Detlef Opitz

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Detlef Opitz (born November 8, 1956 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ) is a German writer.

Live and act

Trained as a rail vehicle fitter in Dresden, Opitz lived in Halle from 1975 to 1982 and worked there as a library technician, head waiter, puppeteer, salesman and postman. At the instigation of the security authorities, he was not allowed to study literature in Leipzig, despite his prior approval in 1980. At the same time, he was stripped of his tax number as a writer without giving any reason, and regular publications by him in the GDR were permanently prevented. After the fall of the Wall, the author was granted legal and administrative rehabilitation for the 10-year professional ban.

Opitz has lived in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg since 1982 and was part of the alternative GDR literature and art scene there. Since he was denied regular publications, with the exception of one in the magazine Sinn und Form , Opitz published instead in underground magazines such as Ariadnefabrik , Entwerter Oder , Damage and Usage until the turning point of 1989 . Because of his involvement in the opposition and the non-state literary scene, Opitz was arrested several times and sentenced in 1985 to four years' banishment from Berlin for "social misconduct". His lawyers in the various disputes were Gregor Gysi and Lothar de Maizière .

The novels about Martin Luther ( Klio, ein Wirbel um L. , 1996) and especially about Johann Georg Tinius ( Der Büchermörder , 2005), published by Opitz in the following period, received some critical acclaim. While Alban Nikolai Herbst to Clio, a vortex around L. has a rather ambivalent attitude, it "but the opitzsche history dime on the least Pope Joan with the poetic" one that he has long been read, Michael Opitz certifies the "manic literature collectors" on Deutschlandradio Kultur , Der Büchermörder is "a very idiosyncratic and highly advanced work of art in language, because the author easily changes with the time and language levels".

Also on the books killer says Hanne Kulessa under hr-online.de : "For those who only are on the way to which is read into the world of the book with her but sometimes obscure passions will - enjoyable - abysses open up." In addition, according to pearl diver Alexander Košenina in the FAZ awards it the predicates "original and experimental, bold and bulky", and Dorothea Dieckmann is "absolutely enthusiastic" in the NZZ , because Opitz's "limitless love of language" gives her a very special pleasure and she sees the report on the murderer who has fallen into literature as an “original work of language art”.

Honourings and prices

Works

prose

Original graphic books

  • The night, the night - of the solitude hearts! . With graphics by Hans Scheuerecker , Edition Dschamp. Edited by Thomas Günther and Sabine Jahn, Galerie auf Zeit, Berlin 1997 (from: "Roulette mit Neigung"; unpublished novel from 1988)
  • The third photo . With 5 colored linocuts by Wolfgang Jörg , Berliner Handpresse 1997 (from: "Roulette mit Neigung"; unpublished novel from 1988)
  • When the flowers bloom swanes turn green for me! With 5 colored linocuts by Wolfgang Jörg, Berliner Handpresse 1998 (from: "Roulette mit Neigung"; unpublished novel from 1988)
  • Death & the Philologist . With 5 colored linocuts by Wolfgang Jörg, Berliner Handpresse 2002

literature

  • Alison Lewis: The Art of Treason: The Prenzlauer Berg and the State Security , Würzburg, 2003 ISBN 3826024877 (See also books.google.de several quotations from and about Detlef Opitz)

swell

  1. ↑ books.google.de See also the quote on p. 24 f. in Alison Lewis: The Art of Treason of Prenzlauer Berg and the State Security
  2. ↑ eo-bamberg.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the life and work of Detlef Opitz@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.eo-bamberg.de  
  3. ↑ die-dschungel.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Alban Nikolai Herbst zu Klio, a vortex around L. , 1996 (PDF file; 90 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-dschungel.de
  4. ↑ dradio.de Manic literature collector - Review by Michael Opitz of Der Büchermörder in Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 26, 2005
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: hr-online.de Review by Hanne Kulessa of Der Büchermörder in hr-online.de on December 6, 2005@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  6. ↑ perlentaucher.de review quotes on Der Büchermörder from FAZ from November 17, 2005 and the NZZ from October 18, 2005 in Perlentaucher

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personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheidel-Erlabrunn