Albert Wendt (children's author)

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Albert Wendt at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2012

Albert Wendt (born February 27, 1948 in Borsdorf near Leipzig) is a German playwright , radio play and children's book author .

Life

After graduating from high school (1966 in Markkleeberg) Albert Wendt worked as a wrestler, tractor driver and stage worker. He studied cultural studies for a few semesters at the University of Leipzig (1969–1972) and at the Leipzig Literature Institute “Johannes R. Becher” (1972–1974). In 1977 he took part in a scriptwriting seminar at the Babelsberg Film School. Albert Wendt has been a freelance writer since 1975. He writes plays, radio plays and short stories for adults and children. In 1976, one-act play was filmed by GDR television under the title “Three Little Night Stories”, and in 1986 his most successful play “Der Vogelkopp”. His dramatic work was accompanied by poems and aphorisms. The stage works, e.g. B. "Sauwetterwind", "Princess Zartfuß" and "Padulidu and Lorelei", were later published as fairytale stories in book form.

Albert Wendt sums up central problems of the time in their recurring topicality in a humorous and mostly fairytale form. His work has been recognized by national and international awards. Vogelkopp was born in 1990 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, in 1993 under the title "Tête-à-bécasse" at the Théâtre des Lunes, Neuchâtel / Switzerland, in 2005 at the Memorial Union Play Circle "in Madison / Wisconsin and in 2015 under the title" Bird Brain "on the Western Canada Theater in Kamloops / Canada. In 1987 he received the Lessing Prize of the GDR, in 1989 the Terres des Hommes Children's Radio Play Prize for the radio play "Sauwetterwind" (WDR) and in 2009 the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for his children's book "Betti Kettenhemd".

Radio plays

Children's radio plays

Stories for adults and children

Plays

  • The skyscraper . Premiere: 1972 Workers' Theater Leichtmetall Rackwitz, D: Jan Krüger
  • Afterfrost / The Santa Clauses / The Cricket. Premiere: September 11th, 1976, Städtisches Theater Leipzig, cellar theater, R. Jürgen Kautz.
  • The roofers. Premiere: October 9th, 1979, Städtisches Theater Leipzig, D: Karl-Georg Kayser.
  • The wild ways . Premiere: 1979, Brandenburger Theater , D: Bernd Keßler.
  • The basement trap . Premiere: April 6th, 1980, Städtisches Theater Leipzig, D: Karl-Georg Kayser.
  • The driver and the cook . Premiere: 1980, Berlin.
  • Steps . Premiere: 1980, Das Ei, Theater im Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin.
  • The tea woman . (together with other scenes under the title Wendt gegen Wendt ) UA: 1980, Poetisches Theater “Louis Fürnberg” of the Karl Marx University Leipzig, studio stage of the University of Leipzig.
  • C-egg hen and tripping cock . Premiere: 10/1981 Workers' Theater Maxim Gorki, Berlin, D: Hella Len .
  • The foreign load .UA: 1982 Dresden.
  • The bad weather wind . Premiere: September 18, 1982, Theater der Junge Welt, Leipzig, D: Hanns Gallert.
  • Bronek and the ailing . Premiere: 1984, Berlin.
  • My thick coat . Premiere: October 5th, 1984, Theater der Bergarbeiter, Senftenberg, D: Carsten Ludwig.
  • Princess Zartfuss and the seven elephants . Premiere: November 7, 1984, Volksbühne Berlin.
  • The bird's head. Premiere: October 11th, 1985, Theater der Freunde Berlin, D: Carl-Hermann Risse. FRG WP: December 7, 1986, stages of the city of Essen
  • Heduda on the plum tree . Premiere: November 8th, 1985, Bühnen der Stadt Gera, D: Gerhard Neubauer.
  • The tin boat . Premiere: October 20th, 1989, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Zittau.
  • Padulidu and Lorelei . Premiere October 8, 2000, Das Weite Theater Berlin.
  • Betti chain mail . Premiere: November 1, 2001, Theater Salz und Pfeffer , Nuremberg.
  • Adrian and Lavender . Premiere: 2002 Freiberg.
  • Abele and the pale Moff . Premiere: 2002, Berlin.
  • Princess quail egg with the golden heart . Premiere: March 2003, Theater Grashüpfer, Berlin, D: Sabine Steglich.
  • Rettelbusch and silk scarf. Ballad by Albert Wendt. Premiere November 26th, 2009, Helios Theater, Hamm.

