicists, he initiated the May 8, 1945 appeal published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - against oblivion . In 2001 he signed the appeal for press freedom of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit against its exclusion from the Leipzig Book Fair . He was also one of the first to sign the 2018 Joint Declaration .

Single track

Poetry

• Dream danger . Neske Verlag, Pfullingen 1981.
• Shard trace . Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1983.
• Denmark poems . Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 1986.
• Lances in the ice . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990.
• The stairs into the sea: Sweden poems. Edition Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2003.
• White July. Thirty-six poems and an essay. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2006.
• Bell Island in the Arctic Ocean . Poems. Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942955-09-6 .
• Two something . Edition Toni Pongratz , Hauzenberg 2014.
• Plato thinks a poem. Edition Rugerup , Berlin 2015.

prose

• Hohenecker protocols. Statements on the history of the political persecution of women in the GDR. Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1984.
• Brandenburg concerts. Six stories about one person. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1989.
• Treason. The world has turned . Stories. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88747-167-9 .
• Portrait of a Venetian Monk. A Lovestory. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2007.
• Icy summer: looking for my Russian father. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-02729-2 .
• Little paradises . Stories. Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942955-37-9 .
• Grimsey. A novella. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03618-8 .
• Notre Dame. Novel. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03586-0 .

Essay (selection)

• Conscience is power . Necessary speeches, essays, reviews of literature and politics in Germany . Piper Verlag, Munich 1992.
• About snow and history. Notes 1983–2011. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88221-564-9 .

• For a Berlin republic. Polemics, speeches and essays after 1989 . With Heimo Schwilk . Langen-Müller publishing house, Munich 1997.

Publication (selection)

• Obey God more than people. Christian roots, contemporary history and the presence of resistance. With Martin Leiner , Hildigund Neubert and Thomas A. Seidel . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005.
• The self-confident nation. With Heimo Schwilk. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1994 and 1996.

Awards

• 1981: Andreas Gryphius sponsorship award
• 1982: Alexander Zinn Prize scholarship.
• 1982: Johannes Gillhoff Prize
• 1990: Theodor Wolff Prize
• 1992: Scholarship from the German Literature Fund Darmstadt
• 2001/02: Else Heiliger Scholarship
• 2003: Scholarship from the Saxon State Ministry for Art and Science
• 2007: Dresden city clerk
• 2010/11: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2012: Kammweg Literature Prize from the Erzgebirge-Central Saxony cultural area
• 2012: Calwer Hermann Hesse Scholarship
• 2013: Eichendorff Literature Prize
• 2016: Prize of the LiteraTour Nord .

literature

• Siegmar Faust :  Schacht, Ulrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jörg Bernig : Loss of home. On Ulrich Schacht's literary work . In: Walter Schmitz , Jörg Bernig (Ed.): German-German Literaturexil. Writers from the GDR in the Federal Republic , pp. 282–308, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2009.

Web links

• ulrich-schacht.de - Homepage of Ulrich Schacht
• Literature by and about Ulrich Schacht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contemporary witnesses of communist tyranny: Ulrich Schacht. In: Memorial library in honor of the victims of communism . 
• The light comes from the east: In search of the November faces of Angela Merkel and Matthias Platzeck. In: Cicero . December 2005. 
• Ulrich Schacht: My father, Lieutenant Fedotow. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. February 27, 2003, archived from the original on September 22, 2003 . 
• Ulrich Schacht: Reflections on the topicality of June 17, 1953. In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung . June 14, 2003 . 
• Ulrich Schacht: Paralyzed on one side: Documentation: Ulrich Schacht's speech on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet special camp No. 7 Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen. In: Junge Freiheit 34/05. August 19, 2005 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ God releases me into the freedom of his being , Idea of ​​September 17, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018.
2. ↑ Former town clerk deceased , Sächsische Zeitung from September 17, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2017.
3. ↑ "Victory is inevitable!" Accessed November 28, 2018 (English). 
4. ↑ Ulrich Greiner: Ulrich Schacht: Falling down from the air. In: Die Zeit 47/2015. November 19, 2015, accessed September 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Bernd Wagner: A long journey: Ulrich Schacht: “Icy summer. In Search of My Russian Father ”- Review. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . April 3, 2011, accessed September 19, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Edo Reents : Man does not go into any totality (subtitle: The freedom of his transcendence: On the death of the writer Ulrich Schacht ). In FAZ September 19, 2018, p. 13. (Obituary)
7. ^ Articles by and about Ulrich Schacht at the Axis of the Good .
8. ↑ http://www.erich-kaestner-museum.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Ulrich_Schacht__Perspektiven_SZ_15.12.17-1.pdf
9. ↑ https://www.bonifatius-verlag.de/autor/ulrich-schacht
10. ↑ http://www.hh-av.de/lösungen/ulrich-schacht/
11. ↑ https://www.bonifatius-verlag.de/autor/ulrich-schacht
12. ↑ http://www.tumult-magazine.net/foerderverein ,
13. ↑ http://www.hh-av.de/lösungen/ulrich-schacht/
14. ^ Ulrich Schacht: From East to West , Hamburger Abendblatt , February 27, 2003
15. ↑ Ulrich Schacht is dead on boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on September 18, 2018.
16. ↑ Ulrich Schacht provokes with radical views - the state commissioner for Stasi documents invited right-wing extremist authors to Rostock ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Ostseezeitung , January 31, 2003
17. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!313738/
18. ↑ A short history of the Evangelical Brotherhood of St. George's Order , georgsbruderschaft.de, accessed on September 20, 2018.
19. ↑ Thomas A. Seidel, Spiritual of the Evangelical Brotherhood of St. George Order: Obituary: God releases me into the freedom of his being , idea.de, article from September 17, 2018.
20. ↑ Africa behind the gardens. NZZ, September 30, 2010
21. ↑ Susanne Gaschke: Everything completely harmless? Zeit Online, December 1, 1999
22. ↑ Sebastian Liebold, Frank Dish (ed.): New foundation based on old values? Conservative intellectuals and politics in the Federal Republic. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 3-8452-7487-5 , p. 229
23. ↑ Ulrich Schacht: Stalin's bosom is still fertile too! Saxon Newspaper, December 16, 2017
24. ↑ Rainer Benthien: The New Right in Germany and its influence on the political discourse of the present. Frankfurt am Main 1996; Harry Nutt: The Kulturkampf of the New Right. FRI, June 23, 2017
25. ↑ Richard Herzinger: On the call “8. May 1945 - Against Forgetting “: Strategists of the return coach. taz, April 15, 1995; End of war: full truth. Der Spiegel, April 17, 1995
26. ^ Rainer Benthin: On the way to the middle: Public strategies of the new right. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37620-2 , p. 221, fn. 271
27. ↑ Tellkamp signs the declaration. Sächsische Zeitung, March 17, 2018.
28. ↑ Prize winners. In: johannes-gillhoff.de. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
29. ↑ https://www.bonifatius-verlag.de/autor/ulrich-schacht
30. ↑ https://www.kas.de/single-title/-/content/wehrhafter-humanismus-nachruf-auf-ulrich-schacht
31. ^ Criticism of Dresdner Stadtschreiber - author defends himself in: Dresdner Latest News , February 22, 2007
32. ^ Michael Bartsch : Dresdner Stadtschreiber writes on the right Die Tageszeitung, February 20, 2007
33. ↑ Jens Hoffsommer, Achim Wesjohann: Congratulations, Ulrich Schacht! (PDF; 75 kB)
34. ↑ https://buecherstadtkurier.com/preis-der-literatour-nord-2016- geht-an-ulrich-schacht /