Joachim Nowotny

Joachim Nowotny (born June 16, 1933 in Rietschen , Rothenburg district (Ob. Laus.) ; † January 13, 2014 in Leipzig ) was a German writer .

Life

Joachim Nowotny (far left, 1987)

Joachim Nowotny came from a working class family from what was then the Silesian part of Upper Lusatia . He completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked in this profession. In 1954 he passed his school leaving examination at a workers 'and farmers' faculty and then studied German at Karl Marx University until 1958 . After completing his studies, he worked as a publishing editor . From 1962 he lived as a freelance writer in Leipzig. From 1967 to 1982 he worked as a lecturer at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute there . Nowotny was a member of the SED . In the last twenty-five years of his life he was paraplegic due to an accident and had to use a wheelchair.

Joachim Nowotny is the author of short stories, novels, radio and television plays. The main focus of his work are books for children and young people; thematically he is closely connected to his home region, the Lausitz . Nowotny was one of the first GDR authors to deal with topics such as the destruction of the landscape and the environment, using the example of the Lausitz lignite opencast mine. Since the mid-1970s to 1981 Nowotny was as unofficial collaborator lecturer of the Ministry of State Security out of the GDR.

From 1974 Nowotny was a member of the Writers' Association of the GDR and from 1978 to 1989 its vice-president. Since 1990 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers . He received the following awards, among others: the Alex Wedding Prize in 1971 , the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1977, the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1978 , a GDR National Prize in 1979 (second class for art and literature) and the FDGB Art Prize in 1986 .

Nowotny died on January 13, 2014 at the age of 80 of pneumonia in a Leipzig hospital.

Book publications

Flood in the village , Berlin 1963
Hunt in Kaupitz , Berlin 1964
Hexenfeuer , Halle (Saale) 1965
Jakob lets me sit , Berlin 1965
Labyrinth without fear , Halle (Saale) 1967
The giant in paradise , Berlin 1969
Sunday among people , Halle (S.) 1971
A certain Robel , Halle (Saale) 1976
The Gudrun saga , Berlin 1976
A rare case of love , Halle [u. a.] 1978
Farewell disco , Berlin 1981
Last appearance of the extras , Halle [u. a.] 1981
The apples of youth , Berlin [u. a.] 1983
A smile for Zacharias , Berlin 1983
The made-up dream and other stories , Berlin 1984
Shepherd's Hour , Halle [u. a.] 1985
The Popanz , Berlin 1986
Where Aquarius lives , Bautzen 1988 (together with Gerald Große)
Adebar and Kunigunde , Berlin 1990
When I was Gunda's lion , Leipzig 2001

Editing

I carry the new world within me , Berlin 1968

Radio plays (selection)

1969: Jakob lets me sit - Director: Detlef Kurzweg (children's radio play / short radio play - radio of the GDR )

1972: An old model - Director: Walter Niklaus , Rundfunk der DDR 1972

1976: Bread and Salt - Director: Horst Liepach , Rundfunk der DDR 1976

1978: A rare case of love - Director: Werner Grunow , Rundfunk der DDR 1978

1986: Adebar and Kunikunde - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

Erwin Neumann: On subject-object relations in selected works of GDR literature for children and young people , Berlin 1985
Reiner Neubert: Views on literature for children and young people and on Joachim Nowotny's poetic conception , Berlin 1987
Martin Straub: Joachim Nowotny , Berlin 1989
Christian Krause: Nowotny, Joachim . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Joachim Nowotny - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Joachim Nowotny in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Joachim Nowotny in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Dieter Schütt: Don't give yourself out of hand! Joachim Nowotny dead . January 16, 2014 ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
↑ Joachim Nowotny. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 747-748, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Christian Krause: Joachim Nowotny . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Nowotny, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rietschen , District of Rothenburg (Upper Laus.)
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 2014
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Hans-Dieter Schütt: Don't give yourself out of hand! Joachim Nowotny dead . January 16, 2014 ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).

[2] Joachim Nowotny. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 747-748, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .

[WWW-3] A ^b ^c Christian Krause: Joachim Nowotny . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .