Friedemann Berger

Friedemann Berger (1986)

Friedemann Berger (born April 13, 1940 in Schroda ; † April 14, 2009 in Leipzig ) was a German writer .

Life

After Berger in connection with the show trial against the Leipziger student pastor Georg Siegfried Schmutzler before graduation relegated had been, he attended from 1958 to 1961, the Church Proseminar Naumburg (Saale) and studied until 1966 theology and German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin . During this time his first poetry was published, he was a member of Gruppe 47 . Until 1968 he lived as a freelance radio play author and literary critic .

From 1968 to 1970 he trained as a bookseller and became a lecturer at Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag in Weimar . After Noa Kiepenheuer's death in 1971, he became the publishing director and, after the Kiepenheuer publishing group was formed, head editor . In 1983 he joined the SED . From 1985 to 1990 he lived as a lecturer in the German-language department of the publishing house for foreign-language literature in China .

In 1990 Berger returned to Leipzig and on behalf of the Treuhandanstalt became managing director and 1993–1994 program director of the restored G. Kiepenheuer Verlag. After the publishing house was privatized, he left and has lived as a freelance author in Leipzig ever since .

Friedemann Berger died one day after his 69th birthday.

Works

Standalone publications

Nativity scene at Torres. A Neapolitan Idyll (Roman), Union , Berlin (GDR) 1971.
Place signs , Union, Berlin (GDR) 1973.
Simple sentences. Poems , Aufbau Verlag , Berlin 1987.
The Milky Way in the sky and the Channel on earth. History, culture and the present on China's Great Canal , publishing house for foreign language literature / Kiepenheuer, Beijing / Leipzig 1988.
Faces of Tibet. 200 color photos and reflections , publishing house for foreign language literature / Kiepenheuer, Beijing / Leipzig 1990.
Archeology. From the erection of the great wall to after its destruction. Selected poems 1961–1999 , Faber & Faber , Leipzig 2000, ISBN 978-3-932545-48-1 .

Editorships

Georg (e) Meister : The oriental-Indian art and pleasure gardener , ed. v. Friedemann Berger and Wilfried M. Bonsack . Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Weimar 1973 (reprint of the edition of 1692, very carefully modernized), OCLC no. 251424525.
IJ Schmidt (transl.), Roland Beer (ed.), Friedemann Berger and Heinz Kucharski (selection): The wise and the fool. Buddhist legends. Dsanglun - A Collection from Tibet . Verlag Müller & Kiepenheuer, Hanau 1978.

literature

Short biography for: Berger, Friedemann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Friedemann Berger: The manhunt . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 193-224 .

Web links

Literature by and about Friedemann Berger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ See Cornelia Schnapka-Bartmuß: The Protestant Student Communities Leipzig and Halle / Saale in the years 1945 to 1971. Dissertation. University of Leipzig , Leipzig 2008, pp. 219–227; and their assessment p. 225 Note 990: "The trial against Schmutzler was a classic show trial ."

personal data
SURNAME	Berger, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schroda , Poland
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 2009
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] See Cornelia Schnapka-Bartmuß: The Protestant Student Communities Leipzig and Halle / Saale in the years 1945 to 1971. Dissertation. University of Leipzig , Leipzig 2008, pp. 219–227; and their assessment p. 225 Note 990: "The trial against Schmutzler was a classic show trial ."