Günter Kunert

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Günter Kunert (right) in conversation with Carl-Ludwig Paeschke, 2008

Günter Kunert (born March 6, 1929 in Berlin ; died September 21, 2019 in Kaisborstel ) was a German poet and writer . His work primarily deals with the two German states in the period of division , that is, the complexity of their interrelationships and their different sensitivities, as well as the reunified Germany.

Life

After attending elementary school, Günter Kunert was unable to attend a higher school due to the National Socialist race laws (his mother was Jewish). After the end of the Second World War , he studied graphics for five semesters at the Weißenseer Kunsthochschule in East Berlin , then dropped out. In 1948 he joined the SED . He got to know Bertolt Brecht and Johannes R. Becher .

Since the mid-1960s he maintained a close friendship with his colleague Nicolas Born for many years , and an intensive correspondence, which in 1978 briefly became a correspondence intended for publication.

1972/73 he was visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin , 1975 at the University of Warwick in England.

He was among the first to sign the petition in 1976 against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann . As a result, his SED membership was withdrawn in 1977. In 1979 a multi-year visa enabled him to leave the GDR . Kunert settled with his wife Marianne in Kaisborstel near Itzehoe , where he lived as a freelance writer until the end.

Kunert is considered one of the most versatile and important contemporary writers. In addition to poetry , there are short stories ( parables ) and narratives , essays , autobiographical notes, aphorisms , glosses and satires , fairy tales and science fiction , radio plays, speeches, travel sketches, scripts, a large number of forewords and afterwords to publications by other authors, Libretti, children's books, a novel, a drama and more that make up Kunert's almost unmanageable literary work.

Many of his texts were set to music by Kurt Schwaen . Kunert also emerged as a painter and draftsman.

In his work he took a critical stance on issues such as belief in progress , National Socialism and the politics of the GDR regime . While his early poems, arguing pedagogically and critically, were committed to socialist realism and were intended to serve progress, he later took an increasingly skeptical and pessimistic attitude.

Günter Kunert has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature since 1981 , since 1988 a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg , 2005-2018 Chairman of the Board of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad and since 2008 an honorary member of the Förderverein Gefangenbüchereien e. V.

In February 2019 , a previously unknown novel was published by Wallstein Verlag under the title The Second Woman , which was written more than 40 years ago and whose manuscript was "recently discovered by chance in a chest" by Kunert.

Günter Kunert died at home in September 2019 at the age of 90 of complications from pneumonia, two days before the publication of his last volume of poetry. His final resting place is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

In the spring of 2020, around 20 previously unpublished stories by Kunert will be published posthumously by Wallstein Verlag.

