Heinz Dieter Tschörtner

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Heinz Dieter Tschörtner (born July 1, 1932 in Mühlhausen ) is a German publishing editor, author and editor.

Life

Tschörtner grew up in Mühlhausen and passed his Abitur there. In 1953 he moved to Babelsberg with his family . After his training, he worked as a librarian in Mühlhausen, Erfurt and Halle , before working as an editor and lecturer at the Volk und Welt publishing house in Berlin from 1959 . There he was editor of the publishing magazine Der Bücherkarren and, since 1962, of the Roman newspaper, which has been printed in large numbers . As editor, among other things, he was responsible for an edition of Werner Steinberg's works by Mitteldeutscher Verlag ( Selected Works , 1976–1988).

Since the 1960s Tschörtner has published numerous selections of works, specialist articles and bibliographies on Gerhart Hauptmann . He published a biography of Hauptmann in 1995. Tschörtner was for many years treasurer of the Gerhart Hauptmann Society in Erkner, founded in 1952, and has been the publisher of the half-yearly Gerhart Hauptmann papers since 1999 .

Tschörtner lives in Berlin-Lichtenberg . His wife Ilse Tschörtner also worked as an editor, translator and post-poet for Soviet authors such as Viktor Astafjew , Daniil Charms , Weniamin Kawerin , Vladimir Solouchin and Tatjana Tolstaja . His daughter was the documentary film director Petra Tschörtner (1958–2012).

Works (selection)

  • Friedrich von Schiller 1759–1805. A directory for the Schiller year 1955 . Mühlhausen District Library 1955.
  • (Editor) Gerhart Hauptmann. Selection for the youth . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1962.
  • (Editor) The Max Kretzer files . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1969 (= from the archive of the German Schiller Foundation Weimar 14).
  • Gerhart Hauptmann bibliography . Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin 1971 (2nd expanded edition 1976) (= Bibliographische Mitteilungen der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek 24).
  • (Editor) Johannes Wüsten : Tannhäuser. Narratives and stories . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1976.
  • (Editor) Bernhard Kellermann : ^ A review 1906–1951 . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1979.
  • (Editor) Johannes Wüsten: The Verrätergasse. Pieces, essays, poems, autobiographies, letters . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1980.
  • (Editor) B. Traven : From the Land of Spring. Excerpts, articles, information . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1986.
  • Hoped for great things. About Gerhart Hauptmann - work and effect . Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-371-00002-8 .
  • (Editor) Conversations and interviews with Gerhart Hauptmann (1894–1946) . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-503-03088-3 (= publications of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft 6).
  • Gerhart Hauptmann. A picture of life . Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-929817-01-2 .
  • The sea blows incessantly. New Captain Studies . Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-87057-190-X .
  • Leonhard Frank's books in the GDR . Leonhard Frank Society, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-932404-05-X (= series of publications of the Leonhard Frank Society 6).
  • (Editor) Gerhart Hauptmann: On the characteristics of Jehovah. Glosses on the Old Testament . With five original lithographs and seventeen charcoal drawings by Hermann Naumann . Faber and Faber, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-932545-01-X (= print of the Sisyphos press 10).
  • (Editor) Joseph Chapiro and Gerhart Hauptmann: Correspondence 1920–1936 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0032-6 .
  • Proteus captain. Contributions to work and effect . Thelem, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-939888-47-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. (ADN :) 34 million copies of the Roman newspaper . In: Neues Deutschland from 22./23. November 1980, p. 4.
  2. ↑ The Roman newspaper appeared monthly at a price of 80 pfennigs with a circulation of 100,000 copies. Cf. Irmtraud Gutschke: 27 million issues of the Roman newspaper published. Conversation with Heinz Dieter Tschörtner . In: Neues Deutschland from 16./17. August 1975, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Tschörtner, Heinz Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse