Helmut Baierl
Helmut Johannes Baierl (born December 23, 1926 in Rumburg , Czechoslovakia , † September 12, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German writer and vice-president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR .
Life
Baierl, a member of the NSDAP since 1944 , was a farm worker and Russian teacher after his expulsion from Czechoslovakia. From 1949 to 1951 he studied Slavic Studies at the University of Halle (Saale) and was then a lecturer in Russian in the adult qualification. From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" , was chief editor of the Hofmeisterverlag Leipzig until 1959 and until 1967 author and dramaturge at the Berliner Ensemble .
Baierl was a member of the LDP from 1945 to 1947 , then of the SED until 1989 . From 1961 to 1967 he was party secretary of the Berliner Ensemble , then a candidate until 1968 and a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin until 1989.
Baierl had been a freelance writer since 1967 . He was secretary of the poetry section from 1970 to 1974 and vice-president of the Academy of Arts until 1990. Since 1968 he was recorded under the code name "Flinz" as an unofficial employee (IM) of the MfS .
His grave is in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .
Awards and honors
- 1961 National Prize of the GDR
- 1970 National Prize of the GDR
- 1970 Erich Weinert Medal
- 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1976 Lessing Prize of the GDR
- 1979 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1985 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1985 Johannes R. Becher Medal
Works
- Gladioli, an inkwell, and a variegated cow , 1953
- A signpost , 1953
- The finding , 1958
- Mrs. Flinz , 1961 (premiere on April 25, 1961 in the Berliner Ensemble )
- Red Veit , 1962
- Five Stories from the Thirteenth , 1963
- Johanna von Döbeln , 1969
- The long road to Lenin , 1970
- The second life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow , 1973
- The laughing dove , premiere 1974
- The heads or the even smaller organon , 1974
- Rhyming speeches (agitation poetry), 1976
- Leo and Rosa , 1982
- You are a greenhorn, sir! 1984 (Premiere on April 6th, 1984 in the Theater der Freunde , Berlin )
- Polly tells. A big city dog's childhood memories. , 1986, ISBN 3-7684-3604-7
theatre
- 1986: Dario Fo : by chance a woman: Elisabeth (prologue) - director: Manfred Wekwerth / Alejandro Quintana ( Berliner Ensemble )
Filmography
- 1958: The finding
- 1970: On the way to Lenin
- 1973: The second life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
- 1979: Laughing pigeons don't cry
- 1981: In the land of eagles and crosses , documentary film
- 1983: Leo and Rosa , television play, also director
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Baierl, Helmut . 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 Helmut Baierl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helmut Baierl Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roland Berbig: In the matter of Biermann. Minutes, reports and letters on the consequences of expatriation. Berlin: Ch. Links, 1994.
- ↑ Cf. Barth: Baierl, Helmut .
- ^ Liselotte Gumpel: "Concrete Poetry" from East and West Germany. The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism at newprairiepress.org, April 1977, accessed September 1, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baierl, Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baierl, Helmut Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rumburg , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berlin |