Hanns Cibulka

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Hanns Cibulka (born September 20, 1920 in Jägerndorf , Czechoslovakia , today: Krnov , Czech Republic as Johannes Paul Cibulka ; † June 20, 2004 in Gotha ) was a German writer ( poet , narrator and diary author ).

Life

Cibulka, the son of a master finisher, was born and raised in the Moravian-Silesian Jägerndorf and first learned to be a trader . Drafted in at the age of 19, he had to take part in the Second World War from start to finish as a Wehrmacht soldier, first in Poland and the Ukraine, then in Italy. In Sicily he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he could not return to his homeland in the Sudetenland after his parents were expelled.

After arriving in Thuringia, he switched to a library career in Jena in 1948 and studied at the library school in East Berlin from 1949 to 1951 . In 1953 Cibulka took over the management of the Gotha Heinrich Heine Library in the Gotha Orangery , which he held until his retirement in 1985.

In his first marriage, Cibulka was the father of a son and a daughter.

Work and effects

Hanns Cibulka is one of the independent, critical minds among the GDR authors who remain of lasting interest across Germany.

His literary work includes poems as well as diary prose of a specific character. Cibulka began with verse, and for a long time poetry dominated his work. After initially orienting himself towards classic models - Hölderlin , Platen , Rilke , Trakl - he soon opened up to the influences of international modernism. As a result, he developed his own style of vivid intensity and maximum linguistic concentration. In doing so, he often came across poetry creations that are among the most impressive in modern German literature.

Poetry

Thematically, the range is wide: the trauma of the loss of one's homeland continued to have an effect until the late years, as did the deeply incisive experience of the war. In a positive counterpoint to this, it became important to experience the - still - intact landscape, first the Italian, then the German: in the new home of Thuringia and on the Baltic Sea ( Hiddensee , Rügen ). Cibulka then dedicated deeply sensitive portraits to the greats of the past in music, art and literature, as well as historically significant figures of protest and rebellion. He did not ignore any of the pressing and threatening developments of the present. Cibulka was one of the first to show the progressive ruin of nature and the environment in poetry as well.

Beyond this, however, the personal experience poem was given special space. Here Cibulka found time and again to a surprisingly unspent, immediately moving expression, especially in the elementary sphere of love and death. In lively, vital “drinking songs” he finally showed himself to be a virtuoso of a light, relaxed tone.

Diary prose

Cibulka the Versautor was not just an insider tip: Between 1986 and 1989, over 30,000 volumes of Gerhard Wolf's representative selection without a license were sold at Reclam Leipzig - an astonishing number for poetry publications. Overall, however, the prose writer achieved the greater broad impact. His diary notations, in which narrative, illustrative and pictorial and contemplative-reflexive moments are connected informally and attractively, met an increasingly interested readership in the GDR since the early 1970s. The current occasion is almost always a trip or a longer stay in a different, unusual environment. Here, too, the central importance of the landscape experience can be seen.

Correspondingly, the dozen or so prose books can be grouped according to locations: The beginning and the end were diaries from Italy: Sicily, Umbria, and finally Pisa and Venice. "Sea buckthorn time" opened in 1972 the series of "Baltic Sea Diaries". The "Dornburger Blätter" - the earliest of the "Thuringian Diaries" (1972) - praise the downright southern charm of the area around the famous Goethe castles - the great Weimar man is present everywhere, in reliving.

In 1974 Cibulka chose Kochberg Castle as his home for his "declaration of love in K" . He leafed through Goethe's letters to Frau von Stein and revived his memories of Halina, a Polish woman from Kremenez. A love story between the soldier in World War II and a young Polish woman, whose traces are lost in the last days of the war. In "Seedorn" (85) he again confronts Polish history, using the example of the meeting with his former Polish friend Esther. Here the mystical "Christophorus" by Gerhart Hauptmann becomes a parable against dangers and threats.

"Swantow" then (1982), again a "Baltic Sea Diary", this time located on Rügen during a summer, allows officially secrecy to be discussed in an apparently secluded Swantow among people of the same opinion . Hardly concealed, the work criticizes the realities of the GDR, especially the alarming destruction of the environment. With a view to “Swantow”, Cibulka was spoken of as one of the first “Greens” among East German authors. State repression was inevitable, but the response from readers was great anyway, or because of it. In another “Thuringian Diary”, “Wegscheide” (1988), the criticism is repeated, but now in a fundamental and universal way: Withdrawn, in the quiet of his Finnhütte in the Thuringian Forest, the author sums up the global situation: It's not about less than a world-historical change in awareness.

