Joachim Seyppel

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Joachim Seyppel,
photographed by Horst Sturm in Berlin on November 4, 1967

Joachim Seyppel (born November 3, 1919 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin ; † December 25, 2012 in Wismar ) was a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Joachim Seyppel was the son of a commercial clerk and a cleaner . He attended the Grunewald Gymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald , where he graduated from high school in 1938. He then studied German and philosophy at the universities in Berlin, Lausanne and most recently in Rostock, where he received his doctorate in 1943 . From 1943 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the medical service. In 1944 he was sentenced by a court martial to 9 months imprisonment with “ frontline probation ” for undermining military strength ; in May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in autumn 1945.

Seyppel worked as a lecturer and freelance writer in Berlin in the first post-war years. In 1949 he went to the United States on a Harvard University scholarship , where he was a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University , Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Middlebury College in Vermont from 1950 to 1961 . During this time he became a US citizen. In 1961 he returned to West Berlin , where he was editor of Diagonale magazine until 1970 . In the 1960s Seyppel increasingly developed into a sympathizer of the GDR ; In September 1973 he moved to East Berlin over and took the GDR - citizenship on.

Seyppel's relationship with the GDR rulers was soon clouded by his criticism of the social grievances in the country, his protest against Wolf Biermann's expatriation and his commitment to the dissidents Robert Havemann and Stefan Heym . In 1978, Seyppel bluntly informed the dramaturge responsible for the GDR radio , for whom he wrote radio features , that he did not agree with the current trends in GDR cultural policy. The regime reacted with harassment, which consisted primarily of restricting Seyppel's publication opportunities and his freedom to travel. In June 1979 he was expelled from the GDR Writers ' Association, but was allowed to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany on a three-year visa in July 1979 , where he now settled. In 1982 he was expatriated from the GDR.

Seyppel was initially a visiting professor at several West German universities and in the following years worked primarily as a journalist for the Hamburger Abendblatt , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel .

Joachim Seyppel was a member of the authors' association Die Kogge , since 1973 of the PEN Center Germany . From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the GDR Writers' Association ; He resigned from the Association of German Writers in 1997. In 1970 he received the honorary award of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the Federal Association of German Industry and in 1981 the Kogge Literature Prize .

From 1950 to 1982 Seyppel was married to the writer Jeannette Lander ; the separation took place in 1971. Two children grew out of the marriage.

Works

author

  • The systematisation of the art of acting in Germany between 1750 and 1850 , Rostock 1943
  • Flying sands of the days , Berlin 1947
  • Ferdinand's absolute point of view , Berlin 1948
  • Decadence or progress , Schlehdorf / Obb. 1951
  • Expressions of German History , Schlehdorf / Obb. 1952
  • Schwenckfeld, Knight of Faith , Pennsburg, Pa. 1961
  • Gerhart Hauptmann , Berlin 1962
  • William Faulkner , Berlin 1962
  • Abendlandfahrt , Munich 1963
  • TS Eliot , Berlin 1963
  • Well o immortality , Berlin 1964
  • When the Führer won the war or We say yes to the Federal Republic , Berlin [among others] 1965
  • Columbus Bluejeans or The Realm of False Images , Munich 1965
  • Hellas, birth of a tyranny , Berlin 1968
  • Torso Conny the Great , Wiesbaden 1969
  • A Yankee in the Mark , Berlin [ao] 1969
  • Greek mosaic , Berlin 1970
  • Football news from the hero family at the gas station , Berlin [among others] 1971
  • Who still knows Heiner Stuhlfauth , Munich 1973
  • Detours to Haus , Berlin [and others] 1974
  • Farewell to Europe , Berlin [ao] 1975
  • Singing two pocket calendars , Berlin [ao] 1976
  • The non-person or sweat bath and Mayakowski's death , Berlin 1979
  • Die Mauer or Das Café am Hackescher Markt , Wiesbaden [among others] 1981
  • I'm a broken guy , Wiesbaden [ua] 1982
  • Far back in Turkey , Wiesbaden [among other things] 1983
  • Ancestral Gallery , Munich 1984
  • Lesser Ury , Berlin 1987
  • Eurydice or the limitlessness of the Balkans , Frankfurt a. M. [et al.] 1989
  • The sand can , Frankfurt a. M. [et al.] 1990
  • The living machine or where all poppies bloom , Berlin 1991
  • Trottoir & Asphalt , Berlin 1994
  • Schlesischer Bahnhof , Munich 1998

editor

  • Hunting, riding, fishing , Hamburg [ao] 1963
  • Texts of German mysticism from the 16th century , Göttingen 1963
  • Festschrift for Werner Neuse , Berlin 1967 (together with Herbert Lederer)
  • Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz : Stories and Letters , Berlin 1978

translator

  • James Baldwin : Amen corner, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971
  • John Oliver Killens : The Debutante Ball or A Good Bull is worth half the herd , Berlin 1976 (together with Tatjana Rilsky)
  • Ferenc Molnár : Farewell, my heart , Berlin 1950
  • Kurt Vonnegut : God bless you, Mr. Rosewater , Reinbek near Hamburg 1974

Radio feature

  • The exotic landscape or the journey to the Spreewald . Director: Karlheinz Drechsel . Prod .: Broadcasting of the GDR, 1968
  • Overcoming the Pyrenees , (Heinrich Mann's flight to the USA), director: Günter Bormann , Prod .: Rundfunk der DDR, 1972
  • Portrait of a Baba or The Land of Figs , together with Tatjana Rilsky, Director: Klaus Zippel , Prod .: Rundfunk der DDR, 1974
  • Fair Play or When The Saints Go Marching In , Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf , Kunstkopf-Stereophonie, Prod .: Rundfunk der DDR, 1976
  • Reise under the crescent moon (report from a trip to Turkey), together with Tatjana Rilsky, director: Hannelore Solter , Prod .: Rundfunk der DDR, 1977
  • Who knows if we will meet again ... - Between Hamburg and Berlin , Director: Albrecht Surkau , Prod .: Funkhaus Berlin 1991

Radio plays

  • 1969: With Wolfgang Graetz : What is an auxiliary bishop? Or answers to the Defregger file - directed by Edgar Kaufmann (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Joachim Seyppel: Grenzgänger Between West and East , tagesspiegel.de , December 28, 2012
  2. ↑ See Joachim Seyppel, Saved by the Red Army, in: Gustav Trampe, Die Hours Null. Memories of the end of the war and a new beginning, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 152–160, 159.
  3. ↑ Patrick Conley: The Partial Journalist. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-050-9 . P. 92.
  4. ↑ Katrin Hillgruber, DER TAGESSPIEGEL of December 28, 2012, Border Crossers Between West and East , page 21
personal data
SURNAME Seyppel, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2012
Place of death Wismar