Günter Ebert (Author)

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Günter Ebert (born February 19, 1925 in Meerane ; † July 17, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German writer , journalist and literary critic .

Life

Ebert, the son of a room painter and an unskilled worker, attended business school until 1942. He then became a soldier and was taken prisoner by the United States , from which he was released in 1947. In 1947/48 he worked as an administrative clerk in Glauchau and in 1948/49 as the district editor of Volksstimme . From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a folk bookseller and in 1951/52 as an editor in Berlin (including at Sonntag ). In 1952 he became a freelance literary critic. 1957/58 he studied at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig . From 1964 he lived in Neustrelitz . Ebert was appointed secretary of the Board of Trustees for Children's Literature in the GDR in 1970.

Günter Ebert was considered to be one of the most renowned experts on GDR crime and children's book literature . His library with 14,000 titles on these areas is probably the most comprehensive surviving library of its kind. As a critic, he wrote for Sunday , Die Weltbühne and Freie Erde . At times he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Natur und Heimat in the German Cultural Association, together with Reimar Gilsenbach .

As an author, he has published several children's books. His book Mein Vater Alfons was filmed in 1980 by DEFA under the direction of Hans Kratzert . In 1984 Ebert wrote the screenplay for the television film Das Puppenheim in Pinnow , which was directed by Christian Steinke and based on the novel by Joachim Wohlgemuth .

In the GDR, he was chairman of the Writers Union of the district Neubrandenburg and the SED - party secretary . In the course of the public discussion about the history of the Neubrandenburg Literature Center, Ebert was brought closer to the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. According to a study by the Berlin Germanist Christiane Baumann, he is said to have spied on the writer Brigitte Reimann as an unofficial employee of Neupeter .

His novel Der Junge aus dem Henkerhaus , published after the fall of the Wall , about a volunteer of the Waffen SS who was born in Saxony in 1925 , was published in a pseudo- publishing house of the Frankfurt publishing group .

Fonts

  • Views on the development of epic children's and youth literature in the GDR from 1945 to 1975 , Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1976 (series: Studies on the history of German children's and youth literature, 8)
  • My father Alfons . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1977
  • The studio party. Considerations about d. Living art . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle - Leipzig 1979
  • Ice cream for Hanka or where does the milk come from? Young World, Berlin 1980
  • My friend Katrin . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980
  • Men who cough in the basement. Views on crime fiction . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-360-00147-8
  • My uncle Odysseus . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-358-00945-9
  • Time duty. Poems and thoughts . NORA, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936735-57-3 (with pictures by Manfred Bofinger )
  • The boy from the hangman's house . Cornelia-Goethe-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-8267-5549-9

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Meyer's pocket dictionary. GDR writer . Verlag VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974, p. 126.
  • Steffen Peltsch : Günter Ebert . In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 123f.
  • Christiane Baumann: Literature Center Neubrandenburg 1971–2005. Literary politics between promotion, control and a new lack of history. A research (= publication series of the Robert Havemann Archive. Vol. 11). Robert Havemann Society, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938857-03-X .

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Withold Bronner: “The bird with the more colorful plumage. ”Variety of speech as a masquerade in Brigitte Reimann's prose. , Dissertation at the University of Tampere, 2001, p. 171
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2006
Place of death Berlin