Hans Dietrich Lindstedt

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Hans Dietrich Lindstedt (born April 21, 1929 in Schönebeck (Elbe) , † April 10, 2008 in Chemnitz ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Lindstedt grew up on the Middle Rhine from 1935. In 1947 his parents moved to Magdeburg for family reasons, where Lindstedt took his Abitur in 1948. Not allowed to study by the GDR authorities, he attended a new teacher course from 1949 and worked as a teacher, language teacher and Kulturbund district secretary. In 1956 he became editor of the “Märkische Volksstimme” in Potsdam. In 1966 he completed a five-year correspondence course in journalism, and in 1968 he published his first book in an anthology . In 1977 he was dismissed without notice for political reasons. In 1981 he used the trip to the Federal Republic of Germany on the occasion of his mother's funeral to escape from the GDR. He settled in Mainz and became a freelance journalist. Lindstedt belonged to the writers 'association Free German Authors' Association (FDA) and was very active there for many years: In 1985, Lindstedt founded the Rhineland-Palatinate State Association of the FDA together with Volkmar von Zühlsdorff , of which he was honorary chairman at the federal level in the last years of his life. After the reunification of Germany, he also founded all East German FDA state associations. From 1997 to 2007 he was the founding chairman of the FDA regional association in Saxony. From 1997 until his death he lived with his wife Lilly Ulm-Lindstedt in their hometown Chemnitz.

Works

  • "... but the car that rolls". An anthology for Hans Dietrich Lindstedt (including texts by Hans Dietrich Lindstedt). Leipzig 2009
  • A youth on the Rhine . Leipzig 2006
  • You yourself. Two dozen cheeky stories from my life . Leipzig 2006
  • Pro arte Saxoniae. Werner Ballarin for his seventieth . (Hans Dietrich Lindstedt as editor). Leipzig 2006
  • In front of the gate. An anthological reader (Hans Dietrich Lindstedt and Werner Ballarin as editors). Simmern 2005
  • Night drive. An escape to the Rhine . Simmern 2003
  • On the road. My American diary . Simmern 2002
  • Magic time (Hans Dietrich Lindstedt as editor). Simmern 2001
  • The 13th Roman ship . Simmern 1999 and Saarbrücken 1994
  • Heinrich Heine on the trip to Mainz. A story. Simmern 1997 and Saarbrücken 1994
  • The sol come in our Lant ... Documentation for the 4th Wartburg Congress "Freedom in Confidence" from February 12th to 14th, 1993 in Eisenach in Thuringia (Free German Association of Authors. Ed .: Hans Dietrich Lindstedt / Gertrud Haak). Koblenz 1995
  • Every second heartbeat. Memories of Central German Authors . Poets and bigwigs from three decades. Koblenz 1990
  • My land that shines afar . Otterstadt 1986 and Sankt Michael 1983
  • Märkischer report . Otterstadt 1986 and Sankt Michael 1984
  • Rhenish history in: "Voranmeldung" (edited by Gerd Noglik), Halle (Saale) 1968

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personal data
SURNAME Lindstedt, Hans Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönebeck (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2008
Place of death Chemnitz