Bernd Jentzsch

Bernd Jentzsch (born January 27, 1940 in Plauen ) is a German poet, narrator, translator and essayist.

Life

Jentzsch studied German and art history in Leipzig and Jena from 1960 to 1965 . From 1965 to 1974 Jentzsch was employed by the Neues Leben publishing house in East Berlin , where he was, among other things, initiator and editor of the poetry series Poesiealbum, in which numerous young GDR authors were published for the first time and contemporary international poets were presented to the GDR audience for the first time. In a quarter of a century, 275 issues were published with the same layout: 32 pages, with double-sided graphics and at a price of ninety pfennigs. In 1976, after studying in Switzerland, Jentzsch did not return to the GDR after he had received threats of punishment for his protest (a letter to Honecker published in the foreign press) against Wolf Biermann's expatriation .

From 1977 to 1984 he was a lecturer at Walter Verlag in Olten , and in 1982 he also held a visiting professorship at Oberlin College in the USA. In 1991 he became the founding director of the successor of the Institute of Literature "Johannes R. Becher" built up the German Literature Institute Leipzig appointed; after starting regular teaching operations, he was director of the institute from 1995 to 1999. In 2007 he acted again for a short time as editor of the poetry album, which was revived at Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst . He lives in Euskirchen.

On January 25, 2010 he resigned from the Saxon Academy of the Arts and the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig in protest against the alleged "infiltration" of the academies by old cadres and favorites of the SED regime .

Works

• Alphabet of the morning . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1961
• Jannis Ritsos , Bernd Jentzsch: The roots of the world . People and the world, Berlin 1970
• Jungfer in the green . Hanser, Munich 1972 ISBN 3-446-11785-7
• Advice and goodbye! Hinstorff , Rostock 1975 & Hanser, Munich 1977
  • Excerpt: A foray of the animals. In Horst Heidtmann, ed .: The improvement of people. Fairy tale. Contributions by Franz Fühmann et al. - Luchterhand Literaturverlag , Darmstadt 1982 ISBN 3-472-61413-7 , pp. 172-180
• Making quarters . Heyne, Munich 1982 ISBN 3-453-85025-4
• The gift . Insel, 1982 ISBN 3-458-32049-0
• Advice and goodbye. Seven adult stories . Hanser, 1984 ISBN 3-446-12303-2
• Poetry album 276 , BrennGlas Verlag Assenheim, ISBN 3-924243-29-8
• The old desire to stand up . Reclam Leipzig, 1992 ISBN 3-379-01452-4
• Bernd Jentzsch, Wolfgang Fischbach: The day before yesterday our rooster rolled . Middelhauve, 1992 ISBN 3-7876-9780-2
• Seams. Writings and Archives 1954-1992. Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-928833-22-7
• From visual wealth . CH Beck, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-406-35885-3
• Peter Stein: “Bathroom still life with self-portrait” , as seen by B. Jentzsch, Schlangeneck House, Schweinheim (Euskirchen) 2006
• World echo. 76 east-western typefaces, Schlangeneck House, Schweinheim 2006
• Erotic sea . Poems. Un Art Ig, Aschersleben 2007 ISBN 3-9810379-5-2

literature

• Short biography for:  Jentzsch, Bernd . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• 20th Century Poetry: My 24 Saxon Poets , Ed. Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-935-8
• Hans Joachim Schädlich : Germans in German exile. Series: Brothers Grimm Lectures, 1st (including about Jentzsch) University Library, Kassel 1988 ISBN 978-3-88122-449-9 (23 pages)

Awards

• 1968 Bobrowski Medal
• 1978 Work Prize from the Canton of Zurich
• 1982 German Industry Prize
• 1987 Märkisches scholarship for literature
• 1994 Eichendorff Literature Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Jentzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Jentzsch: Interview in the poet shop