Albin Poetzsch

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Albin Pötzsch in 2015 in front of his residence in Wiesengrund

Albin Pötzsch (born October 29, 1935 in Kölsa near Bad Liebenwerda; † October 22, 2019 in Coswig ) was a German chess journalist .

Chess journalist

As a teenager , Pötzsch began to work as a journalist in chess. His first translation of an annotated game appeared in early 1951 in the Berlin-Frohnau magazine Der Schachspiegel . He edited a chess column in the Märkische Volksstimme and other local newspapers. Since the 1950s he wrote regularly for the magazine Schach-Echo and after its takeover for Schach-Magazin 64 . He also regularly published articles in chess .

From 1975 to 2017, Pötzsch edited the combination section of the magazine Schach , founded by Berthold Koch under the name “Wir lehren Schach”, which flourished under Kurt Richter under the title “Schach teaches chess - high school of combination” ( Wolfgang Weber ) and through the sudden death of Werner Golz became vacant. From these contributions, analogous to the bestseller Beauty of Combination , which was still published under Golz, his masterpiece Fun in Combining was created , which was published in three editions and two publishers.

In his late work, Incidents on the Chessboard , Pötzsch published selected stories by and about chess players from his articles in Schach-Magazin 64 .

Private

After Pötzsch left the Meißner GDR league team in 1961, he played correspondence chess to a limited extent for a few years. For professional and family reasons, he finally gave up chess as a tournament game in favor of his part-time journalistic work.

Together with his wife Edith, he worked as a lecturer for German language and literature as well as film history at the technical school at the Ministry of Culture in Siebeneichen . After finishing his job, the couple moved into their retirement home in the idyllic Wiesengrund ( Triebischtal ), which they had to give up in 2016 for health reasons.

Publications

  • Albin Pötzsch: Enjoy combining. , Sportverlag, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-328-00124-7 .
  • Carsten Sicora (ed.): Events on the chessboard. , Berek-Verlag, Potsdam, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pähtz: Obituary for the chess writer Albin Pötzsch
  2. ↑ Carsten Sicora: visit to the meadow land. In: Events on the chessboard , pp. 145–158
  3. ^ Obituary in: Schach , 12/2019, p. 77
personal data
SURNAME Pötzsch, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess author
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kölsa
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2019
Place of death Coswig