Gert Neumann

This article deals with the writer Gert Neumann; on the economic historian see Gerd Neumann .

Gert Neumann (temporarily Gert Härtl; born July 2, 1942 in Heilsberg , East Prussia ) is a German writer .

Life

Gert Neumann is the son of the writer Margarete Neumann and brother of the sculptor Dorothee Rätsch . After the resettlement of his family, he lived in Mecklenburg Castle Cosa from 1946 , from 1949 in Halle (Saale) and from 1951 in Hohen Neuendorf . He worked as a tractor driver before he began studying at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig . In the summer of 1968 he took part in the Leipzig reservoir reading , which resulted in further political reprisals, but also the discovery of Wolfgang Hilbig as a poet. In 1969, a year before his then wife, the poet Heidemarie Härtl 1943–1993, he was de-registered and expelled from the SED . The son Holden Härtl, who is now Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kassel , emerged from his marriage to Heidemarie Härtl .

Neumann later worked as a stage craftsman, boiler cleaner and fitter in a department store and a hospital in Leipzig. He could not publish officially in the GDR and had it published illegally in West Germany. He also worked for magazines in the literary scene critical of the GDR and was among other things editor of the samizdat magazineschlag . These activities resulted in spying and repression for him and his family. Among the decomposition strategies the Stasi also belonged to his son, the photographer Aram Radomski , was imprisoned.

Neumann is a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig and a member of the PEN Center Germany and belongs to the Orpheus group of authors . Neumann now lives in Berlin .

Works

• The fault of the words. 1979 ISBN 3-356-00228-7
• Eleven o'clock. Novel. S. Fischer 1981 ISBN 3-10-051902-7
• The clandestine of the boiler cleaner. 1989 ISBN 3-10-051903-5
• Exercises beyond possibility. 1991 ISBN 3-910078-00-1
• Production waters. 1993
• Smoke. 1993
• Hostile. 1993
• The Nabeloonic Chaos. 1993
• Speak in Germany. 1993
• Tunnel speech. 1996
• Dresden lectures. 1999
• Arrested. WEB Universitätsverlag 1999 ISBN 3-933592-40-2
• Attack. DuMont 1999 ISBN 3-83214-822-1
• The conversation in the east. Maldoror, Berlin 2000
• Interior wall. Poems. Keicher, Warmbronn 2003
• Second person. Conserve, Leipzig 2013 ISBN 978-3-941827-05-9

literature

• Short biography for:  Neumann, Gert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Awards

• Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation 1992
• Uwe Johnson Prize 1999

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prize winner 1999 - Gert Neumann ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on nordkurier.de
• "The difficult thing about speaking is love ..." , Glanz & Elend magazine for literature and contemporary criticism
• "Exercises beyond possibility" , the text as a PDF file.
• Gert Neumann Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

supporting documents

1. ↑ Gert Neumann on www.munzinger.de
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Writing in the sights of the State Security - the poet Heidemarie Härtl , accessed on July 20, 2016.
3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Baum: Aram Radomski. In: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk & Tom Sello (eds.): For a free country with free people. Opposition and Resistance in Biographies and Photos. Robert Havemann Society in conjunction with the Foundation to Process the SED Dictatorship , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3938857021 , pp. 380–383. Article on the net
4. ↑ Aram Radomski short biography on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
5. ↑ again Hinstorff, Rostock 1990 ISBN 3356003542 & Dumont, Cologne 1999 ISBN 3770145585
6. ↑ sic, Dresden with an additional e
7. ↑ with serigraphs in screen printing by Volker Mehner . Edited by Maximilian Barck . Lover edition