Jo winter
Jo Winter (born August 28, 1944 in Unterwellenborn ; † September 6, 2006 ; actually Klaus Joachim Otto Winter ) was a German pastor , poet and GDR oppositionist .
Life
Winter was pastor in Langenschade near Saalfeld . As a youth pastor, he initiated the church peace group living nonviolently in 1984 , which grew to around 200 members. With their alternative way of life, the group was active against militaristic tendencies in the GDR; This politically oppositional stance led to the actions of Winter and his group being observed by the state organs.
In 1987 Winter built the anti-militarist cabaret AMIKA , with which he performed in church rooms in the south of the GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall . In 1988, Winter and the group created a catalog of demands for the Social Peace Service, which they sent to church and state agencies. The Ministry for State Security assessed Winters' actions as follows: "His actions are on the verge of criminal relevance."
Winter was close friends with the singer-songwriter Stephan Krawczyk and his wife Freya Klier and organized opportunities for both artists to perform when they were actually already banned from working. During the fall of 1989, Winter was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP).
In the 1990s, Winter was committed to asylum seekers and peace and reconciliation work in Bosnia and Kosovo until his death . A poem from 1988 shows the militant activist Winter: "if everyone / little shits / would grieve / I would grieve too much // if everyone / calf biters / would paralyze me / I would go / lame // if everyone / lower emperors / could tame / we would soon be / tame "
Publications
- Crosswise. Poems . Verlagbuchhandlung Mehlhorn, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930694-12-3
- the gang. Poems and quotes from Stasi files , Mehlhorn, Leipzig 1996
- Nota. 49 songs and notes , Langenschade 2000
literature
- Marina Achenbach: Always under suspicion of heresy . In: Friday . January 5th, 2001 ( freitag.de - article about Jo Winter).
- Sebastian Kranich : Winter, Jo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 1584-1588.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jo Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jo Winter: Collection of materials on time-shifted sleeping in the Bible
swell
- ↑ Internet pages of Living Without Violence
- ↑ Jo Winter: The gang: poems and quotes from Stasi files . Mehlhorn, Leipzig 1996, p. 1.35 .
- ↑ Jo Winter: The gang: poems and quotes from Stasi files . Mehlhorn, Leipzig 1996, p. 4.11 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winter, Jo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winter, Klaus Joachim Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, pastor, author and opposition activist (GDR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unterwellenborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2006 |