Annegret Gollin

Annegret Gollin , also: Anne Gollin (born December 11, 1956 in Neubrandenburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Annegret Gollin is the daughter of a farm worker and a blacksmith . She grew up in Mecklenburg . From 1963 to 1973 she attended a polytechnic high school in Neubrandenburg . The state refused to attend a secondary school for political reasons. From 1973 to 1975 she completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig . There, too, she was not allowed to work "because she had still not developed a firm socialist standpoint", but had to prove herself "in production" for a year, which she refused. In the eyes of the GDR authorities, after she had failed to fulfill her duty to work, she was arrested for the first time in the autumn of 1975 and sentenced to six months of work education according to Section 249 of the GDR's StGB for allegedly " anti-social behavior ". During her pre-trial detention or weeks of solitary confinement in Prenzlau, she was blackmailed into working with the State Security. She revoked this so-called IM process after her release from custody. After serving this six-month "sentence", Gollin went to Berlin and lived there in the Prenzlauer Berg district for six months in an occupied house on Schwedter Strasse. She worked in a shoe warehouse at the Ostbahnhof. Exactly on her 20th birthday, on December 11th, 1976, she was arrested again in an express trial and sentenced to one year "job and place of residence" in Griesen . She had to live there for a year and turn doorbell coils. In 1979 she married hastily and moved to Zwickau , where she worked as a food deliverer for the People's Solidarity and later as a stoker for the Inner Mission . She had contact with other young authors and belonged to a circle of writing workers . Her husband divorced after a year. He died in 1982 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.

In 1980 Gollin was arrested again , this time for allegedly distributing "inflammatory pamphlets" following a complaint by a party secretary with whose daughter she was friends. These were works by the authors Reiner Kunze and Jürgen Fuchs, who were banned in the GDR . However, it was after three months detention because of her pregnancy on probation dismissed.

Her last arrest took place in February 1982, this time due to reports from the unofficial state security officer Tom Crepon alias IM "Klaus Richter", for "producing and distributing hate speech" and "disparaging socialism in public" Sentenced total sentence of 20 months in prison . She served part of this sentence in Hoheneck prison . At the same time, their little son was placed in a children's home and later in a day nursery in Neubrandenburg. In December 1982, she was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany ransomed . In 1983 she moved from the Gießen emergency reception center to West Berlin : after a week-long stay in the Marienfelde camp, she first lived in Berlin-Schöneberg . Her son, who was taken from her in February 1980, was allowed to follow her there in May 1983.

From 1985 to 1987 Annegret Gollin managed the bookstore "Rauchzeichen" and founded the association "Blitz" (Berlin literary circle) and worked as an active member in the NGL and GEDOK . During this time she also made up her Abitur in Berlin-Schöneberg at the evening school.

From 1988 she lived as a freelance writer and speaker.

She regularly organized readings at Berlin schools, organized writing workshops for the monthly magazine "Das Magazin" and was involved in political education, a. a. worked for the Ehlers Academy (Volker Mathee) , the Jakob Kaiser Foundation (Richard Blöhmer) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the GDR Museum (Reiner Hildebrandt) at Checkpoint Charlie.

After the fall of the Wall, she initially worked from 1990 to 1995 as a witness and consultant in the former Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen , a. a. with Bärbel Bohley , Jürgen Fuchs, Ulrich Schacht and Siegmar Faust .

From 1995 she worked for ten years as a contemporary witness and consultant in the former Stasi headquarters on Magdalenenstrasse. From 1996 to 1999 she completed her studies at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig with the help of a grant from the Else Heiliger Fund . 1999/2000 she lived a. a. half a year each in the artist village of Schöppingen, then in Switzerland. There she decided not to write anymore.

From 2001 to 2019 inclusive, she mainly worked as a supervisor for groups of visitors in the Federal Press and Chancellery and as a tour guide for political city ​​tours through Berlin . During that time she accompanied around 600 groups of 50 people each from all elected parties through Berlin. Since May 2, 2001, it has been guiding groups of visitors in the Federal Chancellery and through the entire political center of the capital.

Annegret Gollin is the author of stories , essays and especially poems . She made hundreds of contributions to anthologies , newspapers , magazines and radio .

Annegret Gollin has been a member of GEDOK and the New Society for Literature since 1985 . She temporarily belonged to the Berlin State Association of the Association of German Writers , but later resigned. She has been a member of the Federal Republic of Germany's circle of authors since 1992 . She received u. a. In 1992 the GEDOK Literature Prize , in 1995 and 1999 a residency grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Villa La Collina , in 1999 a six-month residency grant for the city of Bern and in 2000 a residency grant from the artist village of Schöppingen .

Works

• Schrei-Berlin (g) and the smallest anarchy , Berlin 1988
• Germany - a fairy tale of lies , Berlin 1990
• I feel so unheard of , Berlin 1996
• But childhood remains , Berlin 1992
• Liebesb (e) reit , Berlin 1992
• Mysterious prospects , Berlin 1992
• Nocturnal irritations , Berlin 1995
• Anne Gollin , Berlin 1996
• Double exposure , Berlin 1996
• Three scenes from Bolanda's life , Berlin 1998
• Omitted , Ahlhorn 2001

Editing

• The dear love ... and the courage to do so , Vechta-Langförden 2002

literature

• Who is Who , lexicon of famous Germans in the Federal Republic
• Andrea Jäger: Lexicon of GDR authors , Frankfurt a. Main
• Bärbel Bohley: Women in the GDR

Movie

• “Everyone is silent about something else”, documentary by Marc Bauder

Web links

• Literature by and about Annegret Gollin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Annegret Gollin in the state bibliography MV
• Homepage of the author

Individual proof

1. ↑ Excerpt from literature: in Bärbel Bohley "Women in the GDR"
2. ↑ Detlev Lücke: Petzen as a social mandate? . In: Friday October 7, 2005, accessed on August 8, 2020.