Günter wishes

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Karl Günter Wünsche (born June 9, 1931 in Löbau , Saxony , † March 19, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German poet , prose , radio play and screenwriter .

Life

Günter Wünsche was born as the son of a laborer and a farmer's daughter in Löbau, Saxony. From 1937 to 1945 he attended elementary school in Ebersdorf . In 1945 he began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker at Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Upper Lusatia . When the commanding company was dismantled in 1946, he felt a sense of relief. He continued his training at the Berzdorf lignite mine on the Eigen and became a machinist in 1949 . Thereupon the delegation took place through the company to the workers and farmers faculty Freiberg "Wilhelm Pieck", where in 1952 he acquired the school leaving certificate. He stayed in Freiberg and in 1952 began studying metallogy at the Bergakademie Freiberg , which he graduated in 1957 as a graduate engineer. During his time in Freiberg he worked at the Riesa steel and rolling mill (1950), the Berzdorf lignite works (1952) and the Döhlen stainless steel works (1954).

In 1958 he moved to Berlin and began to work literary there. The job he started with the move in a Berlin project planning company for road systems (research and development department on behalf of the Institute for Metallurgy and Materials Testing of the Freiberg Mining Academy) and two years later as a test engineer at the German Office for Material and Goods Testing of the GDR in Berlin-Adlershof lasted until June 1965. In 1961 two poems were accepted and published by the literary magazine Neue Deutsche Literatur . In 1964 he joined eleven others, including Joachim Priewe and Wolfgang Tilgner , to form the group of young authors "alex 64". In the same year Wünsche received a 2nd prize (a 1st prize was not awarded) in the writing competition organized by the Aufbau-Verlag . In 1964/65, while he was working as a test engineer, the Confidential Diary , which was widely criticized after publication, was created . Taking himself out of the line of fire, he initially concentrated on the studies that had begun in autumn 1965 at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig. His professors included Georg Maurer and Werner Bräunig . In 1967 he finished his studies and 1968 is considered to be his first year as a freelance writer. That year he wrote a series of articles on futurology for the youth magazine Neues Leben . Before and afterwards, he had devoted himself to technical and economic aspects. In 1969 he joined the SED and in 1970 he became a member of the Writers' Union .

From 1973 to 1990, the Writers ' Association entrusted him with the management of the central working group “Writing Soldiers” in Strausberg , that is, the qualified accompaniment of autodidactic authors belonging to the NVA . In 1981 and again in 1986 the working group received the " Medal-awarded folk art collective of the German Democratic Republic ". In addition, from 1985 to 1990 he headed the circle of writing workers in the Kreiskulturhaus Berlin-Lichtenberg. In 1991/92 he was one of the founders of the Friedrichshagener Kreis in the New Society for Literature . In 1996 Günter Wünsche died in Berlin at the age of 64 after a serious illness.

effect

In the intellectual West German monthly Merkur , Wünsches poetry was perceived as a criticism of socialism . In fact, individual poems in the GDR made the cultural officials angry. Thus, rehabilitation of I to a "much-cited" and "controversial" example. The weekly newspaper Sonntag found the message for lovers of soft pillows to be provocative .

More far-reaching, however, was the criticism that arose after the publication of the reflections from the confidential diary in the autumn of 1965 within an almanac of the Aufbau Verlag, because in the wake of the policy of the 11th plenum , Günter Mittag (ab 1966 member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED ). First, in January, Wünsche was summoned for an internal discussion by the head of the ideological commission of the party organization State Planning Commission of the SED. In February, in his SED party university lecture , Mittag publicly condemned Wünsches' assessment of future planning and actual economic performance. “Art was not granted the right to interfere critically in economic and social difficulties,” summarizes the historian and literary scholar Simone Barck . The next step in the demonstration of power by the state party was to collect all tangible construction almanacs, including copies that had already been given to libraries. In 1991, Wunsch confessed that he had expected rejection and, as a result, the end of any entrustment to institutional work, but not a writing impairment.

Quote

"My concern is to examine people and their relationships with art."

- Günter Wünsche : Heaven in my city, 1966

Works

Publication of poems in literary magazines

  • 1961: excavator repairs and autumn thoughts . In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , issue 6/1961, pp. 166–167.
  • 1963: Unprecedented birth , Rumpelstiltskin 1961 , contract with the corn mowers , rehabilitation of the ego and eight other poems. In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , Issue 1/1963, pp. 84–92.
  • 1963: coffee . In: Sinn und Form , issue 1/1963, p. 88.
  • 1963: evening and three other poems. In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , Issue 12/1963, pp. 108–110.
  • 1964: Photo of the activist . In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , Issue 3/1964, pp. 94–95.
  • 1965: I had a poem in my cradle . In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , Issue 10/1965, p. 162.
  • 1991: Subjective difficulties in designing the future . In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , No. 457, issue 1/1991, pp. 170–171.