Awards

Works

Books

  • Signposts and wall inscriptions. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1950.
  • The eternal detective and other stories. Stories. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1954.
  • Hunter without prey. Narrative. New Life Publishing House, Berlin (GDR) 1955.
  • Under this sky. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1955.
  • The Emperor of Hondu. A television game. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1959.
  • Day work. Poems - songs - ballads. Poems / prose. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle ad Saale 1961.
  • The cross-brave songbook. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1961.
  • Memory of a planet. Poems from fifteen years. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1963.
  • Daydreams. Short prose. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1964.
  • Kunert's blasphemous canvas. Photo satirizing. Eulenspiegel, Berlin (GDR) publisher. 1965.
  • The uninvited guest. Poems. Construction publishing house, Berlin / Weimar 1965.
  • Innocence of nature. 52 figurations of love in person. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1966.
  • Annunciation of the weather. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1966.
  • In the name of the hats. Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1967.
  • The funeral takes place in silence. Stories. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1968.
  • Rummaging in subjects. Stories - Parables - Features. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1968.
  • Poetry album 8th Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1968; 2nd ext. Edition, Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2019; 3rd newly established edition, Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2012
  • Concrete forms - location information. Essays. Publishing house Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin 1969.
  • Notes in chalk. Poems. Publisher Philipp Reclam Jun, Leipzig 1970.
  • Warning of mirrors. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1970.
  • Location information. Short prose. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1970.
  • Everyday story of a Berlin street. Written down and drawn by Günter Kunert. Narrative. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1970.
  • Daydreams in Berlin and elsewhere. Little prose, short stories, essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1972.
  • Open exit. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1972.
  • The secret library. Short prose. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1973.
  • Guest from England: story. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1973.
  • The other planet. Views of America. Prose. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1974.
  • In the further process. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974.
  • The little but. Poems. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1975.
  • Notes in chalk. Poems. Reclam Verlag, 2., ext. Edition, Leipzig 1975.
  • The other planet. Views of America. Licensed edition by the Aufbau-Verlag Berlin / Weimar, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1975.
  • The center of the earth. Short prose. With drawings by the author. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1975.
  • Every wish is a hit. Children's book. Ill. By Günter Edelmann. Gertraud Middelhauve Verlag, Velber near Hanover 1976.
  • Visit the cinema. Stories. Short prose. Island library 1007/1. Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberg, Leipzig 1976.
  • Not an affair. Stories. Berlin hand press, Berlin 1976.
  • Why write. Notes on literature. Essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1976 / Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1976.
  • Berlin walls. Pictures from a vanished city. Essay. With photographs by Thomas Hoepker . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1976.
  • In the name of the hats. Novel, illustrations by Jürgen Schäfer . Eulenspiegel Verlag, East Berlin 1976.
  • On the way to Utopia. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1977.
  • Another K. radio play. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1977.
  • Bucher supplements. Prose. Berlin hand press, Berlin 1978.
  • Camera obscura. Short prose. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1978
  • Desire for Bomarzo. Travel poems. With drawings by the author. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1978 / Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1978.
  • An English diary. Travel journal. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin Weimar 1978.
  • Heinrich von Kleist - A model. Essay. Academy of Arts, Berlin 1978.
  • Three stories from Berlin. With drawings by the author. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1979.
  • The screams of the bats. Stories - poems - essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • Restless sleep. Poems. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • Purposeless activities. News from traveling and being at home. Short prose. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1979.
  • Eight colorful leaves. Reproductions of the author's oil paintings. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1979.
  • Killing procedure. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1980.
  • On the way to Utopia. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1980. (Only partially identical to the Hanser edition)
  • Memory of a planet. Poems. With drawings by the author. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980.
  • Brief description of a moment in eternity. Short prose. Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1980.
  • Literature in contradiction. Short prose. With materials. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1980.
  • Purposeless activities. News from traveling and being at home. Short prose. DTV, Munich 1981. (Not all parts identical to the assembly edition)
  • Belated monologues. Reflections. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981.
  • Futuronauts. Drama. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1981. (Not in bookstores)
  • Free delivery. With materials. Short prose. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1981.
  • This side of remembering. Essays / essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1982.
