Jürgen Serke
Jürgen Serke (born April 19, 1938 in Landsberg an der Warthe ) is a German journalist and writer . He lives near Hamburg .
life and work
Jürgen Serke worked for the UPI news agency in Frankfurt from 1961 to 1969 , most recently as chief reporter. 1970–1983 he worked as an author for Stern , which he left after the publication of the Hitler diaries . 1984–1989 he worked for Weltwoche (Zurich) and 1990–1992 for Die Welt .
Since the spring of 2008, Jürgen Serke's literature collection , which was acquired by the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft and consists of over 2,500 objects (books, documents, handwritten letters, typescripts and photos), has been a permanent exhibition with the title “Heaven and Hell between 1918 and 1989 The burned poets ”can be seen in the Center for Persecuted Arts under the roof of the Solingen Art Museum . On the occasion of Jürgen Serke's 80th birthday, the Center for Persecuted Arts Solingen organized the special exhibition “A Life for the Burned Poets” from April 19 to July 15, 2018.
Serkes' first volume on German-language exile literature, Die Verbrannen Dichter , was published in 1977 and was translated into Japanese in 1999 by Hiroshi Asano , today Professor of German Studies at Saitama Women's College and Keiō University and Managing Director of the Japan Society of Translators. In 2017 Prof. Asano also translated the follow-up volume Bohemian Villages - Walks through an abandoned literary landscape (1987) into Japanese.
Awards
- 1992 Alexander Zinn Prize for Journalism from the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- 2002 Magnesia Litera , Czech Republic
- 2012 Art Prize for German-Czech Understanding
- 2017 Gratias Agit Prize from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Publications (selection)
- Criminal defense attorney in Germany. Eight portraits . Luchterhand , Darmstadt / Neuwied 1976, ISBN 3-472-61228-2 .
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The burned poets. With photos by Wilfried Bauer . Reports - texts - pictures of a time. Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim / Basel 1977, ISBN 3-407-80899-2 ( digitized version of the 3rd edition from 1978 in the Internet Archive ); Paperback edition Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1980;
- extended new edition with CD (Otto Sander, Christian Quadflieg and Angela Winkler read texts by Carl Einstein, Max Herrmann Neiße, Albert Ehrenstein, Ernst Toller, Yvan Goll, Jakob Haringer and Else Lasker-Schüler) under the title: The burned poets. Life stories and documents. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1992.
- Women write. A new chapter in German-language literature. Gruner & Jahr , Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-570-03078-4 ; Paperback edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
- Home. A home customer. With photos by Wilfried Bauer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-462-01298-3 .
- as editor: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger : I am wrapped in longing. Poems by a Jewish girl to her friend. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-455-04790-4 ; Paperback edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1984 u.ö.
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The exiled poets. Reports and pictures of a new eviction. With photos by Wilfried Bauer. Knaus , Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-813-50826-9 ;
- Paperback edition with the title: Das neue Exil. The exiled poets. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1985, etc.
- Bohemian villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape. Zsolnay , Vienna / Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-552-03926-0 .
- At home in exile. Poets who stayed in the GDR on their own initiative. With photos by Christian G. Irrgang . Piper , Munich / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-492-03981-2 .
- heaven and hell between 1918 and 1989. the burned poets. jürgen serke collection. Catalog book for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstmuseum Solingen . Damm and Lindlar , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812268-2-9 .
- Rolf Jessewitsch (Ed.): The immortality of the stars. From Francisco de Goya to Walter Benjamin to Václav Havel (catalog of the exhibition by Jürgen Kaumkötter and Jürgen Serke in the Solingen Art Museum , Center for Persecuted Arts, October 2 to December 5, 2010). Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen 2010, ISBN 3-936295-09-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Serke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Rühmkorf : "The burned poets": Chapter culture destruction. According to the Soergel der Serke. Not a reparation book, but a rediscovery book. Review in Die Zeit № 7 on February 10, 1978
- Mark Stöhr: A lawyer for the forgotten. Interview with Jürgen Serke in Stern from April 5, 2008
- Markéta Kachlíková: Journalist Jürgen Serke: “I was President Havel's bodyguard.” Interview (text and audio) in Radio Prague on July 29, 2017, accessed on March 30, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Serke. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 988, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
- ^ Serke Collection - "Heaven and Hell between 1918 and 1989" in the Solingen Art Museum, accessed on March 30, 2020.
- ↑ Brochure Conception Center for Persecuted Arts (PDF, 24 pp., 2.5 MB) , p. 7 f., Accessed on March 30, 2020.
- ^ Exhibition "A Life for the Burned Poets" in the Center for Persecuted Arts in Solingen, accessed on March 30, 2020.
- ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: The history of the forgotten Prague German writers in Japanese translation. In Japan there is growing interest in German-language exile literature . In: DaF-Szene Korea, No. 45 , ed. from the working group of the Korea Lectors' Association, Seoul / Berlin, 2017, p. 88.
- ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: Jürgen Serke's literary historical work: “Bohemian Villages” is now also being published in Japan. How a literary scholar from Tokyo decided to translate the history of Prague's German writers into Japanese. In: www.prag-aktuell.cz. January 15, 2018, accessed March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Cf. Book Description at Google Books.
- ↑ See Damm and Lindlar Verlag: About us .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serke, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg on the Warta |