Jürgen Rennert
Jürgen Rennert (born March 12, 1943 in Berlin - Neukölln ) is a German writer .
Life
Growing up in West Berlin with his grandmother, Jürgen Rennert moved to live with his parents in Hohen Neuendorf in the GDR in 1953 . From 1959 to 1962 he trained as a typesetter , then became an assistant nurse in the hospital and from 1964 to 1975 worked as an advertising editor at the Volk und Welt publishing house . From May 1966 to November 1967 he did alternative military service as a construction soldier . From 1975 to 1990 Rennert worked as a freelance poet , essayist and translator . From 1990 to 2005 he was employed by the art service of the Evangelical Church in Berlin and its deputy director until the institution was closed.
In addition to his own poems and essays, Jürgen Rennert has emerged as an editor, translator and rewrite of literature from Yiddish (including Mark Rasumny , Scholem Alejchem , Israil Bercovici , Isaac Bashevis Singer ), Russian , Czech and Hungarian . Together with Jalda Rebling and Stefan Schreiner , he founded the Days of Yiddish Culture in East Berlin in 1987 and has since provided important impulses for dealing with Jewish culture .
Rennert has lived in Putlitz since October 2014, part of the Krumbeck community. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Prizes and awards
- Heinrich Heine Prize from the Ministry of Culture of the GDR (1979)
- Election to the PEN Center for the German Democratic Republic (1980)
- Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation (1991)
- Scholarship Künstlerhaus Edenkoben (2006)
Publications (selection)
- Poetry album 75 (1973)
- Märkische dispatches. Poems. Union Verlag, Berlin (1976)
- Inconsistent prose. Essays (1977)
- How the elephant came about. Children's book (1980)
- Emma - the cow. Children's book (1981)
- High moon. Poems (1983)
- Applied prose. Essays (1983)
- Dialogue with the Bible. Texts on painting and graphics from the GDR (1984)
- The good place in Weißensee. Edition and Afterword (1987)
- The artist in the case. Essay (1995)
literature
- Hannelore Fischer: Rennert, Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Rennert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jürgen Rennert's website with online editions of his poems
- Jürgen Rennert Collection in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rennert, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin - Neukölln |