  • Evening atmosphere. Poems. With woodcuts by Heinz Stein. Press printing. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg near Passau 1983.
  • In search of real freedom. Stories. Press printing. Berlin hand press, Berlin 1983.
  • Life and writing. Pfaffenweiler Literature 17. Short prose. With offset lithographs by Horst Sobotta. Pfaffenweiler Press, Pfaffenweiler 1983.
  • The last Indians in Europe. Essay. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg near Passau 1983.
  • Still life. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1983.
  • In Nolde's footsteps. Essay. With photographs by Heinz Teufel . Grube & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1983.
  • Silent dialogue. Portraits of Germans. Essay / With photographs by Derek Bennett. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1983.
  • Cain and Abel's brotherhood. A speech. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg near Passau 1984.
  • Back to paradise. Stories. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1984.
  • Before the flood. The poem as Noah's Ark. Frankfurt lectures. Essay. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1985.
  • Scarecrows. A fantastic panopticon. Essay. With photographs by Hans. W. New Years Eve. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1984.
  • The forest. Essay / photographs by Guido Mangold u. a. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1985.
  • Berlin nights. Lantern pictures. Essay / With photographs by Michael Engler . Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1986.
  • Tuscany. Essay / With photographs by Klaus Bossemeyer. Ellert & Richter Verlag 1986
  • Berlin in good time, Hamburg poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1987.
  • Poems. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1987.
  • Drawings and examples. Poems, epigrams and drawings. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987.
  • My cat. Essay / cat photographs by Gisela Caspersen. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1988.
  • On astray and other aberrations. Short prose. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1988.
  • The tainted conception. Poems. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1988.
  • I you he she it. Poems and drawings. Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1988.
  • Pressure point. Poems and prose about Berlin by Günter Kunert. With original lithographs by Klaus Fußmann. Hand press printing. Verlag Josef Peerlings, Krefeld 1988.
  • Stranger at home. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • From the past future. Stories. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1990.
  • Poems and stories. Compiled by Günter Kunert. German Book Association, Stuttgart / Munich 1990.
  • In Schleswig Holstein. Between the seas. Essay / photographs. Eulen Verlag, Freiburg 1990.
  • The last Indians in Europe. Comments on the dream called life. Essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1991.
  • Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing 1991. Documents and speeches. Essay / speeches. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, Berlin 1991.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Speeches for the award ceremony on June 7, 1991. City administration, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 1991.
  • Moonlight landscape. Poems and pictures. With drawings by Glyn Uzzell. Edition Lutz Arnold published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1991.
  • Ostbad: Gerhard Gäbler: Photographs. With texts by Günter Kunert. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn 1991.
  • Berlin. Essay / photographs by Günter Schneider. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn / Berlin 1991.
  • The fall from the pedestal. Findings and contradictions. Reflections and polemics. Carl Hanser Publishing House. Munich 1992.
  • In the blind spot. A house book. Contemplations and reflections. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1992.
  • Morpheus from the underworld. Narrative. Woodcuts by Heinz Stein. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 1992.
  • Tree. Stone. Concrete. Travel between the upper and the underworld. Travel essays. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • Grützke's Sphinx. Viewing art. Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 1994.
  • Stones talk. Reflections. With a wood engraving by Karl-Georg Hirsch. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 1994.
  • On quiet paws. Essay / cat photographs by Gisela Caspersen. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1995.
  • The Prophet Theodor Lessing. A presentation. Essay. european ideas, Berlin 1995, Donat Verlag , Bremen 1995.
  • Decipher shadows. Poems, prose. 1950 - 1994. Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1995.
  • Dschamp. No. 8. Elegies. With screen prints by Roger David Servais. Hand press printing. Edition temporary gallery, Berlin 1995.
  • Pay attention. Poem. With a wood engraving by Karl-Georg Hirsch. Press printing. Mega-art Presse, Karow [1995].
  • My golem. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Günter Kunert. Poetry and prose. Edition Gedichte-Bühne , 1st year, issue 4, Esslingen 1996.
  • Adult games. Autobiography (covers the period up to 1979 departure). Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • Iceland winter. Poem. Press printing. With two woodcuts by Karl-Georg Hirsch . Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 1997.
  • A story I couldn't write. Narrative. With two copper engravings by Baldwin Zettl. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 1997.
  • There are still a few people in Berlin. Essay / photographs by Konrad Hoffmeister. CJ Bucher Verlag, Munich 1999.
  • Cats. A journey in pictures. Essay and photographs. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1999 (modified edition 2002).
  • The stone guest - Goethe on the move in Weimar living rooms. Essay / photographs by Harald Wenzel-Orf. Glaux Verlag Christine Jäger, Jena 1999.
  • The therapy. Narrative. With two etchings by Gerhart Bergmann. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 1999.
  • Always at the beginning. Stories and little prose. Reclam Verlag Stuttgart 1999.
  • Night performance. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999.
  • Poems. Edited by Raoul Schrott, Siegfried Völlger and Michael Krüger. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999.
  • “A trip to W. 2” - “More light”. Poems. With six woodcuts by Martin Max. Martin Max, Weimar 1999.
