Günter Ullmann
Günter Ullmann (born August 4, 1946 in Greiz , Thuringia ; † May 9, 2009 in Kreischa ) was a German writer, painter and musician. Especially as a lyric poet , he received widespread attention and his work in anthologies .
Life
Ullmann grew up as the third of four siblings in simple circumstances. At school he was a "class bully". In 1966 he passed his Abitur and at the same time - as was common in the GDR at that time - the skilled worker certificate as a bricklayer. Encouraged by the Beatles , he formed a band with friends. He took over his father's drums, sang, composed and wrote his own songs.
He fell out of favor with the GDR authorities because of idiosyncratic texts. Later, with the collapse of the GDR, he got into economic and existential hardship. The sensitive artist suffered because of the repression suffered under persecution complex . He survived two suicide attempts. And he didn't join a single writers' association.
Later, however, there is success. He had exhibitions as a visual artist, concerts with his rock band "media nox". Numerous books of his own have been published, including some specifically with children's poems.
Ullmann died at age 62 of cancer .
Works (selection)
Poetry
- 2008: The rebirth of the stars after the fireworks (= The Secret Library Book Guild Gutenberg, edited by Ines Geipel and Joachim Walther), Edition Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-940111-47-0 .
- 2001: The squid leaps over the class benches. Children's poems . With drawings by Kathrin Kreim. ISBN 3-934852-68-8
- 1998: The sun dips in a drop of water: poems for children . Illustrated by Maren Palloks. Quartus-Verl., Bucha near Jena
- 1993: Arrival: poems and epigrams 1972-1992 . Berlin ; Haifa: Boesche
- 1992: Vote against: 66 poems + epigrams; 1968 - 1988 Reichenbach: Moser Kommunikation, 1992
- 1992: The horizon around your neck: 66 poems (1968-1988) . - Lossburg / Black Forest: Ed. L, 1992
- 1990: Stein-Schrei: Poetry . Berlin ; Haifa: Boesche,
prose
- 2006: Wolkenlicht: Poems, aphorisms and short prose from 40 years
- 2005: cherry tree in front of the window. Memories. Notes and splinters . Geest-Verlag, Vechta-Langförden ISBN 3-937844-77-5
- 2005: Reading hour: Essays on literature . Verl. The barn, Dresden
- 2004: Black Sheep Read Camus : Memories from My Life; short prose fragments Vechta-Langförden
- 2003: Notes: about signs to the word . Boesche, Berlin, Haifa
- 2002: Steinlicht: Poems, aphorisms, epigrams and short prose from 1966 - 2001 . ISBN 3-936389-01-2
Exhibitions as a visual artist (selection)
- Sculptures made of chrome-nickel steel - Klassik Stiftung Weimar in the Orangery in Belvedere. Beginning of December 2008 to mid-January 2009
- Oil paintings, mixed media and watercolors; April 5 - May 17, 1990, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath GmbH. - Frankfurt am Main
- Works on paper; Photos ; September 16 - October 30, 1988; Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf
- Pictures and Works on paper; July 10 to August 23, 1987, Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau id Pfalz
Awards
- 2004: Adolf Mejstrik honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation
- 1996: Citizen's Medal of the City of Greiz
literature
- Udo Scheer : The sun has four corners. Günter Ullmann - a biography , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-896-4 .
- Jürgen Serke : At home in exile. Poets who stayed in the GDR on their own initiative . Piper, Munich a. a. 1998, p. 331 ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Günter Ullmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary on Deutschlandradio Kultur by Lutz Rathenow
- "I don't know whether I would have survived the GDR any longer" Biography Günter Ullmann
- Selection of poems by Günter Ullmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.freipresse.de/LOKALES/VOGTLAND/REICHENBACH/Dichter-als-Zeuge-seiner-Zeit-artikel9593951.php
- ↑ http://www.artnet.de/artist/594002/gunter-ullmann.html
- ^ A b Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 19, 2006: Ullmann biography
- ^ Dpa of May 14, 2009: Poet Günter Ullmann died
- ↑ Antje-Gesine Marsch: Günter Ullmann died five years ago - memory of a great poet
- ↑ Totalitarian violence p. 121 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- ↑ Klassik Stiftung Weimar : Günter Ullmann sculpture exhibition in the Orangery Belvedere
- ↑ http://www.schillerstiftung.de/preistraeger/preistraeger-einzelansicht/artikel/guenter-ullmann.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ullmann, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2009 |
| Place of death | Kreischa |