Helmut Schiller

Helmut Schiller (* 1938 in Jena ) is a German author who mainly writes novels, but also wrote documentaries.

Life

Helmut Schiller studied philosophy in East Berlin in 1957/58 and journalism in Leipzig from 1960 , but broke off both times. In between there are two years of military service in the NVA. With the later writer Harald Gerlach , he hitchhiked through Western Europe after fleeing to the West in the spring of 1961 . Back in the east, he worked in a gravel pit in Erfurt , then for several years in a publishing house in Jena .

From 1965 to 1969 he completed a teaching degree at the University of Leipzig and was a German teacher at various schools. After leaving the teaching profession, he worked for the German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig from 1986 to 2001 .

After his debut novel Antonia's father in 1989/1990, he took part in a one-year special course for authors at the Leipzig Institute for Literature . He lives in Gerlingen near Stuttgart.

Works

• Antonia's father , book publisher Der Morgen 1989 - novel, ISBN 3-371-00197-0
• Petting , Verlag am Park, Berlin 1999 | Verlag am Park 1999 - Roman, ISBN 3-932180-85-2
• 100 years of the DZB The checkered history of the first German library for the blind , German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig 1994 - Documentation, ISBN 3-7465-0056-7
• A love in war How I met my grandparents Alfred and Josefa Schiller , FischerLautner Ditzingen 2010 - Documentation, ISBN 978-3-9810953-8-8
• Rising girl ghosts , FischerLautner Ditzingen 2010 - novel, ISBN 978-3-9814106-1-7
• The little journeys of Achim Ansberg: novel of a youth , FischerLautner Ditzingen 2011 - novel, ISBN 978-3-9814106-5-5
• Pigeon droppings with care level , FischerLautner Ditzingen 2014 - Roman, ISBN 978-3-9814106-9-3
• Wildwuchs - A Childhood in Cologne , Michaela Kuzmanovic and Helmut Schiller, biographical story, FischerLautner Ditzingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-945718-04-9

Reviews

among others in

• 1989 New Germany (December 30/31)
• 1989 Sunday (No. 51/1989)
• 1989 Leipziger Volkszeitung (July 19)
• 1989 Sächsisches Tageblatt (22/23 July)
• 1989 Sächsische Zeitung (August 18)
• 1989 Young World (September 15)
• 1999 Berlin bookmark (November / December)
• 1999 Leipziger Volkszeitung (April 15)
• 2010 Ostthüringer Zeitung (November 27th)
• 2014 Dijou (Ditzingen-Journal) (No. 20 October / November)

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Schiller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Helmut Schiller as part of the I. Ostseeperlen-Bücherfrühling Boltenhagen from May 6th to 10th, 1999
2. ↑ A love in war on Fischerlautnerverlag.de (accessed on March 10, 2016)
3. ↑ Dijou ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Journal for Ditzingen, Heimerdingen, Hirschlanden, Schöckingen and the surrounding area, No. 18 June / July 2014, page 23 
4. ^ New Germany December 30, 1989
5. ↑ Hans Wiesner: Development novel of a GDR generation In: Berlin Bookmarks (November / December 1999)
6. ↑ Dijou Journal for Ditzingen, Heimerdingen, Hirschlanden, Schöckingen and the surrounding area, No. 20 October 2014, page 6