Horst Matthies

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Horst Matthies (born March 4, 1939 in Radebeul ) is a German author of plays , radio plays , children's books and stories or novels .

Life

After eight years of attending school, Matthies was trained as a miner in the Zwickau coal mining industry . In 1957 he signed up for three years as a riot policeman and decided to stay there after it had expired. He wrote texts for the amateur cabaret Die Schärschützen and from 1965 to 1967 was a member of the circle of writing people's police in Cottbus . With a story he won first prize in 1965 and at the same time third prize for satirical poems in a literary competition on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the People's Police , advertised by the Ministry of the Interior .

His application for the literary institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig was approved in the second attempt after the intercession of Joachim Nowotny and Dorothea Kleine . In 1967, at his own request, he was released early from the riot police as an officer. This cleared the way for a three-year course at the Institute of Literature, which lasted until 1970; since then he has worked as a freelance writer. Also in 1970 he married and his son was born.

He signed a sponsorship agreement with the Eisleben Mansfeld Combine for 1970 to 1973, the aim of which was to create a link between writers and workers. In 1973 he moved to Halle (Saale) . The world premiere of his play Plädoyer für Julia took place in 1973 in the Dessau youth club. In 1974 he became a member of the German Writers' Association of the GDR . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the GDR, he took part in the competition of the Ministry of Culture for the development of new stage drama with his play Dream Post and received a recognition prize for it. He later reworked this into a radio play that was broadcast in February 1978.

For lack of money, he occasionally hired himself out in the Mansfeld copper slate mine , as a concrete worker or unskilled worker in the Wismar shipyard . He was delegated by the BMK Chemie Halle for one year, from 1975 to 1976, as a civil engineer to the Druzhba natural gas pipeline in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . There he kept a diary which he used in 1978 as a co-author of the report volume Abenteuer Trasse . This also resulted in his radio play Wölfe im Lager , which - in addition to dream posts - was awarded an award in 1979 "for remarkable artistic solutions in the development of insufficiently designed areas of material and experience".

In 1980 Matthies moved to Hohen Viecheln on the Schweriner See . On the 35th anniversary of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig publishing house , he received the sponsorship prize awarded jointly with the “Johannes R. Becher” literary institute.

Although Matthies stood up for civil rights activists Stephan Krawczyk , Freya Klier and Vera Wollenberger as an SED member in 1988 , he remained a party member after the fall of the Wall and defended socialism . Since 1990, in continuation of his publishing activities in the GDR, further children's books and stories have been published, as well as novels. He is married to the painter and graphic artist Britta Matthies.

reception

Matthies' first volume of prose, The Golden Fish , was widely reviewed in the GDR press and the individual stories were of different quality. In the Berliner Zeitung , Marianne Krumrey wrote: “Even beyond the middle of the book, one has the impression that the narratives are quite mediocre, which hardly have a viable basic idea, have only been framed by fairy tale analogies and fairy tale motifs. In fact, he only uses them as formal set pieces, as narrative occasions or fabulous supports. ”“ Not everything turned out equally well. [But in some of the stories] Matthies proves to be an excellent, funny storyteller, ”Ingrid Pawlowitz summed up on Sunday . You "don't want to make sense of the deliberately laconic narrative either". Christel Berger's good overall impression, which she reproduced in Neues Deutschland , tarnishes the feeling that sometimes “the link to fairy tale motifs is attached [...] and not very productive for the message of the book”.

