Helmut Windisch

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Helmut Windisch (* 2. April 1925 in Schöneck / Vogtl. , † 1. May 2011 in Weimar ) was a German for the radio, television and various theaters of the GDR active author , director and artistic director .

Life

Helmut Windisch was born in Schöneck in the Vogtland region in 1925 . After graduating from high school in 1943, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He had to give up the chemistry studies he started after the war for health reasons.

From 1946 to 1954 he was a textile worker and from 1952 to 1955 assistant director , then director on various stages. During this time he also wrote plays , television plays and cabaret texts , but had no success with his publication efforts. It was not until 1955 that a short story by him was printed in the weekly mail . More short stories and poetry followed. He found his profession in 1958, when the German television radio considered some exercise exposés to be useful and even produced one, whereupon he turned back to dramatic creation. In 1959 he took over the artistic direction of the Triebel / Vogtl village theater . , near his place of residence Oelsnitz / Vogtl. For this he wrote four pieces up to 1965, all of which met with a wide response due to their roots in socialist village everyday life and earned him three state merit awards in addition to workers' festival medals. In 1963, Windisch joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

In the mid-sixties, health problems again prevented the freelance worker from 1960 on from continuing his staging work . Even literary work was only possible sporadically. With the play Zeit der Störche , a book adaptation from 1967 , he achieved a brief popularity again at the end of the 1960s. In the mixed reviews, there was talk of a “terse” but “respectable” implementation of the template, and that “not all questions of a philosophical nature” had been dealt with thoroughly and the given food for thought was “something on paper”.

In 1977 Helmut Windisch moved to Weimar , where he died in 2011.

Works for radio, television and theater

  • The fish. Radio play , 1958.
  • Smart farmers. Drama, 1960.
  • The inheritance (because of the later television game of the same name, often incorrectly stated as an unwilling inheritance ). Television play, 1961.
  • The women's economy. Comedy, 1961.
  • My daughter, of all people. Comedy, 1962.
  • The good game. Television play, 1963.
  • The excellent. Television play, 1965.
  • Farmer Bork. Acting, 1966.
  • Time of the storks. Drama, 1967.
  • Just no more love. Drama, 1969.
  • The honorable Mathilde. TV play, 1970.
  • Conversation with the present. Scene sequence, 1973.
  • Bathe, bathe and bathe again. Scene sequence, 1974.
  • The inheritance. TV play, 1981.
  • The marriage advertisement. TV drama, 1985.

Others

  • Documents and materials on the history of the district party organization of the KPD Großthüringen 1925– [1] 928 (= contributions to the history of Thuringia ). Selected and edited by Gottfried Börnert, Günther Michel-Triller and Harry Sieber with the assistance of Konrad Berger, Helmut Windisch and Waltraud Siebert. Published by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Erfurt district management, the district commission for research into the history of the local labor movement and the Weimar State Archives . Erfurt 1981.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g Herbert Greiner-Mai: Writer of the Erfurt district. Members and candidates of the Writers' Union of the GDR . Ed .: Council of the district of Erfurt in connection with the writers' association of the GDR district of Erfurt. Weimar 1989, Helmut Windisch, p. 80 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f H.-J. Kynaß: writer of our district . In: Free Press . 1961, p. 6 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Dieter Fechner , Hedwig Völkerling: Thuringian authors of the present. A lexicon . 1st edition. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2003, ISBN 3-931505-47-2 , Windisch, Helmut, p. 214 f .
  4. ↑ Horst Heizenröther: The Echo of Triebel . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 5 , January 5, 1964, literary page, p. Appendix p. 2 .
  5. ↑ Call me comrade . In: Free Earth . Neustrelitz January 19, 1963.
  6. ↑ Helmut Liebsch: From the epic to the drama. Herbert Otto's story “Time of the Storks” in the dramatization by Ulf Keyn and Helmuth [sic] Windisch on the stages in Eisleben and Radebeul . In: Theater of Time . No. 12/1969 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin December 1969, p. 38-40 .
  7. ↑ Jürgen Nowak: Time of the Lorbasse? In: New Germany . No. 166 , June 17, 1968, ND reports on the 10th Workers' Festival in the Halle district, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ Erbschaft, Die (staging of the 1960s) (1961). A television play by Helmut Windisch based on the story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. In: fernsehenderddr.de. Peter Flieher, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The winners . In: New Germany . No. 164 , June 16, 1961, class II, p. 6 .
  10. ↑ High awards . In: New Germany . No. 274 , October 6, 1963, Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze, p. 8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Windisch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director and artistic director for radio, television and theater
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneck / Vogtl.
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2011
Place of death Weimar