After the fall of the Wall in the GDR, a trip to the old, now completely changed homeland became the main theme of the memory of the lost childhood and youth world ("Am Brückenwehr", 1994). The Sicilian war diary from 1943 had previously appeared in print for the first time - coupled with the report on a recent visit to Italy, it was published again in 2000. In memory of the highly esteemed Ezra Pound , Cibulka admittedly describes his own position: "The artist is and remains a rebel, he offers resistance where the zeitgeist stagnates."

Others

Gravestone in the main cemetery in Gotha

Cibulka died in Gotha in 2004, his urn was buried in Erfurt's main cemetery at the will of his wife. In June 2013, the Gotha City Council approved the "deserving Gothaer" an honorary grave at the main cemetery in Gotha . In April 2014 Cibulka was reburied in the honor grove there. On June 25 (10th anniversary of his death was June 20, 2014), his final resting place was inaugurated with a public memorial service. In addition, in March 2014 the Gotha City Library named the reading and events room in the new extension on Philosophenweg “Heinrich Heine” after the writer “Hanns-Cibulka-Saal”.

Works

  • 1954: March light. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1959: two syllables. Poems Weimar: Volksverl.
  • 1960: Sicilian diary Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1962: Arioso. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1963: Umbrian Days Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1968: compass rose. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1971: Sea buckthorn season. Diary sheets from Hiddensee Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verl.
  • 1972: Dornburger leaves. Letters and notes Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verl.
  • 1973: light swallows. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1974: Declaration of love in K. Diary entries Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verl.
  • 1977: Tree of Life. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1978: The Book of Ruth. From the records of the archaeologist Michael S. Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verl.
  • 1980: the vine. Poems Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1982: Swantow. The records of Andreas Flemming Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verl.
  • 1982: Poems Berlin / GDR: Verl. Neues Leben (= poetry album 181)
  • 1984: Since a conversation we are / E noi siamo dialogo. Poems / Poetry Bilingual edition. Forli: Forum / Quinta Generazione.
  • 1985: Sea thorn. Diary narration Halle / Leipzig: Central German publ.
  • 1986/1989: Dissolved. Poems from three decades . Selection and epilogue Gerhard Wolf. Leipzig: Reclam. (= Reclams Universal Library 1100) ISBN 3-379-00209-7
  • 1988: Divide. Diary narration Halle / Leipzig: Central German publisher ISBN 3-354-00301-4
  • 1989: Night watch. Diary from the war. Sicily 1943 Halle / Leipzig: Central German publisher ISBN 3-354-00508-4
  • 1991: Ostseetagebücher Leipzig: Reclam. (= Reclam library 1398) ISBN 3-379-00693-9
  • 1992: Dornburger Blätter Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verl. ISBN 3-7466-0150-9
  • 1993: Thuringian Diaries Leipzig: Reclam. (= Reclam Library 1457) ISBN 3-379-01457-5
  • 1994: At the bridge weir. Between childhood and transition Leipzig: Reclam. ISBN 3-379-01490-7
  • 1996: The return of the betrayed sons. Diary narration Leipzig: Reclam. ISBN 3-379-01553-9
  • 1998; ²2005: Diary of a late love Leipzig: Reclam ISBN 3-379-01615-2
  • 2000: Sunspots over Pisa Leipzig: Reclam. ISBN 3-379-01700-0
  • 2004: Late years Leipzig: Reclam. ISBN 3-379-20083-2

After Hanns Cibulka's death appeared:

