Bernd Heimberger

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Bernd Heimberger (born April 29, 1942 in Wernigerode ; † January 11, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German writer , literary critic , essayist , local researcher and local politician .

Life

After graduating from high school, Heimberger worked as an assistant in the German State Library in Berlin, later he was recognized as a librarian . From 1962 to 1969 he studied German , cybernetics and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . As a so-called "people's correspondent " he published articles in various regional newspapers from the late 1950s. From the first half of the 1960s he worked as a freelancer for the Potsdam daily Märkische Volksstimme . From 1967 to 1975 he was promoted as a “young author” by the Aufbau Verlag and the Mitteldeutscher Verlag , whereupon he established himself as a freelance journalist and author. His novel Die Zensur , written between 1968 and 1970, was not published in the GDR . The same was true for the prose text Sterbestunden from 1983, which was still printed in 1992 under the new political circumstances and was given appreciative words by Christa Wolf . Heimberger wrote mainly literary and art reviews for numerous East and West German newspapers, magazines and radio stations such as Die Weltbühne , New German Literature , Litfass , die Horen , Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung . Around 6,000 contributions came together over the years, around 10 percent of them for broadcasters , including 200 for West German broadcasting alone .

From January 1944 on Heimberger lived in Blankenfelde-Mahlow , where he became increasingly involved in local politics in the last two decades of his life. In 1991 he was one of the founders of the Blankenfelder Kulturverein, of which he was chairman from 2002. He organized concerts, readings and exhibitions and was the editor and main author of the Blankenfelder Blätter für Heimatgeschichte, which was started in 2000 . In addition, he offered local tours. He founded a citizens' initiative , which in 1998 became part of the “BürgerBündnisBlankenfelde” community of voters . As an elected representative of the people, he sat in the municipal council of Blankenfelde-Mahlow (where he was chairman of the youth and culture committee) and belonged to the district council of the Teltow-Fläming district . For two years he held the office of mayor of Blankenfelde.

Works

prose

  • Hours of death. Beginning of a farewell. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig / Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-378-00503-3 .
  • Reading book. Reading samples. A selection from the work of Bernd Heimberger. Graphic Ronald Paris . Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2003.
  • Fox dish or four-part, almost fairytale-like story of talking animals. Self-published, Blankenfelde, 2010.
  • Funnel meets junk dealers. Aula Verlag, Blankenfelde, 2010.

Poetry

  • Choice. Fifty-eight. (= Blankenfelder Blätter ; No. I.) Kulturverein Blankenfelde (Ed.), Blankenfelde 2000.
  • Annual harvest. Fifty nine. (= Blankenfelder Blätter ; No. IV.) Kulturverein Blankenfelde (Ed.), Blankenfelde 2001.
  • Life reading. Sixty. (= Blankenfelder Blätter ; No. VII.) Kulturverein Blankenfelde (Ed.), Blankenfelde 2002.
  • Rangsdorfer See. Landscape. One cycle. (= Blankenfelder Blätter ; No. XIV.) Kulturverein Blankenfelde (Ed.), Blankenfelde 2007.
  • Mühlenberg. Landscape II. A cycle. (= Blankenfelder Blätter ; No. XVI.) Kulturverein Blankenfelde (Ed.), Blankenfelde 2008.

Forewords, Afterwords and Essays (selection)

  • Watercolors full of atmosphere. In: Inge Karsch. Watercolors. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1990, unpaginated pages (introductory text).
  • Painted meditation. In: Michael Radloff . Pictures and drawings. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1990, unpaginated pages (introductory text).
  • Transformation of the original. In: Lothar Reher. Books and pictures. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1992, pp. 7–13 (introductory text).
  • Maneuver Müller II. In: die horen , issue 192, 4th quarter 1998, pp. 178-180 (about Heiner Müller ).
  • Pleasure vernissage. From the cycle: Berliner Evenings. In: Thomas Günther: Between Heringsdorf and Zurich. On national and international fishing trips. Nine speeches by Th. G. Texts by Ricarda Horn, Ernst von Waldenfels & Bernd Heimberger and other members of the editorial team. Special edition Dschamp, Berlin 2005, pp. 121–122 (given in the table of contents as “afterword”).

Editing

Bernd Heimberger published the Blankenfelder Blätter on behalf of the Blankenfelde cultural association . In this series he published many of his own works, but also local history such as histories ( Das Schloss Blankenfelde. History and stories ) and sagas ( The night watchman and the cats ). In addition, yearbooks and anniversary volumes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernd Heimberger Archive. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Nina-Kathrin Behr: Heimberger . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch . Volume 15: Captain - Heinemann. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023161-8 , Sp. 561 .
  3. ↑ Christa Wolf on the back cover.
  4. ↑ The association. Presentation of a board of directors . In: Kulturverein Blankenfelde eV (Ed.): Ten. Kulturverein Blankenfelde 1991 - 2001 (=  Blankenfelder Blätter ). No. V . Blankenfelde 2001, Bernd Heimberger, p. 12 .
  5. ^ Siegrid Sohr: 25 years of the cultural association. Review and event announcements for the anniversary . In: Community journal for Blankenfelde-Mahlow . No. 10/2016 , October 2016, p. 15 ( blankenfelde-mahlow.de [PDF; 2.7 MB ; accessed on June 13, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b cz / eh: Mourning for Bernd Heimberger. Bernd Heimberger is dead. The writer and local politician from Blankenfelde died on Friday in a Berlin hospital as a result of a blood clot in the brain. Kulturverein Blankenfelde: “We cannot replace it”. In: maz-online.de. June 17, 2013, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  7. ↑ red / jr: News on local history from the Blankenfelde cultural association. Another edition of the “Blankenfelder Blätter” on local history will be published for the Advent festival in and at the “Alte Aula” in Blankenfelde on December 6, 2015. In: blickpunkt-brandenburg.de. November 23, 2015, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Local gazette for the municipality of Blankenfelde-Mahlow. What? When? Where? Titelerg = Kulturverein Blankenfelde eV In: 15831mahlow.de. April 8, 2004, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ jus: The conversion of an empty department store is criticized mainly by local residents: the location for the first youth club is still controversial. In: berliner-zeitung.de. May 19, 1999, accessed June 13, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Heimberger, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sagé, Sven (pseudonym); Berg, Björn (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, literary critic, local researcher and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2013
Place of death Berlin