Jürgen Borchert (publicist)
Jürgen Borchert (born May 25, 1941 in Perleberg ; † March 1, 2000 in Schwerin ) was a German writer , publicist and photographer .
Life
Borchert attended school in Perleberg and completed an apprenticeship in photography there. He then took up a librarianship course in Leipzig and was director of the Perleberg district library. In 1979 he became head of the cabinet for Mecklenburg literary traditions at the Scientific General Library in Schwerin . But as early as 1980 he worked as a freelance writer and, under the influence of his friend Heinz Knobloch, developed into a brilliant columnist. At the end of the GDR , Borchert was one of the best-known and most widely read authors on topics of Mecklenburg history and culture. After sustained sharp attacks against him because of connections to the MfS , Borchert committed suicide in 2000.
The reasons included "life problems on the free market of the authors", said the Schwerin local press, which saw Borchert's last years of life overshadowed by "financial worries". And "he made the way to the free market economy as an author who had to earn money in order to have the bare minimums for himself and his family, the longer the harder", can be read elsewhere.
Jürgen Borchert worked in the GDR since 1979 under the code name "Uwe Lüders" as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security .
Awards
- Johannes Gillhoff Prize of the Mecklenburg Cultural District, 1992
- Fritz Reuter Art Prize of the City of Schwerin, 1980 and 1987
Works
Regional studies
Borchert published around 30 books and more than 300 essays, often with columnar texts, mostly on the subject of Mecklenburg cultural history and the biographies of famous Mecklenburg residents.
- My Mecklenburg Zettelkasten , 1985 (2nd edition: 1989)
- The other part of the card box , 1988
- Something else from the note box , 1991
- New Mecklenburg card box , 2000
- Walks in Schwerin , 2000
- What I know about Wismar. Notes and Pictures , 2000
- Walks on Rügen , 1999
Others
- Reuter in Eisenach , Roman, Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1982
- My aunt's papers , Halle 1984. As an e-book: Edition digital, Godern 2012, ISBN 978-3-86394-692-0
- Vadder is cooking. Or how to devastate a kitchen. Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-910150-23-3
- Life in Concrete. Everyday stories . Rostock 2001, ISBN 978-3-356-00887-6
estate
Borchert's estate is kept in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library; including the correspondence between Borchert and Heinz Knobloch from 1971 onwards. The correspondence with Hans-Joachim Griephan is in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive .
literature
- Klaus Behling : "" ... finished with the Stasi club "." In: Klaus Behling, Suddenly and unexpectedly ... Suicide after Wende and Unity , 2015, pp. 110–115. ISBN 978-3-95841-004-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Borchert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Jürgen Borchert in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Jürgen Borchert in the state bibliography MV
- Jürgen Borchert in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
- Peter Schütt : "Immoral handling of stupid files". The suicide of the unmasked Stasi employee Jürgen Borchert divides the writers of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Welt-Online, April 19, 2000 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweriner Volkszeitung , Schwerin, March 21, 2000, and Mecklenburg-Magazin, Schwerin, May 26, 2006
- ↑ Günter Pilgrim: Die Muscheltür, Schwerin, 2002
- ↑ “Poets and Reporters”, Focus, Munich, No. 45, November 2, 1998, page 114. Christiane Baumann: “The Neubrandenburg Literature Center 1971-2005”, series of the Robert Havemann Archive, Vol. 11, Berlin: 2006 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borchert, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, publicist and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pearl Mountain |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 2000 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |