Günter Caspar

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Günter Caspar (born August 6, 1924 in Berlin ; † July 8, 1999 in Berlin) was editor-in-chief at Aufbau Verlag .

Life

Caspar joined the NSDAP in 1943 . He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942 and was a British and American prisoner of war from 1944 to 1948 . In 1948 he joined the SED and began studying history in Berlin. In 1949 he worked as a journalist for the " Daily Rundschau " and from 1950 to 1955 as editor and author of the monthly magazine "Aufbau" directed by Bodo Uhse .

From 1955 he was an editor, from 1956 acting chief editor and from 1963 head of the editing department "Contemporary German Literature" at Aufbau Verlag. In this function he was an important promoter of GDR literature.

In addition to his editorial work - he supervised a. a. 1962 to 1987 the ten-volume edition of the selected works by Hans Fallada and from 1974 to 1983 the six-volume edition of the collected works of Bodo Uhse - he wrote numerous epilogues and worked as a publicist and critic, especially under the pseudonym Kaspar Borz for the magazine " Die Weltbühne ".

Caspar was awarded the Wilhelm Bracke Medal in 1971 and the National Prize in the publishing collective .

Fonts

  • (as editor): You world in light. JW Stalin at the work of German writers , Berlin 1954.
  • In dealing. Twelve author portraits and a paraphrase , Berlin, Weimar 1984.
  • Fallada studies , Berlin, Weimar 1988.
  • Kaspar Borz. Views of a book eater , Berlin 1988.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor in chief of the Aufbau Verlag
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1999
Place of death Berlin