  • The intellectuals as a danger to humanity or the power and impotence of literature. Conversation Günter Kunert and Reiner Kunze. Landesbank SH art foundation. Kiel 1999.
  • When I was a hundred, I was still young. The oldest Germans. Essay. With photographs by Harald Wenzel-Orf. Econ Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • News from Ambivalencia. Memories. Aphorisms. Reflections. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001.
  • From five decades. Weilheimer Hefte zur Literature, 53rd edition, Weilheim 2001.
  • So and not otherwise. Selected and new poems. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag. 2002.
  • Visiting the past. Memories. Ill. By Kurt Löb. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 2002.
  • Head sign from the betrayer. Poems and reverse glass paintings. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, Munich 2002.
  • Expelled from Eden. Love poems. With screen prints by Roger David Servais. Hand press printing. Edition temporary gallery, Berlin 2002.
  • Eulogy. Narrative. With drawings by Thomas Rug. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 2004.
  • The message of the hotel room to the guest. Records. Memories. Aphorisms. Reflections. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20460-1 .
  • Neanderthal monologues. Poems and drawings. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Passau 2004.
  • Kunert's antiquity. An anthology. Edited by Bernd Seidensticker and Antje Wessels . Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004.
  • Here and now - and once. Cityscapes by André Krigar with poems by Günter Kunert. Dahlemer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 2004.
  • Pandora's breasts. Wisdom from everyday life. Short prose. Poetry. Drawings. With etchings by Rudolf Grossmann and Hans Gött and an original lithograph by Hugo Troedle. Emphemera, Munich 2004.
  • Without a message. Poems. Verlag zu Klampen, Springe 2005.
  • Southern cats. Essay. With photographs by Christina Krutz and Harald Braun. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2005.
  • In the last garden. Visiting dead poets. Essay. Edited and with photographs by Peter Andreas. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2005.
  • Living. The city as a museum. The stadium. Essays. With etchings by Friedel Anderson. Quetsche Verlag für Buchkunst, Witzwort 2005.
  • In the distance . Poem. Leporello. Hand-colored etching by Gisela Mott-Dreizler. Quetsche Verlag für Buchkunst, Witzwort 2005.
  • No mistake. Stories between yesterday and tomorrow. Stories. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2006.
  • Josephine in the dark. Children's book. Leiv Verlag, Leipzig 2006.
  • From the real world of fables. Poems. Verlag UN ART IG, Aschersleben 2006. Edited by Paul Alfred Kleinert within the series of poetry "Zeitzeichen", ISBN 3-9810379-1-X .
  • The old man speaks to his soul. Poems and drawings. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006.
  • From the myth of old trees. Essay / tree photographs by Maik Döser. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2006.
  • given that. Considerations. With four linocuts by Johannes Grützke. Maximilian Society, Stuttgart V. 2006.
  • Finally at four in the morning. Poems. With 18 original color lithographs by Klaus Fußmann. Edition Eichthal, Eckernförde 2007.
  • Information for emergencies. Essays, essays, speeches. Edited by Hubert Witt , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-446-20991-3 .
  • The wonderful women. Stories. With lithographs by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß. Quetsche Verlag für Buchkunst, Witzwort 2008.
  • Nightly apart. Dream notes. With two etchings by Günter Kunert. Leipzig Bibliophile Evening e. V., Leipzig 2008.
  • When life was in vain Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009.
  • Yesterday remains today. Records. With fourteen photographs by Paul Schaufe. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2009
  • Echoes. Early poems. Edited by Jürgen Müller. Private printing, Grosshennersdorf 2009.
  • Nobody has the last word. About writers and writing. Articles, essays, speeches and notes . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009.
  • Eye games. Drawings. Etchings. Bronzes 1946 - 2010. Numerous illustrations as well as poems, reflections and notes. Chamber of Commerce and Elsbeth Weichmann Society, Hamburg 2010.
  • Berlin kaleidoscope. Records. With photographs by Thomas Hoepker. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2011
  • The birth of proverbs. Notes. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011.
  • Kunert's cats. Poems, reflections, drawings. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 2012.
  • Comforting disasters. Records 1999-2011. Reflections. Notes. Memories. Aphorisms. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-446-24129-9 .
  • Associate editor Matthias Buth : Poets do not tolerate dictators next to them. Reiner Kunze . The wonderful years. From Germany to Germany. A reading book for Reiner Kunze's 80th birthday. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2013, ISBN 978-3-944566-05-4 .
  • Continued legacy. Poems. Selection and afterword by Hubert Witt. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014.
  • The secret library . Short prose. Single sheet printing. Lithograph by Rolf Escher. The Bear Press, Bayreuth 2014.
  • Faces of Africa. Reflections. With photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum. Donat Verlag, Bremen 2015.
  • The treasure . Notat. Single sheet printing. Stencil lithograph by Rolf Münzner. The Bear Press, Bayreuth 2015.
  • Confused affairs. Stories. Selection and afterword by Hubert Witt. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016.
  • Enter the gentlemen poets . Poem. Single sheet printing. Multi-colored woodcuts by Karl-Georg Hirsch. The Bear Press, Bayreuth 2016.
  • Poems and collages . Edited by Carl-Walter Kottnik. Design by Ajete Elezaj. Hamburg 2016.
  • Nightly transformed . Dream notes. The Bear Press, Bayreuth 2016.
  • From my shadow realm. Poems. Selection and afterword by Wolfram Benda. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018.
  • Without turning back. Notes. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018.
  • The second wife. Novel. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3440-3 .
  • A guest in the labyrinth. New poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26463-2 .