Publication of poems and adaptations in poetry anthologies

  • 1964: evening . In: Selection 1964. New poetry - new names . Edited by the Central Council of Free German Youth . Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin, p. 133.
  • 1964: Vom Bauen , Die Glocke and four other poems. In: New Texts 4th Almanac for German Literature, autumn 1964 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar, pp. 77–83.
  • 1966: Inside me were the dreams of the trees , the sky of my city , the rehabilitation of the self and eight other poems. In: Heaven of my city. From the workshop of the group "alex 1964" . Werner Kruse, Richard Christ , Günther Deicke (Eds.). Verlag der Nation , Berlin, pp. 149–161.
  • 1966: unprecedented birth . In: our the day, our the word. Poetry and prose for commemorative and public holidays . Edited by Heinz Czechowski . Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale), p. 233.
  • 1967: excavator repair . In: The wind turbine. Children's poems from two decades . Compiled and arranged by Helmut Preißler . Illustrations by Gertrud Zucker . Kinderbuchverlag Berlin , Berlin, p. 142.
  • 1967: Rehabilitation of the ego . In: News from Germany. Poetry, prose, drama. An anthology of the more recent GDR literature . Edited and introduced by Hildegard Brenner . Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek, p. 270.
  • 1967: Five repairs. In: Whose World .... Poetic Document. 174 poems over 50 decisive years by 160 authors from socialist countries, compiled by the writers' associations in Sofia, Prague, Berlin, Ulan Bator, Warsaw, Moscow, Budapest . Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin, various pages.
  • 1967: Eight revisions. In: My Document - My Poetry. New Soviet poetry (= Moj dokument, poėziju moju ). Edited by the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" and the Institute for Book Design at the University of Graphics and Book Art , Leipzig, various pages.
  • 1967: Adaptation of Russia [on your behalf I speak] by Boris Sluzki. In: Small form. Material information for club and cultural work. Cabinet for cultural work of the city of Leipzig, district cabinet for cultural work Leipzig (ed.). No. II / 67: We - our time - the 20th century. Poems, songs and prose texts on the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution , p. 72.
  • 1969: Heaven of my city . In: Mirror of our becoming. Man and work in German poetry from Goethe to Brecht . Edited by René Schwachhofer and Wilhelm Tkaczyk . With the collaboration of Bruno Brandl and Günther Deicke. Verlag der Nation, Berlin, p. 517.
  • 1970: Re-production Russia, in your name I speak . In: Poetry album 38. Boris Sluzki . New Life Publishing House, Berlin, p. 5.
  • 1971: Heaven of my city . In: The linden trees are young. An anthology of Berlin border soldiers on the 10th anniversary of the erection of the anti-fascist protective wall . Edited by the Writers' Association, Berlin District Association and the Political Department of the Krug Association. P. 105.
  • 1971: Heaven of my city and From the confidential diary [excerpt: December 5, 1964] . In: Berlin - Voices of a City. 99 authors, 100 years on the Spree . Edited and with a comment by Ruth Greuner . Buchverlag Der Morgen , Berlin, pp. 535 and 547 f.
  • 1978: Progress on the way to and description of the terrestrial humans seen from Venus in summer . In: Onion Market. Funny and satirical from three decades. Poems . Edited by Wolfgang Sellin and Manfred Wolter . Illustrations by Lothar Sell . Eulenspiegel-Verlag , Berlin, pp. 179-180.
  • 1981: Redesign of Kraftfelder . In: Poetry album 164. Robert Roshdestwenski . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin, pp. 11–13.

Publication of other literary genres in edited volumes

  • 1964: Lyric subject and poetic generalization . In: New German Literature , Issue 3/1964, pp. 82–93.
  • 1965: From the confidential diary . In: New Texts 5th Almanac for German-Language Literature, autumn 1965 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar, pp. 150–166.
  • 1969: tradition as a model. On the work of Johannes R. Bechers and Bertolt Brecht . In: I write. Journal for the writing workers' movement . Edited by the Central House for Cultural Work . Hofmeister, Leipzig, No. 11-12 / 1969, pp. 9-13.
  • 1970: Finches dead . In: Zeitzeichen. Prose of the day . Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin, pp. 114–120.
  • 1970: Landing on paradise place . In: Landing on Paradise Place. Love stories . Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin, pp. 7–59.
  • 1991: Günter Mittag as a literary critic . In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , No. 457, issue 1/1991, pp. 164–170.

Works for radio, television and film

  • 1965: Ringelspiel (unpublished).
  • 1968: Martin Keßler . Radio play, radio of the GDR . Reprinted in: Radio plays on German Democratic Broadcasting. Radio plays 9 . Henschelverlag , Berlin 1969, pp. 7-54. 1971 as a television play, television of the GDR .
  • 1969: In our best times . Radio play, radio of the GDR.
  • 1969: We are looking for: Wilhelm Sält . Feature , broadcasting of the GDR.
  • 1972: Washerwomen . Documentary with Jürgen Böttcher , DEFA .
  • 1973: Peasant rule . Documentary with Christian Lehmann and Reinhard Kettner, DEFA.
  • 1973: biography of a landscape . Radio play, radio of the GDR.
  • 1974: Information from and about Schulze Gotthard . Documentary, television of the GDR.

Drama (not accepted because of "atypical GDR reality")

  • 1959: Restless steel (1959/1960 unrealized radio play adaptation; reworked 1962–1965 to film exhibition The Treasure in the Branches )
  • 1960: The green letter

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hubert Limprecht: Our portrait: Three contemporary poets . In: Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig (Hrsg.): Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Specialized magazine for publishing and book trade. No. 31/1964 , July 28, 1964, pp. 505-506 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Günter-Wünsche archive. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Walter Nowojski : Seeing our time in a new way . In: FF. Radio and television in the GDR . No. 47/1968 , August 24, 1968, Günter Wünsche about his radio play "Martin Keßler", p. 7th f .
  4. ↑ a b c Günter Wünsche . In: Werner Kruse, Richard Christ, Günther Deicke (eds.): Heaven of my city. From the workshop of the group "alex 64" . Poems. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1966, p. 147 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Günter Wünsche: Günter Mittag as a literary critic . In: New German Literature . Monthly for German-language literature and criticism. No. 457 . Aufbau-Verlag, January 1991, ISSN  0028-3150 , ndl-Tagebuch, p. 164-170 .
  6. ↑ Paul Wiens Hrsg = German writers' association: First attempts . In: New German Literature . Monthly magazine for beautiful literature and criticism. No. 6/1961 , June 1961, pp. 162 (the poems follow on pp. 166 and 167).
  7. ↑ On the “Construction Prize 1964” . In: Aufbau Verlag (ed.): The beehive . Sheets of the construction publishing house. No. 68 , October 7, 1964, New Texts 4, pp. 2 .
  8. ↑ Günter Wünsche: Tendenz 2000. Data processing . In: Central Council of the FDJ on Verlag Junge Welt (ed.): New life . Youth magazine. No. 3/68 , March 1968, pp. 12-14 .
  9. ↑ Günter Wünsche: A trip to the city of tomorrow . In: Central Council of the FDJ on Verlag Junge Welt (ed.): New life . Youth magazine. No. 5/68 , May 1968, pp. 40-43 .
  10. ↑ Günter Wünsche: By bike into the year 2000? In: Central Council of the FDJ on Verlag Junge Welt (ed.): New life . Youth magazine. No. 8/68 , August 1968, pp. 44-47, 56 .
  11. ↑ Peter Hamm : "Happiness is difficult in this country ...". On the situation of the most recent GDR poetry . In: Hans Paeschke (Ed.): Merkur . German magazine for European thinking. No. 205 , April 1965, Chronicle, p. 365-379 .
  12. ↑ Anthonya Visser: "Flowers in the Ice". Lyrical and literary critical innovations in the GDR. On the communicative field of tension from the mid-1960s . Ed .: Cola Minis , Arend Quak (=  Amsterdam publications on language and literature . Volume 107 ). Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1994, ISBN 90-5183-662-7 , Chapter I. The poetry discussions of 1966 and 1971/1972 in their literary-communicative context. 2.1. The extremes: Elke Erb and Hans Koch, p. 49 .
  13. ^ Simone Barck: The Mitteldeutsche Verlag in the sixties . In: Center for Contemporary History Potsdam eV (Ed.): "Every book an adventure". Censorship system and literary publics in the GDR until the end of the sixties (=  contemporary historical studies ). tape 9 . Akademie Verlag , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003118-2 , An anniversary almanac and the troubles of a publishing magazine, p. 243-251 , here p. 244 .
  14. ^ Simone Barck: books and authors of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag in public . In: Center for Contemporary History Potsdam eV (Ed.): "Every book an adventure". Censorship system and literary publics in the GDR until the end of the sixties (=  contemporary historical studies ). tape 9 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003118-2 , A genre becomes public. The Forum Poetry Debate 1966, p. 305-317 , here p. 314 .
  15. ↑ Margot Gerisch: Standards. A SONNTAG conversation about the poets of the group "alex 64" with Richard Christ, editor at Verlag der Nation and Günther Deicke, poet and editor at Verlag der Nation . In: Sunday . Weekly newspaper for cultural politics, art and science. No. 13/1965 , March 28, 1965, pp. 12-13 .
  16. ^ A b Simone Barck: Dimensions of literary work . In: Center for Contemporary History Potsdam eV (Ed.): "Every book an adventure". Censorship system and literary publics in the GDR until the end of the sixties (=  contemporary historical studies ). tape 9 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003118-2 , pp. 404-417 , here p. 408 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wishes, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wish, Karl Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, prose, radio play and screenplay author
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1996
Place of death Berlin