Gerhard Wolf (writer)

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Gerhard Wolf (left) receives congratulations from his wife Christa Wolf and from Hermann Kant after being awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize , March 26, 1974

Gerhard Wolf (born October 16, 1928 in Bad Frankenhausen (Kyffh.) ) Is a German writer and publisher . He was married to Christa Wolf .

Life

Gerhard Wolf is the son of an accountant. His mother died when he was ten years old. He attended high school in his hometown Bad Frankenhausen. In 1944/1945 he was deployed as an anti-aircraft helper and became an American prisoner of war . After his release he passed his school leaving examination in 1947. From 1947 to 1949 he was a high school assistant and new teacher in Schlotheim (Thuringia). From 1949 to 1951 he studied German and history at the University of Jena . In 1951 he married Christa Wolf . From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a radio editor in Leipzig and Berlin . Between 1953 and 1956 he sat at the Humboldt University in Berlin continued his studies, he with the degree of a graduate in German studies completed. He has been a writer since 1957 .

Gerhard Wolf worked in the following years as an essayist, critic and author of film scripts, but above all as an editor for the Mitteldeutscher Verlag and in the 1960s as an editor and promoter of the younger GDR generation of poets. He was always a great admirer of Rilke . From 1969 he was the object of observation by the Ministry of State Security . Gerhard Wolf wrote the libretto for the opera for actors Lithuanian pianos by Rainer Kunad based on the novel of the same name by Johannes Bobrowski . The work was premiered in 1976 at the Dresden Schauspielhaus under the direction of Klaus Dieter Kirst .

In 1976 he was one of the signatories of the resolution by which GDR cultural workers protested against Wolf Biermann's expatriation , whereupon Wolf was expelled from the SED , of which he had been a member since 1946. In the 1980s, together with Günter de Bruyn, he published the Märkischer Dichtergarten series , which played an important role in the re-reception of German Romanticism in the GDR. From 1988 to 1991, the series besides the series, which was supervised by Wolf, published the works of numerous authors from the group of poets and GDR dissidents based in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district . In 1991, Wolf founded the Janus Press publishing house. He lives in Berlin.

Gerhard Wolf had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1957 and of the GDR PEN Center from 1973 . He is still a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2003 he was elected honorary member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts. In 1974 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize and in 1994 (together with Christa Wolf) the Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal of the State of Berlin.

Works

  • Human dreamer and soldier Louis Fürnberg. Weimar 1959.
  • People will say about our days. Halle (Saale) 1959. (together with Klaus Marschke)
  • Questions of lyric creation. Halle (Saale) 1960. (together with Reiner Kunze and Klaus Pfützner)
  • The poet Louis Fürnberg. Berlin 1961.
  • German poetry after 1945. Berlin 1964.
  • Johannes Bobrowski. Berlin 1967.
  • Description of a room. Berlin 1971.
  • Poor Holderlin. Berlin 1972.
  • Till Eulenspiegel. Berlin ao 1973 (together with Christa Wolf )
  • Albert Ebert - how a life is painted. Berlin 1974 (together with Albert Ebert)
  • Elena Liessner-Blomberg or The Story of the Blue Bird. Berlin 1978
  • In the German poet garden. Eutin 1982.
  • In the German poet garden. Darmstadt et al. 1985.
  • A longing goes into the unrestrained. Berlin ao 1985 (together with Christa Wolf)
  • Wording, breaking words, lust for words. Leipzig 1988.
  • Language sheets, exchanges. Leipzig 1992.
  • Our friends, the painters. Berlin 1995 (together with Christa Wolf)