Letters

  • Correspondence with Nicolas Born from 1978 first published in Rowohlt's literary magazine, published in May 2007 with drafts and previous private correspondence in Nicolas Born. Letters. Edited by Katharina Born. Wallstein Publishing House.

Radio plays and features

  • The devil from the bottle. Radio play based on Robert Louis Stevenson. 1959.
  • Fetzer's escape. Funkoper (GDR 1959)
  • Eisenhans memories or paraphrase on a German subject. Director: Dieter Hasselblatt. (DLF 1966)
  • Orpheic dialogue with some kind of audience. Director: Wolfgang Schenk. (DLF 1967)
  • Nice area with fathers. Director: Werner Grunow (GDR 1968)
  • The Marx family in a strange city. Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (GDR 1970)
  • An island on the edge of the world. 1971. Germany broadcaster.
  • In time a fire. Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf 1971. Radio DDR I. / Director: Jörg Jannings 1974. NDR
  • Honor deal. Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf, 1972. Radio DDR I. / Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1973. NDR.
  • Landmarks or snapshots from America. Director: Werner Grunow (GDR 1975)
  • Another K. Director: Horst Liepach (GDR 1976) and Director: Hans Rosenhauer (NDR / HR / SFB 1977)
  • Teamwork. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1981. NDR.
  • Correspondence. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1983. NDR.
  • Countdown. Director: Heiner Schmidt, 1983. Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  • No connection under this number. , Directed by Heinz Hostnig, 1985. NDR.
  • In private. Director: Jörg Jannings, 1987. NDR.
  • Hitler is alive. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1987. NDR / SFB / SWF
  • Male friendship. Director: Ulrich Heising, 1988. Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  • Visit to Dr. Guillotin. Director: Bernd Lau, 1989. Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  • Flood of voices. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1989. NDR.
  • The double man. Director: Waltraud Heise, 1989. NDR
  • The experiment. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1992. NDR / MDR
  • The therapy. Directed by Bärbel Jarchow, 1993. RIAS Berlin.
  • Ostragon and Vladimir. Director: Otto Düben, 1993. MDR / ORB.
  • Fantasies about the crime. Director: Hans Rosenhauer, 1994. MDR.
  • Meeting on the Sandkrug Bridge. Director: Patrick Blank 1995. Südwestfunk.
  • On the sexophone: Esmaralda. Director: Walter Niklaus 2001. MDR.
  • Number 563,000, grid square C 3. 2002. NDR.
  • The doll. Director: Walter Niklaus 2004. MDR.
  • No further occurrences. Director: Steffen Moratz. 2008 MDR.
  • The egg. Director: Christoph Dietrich. 2009. NDR.
  • The Itzehoe gondolier. Director: Walter Niklaus 2011. MDR.
  • Obituaries. Director: Stefan Kanis, 2012. MDR.

Sound carrier

  • Management report. Poems and prose read by the author (LP). Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg 1980.
  • Stranger at home. Poems and prose read by the author. (CD). The HörVerlag. Munich 1999.
  • Self-interpretations. Lecture (MC). SWR Media, Baden-Baden 2000.
  • Correspondence. Radio play (MC). Hörzeichen Verlag, Gerichshain 2000.
  • Fantasies about the crime. Radio play (MC). Hörzeichen Verlag, Gerichshain 2000.
  • Ostragon and Vladimir. Radio play (MC / CD). Hörzeichen Verlag, Gerichshain 2000.
  • Countdown. Radio play (MC). Hörzeichen Verlag, Gerichshain 2001.
  • Günter Kunert - writer and poet in conversation with Peter Köster. Interview (MC). SWR Media, Baden-Baden 2001.
  • On the sexophone: Esmeralda. Radio play (MC). Hörzeichen Verlag, Gerichshain 2001.

