Erik Neutsch

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Erik Neutsch (born June 21, 1931 in Schönebeck , Calbe a./S. District , Prussian province of Saxony ; † August 20, 2013 in Halle (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt ) was a German writer .

Life

Erik Neutsch came from a working-class family . After attending secondary school and passing high school , he joined the SED and the FDJ in 1949 . From 1950 to 1953 studied he Social Sciences and Journalism at the University of Leipzig . He successfully completed this course as a journalist . He then worked in the culture and business department of the newspaper Die Freiheit in Halle / Saale until 1960 .

Since 1960 Neutsch worked as a writer and journalist . From 1963 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Halle / Saale. In 1970/71 he did a voluntary year in the National People's Army .

He has written novels , short stories , children's books , essays , poems and scripts . Ultimately, his books, which are always loyal to the party, deal with the social problems of actually existing socialism in the GDR . Neutsch achieved his greatest success with the novel Spur der Steine , which deals with the development of a worker on a large construction site from a nonconformist to an adapted member of socialist society. With a circulation of over 500,000 copies, the book was one of the most successful books in GDR literature ; The film adaptation by Frank Beyer was removed from the program three days after the premiere in 1966 and only performed again in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Since the 1970s, Neutsch has been working on his main work, the novel cycle Der Friede im Osten , in which the history of the GDR is portrayed in an epic manner; of the planned six books five have appeared, with the fifth book being published six months after his death. There are various statements about the completion of the 5th book (in "Erik Neutsch - A little closer to the truth" by Marita Neutsch). Neutsch was no longer able to write the 6th volume, Years of the Calm Sun , conceived by 1990 .

Erik Neutsch had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1960 ; from 1963 to 1965 he was chairman of the Halle district association of this organization. Since 1974 he was a full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR ; since 1990 he was a member of the Association of German Writers .

In the multi-part television film Columbus 64 by Ulrich Thein from 1966, he plays himself.

Neutsch was married twice and last lived in Halle-Dölau . From his first marriage (April 1, 1953 to October 21, 1996) with Helga Neutsch, b. Franke, († October 21, 1996) he has two daughters: Marita Neutsch, b. 1954 (author of " On the track of my dreams", ISBN 3-932725-52-2 , GNN-Verlag 1998 and "Erik Neutsch- A bit closer to truth" (2018) ISBN 978-3-9819596-0-4 Primary Verlag Berlin) and Corinna Schmidt, b. Neutsch, born 1962, author of Lea wants a dog (children's book, 2017) and "Juliane Dorn" (socially critical story about a nurse, 2019).

Works

  • The rain story . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1960.
  • Bitterfeld stories . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1961.
  • The second encounter and other stories . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1961.
  • Trail of stones . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1964.
  • The others and me . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1970.
  • Olaf and the yellow bird . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1972.
  • Skin or shirt. Acting and Documentation . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1972.
  • Looking for Gatt . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1973.
  • Days of our lives. Stories . Reclam, Leipzig 1973.
  • Peace in the East :
    1. At the river . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1974.
    2. Spring by force . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1978.
    3. When fires go out . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1985.
    4. Near the border . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1987, ISBN 3-354-00157-7 .
    5. Threesome plebeian wrong time or game . Unfinished Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-360-02182-3 .
  • Hero's reports. Short stories and prose . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1976.
  • "Nora S. Files" and "Three Days of Our Lives". Two stories . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1978.
  • Almost the truth. Views on art and literature . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1978.
  • The shepherd. Narration . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1978.
  • Two empty chairs. Novella . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1979.
  • Forster in Paris. Narration . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1981.
  • That's when I saw the person. Dramatic works and poems . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1983.
  • Claus and Claudia. According to recent documents . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-354-00517-3 .
  • Homicide. Novel . Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1994, ISBN 3-928498-30-4 .
  • About the goose who didn't want to learn to fly . Faber and Faber, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-928660-41-1 .
  • “The Shepherd” and “Stockheim is coming”. Two stories . Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-933544-01-7 .
  • Love and death. Poems . Stekovics, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932863-22-4 .
  • After the great uprising. A Grünewald novel . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936618-14-3 .
  • Twilight . Scheunen Verlag, Kückenshagen 2003, ISBN 3-934301-70-3 .

play

  • 1971: skin or shirt (director: Ulrich Thein, world premiere at the Landestheater Halle)

libretto

  • 1971: Karin Lenz (opera by Günter Kochan, world premiere at the Berlin State Opera)

Film adaptations and scripts

Awards

Erik Neutsch (left) receives the FDGB Art Prize from Herbert Warnke in 1974

literature

  • Hella Commichau: Erik Neutsch . Berlin 1974
  • Gottfried Pareigis: Critical analysis of the representation of reality in selected works of the "Bitterfeld Weg" . Kronberg / Ts. 1974
  • Renate Fienhold: On the problem of perspective design . Leipzig 1981
  • Kornelia Siehr: Writing as a political mandate . Erfurt 1987
  • Andreas Fritsche: On the polyphonic structure in Erik Neutsch's novel "Der Friede im Osten" . Marburg 1997
  • Klaus-Detlef Haas (ed.): Like traces in the stone - The literary work of Erik Neutsch . Texts No. 34, Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2007
  • Herbert Mayer, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Neutsch, Erik . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Klaus Walther: Erik Neutsch - Trace of Life . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01985-1 .
  • Marita Neutsch. Erik Neutsch - A little closer to the truth. Primary Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-981959604 .

Web links

Commons : Erik Neutsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dresden Latest News , January 2, 2013
  2. ↑ newsticker.sueddeutsche.de ( Memento from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ lvz-online.de, accessed on December 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Neutsch, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönebeck (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2013
Place of death Halle (Saale)