Editing

  • Louis Fürnberg : echo from the left. Berlin 1959 (published together with Lotte Fürnberg)
  • Sputnik versus bomb. Berlin 1959.
  • We, our time. Berlin 1959 (published together with Christa Wolf)
  • A song, a good word. Berlin 1960.
  • Acquaintance with ourselves. Halle 1961.
  • Louis Fürnberg: Poems. Leipzig 1962. (published together with Lotte Fürnberg)
  • Louis Fürnberg: The vacation. Berlin 1962. (edited together with Lotte Fürnberg)
  • Louis Fürnberg: Collected Works. Berlin et al. (Published together with Lotte Fürnberg)
    • 1. Poems 1927–1946. 1964.
    • 2. Poems 1946–1957. 1965.
    • 3. Prose I. 1967.
    • 4. Prose II, plays. 1968.
    • 5. Speeches, essays. 1971.
    • 6. Speeches, essays. 1973.
  • Sun horses and astronauts. Halle (Saale) 1964.
  • 79 songs & chansons. Berlin 1966. (published together with Klaus-Dieter Sommer)
  • Erich Arendt : Poems. Leipzig 1973.
  • Poetry is your world. Halle (Saale) 1973.
  • Georg Maurer : Under the mulberry tree. Leipzig 1977.
  • Louis Fürnberg: The correspondence between Louis Fürnberg and Arnold Zweig . Berlin ao 1978. (edited together with Rosemarie Poschmann)
  • Georg Maurer's perpetual three-strophic calendar framed with pictures by twelve artists. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig 1979
  • Erich Arendt : Staring from time and light. Leipzig 1980
  • Heinrich Heine : Heine in Berlin. Berlin 1980 (Märkischer Poet Garden)
  • Anna Luise Karsch : Oh, what people feel does not escape me. Berlin 1981 (Märkischer Dichtergarten)
  • Ewald Christian von Kleist : Sadness tortures him because he is alive. Berlin 1982 (Märkischer Dichtergarten)
  • Walter Werner : The grass holds my shadow. Halle et al. 1982
  • Achim von Arnim : I feel too light to sleep. Berlin 1983 (Märkischer Poet Garden)
  • Bettina von Arnim : Longing is always right. Berlin 1984 (Märkischer Dichtergarten)
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Honor has never sought me. Berlin 1985 (Märkischer Poet Garden)
  • Hanns Cibulka : Released. Leipzig 1986
  • Fanny Lewald : Freedom of the Heart. Berlin 1987 (Märkischer Poet Garden)
  • Georg Maurer : Perpetual three-strophic calendar. Halle et al. 1988
  • Cancers like to go backwards, time hurries forwards : Berlin Biedermeier in verse and prose, Berlin 1988 (Märkischer Dichtergarten)
  • Stefan Döring : Today morning yesterday. Berlin 1989.
  • Sarah Kirsch : The flood. Berlin et al. 1989.
  • The other language. Munich 1990 (published together with Heinz Ludwig Arnold )
  • Thomas Brasch : Three wishes, said the golem. Leipzig 1990.
  • Reinhard Jirgl : mother-father novel. Berlin et al. 1990.
  • Peter Brasch : Flashbacks to tomorrow. Berlin et al. 1991.
  • Dieter Kraft : Fantastic. Berlin 1991.
  • Erich Arendt : All the poems. Aachen.
    • Aegean. 1995.
    • Tolu. 1997.
    • Unbound. 2005.
  • Raja Lubinetzki : The day - a spark. Berlin 2001.
  • Christa Wolf: One day in the year in the new century. 2001-2011. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42360-8 .

with Thomas Grimm : Christa Wolf: Upheavals and turning times. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-46962-0 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Wolf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. Maxi Leinkauf: “We certainly had something unfathomable” Conversation with Gerhard Wolf, Der Freitag of January 4, 2018, No. 1, p. 22.
  2. ^ Rainer Kunad: Litauische Claviere: Opera for actors in eight pictures based on the novel of the same name by Johannes Bobrowski by Gerhard Wolf; conatum 59 . Piano reduction by Joachim-Dietrich Link and Klaus-Dieter Stephan. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1975 (273 pages).