Bernd-Dieter Huge

Bernd-Dieter Hüge (born May 9, 1944 in Königsberg ; † January 24, 2000 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German writer.

As a child, Huge came to Schleswig-Holstein with his war-displaced family and attended school in Heide . After an apprenticeship as a painter and attending the seafaring school in Bremerhaven, he was a seaman.

In 1964 he moved to the GDR to live with his father. After attempting to escape from the GDR in 1967, he was imprisoned until 1970 “for passport offense” and after his release he worked in the Senftenberg open- cast lignite mine until 1984, first as a machinist and later as an IT technologist. This was followed by training as a commercial clerk and nurse. In 1984 he became a freelance writer . He spent the last years of his life in Halle. Bernd-Dieter Hugt has been a member of the German PEN (East) since 1997 and of the PEN Center Germany since 1998 .

Works (selection)

• The sand ship and other strange things , radio play, 1983, Berliner Rundfunk
• Cadre files of a migratory bird - poems from 1966 to 1982 , 1984, Aufbau Verlag Berlin
• Confession in front of the dog , poems and prose, 1985, Aufbau Verlag Berlin
• Das Steinkind , Roman, 1989, Aufbau Verlag Berlin
• My prison book , narrative report , 1991, Aufbau Verlag Berlin, series of texts at the time
• Deicing a sky - selected poems , 2002, Janos Stekovics publishing house, Halle an der Saale, ISBN 3-89923-011-6

Prices

• Hans Marchwitza Prize, 1978
• Carl Blechen Prize , 1990

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd-Dieter Hugt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and text samples from the Halle support group
• Biography on the website of the TU Chemnitz