Film scripts

Movie

  • Günter Kunert and Saxon Switzerland , Production: Claus Spahn , WDR 1993.

literature

  • Klaus Werner: Günter Kunert . In: Hans Jürgen Geerdts (Hrsg.): Literature of the GDR in single representations (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 416). Kröner, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-520-41601-7 , pp. 523-547.
  • W. Clark Kenyon: The Poetry of Günter Kunert. Ph.D. diss., The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 1975.
  • Marie-Hélène Quéval: Günter Kunert, coordinatrice, Lectures d'une oeuvre. Editions du Temps, Paris 2000. (Foreword by Günter Kunert)
  • J. Gregory Redding: Themes, Forms, Styles: The Development of Günter Kunerts Prose. PH.D. diss., The University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995.
  • Nicolai Riedel: International Günter Kunert Bibliography I. The poetic and essayistic work in editions, single prints and translations. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1987.
  • Dieter Jonsson: Contradictions - Hopes. Literature and cultural politics in the GDR. Günter Kunert's prose. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1978. (= literary studies - social science LGW. 36).
  • Read Kunert. Edited by Michael Krüger. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • Marielouise De Waijer-Wilke: Thinking in Pictures. In: GDR poetry in context. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1988. (= Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies. 26).
  • Text + criticism 109. Günter Kunert. In: Journal for Literature. Edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Edition text + kritik publishing house, Munich 1990.
  • Manfred Durzak, Manfred Keune (ed.): Kunert workshop. Materials and studies on Günter Kunert's literary work. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1995.
  • Elke Kasper: Between Utopia and Apocalypse - The lyrical work of Günter Kunert. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1995.
  • Kerry Dunne: The Fall of Man - a parabolic key to the image of human existence in the work of Günter Kunert 1960–1990. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996. (= European university publications: Series 1, German language and literature. Volume 1494).
  • Se-Hoon Kwon: The modern spelling in the works of Franz Kafka and Günter Kunert or the transition from modern to postmodern. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996. (= European university publications: Series 1, German language and literature. Volume 1583).
  • Dagmar Hinze: Günter Kunert: Meaning through literature; Literary theory and poetic practice. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996. (= contributions to new epoch research. 13).
  • Aminia M. Brueggemann: Chronotopos America with Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Günter Kunert and Martin Walser. Verlag Peter Lang, New York 1996. (= Studies of Modern German Literature. Vol. 70).
  • Werner Trömer: Polarity without intensification - A structure of the grotesque in Günter Kunert's work. Röhring Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 1997. (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Literary Studies. Volume 55).
  • Thomas Schmidt: Dedicated artistry: satire, parody and neo-emblematic processes in Günter Kunert's work. Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 1998 (= Literatura, 9).
  • Yu Gu: Structures and ways of thinking in Günter Kunert's poetry. An investigation into the works Fremd atheim and Im toten Winkel. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998 ( publications on research on Europe and Germany, volume 6).
  • Wolfgang Maaz: Berlin - Kunert's antiquity. In: Myths in Post-Mythical Times. Edited by Bernd Seidensticker and Martin Vöhler . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002.
  • Günter Kunert. Littera Borealis: Edition on Contemporary Literature in the North, Issue 1.Literature House Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2004.
  • Christoph Gellner: Writers read the Bible. Scripture in 20th Century Literature. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2004.
  • Alexander Joist: In search of the meaning of death. Interpretations of death in contemporary poetry. Matthias-Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2004. (= Theology and Literature. 18).
  • Creation of meaning and other pastimes. 75 pages by and about Günter Kunert. Kleist Museum, Frankfurt (Oder) 2004. (Booklet for the exhibition of the same name).
  • Ingrid Pietrzynski: "Disappeared in the orcus"? Günter Kunert's early radio work (1953–1962). In: Literature in GDR radio: Günter Kunert - Bitterfelder Weg - radio feature. Edited by Ingrid Scheffler. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2005.
  • Nicolai Riedel: International Günter Kunert Bibliography 1947–2011. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012.
  • Poetry album. Günter Kunert 85. Edited by Michael Augustin. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2014.
  • Dirk-Uwe Becker: artist portrait1: Günter Kunert. In: Kulturmagazin Reibeisen , No. 32. EuropaLiteraturKreis Kapfenberg, 2015.
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki : About Günter Kunert. Edited by Thomas Anz. Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2019.
  • Short biography for:  Kunert, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Günter Kunert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writer Günter Kunert is dead . ndr.de, September 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Unprintable" in GDR - Günter Kunert thinks Roman. deutschlandfunkkultur.de, November 28, 2018, accessed on November 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung from 2/3 October 2019, p. 23
  4. ↑ Günter Kunert's last poems and volume of short stories posthumously. deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed on September 23, 2019?
  5. ↑ Well-known members of the German Language Association. German Language Association, archived from the original on February 8, 2017 ; Retrieved January 22, 2012 .
  6. ↑ BAnz AT November 22, 2012 B1
personal data
SURNAME Kunert, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2019
Place of death Kaisborstel