  • 2005: Every word a wing beat (poems, prose, notes). Edited by Günter Gerstmann. Radebeul: Notschriften-Verlag. ISBN 3-933753-78-3
  • 2005: The Blue Color of the Wind (Selected Poetry and Prose). Watercolors and drawings by Gudrun Kraft-Methfessel. Foreword by Heinz Puknus. Jena: Glaux Verlag Christine Jäger. ISBN 3-931743-87-X
  • 2010: Labyrinth of Life. A breviary published by Hans-Dieter Schütt with an afterword. Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlag. ISBN 978-3-359-02275-6
  • 2013: Hanns Cibulka. Thuringian diaries with graphics by Gunter Herrmann. Radebeul: Notschriften-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-940200-88-4
  • 2013: Hanns Cibulka. Where your questions are open poems. Selection and epilogue Heinz Puknus. Weimar: Wartburg Verlag (Muschelkalk edition of the Thuringian Literary Society). ISBN 978-3-86160-340-5

Awards

literature

  • Georg Maurer: Talent and obligation. In: New German Literature . 1955. H. 10, pp. 139-142.
  • Adolf Endler: Courage for a better life. In: New German Literature . 1961. H. 2, pp. 126-129. (To: Sicilian Diary)
  • Adolf Endler: Problems of a Gifted Poet. In: New German Literature . 1963. H. 3, pp. 145-153. (To: Arioso)
  • Eduard Zake: Self- reflection and determination of one's position. In: New German Literature . 1972. H. 10, pp. 166-169. (To: Sea buckthorn season)
  • Bernd Leistner: Cibulka's diaries. In: Weimar Contributions . 1978: H. 9, pp. 24-44.
  • Bernd Leistner: Hanns Cibulka, "Tree of Life". In: Weimarer Contributions , 1979, no. 4, pp. 123-133. (To: Poetry book)
  • Horst Schiefelbein: "Writing - that is my declaration of love for life". Conversation. In: Neues Deutschland , September 2, 1980.
  • Heinz Stade: "You have to feel the last". Conversation. In: Sunday , September 28, 1980.
  • Reinhard Losik: Alternative tones from a GDR poet. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 2, 1981.
  • Gerhard Dahne: Swantow or Behind Masks, we talk about masks. In: Neue Deutsche Literatur , H. 10. P. 125–129.
  • Klaus Höpcke: View of Swantow - convincing and doubtful. In: Sinn und Form , 1984, H. 1, pp. 165-177.
  • Ulf Heise: Fascinating meditations. In: Dresdner Latest News , August 3, 1988. (To: Wegscheide)
  • Siegfried Stadler: The individual who carries the other with him. Conversation. In: Sächsisches Tageblatt , October 14, 1989.
  • Günter Gerstmann: Der Tagebuchschreiber In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel , Frankfurt am Main, October 30, 1990.
  • Konrad Franke: In Thuringia goethenah. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 5./6. June 1993. (To: Thuringian Diaries)
  • Konrad Franke: In Krnov. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 2, 1994. (To: Am Brückenwehr)
  • Hans-Georg Albig: The upheaval was only external. Conversation. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , February 11, 1995.
  • Günter Gerstmann: "I believe in the spiritual age". Conversation. In: Palmbaum , No. 14, 1996, H. 2, pp. 52-57.
  • Jürgen Israel : value conservative poet. In: Day of the Lord , September 17, 2000.
  • Hans-Dieter Schütt : The slow walker. In: Neues Deutschland , June 22, 2004 (obituary).
  • Günter Burgmann: "Writing means: speaking with people". Personal notes on the death of the writer HC In: The Displaced , 2004, no. 8, p. 30 f.
  • Günter Burgmann: Hanns Cibulka. Five years after his death. In: The Displaced Person , 2009, No. 6, p. 29.
  • Wulf Kirsten : Friendship with the earth. In: Neues Deutschland , September 20, 2010 (on the occasion of his 90th birthday).
  • Günter Gerstmann: "I have nothing but the word". Contributions to the work of Hanns Cibulka. Photographs: Georg Jeske. Radebeul: Notschriften-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-940200-56-3 .
  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Hanns Cibulka (1920-2004), p. 33-38 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Klinger: Honorary grave for Hanns Cibulka in the main cemetery in Gotha , in: Thüringer Allgemeine, June 7, 2013
  2. ↑ Heinz Puknus: Hanns Cibulka died ten years ago. Memorial hour in Gotha , in: Thüringer Allgemeine, June 20, 2014

Web links

  • Cibulka's world by Hans-Dieter Schütt. September 19, 2005. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cibulka, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cibulka, Johannes Paul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jägerndorf , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2004
Place of death Gotha , Thuringia