Hans-Jörg Dost

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Hans-Jörg Dost (born July 27, 1941 in Leipzig - Leutzsch ) is a German writer.

Life

Dost grew up as the only child of a couple of druggists in the Leipzig district of Leutzsch . After studying theology in his hometown, he worked as a Protestant pastor in various parishes in Saxony, in Erfurt and in Styria. His first radio play was broadcast during his studies. Travels to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary also shaped him literarily. His radio plays quickly found their way abroad and have been translated into over ten languages. Since 1982 he has been taking part regularly in the meetings of the International Radio Play Center at Austrian Broadcasting . He has also been publishing poetry and narrative prose since the 1980s. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the Democratic Awakening in Thuringia, and in 1990 he was one of the founders of the European Cultural Center in Erfurt and the Thuringian Literary Society. He has lived in Saxony again since 2004, and in Dresden since 2008.

In Dost's literary works one mostly encounters people who have to prove their dignity in tricky situations.

"At Dost, humans are not an abstract target construction against which the deeds of the living are measured, it is the living through whom the rays of everlasting hope and the falling rocks of constant defeat pass and leave their mark."

"He gives his texts the shortest possible, simple and precise language possible, since in times of words and images inundation he strives for the highest level of commitment - knowing full well that this goal cannot really be achieved."


Hans-Jörg Dost is a member of the Association of German Writers , the IG Authors Austria, the Literary Society of Thuringia, the Saxon Writers 'Association and the Graz Authors' Assembly .

Works

Radio plays (selection)

  • Seven conversations about tips , Berlin 1965.
  • Turkeys and Tears , Berlin 1967.
  • Passio Camilo , Berlin 1971.
  • Namyslowski's room , Berlin 1974.
  • Aerial photos , 1978.
  • Bruno goes swimming , Eisenstadt and Prague 1986.
  • Good evening, we bring the Lions , Warsaw and Ljubljana in 1988.
  • Storm in exile or: What you want to hear in Heiligenstadt, you have to sing , Berlin 1990.
  • And besides, it was already way too cold outside , Eisenstadt 2008.

Radio plays in book editions

  • Radio Play 7 , Berlin 1967.
  • Radio plays from the GDR , Frankfurt / Main 1982.
  • The slim voice , Berlin 1988.
  • AUSsagen , Erfurt 1992.
  • Seven conversations about tips , Dresden 2001.

Television games

  • The wonderful Christmas of Mr. Jim Owen , Berlin 1973.
  • Conversations about tips , Berlin 1975.
  • The vineyards of P. János , Vienna 1988.

Oratorios and plays for the theater

  • Piasetzki, the man with the horse . 1980
  • Do not panic. It always goes on somehow . Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "We Got Away Again". 1996
  • Quiet flight. Death and resurrection of an angel. Music by Gertraud Gamerith. 2003
  • Forty days of rain . 2004
  • The star . pdf at: bühne.null.acht. 2007
  • Dottore Giovani . 2004, printed 2008

prose

  • Trip to my grandfather , Erfurt 1992
  • Final report , Erfurt 1992
  • The vineyards of János N. , Dresden 1999
  • A summer with the bridge hangover Franz , Bonn 2003
  • Filla paints mountains , Dresden 2007

Poems

In magazines, anthologies (GDR, Austria, Soviet Union) and on Austrian radio.

  • Erfurt resigned . Graphics and collection of poems with Egon Zimpel, Erfurt 1992.
  • AUSsagen , Erfurt 1992.
  • Places to live . Exhibition texts and photos, Austria and Germany 1997/98.
  • ... and yet know the river behind the house , Dresden 2000.
  • approach . With graphics by Hans Georg Anniès . Murnau / Upper Bavaria, 2004.
  • Places to live . Poems, Jena 2016.

Release

  • The slim voice . International radio plays, Berlin 1988.
  • Now I can no longer help, just stick. Manfred Streubel 1932–1992 . Special issue of the SIGNUM magazine.
Conception, editing and own contributions. Dresden 2012.

Awards

  • Slabesz. Prize of the International Radio Play Center at ORF, 1987.
  • 2nd prize at the International Screenplay Competition of Club (M), Vienna 1988.
  • Murauer Matthäus Medal in gold, 1996.
  • 2nd prize at Féile Fíliochta International Poetry Competition Dublin, 2005.
  • Prize-winning piece of the competition Zwischen Zeit , ÖBV Theater 2007.
  • Best radio play against violence, Eisenstadt 2008.
  • repeatedly grants from the Thuringian Ministry of Culture and Science.

References

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jürgen Fischer and Klaudia Ruschkowski in: AUSsagen , Edition of the European Cultural Center. Erfurt 1992, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Antonia Günther in: approximate , Murnau 2004, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Dost, Hans-Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig - Leutzsch