Eberhard Panitz

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Eberhard Panitz (born April 16, 1932 in Dresden ) is a German writer , screenwriter , editor and publicist who has written epic works as well as reports, radio plays and scripts for cinema and television films, and has published two volumes of short stories that canonized a representative selection German prose included. Panitz's artistic linguistic production can largely be assigned to the program of socialist realism .

The motifs of his work include building a socialist society in the GDR , extraordinary women, cases of espionage and, for example, the Allied air raids on Dresden from February 13th to 15th, 1945. Panitz's literary production shows a clear anti-fascist tendency.

Panitz was awarded several high literary prizes by the GDR cultural apparatus , after the fall of the wall and the end of independent GDR literature, no further honors were given. After reunification, Panitz successfully published in smaller publishers, mostly specializing in left-wing authors.

Life

In front of a monastery on a study tour of Mongolia in 1966

Eberhard Panitz is the son of a tram conductor and a saleswoman. He grew up in Dresden-Trachau. After graduating from high school in 1950 at the Pestalozzi High School in Pieschen in Dresden , he worked as a member of a youth brigade on the construction of the Cranzahl Dam . He then studied pedagogy and German at the University of Leipzig until 1953 . From 1953 to 1960 he was an editor at the Neues Leben publishing house and the Mitteldeutscher Verlag (Halle). In 1958 he joined the German Writers' Association , to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1990.

Panitz lives as a freelance writer in Berlin-Grünau .

Panitz made numerous trips to socialist countries such as Vietnam, Cuba and Mongolia and also a several month trip through the USA.

Panitz is a member of the Marxist Forum of the Left Party .

Prizes and awards

Eberhard Panitz in 1962

Works

Book publications

  • Kate. Berlin 1955.
  • Escape. Berlin 1956.
  • Crimes on the river. Berlin 1957.
  • In three devil names. Berlin 1958.
  • The fires are falling. Berlin 1960, Schkeuditz 2000
  • The arrest. Berlin 1960.
  • The girl Simra. Hall 1961.
  • A mother's face. Halle (Saale) 1962.
  • Cristobal and the Island, 5 short stories, also published individually (Cristobal and the Island, The Bull's Head, Senator Santes, The Night in La Corona, The Leap from the Holy Fish). Berlin 1963.
  • The little trip. Halle (Saale) 1965.
  • The seventh summer. Halle (Saale) 1967.
  • It rains twice under the trees. Halle (Saale) 1969.
  • The seven affairs of the Doña Juanita. Halle (Saale) 1972.
  • The way to the Rio Grande. Berlin 1973.
  • The unholy Sophia. Halle (Saale) 1974, 2007.
  • Rejection to Viktoria. Halle (Saale) 1975.
  • Prohibited removal. Berlin 1976.
  • The morale of the mermaid. Halle (Saale) 1978.
  • Faces of Vietnam. Berlin 1978 (photos Thomas Billhardt)
  • My father's tram. Halle (Saale) 1979, Dresden 1996
  • The prodigal daughter. Halle (Saale) 1979.
  • My dear uncle Hans. Halle (Saale) 1982.
  • Ice age. Halle (Saale) 1983.
  • Phosphorus flower. Berlin 1985.
  • Victoria. Halle (Saale) 1985.
  • Life for life. Halle (Saale) 1987.
  • Woman with dark glasses. Halle (Saale) 1989.
  • with Klaus Huhn : My boss is a Wessi. Berlin 1992.
  • Rübezahl. Berlin 1992.
  • The crime scene in Köpenick. Berlin 1993.
  • The smile of Mr. O. Berlin 1994.
  • with Klaus Huhn: Ossiland burned down. Berlin 1994.
  • Interrogation in the cafe. Schkeuditz 1996.
  • Comandante Che, Berlin 1997.
  • Jorge Amado's interference. Berlin 1998.
  • Villa Sunshine and the seventeenth of June. Berlin 1998.
  • The green meadow of the old Fritz. Schkeuditz 1999.
  • with Klaus Huhn: Heavenly correspondence about a sunken land. Berlin 1999.
  • Playground in D. Berlin 2001.
  • Stories of women from the GDR. Schkeuditz 2002.
  • Cuba, mi amor. Berlin 2004.
  • Käthe Kollwitz and the missing picture. Berlin 2005.
  • The secret order of the Red Banner. Böklund 2006, ISBN 3-939828-04-1 .
  • The unholy Sophia. Revised and expanded new edition, Böklund 2007, ISBN 978-3-939828-08-2 .
  • Comandante Che. Revised new edition with added photos, Böklund 2007, ISBN 978-3-939828-12-9 .
  • Germany there and back. New edition of Die kleine Reise. supplemented with an addendum on the historical classification, Böklund 2008, ISBN 978-3-939828-20-4 .
  • Dresden Novelle 1989. Verlag am park in the edition ost, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89793-232-6 .
  • Secret meeting place Banbury - How the atomic bomb came to the Russians. 2nd Edition. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-360-01977-6 .
  • Diary of the poets declared dead. Verlag am park in the edition ost, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-300-2 .
  • The ruins of dreams. Verlag am park in edition ost, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945187-20-3 .
  • Woman in the twilight. Verlag am park in the edition ost, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945187-57-9 .
  • Ice age. An unreal story , new version 2016, Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin / Böklund 2016, ISBN 978-3-95514-028-1 .
  • Comandante CHE. Biographical sketch . With a foreword by Tobias Salin. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin / Böklund 2018, ISBN 978-3-95514-035-9 .

Filmography

  • 1967: The corporal's revolver
  • 1970: Rejection to Albert Lachmuth
  • 1970: Network (scenario with Ralf Kirsten; director: Ralf Kirsten )
  • 1972: The Third (literary source; Director: Egon Günther )
  • 1973: The Seven Affairs of Doña Juanita (four-part television film)
  • 1974: Die unheilige Sophia (literary source; screenplay with Manfred Wekwerth ; director: Manfred Wekwerth)
  • 1977: Rejection to Viktoria (literary source; screenplay; director: Celino Bleiweiß )
  • 1980: My father's tram (literary source; screenplay; director: Celino Bleiweiß)
  • 1981: The Homecoming of the Madonna (literary source)
  • 1984: My dear uncle Hans (literary source; director: Dagmar Wittmers )

Radio plays

  • 1963: Senor Santes
  • 1965: The leap from the sacred fish
  • 1965: The Philosopher's Stone
  • 1977: I am not Christ. Monologue on William L. Calley

Editing

  • with Karl-Heinz Berger : German master stories of the 19th century. Berlin.
    • 1. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Joseph von Eichendorff, Jeremias Gotthelf, Franz Grillparzer, Gottfried Keller. 1954.
    • 2. Otto Ludwig, Eduard Mörike, Theodor Storm. 1954.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Panitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Panitz. In: StayFriends . Retrieved June 9, 2015 .
  2. a b Eberhard Panitz. (No longer available online.) Verlag Goldenbogen, archived from the original on August 15, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goldenbogenverlag.de
  3. The fires are falling. GNN Verlag, accessed on June 9, 2015 .
  4. Eberhard Panitz: "The unholy Sophia". Verlag Wiljo Heinen, accessed on June 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ Wolfgang Höppner: Panitz 'productive food for thought. Review. In: Sunday. 1979, No. 31, p. 7.
  6. Michael Salewski: Sonja's cold test. Review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 30, 2003.
  7. Eberhard Panitz: "Ice Age". Verlag Wiljo Heinen, accessed on May 9, 2019 .