Holger Jackisch

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Holger Jackisch (born March 21, 1959 in Bautzen , † December 30, 2001 in Leipzig ) was a German writer , editor and director . He wrote short stories , radio plays and radio features .

Life

After graduating from high school, which Holger Jackisch took in Bautzen in 1977, he initially worked as a nurse and ambulance transporter. Basic military service with the NVA was followed by studies at the engineering school for civil engineering in Leipzig and a three-year activity as a site manager, before Jackisch studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig from 1985 to 1988 . He then worked from 1989 to 1991 as an editor for the independent weekly newspaper Die Andere Zeitung and, in succession to Karl-Heinz Tesch, from 1994 until his untimely death at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk as head of the feature editorial team at MDR- Hörfunks. Kathrin Aehnlich , Paul Kohl , Helmut Kopetzky , Friedrich Schütze-Quest and Joachim Walther belonged to his inner circle of authors with whom he created successful radio documentaries .

Works

prose

  • The fool's hour , stories, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig 1988

Radio plays

  • Death of a German clown (via Paul Scheerbart ), Broadcasting of the GDR 1986, published in: Highest Time . Radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1989, pp. 177–203
  • Death of a German clown , SDR 1987
  • The corrugated iron hut (after Anna Seghers ), Funkhaus Berlin 1990

Radio features

  • I think of Leipzig at night. Between home and homeland - Leipzig Jews in Israel , MDR 1992
  • Money and Poems (together with Kathrin Aehnlich ), MDR 1992
  • My fever will pass again , MDR 1992
  • For the Czechs I'm still the colleague - GDR border guards without GDR , (together with Carsten Heller), MDR 1992
  • Our little Eberhard - A GDR comedian without GDR , MDR 1992
  • Transfer Leipzig - Looking for asylum in East Germany , (together with Helmut Kopetzky ) MDR 1992
  • Quiet Exile - The GDR Colony in Chile , MDR 1993
  • In a cell of two by thirty-five. Three prisoners and a tape recorder - one week's recordings (together with Ulf Köhler), MDR 1995
  • Getting her own back - A Jewish housewife and a German minister argue over a piece of land (together with Nigel Acheson), MDR / BBC 1994
  • Breathlessness for free - the sound recordings of a Himalayan expedition (together with Olaf Rieck), MDR 1995
  • Semper's Synagogue - Jewish Life in Dresden , MDR 1998
  • Where the frankincense tree grows - A travelogue from the Sultanate of Oman , MDR 1997
  • Radio evening: Friedrich Schütze-Quest , MDR 1998
  • Klunker, Wolfgang and Klunker, Heinz - A German-German Family History , MDR 1999
  • Three times Bautzen zwo - a city and a prison - Erich Loest and Dieter Hötger ("Tunnel-Dieter") in conversation with Holger Jackisch, MDR 1999
  • The population is asked - In search of the escape from the Bautzen II prison , MDR 2000

Prices (selection)

  • "Author's Award of the Critics Jury 1988", GDR radio play award , for the death of a German clown (about Paul Scheerbart ), director: Werner Grunow
  • "PRIX FUTURA 1995" and "Media Prize of the Ostdeutscher Kulturrat Foundation 1995" for Helmut Kopetzky: I too was a Bittschön , coproduction with Radio Prague, editor: Holger Jackisch
  • "Goldenes Kabel 1996" for Joachim Walther: Erich Mielke - Ein deutscher Jäger , coproduction with Deutschlandfunk and Hessischer Rundfunk, editing and director: Holger Jackisch

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It's high time. Radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1989, p. 206
  2. ^ Original sound Germany: Radiofeature 1992-1997 , Ed. Holger Jackisch, Concept-Verlag Leipzig 1997
  3. ↑ MDR audio document [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Jackisch, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2001
Place of death Leipzig