Günther Deicke

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Günther Deicke (born October 21, 1922 in Hildburghausen ; † June 14, 2006 in Mariánské Lázně , Czech Republic ) was a German poet and publicist .

Grave of Günther Deicke in the Pankow III cemetery in Berlin

Life

In 1940 Günther Deicke joined the NSDAP . Under the Nazi regime he was the Hitler Youth leader . From 1941 to 1945 he was used as a marine in World War II . In 1947 he became cultural editor in Weimar , 1951 to 1952 publishing editor in Berlin . From 1951 to 1958 he worked for the literary magazine " ndl " ("new German literature"). From 1959 to 1970 he worked again as a publishing editor. Deicke worked as an author together with the leading GDR publishers and magazines ( Aufbau-Verlag , Verlag der Nation , Volk und Welt , neue deutsche literature , Sinn und Form ). He also worked as a translator of works by Pasternak , Mihai Eminescu , Iwan Wasow , Lőrinc Szabó , Vojtech Mihálik .

He has worked as a freelance writer since 1970 and has published numerous volumes of poetry, such as You and Your Country and Love and The Clouds .

Deicke was a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and the PEN Center Germany . In 1964 he received the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Attila József badge from the Hungarian PEN Center; 1970 the National Prize of the GDR . In 1968 and 1977 he received the Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung and in 1982 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1987 he was honored with the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver. Deicke was an active member of the German-Hungarian Society and honorary member of the Hungarian Writers' Union .

He died during a spa stay in Mariánské Lázně . Deicke is buried in the Pankow III cemetery in Berlin . His grave is a private grave in the honor grove area .

Quotes

  • "Struggle and contradiction are stronger colors than peace and confidence."
  • “Was I a fascist ? Yes."

Works

  • 1954 Love in our days (poems).
  • 1959 dream of a happy year (poems).
  • 1960 You and your country and love.
  • 1965 The clouds (poems).
  • 1966 Esther (opera libretto). WP: German State Opera Berlin .
  • 1966 Rider of the Night (opera libretto).
  • 1968 Reineke Fuchs (opera libretto).
  • 1972 localization (poems).
  • 1973 Poetry album 70 (poems).
  • 1975 That the human being is human, a poetic dialogue in pictures and words. With Michail Trachmann.
  • 1981 Das Chagrinleder (opera libretto for Fritz Geißler ).
  • 2011 at home. Poems from the estate on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death on June 14, 2011. Published by the German-Hungarian Society e. V. (DUG) in Berlin. With three transfers to Hungary. by Sándor Tatár and an enclosed original lithograph by Volker Scharnefsky. DUG, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809551-0-2 (text partly German, partly Hungarian).

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Günther Deicke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 67.
  2. ^ Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Reichmann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 20; 2nd edition Berlin Historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 .
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung . October 5, 1982, p. 4.
  4. ↑ New Germany . October 6, 1987, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Deicke, Günther. In: Dunkelgraefinhbn.de, accessed on June 5, 2017 (private website of Hans-Jürgen Salier , Ines Schwamm; without further indication of the source for the quote).
  6. ^ Günther Deicke: Work with Michail Trachmann. In: Information about the time of members of the NSDAP from four decades. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the National Democratic Party of Germany . Edited by Günter Hartmann , Gert Walter. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-373-00226-5 , pp. 153–159, here: p. 158.
personal data
SURNAME Deicke, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2006
Place of death Mariánské Lázně , Czech Republic