Helmut Preißler

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Helmut Preißler (2009)

Helmut Preißler (born December 16, 1925 in Cottbus , † December 20, 2010 in Bad Saarow ) was a German lyric poet , writer and re-poet .

biography

Helmut Preißler was born in Cottbus in 1925. He completed an apprenticeship or a degree in road and civil engineering and water management. He was a soldier during the war and was a prisoner of war in Belgium until the end of 1947. After a course for new teachers , he worked as a teacher in Cottbus until 1955. This was followed by studies and assistance at the Institute for Literature in Leipzig . From 1958 to 1965 he was cultural functionary of the FDGB in the EKO Eisenhüttenstadt . From 1965 to 1981 he worked at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) , from 1982 to 1987 in the culture department at the city council. From 1966 to 1975 he was the poetry editor of ndl magazine . Since 1975 Helmut Preißler lived in Bad Saarow. He died there on December 20, 2010.

He published poems, worked as a retoucher and editor, was a children's book author and worked for radio and theater.

Preißler was a staunch supporter of the SED and published a. a. the poem "Nobody gets through, comrades", which defended the construction of the Berlin Wall.

In addition, he served since 1960 under the code name "Anton" as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Prices

Works (selection)

  • Voices of the dead. Poems, Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin 1957
  • Voices of the living. Poems, Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1958
  • Reports from the delegates. Poems, Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 1959
  • Voices from the brigades. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1960
  • Voices of the later born. Poems, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1961
  • Voices, New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1962
  • Between grass and stars. Poems, New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1963
  • Speak a human word. Poems, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1964
  • Paths and encounters. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1968
  • Summer texts. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1968
  • Poetry album 9; New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1968
  • Poetry album 31; New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1970
  • Happiness should last. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1971
  • Colored dream. Poems, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1972
  • Poems. 1957-1975; New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1973
  • Sky blue and happiness. Children's book publisher , Berlin 1973
  • This is my country Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1974
  • My longing: man. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1974
  • Dreamy shores. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1979
  • Then said Fips. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1979
  • Dreams and deeds. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1980
  • Cuba. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1981
In 1961, Helmut Preißler (right) received the FDGB Literature Prize from Herbert Warnke , chairman of the GDR trade union federation FDGB
  • My first life New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1983
  • Lotus seeds. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1984
  • Selected poems. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1985
  • The dream in the bamboo house. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1986
  • Postcodes Limericks. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1986
  • I want to live with you. Poems, Tribüne Verlag , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7303-0278-7
  • The earth breathes green. Poems, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-355-00659-9
  • We hike through the winter forest. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1989
  • Walking through the day. Poems, stories, pictures, Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7303-0434-8
  • Postcode Limericks from Aachen to Zwesten; Kiro-Verlag , Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929220-03-2
  • Reasons or who does not turn around. Autobiography 1990-1997; GNN-Verlag , Schkeuditz 1997, ISBN 3-929994-89-5
  • Hug me deARTsig, Glinna (Poland) 2002
  • Simpl rhymes. deARTsig, Glinna (Poland) 2002
  • So much life. Verl. Die Furt, Jacobsdorf 2010

Radio plays and features

literature

Web links

Commons : Helmut Preißler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page 234 in the book The Berlin Wall in Art: Fine Arts, Literature and Film, published by the Berlin Wall Foundation
  2. ^ Page 584 in the book Security Area Literature, Writers and State Security in the German Democratic Republic by Joachim Walther and Gesine von Prittwitz
personal data
SURNAME Preissler, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet, writer and re-poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2010
Place of death Bad Saarow