Hartmut Biewald

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Hartmut Biewald (born June 5, 1943 in Hochkirch / Silesia, today Wysoki Kościół, rural community Wisznia Mała near Trzebnica (Trebnitz) / Poland) is a German writer who mainly wrote children's books in the GDR and local history about Thuringia and Gotha in the reunified Germany .

Life

Hartmut Biewald was born in Hochkirch / Silesia (today Wysoki Kosiol near Trzebnica / Poland) in 1943. After the expulsion of his family in 1945, he spent his childhood until 1955 on a Neubauernhof in Schönstedt in county Langensalza . He loved the fields and the hilly landscape and, looking back, said: “My childhood was the most precious to me.” He attended elementary school from 1949 to 1957, then completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator in Ruhla by 1960 .

While as a child he had invented Indian stories for lack of personal experience, the turner's apprentice tried his hand at poetry with little success and the following love story remained an attempt.

Biewald worked as a lathe operator and made up for his 10th grade in evening school . Then from 1961 to 1964 he completed an engineering degree for operating, measurement, control and regulation technology (BMSR) in Jena and Leipzig .

In 1964 he lived in Weimar and resumed his literary endeavors.

Professional activities in the field of sales management prompted him to complete additional studies from 1966 to 1968 at the Technical College for Foreign Trade in Leipzig. In 1968 he moved to Gotha and worked as a programmer in an IT station.

In the same year he joined the circle of writing workers . Its director, the writer Hanns Cibulka , became his mentor . He also had another leading figure in his future wife, a German teacher whom he had met on a trip to the Volga . He wrote Neubauer stories from his own experience, one of which received a recognition award in 1971 in the competition of the State Committee for Broadcasting and the German Writers' Association . His story Spring Beginning was included in an anthology published by the Mitteldeutscher Verlag .

In 1974 he gave up his work as a programmer and took a special course at the Institute for Literature “Johannes R. Becher” in Leipzig. Also in 1974 he published his first book, the children's book Tonca . At the end of the course in mid-1975, Biewald started his own business as a freelance writer in Gotha. In 1979 he was accepted into the GDR Writers' Association.

In 1989 he combined children's literature, his main field of work, with a new field of work, namely local history, by publishing a reader about Thuringia. As a result, there were two more home-related publications by the now employed as an educational employee at the Museum for Regional History Gotha : an illustrated book and a school book.

style

With the help of children's books, Biewald tried to prepare the children in his state for life under socialism , to root its values ​​and morals in the child at an early stage.

The handbook for children's and youth literature comments on Barfuß über die Felder (1982), which takes place around a “new farm in an inhospitable wasteland”: “The strong, contrasting stimulus sensitivity in the narrative figure, which Biewald sets as the ideal narrative, leaves one acoustically and visually dense representation of a child's life in the country. "

In Build me a dragon, Father! (also 1982) is about a border soldier who cannot keep his promise to fly a kite with his son because of official necessity. The book is intended to convey to the child that the state security - according to the socialist view synonymous with "peacekeeping" - is the most important thing. In the Erfurt newspaper Das Volk, Hannes Bosse praised : “Biewald has succeeded brilliantly in [...] presenting a large subject to 'childlike understanding'.” In contrast, Annegret Hofmann criticized in New Germany that Biewald had “his hero with too many problems “Confronted and overwhelmed the child reader.

In the adult story book Lichtpunkte (1977), the reviewer of New Germany , Klaus-Dieter Schönewerk, noticed the “poetic observations, almost aphoristic sentences”, but also some not fully baked and therefore implausible figures.

Works

Children's books

  • Tonca (= chaffinch books ). Illustrations by Rolf F. Müller . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1974.
  • The frog green roller (= The Little Trumpeter Books ; Volume 117). Illustrations by Michael Emig . Binding by Wolfgang Freitag. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1976.
  • Swallows over the reeds. Illustrations by Rolf F. Müller. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1980.
  • Barefoot across the fields. Illustrations by Rolf F. Müller. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1982.
  • Build me a kite, father! (= The Little Trumpeter Books ; Volume 163). Illustrations by Elke Bullert-Spuler. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1982.

Anthology contributions

  • The flamingo and the Azorean low. In: Maxel, the snowy owl and other stories (= chaffinch books ). Compiled by Inge Baumert. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 29–39.
  • New banks. In: Where I have friends. An anthology on the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. With Russian and Soviet graphics. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 5–16.
  • Wobbly digits. In: The blue butterfly and other bedtime stories. Edited by Erika Schröder. With pictures by 34 illustrators. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 31–33.
  • A very "special" act. In: With cherries to Africa. Pioneering stories. Illustrations by Manfred Bofinger . Compiled by Inge Baumert. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 22-27.

stories

  • Points of light. Narrative. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), 1977.

Local history

  • The wind blows in the shepherd's horn. A reader about Thuringia. Illustrations by Thomas Müller. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-358-00489-9 .
  • Old Gotha. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1991, ISBN 3-925277-66-8 . (Illustrated book)
  • With Irka Biewald: The green heart of Germany. History from Thuringia. Working material for the lower level. People and knowledge, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-06-100452-1 .

Awards

  • 1984: GDR Medal of Merit

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hartmut Biewald. In: lesezeichen-ev.de. Bookmarks eV, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dieter Fechner , Hedwig Völkerling: Thuringian authors of the present. A lexicon . 1st edition. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2003, ISBN 3-931505-47-2 , Biewald, Hartmut, p. 19 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Hartmut Biewald, p. 14th f .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Heinz Stade: "Wherever the tree is, the wind will reach it". In conversation with the Gotha writer Hartmut Biewald . In: The people . Erfurt January 8th, 1976, in the workshop of young artists in our district.
  5. ^ A b c Herbert Greiner-Mai : Writer of the Erfurt district. Members and candidates of the Writers' Union of the GDR . Ed .: Council of the district of Erfurt in connection with the writers' association of the GDR district of Erfurt. Erfurt 1989, Hartmut Biewald, p. 8th f . (in the previous edition 1979 Biewald on p. 90).
  6. ↑ a b c d Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer: Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990 . Founded by Theodor Brüggemann (=  handbook for children's and youth literature . Volume 7 ). JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 , Biewald, Hartmut, p. 999 .
  7. ↑ elt: Cheers under the microphones. Prize winners in the competition “Write that down!” In: Neue Zeit. Central organ of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . No. 152/1971 , July 1, 1971, From cultural life, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ a b blurb on points of light .
  9. ↑ Hannes Bosse: Large objects for childish understanding. On two new books by the Gotha author Hartmut Bierwald [sic], published by the children's book publisher . In: The people . Erfurt March 2nd 1983, Before the IX. Writers' Congress of the GDR .
  10. ↑ Annegret Hofmann: Lovable books for the younger reading age . In: New Germany . No. 124/1983 , May 28, 1983, Bücherbord, p. 14 .
  11. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Schönewerk: From someone who still has to find his place . In: New Germany . No. 126/1977 , May 28, 1977, literature, p. 14 .

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personal data
SURNAME Biewald, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochkirch Silesia