Heinz Czechowski

Heinz Czechowski (born February 7, 1935 in Dresden ; † October 21, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German poet and dramaturge.

Life

Czechowski experienced the destruction of the city of Dresden as a ten-year-old. After training as a graphic draftsman and working as a surveyor's assistant and technical draftsman , he first joined the Young Authors' Working Group and then studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig from 1958 to 1961 , where he was heavily supported by Georg Maurer ( Saxon Poet School ) was influenced. In 1957, the first poems were published in the journal Neue deutsche Literatur . 1961 to 1965 he was an editor at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag in Halle (Saale) . From 1971 to 1973 he was dramaturge at the stages of the city of Magdeburg . Since then he has worked as a freelance writer and temporarily lived in Wuischke in Upper Lusatia . Czechowski is a founding member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig .

Czechowski also emerged as a post-poet (including Anna Akhmatova , Michail Lermontow , Marina Tsvetaeva , Giannis Ritsos ). In 1987 he adapted Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Der Meister und Margarita for the Berliner Volksbühne .

Works

A loving couple's afternoon. Poems, 1962.
The bush has seven roses. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1964 (anthology).
Between forests and rivers. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1965 (anthology).
Our the day, our the word. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1966 (anthology).
Water ride. Poems, 1967.
Saying and contradiction. Prose, 1974.
Sheep and stars. Poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1974.
As for me. Poems, 1981, ISBN 3-935877-05-6 .
From Paris to Montmartre. 1981, ISBN 3-354-00056-2 .
I, for example. Poems, 1982.
To friend and foe. Poems, 1983, ISBN 3-446-13850-1 .
Mr. Neithardt walks through the city. 1983, ISBN 3-354-00437-1 .
No further sign. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-354-00179-8 .
The mountains beside the river walk gently like animals. 1989.
The turn. 1989.
My venice. Poems and Prose, 1989, ISBN 3-8031-0169-7 .
To a city sunk in fire. 1990, ISBN 3-354-00632-3 .
Night trail. Poems and Prose, 1993, ISBN 3-250-10184-2 .
Poems and poems. 1996.
My Westphalian peace. One cycle. Nyland Foundation, 1998, ISBN 3-506-76162-5 .
Sauerland elegy. 1998.
Me and the consequences. Rowohlt, 1998, ISBN 3-498-00881-1 .
The open secret. 1999, ISBN 3-933749-05-0 .
Time stands still. Poems, Grupello Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-933749-31-X .
Desert Mark Kolmen. Poems, Ammann Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-250-10318-7 .
Seumes glasses. Poems from the Schöppinger Chronik (1999/2000). UN ART IG Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-9807111-3-7 .
Meddling. Grupello Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-933749-46-8 .
Seumes glasses. Grupello Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-933749-66-2 .
My father's garden. Grupello Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-933749-96-4 .
The Elbe near Pieschen and other descriptions of places. ISBN 3-928833-21-9 .
Unstruited. ISBN 3-910206-12-3 .
Healed of all miracles. Poems. onomato Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-939511-01-3 .
The poles of memory. Autobiography. Grupello Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89978-046-9 .

Prices

1961: City of Halle Art Prize
1970: Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin (as a collective)
1976: Heinrich Heine Prize from the GDR Ministry of Culture
1984: Heinrich Mann Prize from the GDR Academy of Arts
1990/1991: Bergen town clerk
1996: Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
1998: Dresden city clerk
1999: Dr. Manfred Annual Fair of Honor from the German Schiller Foundation

2001: Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau

literature

Renatus Deckert: Ruin and Poem. The destroyed Dresden in the work of Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski and Durs Grünbein , Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010. ISBN 978-3-939888-94-9
Short biography for: Czechowski, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Heinz Czechowski in the catalog of the German National Library
Heinz Czechowski in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Wolfgang Ertl on Czechowski's work since the fall of the Wall
Heinz Czechowski at Grupello Verlag
Heinz Czechowski in the town clerk archive Bergen-Enkheim

Individual evidence

↑ Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Heinz Czechowski, p. 16 .
↑ Anne-Marie Pailhès: Regional identity in the GDR: Heinz Czechowski and Saxony - in search of the lost home in the autobiography, in: East German memory discourses after 1989: Narrative cultural identity, ed. by Elisa Goudin-Steinmann and Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Berlin 2013, pp. 227–244, here p. 238.

personal data
SURNAME	Czechowski, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	October 21, 2009
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Heinz Czechowski, p. 16 .

[2] Anne-Marie Pailhès: Regional identity in the GDR: Heinz Czechowski and Saxony - in search of the lost home in the autobiography, in: East German memory discourses after 1989: Narrative cultural identity, ed. by Elisa Goudin-Steinmann and Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Berlin 2013, pp. 227–244, here p. 238.