Dietrich Hohmann (writer)

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Dietrich Hohmann (born April 3, 1939 in Apolda ) is a German writer .

Life

Dietrich Hohmann was born in Apolda in 1939 as the son of an architect and a seamstress . He attended elementary and high school at his birthplace and graduated from high school there in 1957 .

As a 15-year-old he offered the National Theater in Weimar a self-written play and was allowed to attend rehearsals as a consolation for the rejection. An application for admission to the Leipzig Theater Institute later failed. Instead, from 1957 to 1958, he spent a state-mandated practical year in the chemical industry , at VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen . There he was an aid worker, underlay caster and employee in the editorial team of the company newspaper . This experience prompted him to complete a three-year course of study at the “Friedrich Wöhler” chemical engineering school in Leipzig, graduating as a chemical engineer and economist .

In 1961, Hohmann took on a position as laboratory manager and later as production , sales and materials management director at the vulcanized fiber factory in Werder (Havel) , a chemical company that exported three quarters of its production. The responsibility weighed heavily on him, and by reading a lot and writing poetry, he obtained distraction. Some poems have been published in anthologies . Business trips to Scandinavia and other Western European countries were reflected in reports .

Then there were stories that were printed in daily newspapers, and in 1966 he was a prize winner in the Hans Marchwitza competition . He only found time to write on weekends, rarely after work, but more on work vacation. He joined the circle of writing workers of the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (RAW) Potsdam (which later came to the "Herbert Ritter" cultural center in Babelsberg ) to refine the stories. He then contacted the book publisher Der Morgen . In the conversation with the publisher ladders Hohmanns travel were discussed, with the effect that the narrative submitted fell through, however, from the written down travel impressions the book London sketch was that the no travel privilege equipped DDR recorded -Publikum with great interest. Hohmann's next project was an all-round look at the lifestyle and behavior of people in other European countries with the working title Notes in Europe's corridors and a story that was set in Sweden and was supposed to contrast the life of Sweden with the life of GDR citizens. Neither could be realized.

After studying (special course) from 1978 to 1979 at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig , he became a freelance author. He has now also written texts in other media branches such as the narration for the documentary film Deep Sea Research off Mozambique . With the publication of the volume of short stories Blue Sunflowers in 1982 he was accepted into the GDR Writers' Association. He published his first novel Big Boys Don't Cry two years later. He contributed texts to all three editions of the drawer anthologies, which appeared every three years between 1982 and 1988; no major work was created during this period, although he had been working intensively on a novel about the Scottish national poet Robert Burns for some time . The novel Ich, Robert Burns was finally completed and published in 1991, when the GDR no longer existed . In 1991 he was elected chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) in the state of Brandenburg and remained so until 1996. His main occupation was also the management of a local political association . Its task was to familiarize around 1,500 elected representatives with the basics of municipal , building and financial law as well as rhetoric .

Since his retirement in 2004 he has been living as a freelance author in Werder (Havel) again. He is married to a bookseller and has three grown children.

reception

In the DDR

Die Neue Zeit wrote on Blue Sunflowers that Hohmann knows how to “tell fluently” and “to address the reader in a relaxed tone”. The novel Big Boys Don't Cry was discussed in the Märkische Volksstimme and in Der Morgen . According to Ingrid Jarmatz ( Märkische Volksstimme ), the book has set itself the important task for literature of describing “the search of young people for truth” on their generation-specific “path to socialism ”. However, “changes and developments of characters” are “not designed consistently enough” and therefore the path or goal of the protagonist is as blurred as the overall color of the time. A. Liersch opposed this in the morning : "Unobtrusively and fortunately without falling into frequently used black-and-white clichés , he describes characters and social backgrounds." He wrote "with a great deal of sensitivity for the thoughts and feelings of his main character."

In reunified Germany

For the Potsdamer Latest News Gerold Paul-reviewed to as electronic publication published novel Gloth - An East German career . Paul wrote that the parallels between the author and his protagonist are unmistakable, since both of them had business to do in 1979 in a leading position in a chemical plant in Sweden (or, due to the present tense used, the protagonist Gloth has to do). Ultimately, history shows that there were parallels between the economic systems in East and West. The book was, he found, "written with understanding and expertise, but also with cheerful serenity", plus a relaxed narrative tone and a "slight distance".

