Günter Görlich

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Günter Görlich (2nd from left) at a reading by the GDR Writers' Association on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, September 21, 1989

Günter Görlich (born January 6, 1928 in Breslau ; † July 14, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German writer . From 1981 to 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Günter Görlich was the son of a Reichsbahn employee. He grew up with his grandparents, attended high school and took as from 1944 Flakhelfer on World War II in part. In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was deployed to work in the northern Urals . In October 1949 Görlich was released to East Berlin ; there he worked as a construction worker and from 1950 as a people's police officer. In 1951 he completed a degree in pedagogy and then worked as an educator in the Ludwigsfelde youth work center in Struveshof and from 1953 to 1958 in an apprentice dormitory / teaching combine in Ludwigsfelde and also as a company photographer in 1957/58.

After he had already published smaller narrative works since the early 1950s, his first youth book The Black Peter was a success, for which he received the youth book prize of the Ministry of Culture in 1958 . He became a freelance writer and studied from 1958 to 1961 at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . Günter Görlich had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1956 . From 1961 to 1964 he was secretary of the GDR Writers' Association . From 1964 he lived in East Berlin , where he also headed the Berlin District Association of the GDR Writers' Association from 1969 to 1989, and from 1973 onwards he was also a member of the presidium of this association.

Görlich had been a member of the SED since 1955 ; from 1964 to 1967 he was a member of the central council of the FDJ and the youth commission of the central committee of the SED and from 1974 to 1989 a member of the Berlin district leadership of the SED. In 1976 he became a candidate of the Central Committee of the SED, from 1981 to 1989 he was a full member of this body. Since 1961 he was led by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR as an unofficial employee , who was primarily assigned to members of the writers' association ; In 1976, the MfS stopped this conspiratorial cooperation due to Görlich's election to the Central Committee of the SED.

Günter Görlich was a successful author of books in GDR times with a tendency towards entertainment literature . His work consists of novels , books for young people and screenplays for television plays . In 1963 he had a successful novel with Das Liebste und das Die . His novel An advertisement in the newspaper was released for publication with a considerable delay in 1976 because of the thematic treatment of a teacher suicide by the responsible authorities. Since the fall of the Wall , he has mainly published books for children and young people .

Günter Görlich had been a member of the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic since 1983 . He received the FDGB art prize in 1966 and 1973 , a second class national prize in 1971 , the honorary title “ hero of work ” in 1974 , a first class national prize in 1978 , the Johannes R. Becher medal in gold in 1979 , and the patriotic medal in 1985 Order of Merit (VVO) in gold, the VVO in gold in 1988 and the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin in 1983 .

Works

  • Black Peter , Berlin 1958
  • The ambitious , Berlin 1959
  • Dearest and dying , Berlin 1963
  • Inconvenient love , Berlin 1965
  • The Stranger from Albertstrasse , Berlin 1966
  • Car breakdown , Berlin 1967
  • A summer story , Berlin 1969
  • The missing ship's compass , Berlin 1969
  • A little closer to the clouds , Berlin 1971 (also scenario for the film of the same name )
  • Father is my best friend , Berlin 1972 (together with Konrad Golz)
  • Returning to a foreign country , Berlin 1974
  • The blue helmet , Berlin 1976
  • An advertisement in the newspaper , Berlin 1978
  • The girl and the boy , Berlin 1981
  • The Man's Chance , Berlin 1982
  • The unknown grandfather , Berlin 1984
  • Three apartments , Berlin 1988
  • Grandma's new grandpa , Würzburg 1991
  • The cursed Judenstrasse , Berlin 1992
  • Tom and Franziska , Berlin 1993
  • The crazy uncle Willi , Schwedt / Oder 1994
  • A phone call with consequences , Berlin 1995
  • The night before , Berlin 1995
  • No vacation for Jonas , Leipzig 1996 (together with Günter Wongel)
  • No advertisement in the newspaper. Memories , Berlin 1999
  • Timmy and Peggy and the bicycle gang , Kückenshagen 1999
  • The Strange Girl , Kückenshagen 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Görlich, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2010
Place of death Berlin