Plays on international stages (selection)

  • The bird's head. Fairy tale by Albert Wendt. Premiere: 1990, Schauspielhaus Zurich.
  • Bird's head. Premiere: May 2nd, 2005 at the “Memorial Union Play Circle” in Madison / Wisconsin, D: Manfred Roth .
  • Princess Henny Penny with the Golden Heart (Princess quail egg with the golden heart translated from the German by Paul Harman, 2004). Premiere: 11/12/2005 at the CTC Theater, Stockton-on-Tees / Cleveland, UK.
  • "Bird Brain" (based on the story Vogelkopf) . WP: May 21, 2015 at the Western Canada Theater / PAVILION THEATER in Kamloops / Canada, D: Vern Thiessen , performed by the new WCT / TRU Young Company .
  • "Tête-à-bécasse" (Vogelkopp translated from the German Monique Laederach ). Premiere 1993 at the Théâtre des Lunes, Neuchâtel / Switzerland., D: Käthi Vögeli.
  • The bad weather wind. Premiere 1991 at the Theater der Jugend, Vienna (D: Peter Rinderknecht).

Television games

  • Three little night stories [ Das Hochhaus (1972); Night frost; The Santa Clauses; The Cricket (1976)]. Television of the GDR 1977, director: Achim Hübner , with: Jörg Gillner , Achim Hübner, Helga Piur u. a., first broadcast on 3.1.1978.
  • The bird's head. Television of the GDR, D: Horst Netzband; Production: Carl-Hermann Risse , music: Hans Ostarek; with Rüdiger Sander , Isa Sander-Wolter a. a., first broadcast May 25, 1986.

Aphorisms

Albert Wendt recorded the condensed reflection on his principles and working methods in aphoristic form, published in the collections and anthologies “The wisdom of the last shot”, “Roofers and other pieces and texts” and “New Aphorisms”. The following selection was published on the homepage of the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize:

"Sentences from the work books 2017. Albert Wendt about his work on the book" Henrikes Dachgarten ":

  1. Find a pregnant place, then people show up, then something happens, finally people talk.
  2. Lift - curl - lead - dance from small to larger proportions. Greater relationships in 3 dimensions: space, time, inhabitants (heavenly beings to mice).
  3. There are only 4 tasks that I have in front of me: The idea of ​​a beautiful structure, the beautiful structure in a text, with partners to form a suitable, durable container around the text (book, play, radio play and the like), with partners Using and creating means of transport to bring the work to those who need it most urgently.
  4. Do not enter or plow contaminated terrain.
  5. If I have the wide sea in front of me, why should I turn away and crouch down and poke around in a sewage pool with a stick.
  6. Enrich - make strict - enrich - make strict ...
  7. A good story: A plastic becomes visible as a beautiful structure and makes pleasant noises.
  8. Tame abundance! Don't fill emptiness!
  9. Throw the hero into the battles and then sit back and watch. Test the hero to his limits to find out what he's good for.
  10. Do not build anything into a plant that would rot quickly.
  11. How do I break open the petty bourgeois box? Children, artists, kings, storms, locks of fate, characters, miracles ...
  12. Ten exam questions to ask the text before I hand it over:
    1. Hasn't my little self pushed too far? Is it in the right place?
    2. Does the work of the queen of the world serve morality? Is it straightforward but chaste?
    3. Has the subject been clearly outlined?
    4. Is the work part of the series of the old masters?
    5. Is it also interested in a gifted child in a refugee trek?
    6. Was something missing if I left out parts of the work?
    7. Was something missing if I left it out?
    8. Were enough forces of stature involved in shaping the work?
    9. Have I erased everything cheap, vain, zealous, excited, superfluous, know-it-all, instructive, sensationalist, boastful?
    10. Can the work withstand the gaze, the gaze from the new eyes that are born with a new era (quote from Heine)?

Awards

  • 1978: 1st prize in the debut competition of the radio play department at the radio of the GDR for The Driver and the Cook
  • 1980: The critics' award for the radio play award of the GDR for The Driver and the Cook
  • 1985: Special prize in the author's competition of the GDR radio play prize for: The bird's head
  • 1987: Lessing Prize of the GDR
  • 1989: Terre des Hommes Children's Radio Play Prize for Sauwetterwind , director: Ulf Becker (WDR)
  • 1990: Children's radio play award from the Funkhaus Berlin for Adrian and Lavender
  • 2004: The book Princess Quail Egg with the Golden Heart is included in the list of the Top 7
  • 2008: Princess Zartfuss and the seven elephants are included in the collection for the Austrian Children's and Young Adult Book Prize
  • 2008: The book Betti Kettenhemd is included in the list of the best 7
  • 2009: Austrian children's and youth book award for Betti Kettenhemd
  • 2011: Marta-Maria is included in the collection for the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize
  • 2011: Reading Peter of the Month for January for the children's book Bummelpeters Weihnachtsfest
  • 2015: Inclusion of the book Das tanzende Häuschen in the list of the best 7
  • 2018: Book of the Month June 2018 (Institute for Youth Literature) Henrikes Dachgarten - The Miracle on the Crooked Seven
  • 2018: The best 7 books for young readers (Deutschlandfunk, July 2018) Henrikes Dachgarten - The miracle on the Krummen Sieben
  • 2019: Austrian children's and youth book award for Henrike's roof garden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize: About the work on the price books. 2019, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Reading Peter of the Month for January 2011
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Borsdorf