Helmut H. Schulz

Helmut Hermann Schulz (born April 26, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

After attending secondary school, Helmut H. Schulz worked in the graphic trade. From the mid-1950s on, he published numerous essays and short prose in magazines and newspapers on the literary scene in the GDR . Since 1962 he has worked as an editor for various magazines and newspapers, including Junge Kunst , Das Magazin and the Forum . From 1968 to 1970 Schulz worked as a feature dramaturge on radio in the GDR , from 1970 to 1974 he worked as an editorial secretary for the newspaper Forum .

He has been a freelance writer since 1974. It was not until 1978 that he joined the GDR Writers 'Association, but in 1990 he switched to the West German writers' association VS, from which he has since resigned. He lives in Berlin.

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Schulz wrote numerous novels, short stories, radio plays and features. His story Meschkas Enkel was edited for radio as a radio play (Rundfunk der DDR 1979; adaptation: Renate Apitz; director: Fritz Göhler) and filmed for television (DFF 1981; director: Klaus Gendries ); Schulz's story The Fall of Man was released under the title Verbotene Liebe (DEFA 1990; Director: Helmut Dziuba ). His novels Years with Camilla (1979 into Czech) and Das Erbe (1984 into Slovak) have been translated into foreign languages . On March 23, 1983, Schulz received the Heinrich Mann Prize from the GDR Academy of the Arts for his novel Das Erbe . After German reunification , Schulz was initially able to keep his literature at Hinstorff in Rostock , but then gradually only in lesser-known publishers.

His publications are characterized above all by an uncommon density of narration. Its recurring theme is everyday life in divided Germany in the middle of the 20th century. The novel Dame in Weiß (1982), which was published in three editions in the GDR and which Schulz also edited as a film script, describes contemporary history from the perspective of an adolescent with all his experiences in the Allied bombing war. While the collection of stories Zeit ohne Ende , published in 1988, tells the story of unruly young people in Nazi Germany, among other things.

After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Schulz wrote The Blue Barrier (1995), a seafaring novel that, however, had no commercial success. In addition, biographies of the Empress Augusta and court reports from the Hohenzollern house were published by the Neues Leben publishing house in Berlin. Since 2013 his works have been published as e-books by HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen.

Honors

• 1983 Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts (Berlin)
• 1992 Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation (Weimar)

Works

• The stranger and the village. Narrative. Union Verlag, Berlin 1964, 85 pp.
• Years with Camilla. Novel. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1969, 193 pp., 2nd edition 1973, 3rd edition 1974, paperback 1986.
• Farewell to the Kietz. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1972, 200 p., 2nd ed. 1975, 3rd ed. 1977, 4th ed. 1983.
• The jumper. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1976, 352 pp.
• Roky's Kamilou [d. i. Years with Camilla. Translated by Jana Pecharová.] Melantrich, Prague 1976, 140 pp.
• Everyday life in paradise. Stories. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1977, 233 pp., 2nd edition 1979.
• Late summer. Two stories. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1979, 175 pp.
• The Heritage. A family novel. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1981, 532 pp., 2nd edition 1982.
• Lady in white. Novel. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1982, 567 pp., 2nd ed. 1983, 3rd ed. 1986.
• Meshka's grandson. Three stories . With illustrations by Hartwig Hamer . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1982, 253 pp., 2nd edition 1985.
• Dedičstvo. Rodinný román . (i.e. the legacy , translated by Milan Žitný ) Smena, Bratislava / Preßburg 1984 (Edícia Máj), 481 pp.
• Hour past twelve. Stories. With brush drawings by Joachim John . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1985, 115 pp.
• The fall of man. Two stories. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1988, 149 pp., 2nd edition 1990.
• Time without end. Three reports about a youth. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1988, 143 pp.
• Götterdämmerung. Narrative. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1990, 159 pp.
• The end of "Clara". Sailor stories. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1995, 152 pp.
• Letters from the Grand Hotel from November 4th to March 18th. Evidence from newspaper and television. Gotthardt publishing house, Berlin 1995, 187 pp.
• The blue barrier. Novel from the Fischland Hinstorff, Rostock 1995, 222 pp.
• Glamor and misery of the Friedrich Wilhelms. Farm reports . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1996, 299 pp.
• The Empress Augusta. Her marriage to Wilhelm I. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1996, 317 pp.
• The forgotten. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1999.
• The Hades of the Chosen. A German biography. Nora, Berlin 2001, 299 pp.
• Friedrich Nicolai, Biographical Notes. eBook, HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2013.
• Perpetrators and victims, the fate of officials from the GDR's childhood days. eBook, HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2013.
• Perfect crimes without prosecution. Crime stories, eBook, HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2013.
• Reports from the Reichstag grandstand. eBook, HeRaS Verlag, Göttingen 2013.

Radio plays

• 1970: Author collective (co-author): Conversations on a long day - Director: Detlef Kurzweg (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR )
• 1984: Poet and Pedant - Director: Uwe Haacke (children's radio play, 5th parts - Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

• Armin Mohler: Schulz, Helmut H (ermann). In: Walther Killy : Literaturlexikon , Vol. 10, p. 426

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut H. Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut H. Schulz in the Internet Movie Database (English)