Publications

  • London sketches. Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1975 (Reise feuilletons ).
  • Blue sunflowers (= NL Podium ). New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982 (short stories).
  • Big boys don't cry (= NL podium ). Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-355-00874-5 (novel).
  • Me, Robert Burns. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-355-01036-7 (novel).
  • Gloth - An East German Career. epubli 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-5267-7 (novel).
  • Stories, reports, portraits in anthologies, for example:
    • The most beautiful picture. In: Achim Elias (ed.): The automatic grandfather and other stories about the little electrons. Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1974, pp. 18–21.
    • We don't need sugar. Karl Huebner. In: Maria Seidemann , Hasso Grabner , Franz Fabian, Dietrich Hohmann, Leo Lux: Five provide information. Portraits of contemporaries. With 5 photos by Sigrid Klimmer. Verlag Tribüne Berlin, Berlin 1976, pp. 51-85.
    • Talking doesn't help much. Twenty-five pieces of information about a friendship trip to Minsk. In: The drawer. First hand texts. [Volume 1.] Edited by Helga Duty, Roswitha Jendryschik, Karin Röntgensch. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1982, pp. 83-109.
    • Attempted to get out at full speed. In: The drawer. First hand texts. Volume 2. Edited by Hinnerk Einhorn and Roswitha Jendryschik. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1985, pp. 54–75.
    • Earth days, all well and good (from: Blue Sunflowers ). In: Harvest Festival. Village stories after 1945. Edited and with an afterword by Gerda Zschocke. 2nd revised edition, Verlag Tribüne Berlin, Berlin 1985 (text only in the 2nd edition).
    • Boreck's funeral. In: The drawer. First hand texts. Volume 3. Edited by Roswitha Jendryschik and Ute Scheffler. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-354-00336-7 , pp. 287-294.
  • TV Scenarios, Documentary Text, Reviews, Poetry - Translations from English and Scottish .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c K [atja] G [impel]: Hohmann . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Twentieth volume: Hohler – Hubensteiner. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023166-3 , Sp. 59 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Brigitte Böttcher (Hrsg.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Dietrich Hohmann, p. 48 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i points for politics and literature. Politics, business, science and literature rarely come together in one person. In: deutschland-im-internet.de. June 2015, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Christa Haseloff: … that one experiences while reading. Conversation with the writer Dietrich Hohmann . In: Märkische Volksstimme . Potsdam July 5th 1977.
  5. ↑ a b Dietrich Hohmann . In: with us. Supplement to the “Märkische Volksstimme” . No. 39/1983 . Potsdam September 30, 1983, writers present; Episode 56 (Explanatory text to the book excerpt “The signs are about to change”).
  6. ↑ Andreas Klimt (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1998 . Volume IA – MKG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-598-23581-X , Hohmann, p. 495 .
  7. ↑ BS: That literature also had its say ... Dietrich Hohmann on his 70th birthday . In: ver.di Department 8 Media, Art and Industry Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Sprachrohr. Membership newspaper of the Department of Media, Art and Industry Berlin-Brandenburg . 19th year no. 2 . Berlin April 27, 2009, reports, p. 14 .
  8. ↑ Change of staff at the SGK . In: Mike Schubert (Ed.): Potsdamer Rundschau. Politics of the state capital . New episode no. 3 . Weber Medien GmbH, Potsdam June 2004, p. 7 .
  9. ^ Regina Koehler: Everyday heroes for the youth. “Blue Sunflowers” ​​by Dietrich Hohmann from the Neues Leben publishing house . In: New Time . April 11, 1983, literature / novel.
  10. ↑ Ingrid Jarmatz: In search of yourself. On Dietrich Hohmann's “Big boys don't cry” . In: Märkische Volksstimme . Potsdam June 20, 1985.
  11. ^ A. Liersch: Journey as a discovery. “Big boys don't cry” - story by D. Hohmann . In: The morning . Berlin January 31, 1986.
  12. ↑ Gerold Paul: irreconcilable systems? Dietrich Hohmann and his novel Gloth. Culture TOUR. In: pnn.de. Potsdamer Zeitungsverlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, July 8, 2013, accessed on May 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hohmann, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda