Georg Piltz

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Georg Piltz (born March 18, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 2011 ) was a German art historian , writer and editor .

Life

The son of an architect spent his childhood in Berlin-Friedenau and -Wilmersdorf . Piltz became a member of the KPD . During the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 he was in the Finnish Army of the German Wehrmacht . At the end of the war he spent seriously wounded in a hospital in Pomerania. After he was not admitted to study after the war, he worked as a trainee at the Lower Saxony Volksstimme , a regional newspaper of the KPD.

After the currency reform in 1948, he moved to what would later become the GDR . Since he was not accepted into the KPD there, he later remained independent. From autumn 1953 Piltz worked for the Aufbau-Verlag for the cultural-political weekly newspaper Sonntag . After the crackdown on the Hungarian people's uprising in October 1956, several construction workers were accused of forming groups to overthrow the state. Wolfgang Harich , Walter Janka , and later also the editors-in-chief of Sonntag Gustav Just and Heinz Zöger , were arrested and sentenced in 1957 to high prison terms. Piltz was only released, but not arrested because he was not a member of the SED .

Since then, Piltz has never written for a newspaper again. From then on he worked in Berlin as a freelance writer and wrote mainly art and cultural history books. In 1956 he began working on the art guide through the GDR , which Urania Verlag published in 10 editions until 1985. This work, which was also available in licensed editions in the West, made him known. Piltz also wrote an extensive popular scientific literature on castles and gardens, art history and architecture, also on the history of caricature as well as city portraits and biographies.

From 1956 to 1990 Piltz was a member of the GDR Writers' Association .

Georg Piltz was married to his long-time editor at the Neues Leben publishing house, Marion Fuchs. He had two children.

Awards

Works

  • The prince robbery and other historical criminal cases. , Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-360-02188-5
  • August the Strong. Dreams and deeds of a German prince. (Biography), New Life, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-355-01422-2
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy. Way and work of the noble knight. (Biography), Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-355-01192-4
  • What he has to act on. Judgments and orders from Friedrich II. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-359-00128-1 (further editions 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995)
  • Palaces and gardens in the Mark Brandenburg. (With photos by Peter Garbe), Seemann, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-363-00063-4 (further editions 1989, 1992)
  • Art guide through the GDR. Special edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1986, ISBN 3-8112-0449-1 (further editions 1987, 1990)
  • Goerlitz. (With photos by Rainer Kitte), Brockhaus, Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-325-00042-8 (further edition 1987)
  • A sack full of indulgences. Pictorial satires of the Reformation period. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Castles and fortresses. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1981 (further edition 1982)
  • I saw castles and towers ... Historic art landscapes of our homeland. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-355-00613-0 (further editions 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990)
  • History of European caricature. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1976 (further edition 1980)
  • Art guide through the GDR. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1969 (further editions 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985)
  • In parks and gardens. (With photos by Renate and Roger Rössing), Brockhaus, Leipzig 1966 (further editions 1980, 1981)
  • Erfurt. City on the Way of the Cross. Sachsenverlag , Dresden 1955
  • Magdeburg. City on the river. Sachsenverlag, Dresden 1954 (further edition 1955)
  • Sanssouci. (With photographs by Günther Beyer and Klaus Beyer), Seemann, Leipzig 1954 (further editions 1960, 1963, 1965)

Broadcasts

  • Kirsten Poggendorff: I saw castles and towers. An essay about Georg Piltz. MDR Figaro on March 21, 2010 (25 min)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eulenspiegel.com , accessed on March 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Piltz, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 2011