Günter Blocker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fritz Günter Blöcker (born May 13, 1913 in Hamburg ; † January 21, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer.

The New Realities (1957)

Life

Born the son of a civil servant, Blöcker attended the directing class at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin. From 1936 to 1937 he worked as a director and dramaturge at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover and then until 1939 at the Schauspielhaus Potsdam . After an interruption due to military service , Blöcker went to Ufa-Film GmbH in Berlin in 1942 , where he worked as a dramaturge until the end of the war.

Since then, Blöcker has worked as a permanent freelancer, primarily for newspapers and magazines such as Der Tagesspiegel , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and has worked as a freelancer for the broadcaster Free Berlin , RIAS and Hessischer Rundfunk . Since 1965 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Blöcker was married to the actress Maria Krasna from 1937 until his death . They had two children.

Political attitudes

In his review of the volume of poems “Sprachgitter” by Paul Celan , Günter Blöcker wrote that Celan's poems about the Holocaust were “retreats on music paper” and therefore not “meaningful”. Celan acts “in the void” and, according to Blöcker, that may be due to “the origin” of the Jewish poet. Paul Celan found this review anti-Semitic and called it "Hitlerism". Max Frisch replied that Blöckner's criticism does not “come from anti-Semitism”. The literary critic Helmut Böttiger writes that Günter Blöcker's review had an “unmistakably cynical anti-Semitic undertone”.

Works

  • The new realities . 1957.
  • Heinrich von Kleist - The absolute ego . 1960.
  • Critical reading book . 1962.
  • Literature as participation . 1966.

Awards

literature

  • Brigitte Schellmann: Who's who in German: Biographisches Kompendium in deutscher Sprache , Volume 1, Schellmann, 1999, ISBN 3-931230-09-0 , p. 210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Blöcker: Poems as graphic structures . Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, October 11, 1959
  2. ↑ Paul Celan: Letter to Max Frisch, October 23, 1959, in: ders .: "something entirely personal". Letters 1934–1970. Selected, edited and commented by Barbara Wiedemann. Berlin 2019. pp. 391, 416. See also I do not think your reply is good either , in: FAZ, 7 August 2008.
  3. ↑ Max Frisch: Letter to Paul Celan, November 6, 1959. The FAZ, I think your reply is not good either , August 7, 2008
  4. ↑ Helmut Böttiger: In the death mill . Die Zeit, January 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Blöcker, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blöcker, Fritz Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2006
Place of death Berlin