Jens-Fietje Dwars

Jens-Fietje Dwars (born August 2, 1960 in Weißenfels ) is a German author, documentary filmmaker and organizer of exhibitions.

Dwars studied philosophy at the University of Breslau , the Humboldt University and the University of Jena and received his doctorate in 1987 on the subject of " Philosophy of History and Anthropology with Ludwig Feuerbach ". After that he worked as a German studies assistant at the University of Jena until 1992. He was then unemployed and retrained as a speaker for advertising, marketing and public relations. Since 2000 Dwars has been working as a freelance author and editor in Jena and organizing exhibitions. He wrote the lyrics for five documentaries and directed three of these films. According to his own information on his homepage, he maintained contacts with the Ministry for State Security of the GDR ( MfS ) from 1979 to 1989 and has been working on this as an author since 1992. Dwars has been the editor and designer of Edition Ornament since 2005, and since 2013 also of the White Series in quartus-Verlag by Detlef Ignasiak (Bucha near Jena). In addition, since 2005 he has been editor of the literary magazine Palmbaum - Literarisches Journal from Thuringia, ibid.

Works

• The Weimar Carnival. Notes on Goethe & Co. , quartus Verlag, Jena 2008, ISBN 9783936455663
• Charivari. Essays, glosses and other oddities , Wartburg Verlag, Weimar 2008, ISBN 9783861603252
• And still hope. Peter Weiss. A biography , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3351026374
• The old cow and the sea. Stories from a remote country , quartus Verlag, Jena 2006, ISBN 3936455414
• With light comfort. The Jenaer Goethe , quartus Verlag, Jena 2003, ISBN 3936455201
• Zoroaster's last return. From the papers by Johann Friedrich Querkopf , quartus Verlag, Jena 2000, ISBN 3931505847
• Abyss of contradiction. The life of Johannes R. Becher , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3351024576

Awards

• Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1992)
• Scholarship from the Cultural Fund Foundation of the New Federal States (1999, 2002, 2004)
• Scholarship from the Thuringian Cultural Foundation (2005/06, 2008)
• Adolf Grimme Special Prize (2001, 2004)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens-Fietje Dwars in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jens-Fietje Dwars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage