Gottfried Unterdörfer

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Gottfried Unterdörfer (born March 17, 1921 in Zschornau , † September 9, 1992 in Uhyst (Spree) ) was a German forester , writer and local poet of Upper Lusatia .

Live and act

Max Gottfried Rudolf Unterdörfer was born as the first child of a forest ranger family in Zschornau near Kamenz . His father gave him a love of nature and his mother gave him a deep Christian faith . Unterdörfer attended the secondary school in Kamenz until 1937 , learned at the state forest administration of Saxony and in 1940 studied for three months at the forest school in Reichstadt .

The experience as an infantry officer on the Eastern Front rooted a pacifist attitude in him , which later repeatedly brought him into conflict with the rulers in the GDR . After the end of the war he was first taken prisoner by the Americans , was then picked up on the way home by the Red Army and was only able to return to Upper Lusatia on December 19, 1949 .

In 1950 Unterdörfer took up a position as a district forester in Uhyst (Spree) . The surrounding Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape aroused his enthusiasm. He addressed them in many of his books and was involved in church environmental work. He counted the ornithologist Wolfgang Makatsch and the botanist Max Militzer among his friends. Unterdörfer worked on the editorial board of the Görlitz church and was a member of the Uhyst parish council . He explicitly referred to the legacy of the Confessing Church and Dietrich Bonhoeffer .

Unterdörfer's books were difficult to obtain in the GDR. In the GDR he had belonged to the CDU since 1949 , but not to the Writers' Union . He kept in close contact with his fellow artists Gottfried Zawadzki and Hanns Georgi . It was Unterdörfer's wish to be buried in Thyrow (Brandenburg) after his death , like his literary role model Heinrich Alexander Stoll before him .

Works

  • You live on you , poems, Union Verlag Berlin , 1959
  • Opposite the wooden house , stories, Union Verlag Berlin, 1960
  • I want to put the bow , poems, Union Verlag Berlin, 1964
  • From evening to evening , nine love stories, Union Verlag Berlin, 1965
  • Not the trees alone , stories and sketches, Union Verlag Berlin, 1968
  • Rainy season and heron call , stories and reflections, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, 1971
  • Call of wild pigeons , short stories and poems, Union Verlag Berlin, 1973
  • Annual rings , stories under trees, Union Verlag Berlin, 1981
  • World tour in the long wood , selected prose, Union Verlag Berlin, 1984
  • Paths and forests , Kleine Prosa, Union Verlag Berlin, 1986
  • I want to see a crane , stories, poems and a diary, ed. from Uhyster Heimatverein e. V., Lusatia Verlag Dr. Stübner & Co. KG Bautzen, 2001. ISBN 3-929091-80-1
  • When the swamps bloomed , Tales, Lusatia Verlag Dr. Stübner & Co. KG Bautzen, 2010. ISBN 978-3-936758-64-1

literature

  • Gottfried Unterdörfer: The spruce trees behind the fence . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 283-298 .
  • Armin Stolper: The good person from Uhyst: On Gottfried Unterdörfer's 10th anniversary of his death on September 9, 2002 , In: Oberlausitzer Kulturschau, 8 (2002), 9, pp. 20-21
  • Frank Fiedler : On the trail of the poet forester Gottfried Unterdörfer. In: Uwe Fiedler (Ed.): Contributions to local research in Saxony , Vol. 1, Bischofswerda 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-3982-7 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Rostin : Gottfried Unterdörfer's guest in the Uhyster forester's house . In Neue Zeit , August 25, 1962, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Unterdörfer, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschornau
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1992
Place of death Uhyst (Spree)