Works

  • 1973: Plea for Julia (stage play, district youth clubhouse "Majakowski" Dessau)
  • 1978: [Together with Gerd Eggers , Margarete Neumann , Ulrich Völkel ] Adventure route. Experiences and observations (report book, Neues Leben publishing house)
  • 1979: Pantelej Panteleevich, the visit from the pipe (shortened working version of a short story). In: Temperaments. Leaves for young literature , issue 4/1979, pp. 2–32.
  • 1980: the golden fish. No fairy tale book (short stories, Mitteldeutscher Verlag)
  • 1981: Boruschka (children's book, Der Kinderbuchverlag)
  • 1986: The little fairy Hinkeminkinke (children's book, Der Kinderbuchverlag)
  • 1992: Tümpelkinder (children's book, Weltbild Verlag)
  • 1997: Coitus interruptus. Stories from my two Germans (stories, Schlitzohr edition)
  • 1998: Der Lümmelriese (children's book, Volk und Wissen publishing house)
  • 1998: Oma Lina (children's book, Volk und Wissen publishing house)
  • 1998: Oma Linas Motolo (children's book, Volk und Wissen publishing house)
  • 1998: Olis excursion (children's book, Volk und Wissen publishing house)
  • 1998: The Wisdom of Words (Anagrams, Schlitzohr Edition)
  • 2005: There is no life without hope (novel, Schlitzohr edition)
  • 2007: The wisdom of words. New German anagrams (word games, Schlitzohr edition)
  • 2007: Anna am Bach. Five times five monovocal texts (word games, Schlitzohr edition)
  • 2007: Interfering in internal affairs. Later Victory (Stories, Schlitzohr Edition)
  • 2008: Peter Schwarzer. A life story (novel, Schlitzohr edition)

Radio plays

  • 1978: Dream Post ( GDR radio , director: Wolfgang Schonendorf )
  • 1978: Wolves in the camp (GDR radio, director: Walter Niklaus )
  • 1980: Men's rock and dancing camels or The Law of Causality (Rundfunk der DDR, Director: Walter Niklaus)
  • 1985: Filmriß (GDR radio, director: Werner Grunow )
  • 1986: Exceeding the location (radio of the GDR, director: Werner Grunow)
  • 1991: Having one foot in it ... (Funkhaus Berlin, Director: Walter Grunow)

Awards

  • 1979: GDR radio play award (radio play award of the listeners and special award of the jury of critics) for dream items
  • 1979: GDR radio play award (special award from the jury of critics) for wolves in the camp
  • 1980: Sponsorship award from the Mitteldeutscher Verlag and the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" for The Golden Fish

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Horst Matthies. Vita. In: literaturport.de. Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Brandenburgisches Literaturbüro, accessed on November 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Doris Boche: Many “attempts about happiness”. Workshop visit to the freelance writer Horst Matthies, who lives in Halle . In: Liberal Democratic Newspaper . Halle (Saale) June 19, 1978.
  3. ↑ a b Horst Matthies: Trust and Responsibility. Thoughts on the work of writers and the effectiveness of literature . In: freedom . Halle (Saale) July 14, 1973.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ursula Meves: From miner to writer. Visit to the workshop of Horst Matthies . In: FF included . Berlin March 6, 1978.
  5. ^ NP: double victory for a debutante . In: The world stage . 74th vol. 9, February 27, 1979, remarks, p. 287 f .
  6. ↑ Sponsorship awards are given . In: Liberal Democratic Newspaper . Halle (Saale) May 30, 1981.
  7. ↑ Horst Matthies: Again, good friends advise me ... In: Norddeutsche Zeitung . Schwerin January 12, 1990, Books and Authors, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ In addition to the excerpts listed below, also from: Monika Schneikart: Stories of Format , in: Ostsee-Zeitung , January 10, 1981, Literature and Society, p. 4, and Wolfgang Hässner: A lot of human strength and safe morals , in: Schweriner Volkszeitung , May 15, 1981.
  9. ^ Marianne Krumrey: Stories based on fairy tale motifs. First volume of prose by Horst Matthies . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 13, 1980.
  10. ^ Ingrid Pawlowitz: The golden fish by Horst Matthies, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle . In: Sunday . No. 49/1980 , December 7, 1980, Critique.
  11. ↑ Christel Berger: Motifs from fairy tales, but close to reality . In: New Germany . No. 68 , March 21, 1981, Bücherbord, p. 14 .
personal data
SURNAME Matthies, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matiīss, Horsts
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German riot policeman, miner and freelance author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul