Erika Runge

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Erika Runge (born January 22, 1939 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German writer and director . Among other things, she became known through the collection of interviews in Bottrop Protocols .

Life

Erika Runge is the daughter of a district court director and a teacher; she has a younger sister and two brothers. She spent her childhood in Potsdam . After the end of the Second World War, the family moved to West Berlin . After graduating from high school, Erika Runge studied literature and theater studies, Romance studies and art history in Saarbrücken, Paris, Berlin and Munich.

In 1962 she earned her doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on literary expressionism . She then shot her first short documentary films for Bavarian Radio .

Since her father lost both legs in World War I and she barely escaped death during a bombing raid towards the end of World War II, Erika Runge was already involved in the anti-nuclear death movement while studying at the University of Munich . After completing her studies, she went to Hamburg, where she worked as an assistant director for the television director Egon Monk at Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

In the course of the 1960s she developed into an important representative of the new German documentary film . From 1968 to 1989 she was a member of the German Communist Party . In the 1969 federal election she ran for the Democratic Progress Campaign . After the publication of the Bottrop Protocols , she took part in the meetings of Group 61 . In 1970 she was one of the founding members of the publishing house of the authors . From 1976 she worked mainly for radio and television. In 1978 Runge moved from Munich to West Berlin. Erika Runge has been a full-time psychotherapist since 1995 . Even after the upheavals in Eastern Europe, she is still involved in left-wing organizations.

In addition to her cinematic work, Erika Runge wrote several volumes with socially critical reports in which citizens of the Ruhr area city of Bottrop affected by the structural change of the 1960s , members of the women's movement that was beginning in the late 1960s and residents of the GDR city of Rostock have their say. Runge's works are literal reproduction of the interviews and are considered classics of documentary literature . However, a few years after the publication of the Bottrop Protocols , she admitted that she had revised the contributions.

Runge declared her departure from documentary literature as early as 1976 and announced that she would let her literary imagination come into play in future works. However, in 1987 she published another documentary volume with "Protocols"; the announced narrative work has not yet appeared.

Her legacy is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

Memberships and honors

Erika Runge is a member of the Association of German Writers , the PEN Center Germany and the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Works

Filmography

  • 1968: Why is Ms. B. happy?
  • 1970: My name is Erwin and I am 17 years old
  • 1973: I am a citizen of the GDR
  • 1975: Michael or The Difficulties with Happiness
  • 1975: Grandpa Schulz
  • 1987: Lia's dream of happiness

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Kullmann: "Everyone had a quirk back then". In: www.taz.de. The daily newspaper, November 27, 2018, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Horst Dieter Schlosser: dtv-Atlas zur deutschen Literatur, dtv, Munich 1994, p. 275.
personal data
SURNAME Runge, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)