Adolf Endler

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Adolf Endler (born September 20, 1930 in Düsseldorf , † August 2, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German poet and writer .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a bookseller , Endler worked as a transport worker and crane driver. When he was charged with " endangering the state " because of his activity in the peace movement , Endler moved to the GDR in 1955 . He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig. Since then he has lived as a freelance writer. He was considered a representative of the Saxon school of poetry influenced by Georg Maurer . At first he tried his hand at hymns of praise for the FDJ , didactic-missionary hymns for the communist system and agit-prop . Later, in Endler's artistic development, an ideological liberation followed, which made itself felt through independent poetry, committed differentiation and a desire for destruction.

From 1955 to 1959 he was married to the writer Jutta Bartus and from 1967 to 1978 to the writer and translator Elke Erb . During this time, Erb and Endler owned a house in Wuischke in Upper Lusatia and lived mainly there.

As a result of his protests against Wolf Biermann's expatriation in 1976 and the conviction of Stefan Heym for “foreign currency offenses”, he was expelled from the GDR Writers' Association in 1979 .

Endler's grave in the Pankow III cemetery

In the 1980s he wrote for various Berlin underground magazines and became an essential figure in the literary scene in Prenzlauer Berg . From then on, his books were rarely printed and rarely discussed in the GDR. In the Federal Republic of Germany, on the other hand, only a few knew him, one of the reasons for this was that he was content with publishing 300 copies of his books in a Berlin hand press. Matthias Biskupek praised the diary notes he made at the time : "He mixed up the official speech and the screeching in the backyard and, above all, his unheard-of individual opinions into a funny mixture that is digestible and highly life-affirming." From 1991 to 1998 he and his wife, Brigitte Schreier-Endler, ran the readings "Orplid & Co" in the Café Clara Berlin-Mitte. He was one of the initiators of the “Society for the Care and Promotion of Poetry Orplid e. V. “, which brought this reading series into being.

One of Endler's most successful works was Tarzan am Prenzlauer Berg , his diary entries from 1981 to 1983, which made him known to a wide audience after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2005 Nebbich appeared . A German career , a volume with autobiographical documents and prose fragments. Before his death in 2007, his widely acclaimed book Crows-Croaked Escalator was published. Published seventy-nine short poems from half a century .

Adolf Endler had been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 2005 .

Posthumously in 2010, under the title Dies Sirren, a volume of conversations that Renatus Deckert had with Adolf Endler about his life and writing was published. Also after his death, Die Gedichte was published in 2020 , the entire lyrical work in one volume that had previously been published in twelve volumes of poetry in the GDR and in the Federal Republic before and after reunification.

Of Adolf Endler's children, Julius Endler is known today as the rapper Hiob , Konrad Endler is an author and active in the Berlin and Potsdam reading stage scene.

Works

  • Awakened without fear , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1960
  • Way in the wipes . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1960
  • The children of the Nibelungs. Poems . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1964
  • Preface to: In this better country. Poems of the German Democratic Republic since 1945. Selected, compiled and provided with a foreword by Adolf Endler and Karl Mickel . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1966
  • The grain of sand. Poems . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1974
  • Naked with glasses. Poems. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-8031-0074-7
  • The grain of sand. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976.
  • Two attempts to tell about Georgia . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976
  • Confused clear messages. Poems . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-25120-5
  • Pin cushion. From Bobbi Bergermann's notes. Published by Adolf Endler on behalf of the divorced widow. With 10 six-colored original linocuts by Wolfgang Jörg and Erich Schönig. Berliner Handpresse, Berlin 1979. Also published by Walter Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-530-18910-3
  • Endler file. Poems from 25 years . Published by Peter Gosse . Reclam, Leipzig 1981.
    2nd edition: Endler files. Poems from 30 years . Reclam, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 9783379002769
  • Without giving reasons. Mixed things from the poetic work of Bobbi "Bumke" Bergermann . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 9783880223042
  • Layers. Papers from a centenarian's duffel bag. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88022-721-7
  • Nocturnal visitor, put in his place. A continuation of the punishment , Berliner Handpresse, Berlin 1989. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0331-7
  • Exemplary expectorant. News from a capital 1972–2008 . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88022-752-7
  • Ride the tiger. Essays, polemics and notes on the poetry of the GDR. Luchterhand, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 9783630618982
  • The poet's answer. Novel . [Ed. by Albert Kapr and Roland Opitz], joint work by Reclam Verlag Leipzig, the Gutenberg Book Guild Frankfurt a. M. and the Offizin Haag-Drugulin Leipzig (= Gutenberg-Presse 11), Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7632-4129-9
  • Tarzan on Prenzlauer Berg. Sudelblätter 1981–1983 , Reclam Leipzig, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-379-01565-2
  • Warning of Utah, moments of a trip to the USA , Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 9783378005938
  • The pudding of the apocalypse. Poems 1963–1998 , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41056-3
  • In defiance , poems 1999
  • The old age, voilà. New poetic texts , Obergrabenpresse, Dresden 2001.
  • Silence writing speaking silence. Speeches 1995–2001 , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12299-1
  • The migratory birds overtook us. Old and new poems , UN ART IG, Aschersleben 2004, ISBN 3-9808479-8-5
  • Nebbich. A German career , Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-839-6
  • Crows-croaked escalator. Seventy-nine short poems from half a century , Wallstein, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-8353-0165-8
  • Nocturnal visitor, put in his place. Continuing punishment , Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 3-8353-0331-7 (new edition)
  • This buzz. Conversations with Renatus Deckert , Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0775-9
  • Kiwitt, kiwitt. Poems and Capriccios , Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 9783835317703
  • The poems , Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-1949-3

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Jäger: Bartus, Jutta. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 1, p. 344.
  2. ↑ Anne-Marie Pailhès: Regional identity in the GDR: Heinz Czechowski and Saxony - in search of the lost home in the autobiography, in: East German memory discourses after 1989: Narrative cultural identity, ed. by Elisa Goudin-Steinmann and Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Berlin 2013, pp. 227–244, here p. 238.
  3. ↑ Kurt Drawert : Upright and Split. That was also a place of resistance in the GDR: A large documentary on the history of the literary salon founded in 1978 by Ekke Maaß . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 7, 2017, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Review of Tarzan am Prenzlauer Berg . In: Eulenspiegel . Volume 41, No. 12/94, p. 53.
  5. ↑ Falko Hennig: On the death of Adolf Endler: The Prenzlauer Bergarbeiter . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 8, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Tends to go it alone". Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ http://prenzlauerberg-nachrichten.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/_/der-rapper-vom-kollwitzplatz-171108.html
  8. ↑ List_of_Lesebühnen
personal data
SURNAME Endler, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, essayist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2009
Place of death Berlin