Günther Rücker

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Günther Rücker (5th from left)
on April 10, 1975 in East Berlin

Günther Rücker (born February 2, 1924 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia , † February 24, 2008 in Meiningen ) was a German storyteller, playwright and director. He wrote radio plays , scripts, novels and stories.

Life

The son of the carpenter Thomas Rücker (who was partly of Jewish origin) and his wife Johanna, née Schmidt, attended secondary school in his place of birth in Bohemia and graduated from high school in 1942. As a soldier in World War II, he became a British prisoner of war. From 1945 he lived in Leipzig , where he began studying at the “Hans Otto” theater school . He later lived in East Berlin and Meiningen.

From 1951 he worked for radio - first as a director, from 1952 as a radio play writer - working with Paul Dessau , among others . Rücker had been a member of the German Writers' Association since 1954 . From 1955 on in the film industry, after his first documentaries, Rücker was mainly employed as a feature film writer. With Wolfgang Kohlhaase he wrote z. B. the screenplay for Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961), one of the most important DEFA films of all.

The author also became known as a playwright: Der Herr Schmidt - A German Spectacle with Police and Music (1969), which dealt with the Cologne communist trial, was his first success in this regard. His drama The Neighbor of Mr Panza also premiered in the same year . In addition, many radio plays come from Rücker - the monologue radio play was a genre to which he devoted himself particularly.

Since 1972 a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR (re-elected in 1991), Rücker was secretary of the poetry and language maintenance section from 1974 to 1982 and a member of the Academy's executive committee.

As an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security with the code name "Günther", Rücker has been employed since 1978 to enforce cultural policy guidelines in the Academy of the Arts and to directly observe Academy members such as Franz Fühmann and Konrad Wolf . Since 1978 Rücker was also a member of the central board of the German Writers' Association .

Günter Rücker was the first husband of actress Vera Oelschlegel (* 1938).

honors and awards

Works

Filmography

Radio plays

Books

  • Seven bars of tango. 11 radio plays & 1 comedy. Leipzig: Reclam 1979.
  • Until death do you part. Film scenario. Berlin / GDR: Henschel Verlag 1979.
  • Lord of Oe. Hilde, the maid. Two stories. Berlin, Weimar: Setup 1984.
  • Anton Popper and other stories. Berlin, Weimar: Setup 1985.
  • All relatives. Novellas. West Berlin: Wagenbach 1987.
  • The fiancee. Texts for seven feature films. Ed. V. Peter Wuss. Berlin / GDR: Henschelverlag 1988. [In it: The Gleiwitz case / The best years / The third / Wolz - Life and enlightenment of a German anarchist / Until death do you part / The betrothed / Hilde, the maid ].
  • Tale of a stepson. Prose, essay. Leipzig: Reclam 1988.
  • Where the stories come from. Berlin: setup in 1990.
  • Otto Blomow. Story of a subtenant. Berlin: Rütten & Loening 1991.
  • From the life of a widower. Berlin: Berlin hand press 1995.
  • First love and other things. Berlin: Edition Schwarzdruck 2007.

Literature about Günther Rücker

  • Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic. Berlin 1996
  • Herbert Mayer:  Rücker, Günther . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Matthias Braun: cultural island and instrument of power. The Academy of Arts, the Party and the State Security. Göttingen 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Rücker: About my great-grandfather Anton Popper and his family , in: Ders .: Story of a stepson (Leipzig 1988)
  2. ↑ See BStU, MfS, AOP 3706/87, as well as Mayer: Rücker, Günther .
personal data
SURNAME Rücker, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German narrator and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2008
Place of death Meiningen