Fritz-Jochen Kopka

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Fritz-Jochen Kopka (born April 14, 1944 in Güstrow ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Fritz-Jochen Kopka grew up in Mecklenburg . He completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Schwerin , Pößneck and Güstrow . From 1965 to 1969 he studied at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1969 to 1970 and - after completing his military service - again from 1972 to 1975 he worked for television in the GDR . From 1975 he was on the editorial board of the literary magazine Temperamente ; from 1979 to 1989 he was editor of the newspaper Sonntag . This was followed by a time as a freelance journalist . In 1990 Kopka took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . From 1991 to 1997 he was an editor at the Wochenpost , then a reporter for Die Woche . Since 2002 he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin .

Fritz-Jochen Kopka is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

  • Barbara Thalheim , Cave, Dragon and Nevertheless songs , Fulda 1988
  • Linker Charme , Munich 1989 (together with Jutta Voigt )
  • Rügen , Munich 2004 (together with Johann Scheibner, in the series Reisen in Deutschland )

Editing

  • The first house on the square. 32 attempts to stay overnight , Berlin 1982 (together with Martin Stephan)
  • Somewhere nowhere , Berlin 1988 (together with Martin Stephan)
  • Konstantin Wecker : That gives me courage , Berlin 1989
  • And this damned powerlessness , Berlin 1991 (together with Daniela Dahn)

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