Alfred Antkowiak

Alfred Antkowiak ( pseudonym : Michael O. Güsten , born August 9, 1925 in Cologne ; † September 6, 1976 in Berlin ( GDR )) was a German publisher and writer .

Life

Alfred Michael Otto Antkowiak worked as a cultural functionary in Thuringia from 1950 . He belonged to the Thuringian state leadership of the SED and was chairman of the Thuringian Writers' Association. From 1953 he was an editor in the Berlin construction publishing house . Because of his contacts with the opposition circles around Wolfgang Harich and Walter Janka , he was denounced as a party enemy and observed by the Ministry for State Security . In January 1958 Antkowiak was arrested and two and a half years prison sentenced. During his stay in Bautzen prison he signed a declaration of commitment as "GI" (secret informator, later: "IM", unofficial employee ) of the Ministry for State Security. After his release in July 1960, he got a job in the editing department of the Volk und Welt publishing house . In the following years Antkowiak delivered numerous reports on fellow authors to the GDR State Security under the code name "Michel Roiber".

Alfred Michael Otto Antkowiak published a number of literary works in the early 1950s ; after his release from prison he wrote several narrative works , plays and non-fiction books . The focus of his literary work in the 1960s and 1970s was on the publication and translation of foreign-language authors for the GDR book market. This was often done in collaboration with his wife, the translator Barbara Antkowiak .

The "pseudonym" Michael O. Güsten used Alfred Michael Otto Antkowiak after a writing ban imposed on him.

Works

• Nikolai Gogol , Berlin 1952
• Encounters with literature , Weimar 1953
• Ludwig Renn. Erich Maria Remarque , Berlin 1965 (together with Pawel Poper)
• The millipede , Halle / S. 1968 (under the name Michael O. Güsten)
• The League of the Yellow Rose , Halle (S.) 1969 (under the name Michael O. Güsten)
• Just say the Bourbons are coming back! , Berlin 1973 (under the name Michael O. Güsten)
• Hell keeps its promises , Halle (Saale) 1974
• El Dorado , Berlin 1976
• Tupac Amaru or The Last Inca Rebellion , Halle 1977

Editing

• Denis Diderot : Diderot , Weimar 1953 (edited together with Lothar Berthold )
• Soviet literary criticism , Berlin 1953
• Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart : Unity of freedom wet nurse be ... , Berlin 1956
• The murder in Via Belpoggio , Berlin (edited with Barbara Antkowiak)
  • 1 (1964)
  • 2 (1964)
• A strange love , Berlin [u. a.] 1964
• The case with the twisted scarf , Berlin (edited with Barbara Antkowiak)
  • 1 (1966)
  • 2 (1966)
• 22 Swedish storytellers , Berlin 1967
• The beautiful lady , Berlin 1969 (published together with Barbara Antkowiak)
• 15 Danish storytellers , Berlin 1970
• For example Liebe , Berlin (edited together with Barbara Antkowiak)
  • 1 (1971)
  • 2 (1971)
• Trubert's pranks and other rogue stories , Berlin 1973 (edited together by Karl Heinz Berger )
• 21 storytellers from Belgium and the Netherlands , Berlin 1976
• Danish Dramas , Berlin 1977 (edited together with Rudolf Kähler and Udo Birckholz)

Translations

• Jorge Amado : Gabriela , Berlin 1962 (translated together with Gerhard Lazarus and Ernst-August Nicklas)
• Aluísio Azevedo : Der Mulatte , Berlin 1964 (translated under the name Michael O. Güsten)
• Louis Paul Boon : Minuet , Berlin [a. a.] 1975 (translated together with Barbara Antkowiak)
• Pierre Gamarra : The murderer received the Prix Goncourt , Berlin 1965 (translated under the name Michael O. Güsten)
• Per Wahlöö : Das Lastauto , Berlin 1969 (translated under the name Michael O. Güsten, together with Barbara Antkowiak)

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Antkowiak in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Walther, Joachim: Security area literature, Berlin 1996, pp. 73, 502 and 572