Dieter Lenz (writer)

Dieter Lenz (born August 19, 1941 in Bamberg ) is a German writer and publisher.

Life

Dieter Lenz is the son of the writer Jürgen Lenz and his wife Else Gaidetzka. Lenz lived in West Berlin from 1967 to 1993 and then moved to the state of Brandenburg near Berlin. He was a publisher , publisher and writer. In partnership with Sigi Hirsch , he published works by Arno Reinfrank ( For a new Germany , 1971; The maneuver takes place at Straubs on the veranda , 1976; Plutonium has no smell , 1978) and by the aphorist Harald Schmid . In 1986 he founded the specialist building publisher Stadthaus, where he acted as publisher and editor of his own building trade magazine ( modernisierungs-markt berlin, brandenburg ) until 2003. In his Dieter Lenz publishing house he brought out the magazine for Slavic Russian Studies . Since 2011 he has been running an online publisher with aesthetic literature under the former name of “Stadthaus-Verlag”.

Lenz is married for the second time and has three children.

Awards

• 1991: 1st prize in an invitation to tender together with the open house: “Who writes the best popular play on the fall of the Berlin Wall?” With the play Die Mauerspechte , performed in November 1993 in the Hebbel Theater under the title Never again Köpenick . With Ezard Haußmann , Brigitte Mira , Wolfgang Gruner , Horst Pinnow , Wolfgang Bahro and Debora Weigert . Director: Brigitte Grothum .
• 2010: Brandenburg Literature Prize for verse on the tile wall .

Publications

Novels

• My Sweden. Diary novel. 2015, ISBN 978-3-922299-44-8 .
• Return home in Sweden. Novel. 2016, ISBN 978-3-922299-46-2 .
• The city, a construction helmet and the nuclear doctor. Novel. 2018, ISBN 978-3-922299-54-7

stories

• Swedish rag rug. Volume 1: Odin and other owls. PIT, Berlin 1973, under a pseudonym; Volume 2: Red and Green / APO in Berlin, Living in Sweden. PIT, Berlin 1976.
• Hut life or the red cloth emancipation. PIT, Berlin 1974, under the pseudonym Heinz Vorberg.
• Old men spring. PIT, Berlin 1975, under the pseudonym Heinz Vorberg.
• Chanting rhymes of the APO. total-hirsch-verlag, Berlin 1969.
• The last days of the commissioner, stories and pieces of paper. 2015, ISBN 978-3-922299-43-1 .
• The bookstore. From: 68 - There were not only demos. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-922299-53-0

Poems

• Do you love Germany ... / Buntkrauses Gekreuz. Self-published, Bremen 1967, under the pseudonym Horst Tanker
• A little blindness. ( Pegasus series vol. 4 ) Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-922299-02-4
• The day when the cars took over (With illustrations by Christoph Niess , Pegasus series vol. 8 ). Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922880-08-8
• My darling, that knocks you out, verses on the tile wall. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-922299-48-6 .

Plays

• Human remains human (Schwank)
• The birthday surprise (Schwank)
• Come on, Rhinelander dancing! (Farce, premiered in Berlin in 1993 under the title "Never again Köpenick!")
• Berlin, look forward to it! (Satire)
• Three married couples and one big hoax (Schwank)
• The extraterrestrial, reason and beer (burlesque), all in adspecta Theaterverlag
• Love, money and even more murderous things (farce) at proScript Verlag
• The hairdressing salon (satire) , Stadthaus-Verlag
• Sonja and her robot (comedy), Stadthaus-Verlag
• The boat in the garden (drama), Stadthaus-Verlag

radio play

• The yellow star (Stadthaus-Verlag)

Anthologies

• Berlin - seen and experienced ISBN 978-3922299-52-3

Web links

• Homepage of the Stadthaus-Verlag
• Awarded the literature prize of the Brandenburg Literature College
• Literaturkollegium Brandenburg eV
• Literature by and about Dieter Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library