Heinz Klunker

This article deals with the theater critic, on the union official see Heinz Kluncker .

Heinz Klunker (born December 20, 1933 in Groptitz, district of Stauchitz , Saxony ) is a German publicist and theater critic .

Professional background

Klunker studied at the University of Leipzig until 1955 , where he was publicly criticized for his undisclosed support for the newly founded NVA , and after moving via Berlin to West Germany at the University of Münster . In the early 1960s he was a lecturer for school courses at the Place of Encounter [1] in Vlotho; Here he got to know the sociologist Annelie Keil , the publicist Manfred Jäger , the local politician Hans-Jürgen Rathert , the historian Reinhard Rürup and the educationalist Werner Treuheit . From 1962 to 1978 he worked as a feature editor for the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt in Hamburg and was then head of the feature editorial team at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne . He was a member of the jury of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen . Klunker has lived in Berlin since 1999 .

Journalistic activity

Klunker wrote numerous reviews and essays on the political and social situation of theater and literature in the two German states and repeatedly stayed in the GDR and in East Berlin for interviews and discussions with East German playwrights and writers. During his time at Deutschlandfunk, his interests and focus were also on dealing with the past of National Socialism and the cultural situation in Warsaw Pact countries , especially in what was then Yugoslavia .

Publications

• Time pieces, contemporaries. Contemporary theater in the GDR. Hanover: Fackelträger, 1972. (Paperback edition Munich: dtv, 1975).
• [add. with Erich Loest :] Hard pace. The rise and fall of the novel "It goes its way or its toil on our level" - a piece of GDR literary politics. Cologne: Deutschlandfunk, Dept. Press a. Public Relations, 1983.
• [add. with Hansjürgen Rosenbauer and Christian Thomas:] Peter Eschberg - theater maker. Bonn: Bouvier, 1991.

literature

• “'It happened very gradually, none of these were sudden developments.' Conversation with Heinz Klunker ”, in: Achim Leschinsky and Gerhard Kluchert: Between two dictatorships. Discussions about the school days in National Socialism and in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Weinheim: Deutscher Studienverlag, 1997.