Günter Radtke (writer, 1927)

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Günter Radtke (born May 4, 1927 in Stettin ; † September 23, 1987 in Gera ) was a German police officer and writer .

Life

Günter Radtke initially worked in aircraft construction, then shortly afterwards as a locksmith . In 1948 he switched to the German People's Police in the Soviet occupation zone . His first stop was Apolda , from there he was transferred to the criminal police in Weimar . He graduated from the technical college for criminalistics and studied law at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam - Babelsberg ; In 1959 he completed this course as a lawyer . Subsequently, Radtke was involved in various departments in the investigation of various crimes in the Thuringian region, most recently with the rank of major as head of the criminal police department at the People's Police District Office (VPKA) Gera. Shortly before his early retirement due to illness, he also performed the role of chief press officer.

In addition to his professional activity, Günter Radtke was the author of detective novels and stories that were published by the Rudolstädter Greifenverlag , but also occasionally in high editions by the state German military publisher. At the beginning of the 1960s, together with Horst Salomon , he had led a group of writing people's policemen in Gera . His first attempts at writing resulted from the disappointment and sometimes also outrage about read error-prone, because unrealistic, crime stories. Radtke later joined the GDR Writers' Association . He himself co-founded the Gera district association and helped shape it as a board member.

Theme and style

Initially, the writing quality of the new author, who emerged from a lay writing circle ("circle"), was criticized. His style was "naive", it was said, or streaked with inadequacies. On Sunday , the reviewer said that it was not enough to have devised an interesting plot, rather it required “the psychological deepening of the characters, linguistic care and a tight composition”. He therefore criticized the stencil-like nature of the secondary characters, the colloquial language , the frequency of empty phrases along with the lack of visual language and the structure of the otherwise exciting story. With increasing routine, the criminal narratives, based more or less on authentic cases and led to resolution with expertise, only allowed praise. Political crimes such as East-West espionage and classic crimes such as arson , theft and murder , mainly committed by young people, are based on “direct experience” and are conveyed appropriately with humor , irony , self-criticism and sympathy . The causes, backgrounds and relationships are not neglected.

Works

  • Frogman in the Oder. Rudolstadt 1962.
  • New meeting point - Autobahn. Berlin 1963.
  • The diamond witch. Rudolstadt 1965.
  • The forgotten family grave. Berlin 1966.
  • The tattooed. Rudolstadt 1970.
  • The hiding place in the bear meadow. Berlin 1971.
  • The forgotten murder. Rudolstadt 1977.
  • Criminalist punch. Rudolstadt 1981.
  • The second victim. Rudolstadt 1984.
  • Stories from K. Berlin 1988.
  • I will kill. Rudolstadt 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar on GDR history 2007. (PDF; 1.6 MB) An appointment service of the German Broadcasting Archive. (No longer available online.) In: dra.de. Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, p. 40 , archived from the original on November 3, 2011 ; accessed on August 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  2. ↑ a b Dorle Gelbhaar: The facts are always verifiable. Günter Radtke and the "Stories of the K" . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 15, 1988.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j (gg): Not just trying to get excited. TNN spoke to the "Krimi" author Günter Radtke . In: Thuringian Latest News . 2nd July 1980.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Georg Albig: Writer of our district before the Xi. Party congress of the SED. Günter Radtke: Do work as well as possible . In: People's Watch . November 29, 1985.
  5. ↑ a b c d Günter Gerstmann: Interviewed a crime writer about himself . In: North German Latest News . 2nd January 1982.
  6. ↑ Erich Kriemer : His books have accompanied our development. On the death of the Gera writer Günter Radtke . In: People's Watch . October 10, 1987.
  7. ↑ a b Erich Brüll: Hans Pfeiffer: Shots on the high moor. Günter Radtke: Frogman in the Oder . In: Sunday . No. 30/1962 , July 22, 1962, reviewers read, p. 10 .
personal data
SURNAME Radtke, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1987
Place of death Gera