Georg Maurer (writer)

Georg Maurer, 1953

Georg Maurer in Leipzig in 1952

Georg Maurer's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Georg Maurer (born March 11, 1907 in Reghin ( Sächsisch Regen ), Transylvania , Kingdom of Hungary , † August 4, 1971 in Potsdam ) was a German poet, essayist and translator. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Juventus , murus and Johann Weilau .

Life

Maurer, born on March 11, 1907 as the son of a teacher in Transylvania , came to Germany in 1926. He studied art history, German literature and philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin until 1932 . He was a soldier in World War II . Since 1955 he was a lecturer, later professor at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" , where he had a significant influence on the authors of the Saxon Poet School of poets such as Volker Braun , Sarah and Rainer Kirsch or Karl Mickel .

honors and awards

• Literature Prize of the City of Weimar 1948
• Johannes R. Becher Prize 1961
• Art Prize of the City of Leipzig 1964
• National Prize of the GDR 1965
• F. C. Weiskopf Prize 1972

Works

• “Eternal Voices” , poems, Haessel Verlag Leipzig 1936
• "Gesänge der Zeit" , hymns and sonnets, Rupert-Verlag Leipzig 1948
• "Barefoot" by Zaharia Stancu , translation 1951
• "Forty-two Sonnets" set up by Verlag Berlin 1953
• "The elements" , poems Insel Verlag Leipzig 1955
• "Poems from ten years" , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1956
• “The poet and his time” , essays and reviews, Aufbau Verlag Berlin 1956
• “A stormy night” by Ion Luca Caragiale , translation Insel Verlag 1956
• “Lob der Venus” , Sonette Verlag der Nation Berlin 1956
• “Poetic Journey” publishing house of the Nation Berlin 1959
• “The smile of Hiroshima” by Eugen Jebeleanu , translation by the Nation's publishing house in 1960
• "Ein Glückspilz" by ILCaragiale, translation Aufbau Verlag 1961
• "Dreistrophenkalender" , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1961 ISBN 3-354003-67-7 .
• "Our" , new German literature, issue 8 1962
• "Gestalten der Liebe" , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1964
• "Stromkreis" , poems, Insel Verlag Leipzig 1964
• “Im Blick der Uralten” , poems, Insel Verlag 1965
• "Conversations" , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1967
• "Essay I" , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1969
• "Circles" , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1970
• "Experienced World" , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1972
• "Essay II" , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1973
• “I'm sitting in space on a bench in the Rosental” (Ed. By Eva Maurer ) Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung 2007 ISBN 3-937799-22-2 .

Audio book

• In: Poetry of the 20th Century: My 24 Saxon Poets , Ed. Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 9783861899358 .

literature

• Wolfgang Emmerich:  Maurer, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 440 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Emmerich : Georg Maurer . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature . The KLG on CD-ROM. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86150-692-8 (with extensive bibliography).
• Hansjörg Jerger: Representation and use of the natural object in the poetry of Georg Maurer , dissertation, Berlin 1966.
• Franka Köpp , Roland Lampe , Sabine Wolf (arrangement): Georg Maurer. 1907-1971 . Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8311-4567-9 .
• Leonore Krenzlin , Andreas Kölling:  Maurer, Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Walfried Neugebauer: Georg Maurer . In: Hans Jürgen Geerdts (Hrsg.): Literature of the GDR in single representations (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 416). Kröner, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-520-41601-7 , pp. 196-223.
• Michaela Nowotnick: Appearance of the homeland. Georg Maurer in the context of his Romanian German origins. In: Discontinued model “GDR literature”. Essays and documents. Edited by Roland Berbig. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, pp. 45–70.
• Ursula Püschel : The love of the poet: Georg Maurer . In: neue deutsche literature 1988, issue 8, pp. 115–147.

Web links

Commons : Georg Maurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Maurer in the poet shop
• Georg Maurer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maxi Leinkauf: “We certainly had something unfathomable” Conversation with Gerhard Wolf , Der Freitag of January 4, 2018, No. 1, p. 22.