Joachim Specht

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Joachim Specht (born January 6, 1931 in Weinböhla ; † February 12, 2016 in Dessau-Roßlau ) was a German writer .

Life

Joachim Specht was the son of a technical businessman and a kindergarten teacher . He attended high schools in Radebeul and Dresden . After the destruction of Dresden in February 1945, his family moved to Dessau . There he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith . State authorities denied him access to study at the engineering school in Koethen . Specht illegally crossed the green border into West Germany in 1947 . In Hamburg he worked among other things as a welder ; from 1951 he was unemployed. In 1952 he hired himself as a contract worker with the South Australian Railways and emigrated to Australia by ship . There he worked for the railway company in Adelaide and Peterborough . At the end of 1955 he returned to Germany and initially stayed in Hamburg again, but then returned to his home in Saxony . He took on the GDR citizenship, passed the master craftsman's examination for the locksmith profession in 1957 and took over the management of his parents' business.

From 1960, Specht belonged to the Dessau “ Circle of Writing Workers ”, which was headed by Werner Steinberg . His attempts at writing there led to the publication of a first volume of stories in 1963 , which was published by Verlag der Nation . In 1971 Specht's company became part of a craft production cooperative that was nationalized that same year . From 1972 onwards, Specht concentrated entirely on his work as a writer and subsequently published numerous adventure novels and volumes of short stories, in which he mostly processed his Australian experiences in an exciting way. In the sixties he was involved as a screenwriter on the television series " Der Sheriff " and " Hannes Scharf ".

Joachim Specht has been a member of the Young Authors 'Working Group in the Halle district since 1965 and of the German Writers' Association since 1968 . Since 1991 he has been a member of the support group for writers in Saxony-Anhalt and the Friedrich-Bödecker district of Saxony-Anhalt .

Joachim Specht died in February 2016 at the age of 85.

Awards

Works

  • Peterborough Story , Berlin 1963
  • The hunted , Berlin 1966
  • Flying visit and other stories , Berlin 1968
  • Yemeni adventure. Yemeni report , Berlin 1969
  • Flower hell in Banusta , Berlin 1971
  • The five , Berlin 1971
  • Water for the red wolves , Berlin 1972
  • Bush fire , Berlin 1974
  • Perpetuum mobile , Berlin 1975
  • Eastern Reef beacon , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1976
  • Pearl divers in Frances Bay , Berlin 1976
  • The loner , Berlin 1978
  • Paraipagold , Berlin 1978
  • Korallen-Joe , Berlin 1981
  • Miracles take a little longer , Berlin 1981
  • The camp on the Burdekin River , Berlin 1982
  • The ibex is a talisman , Berlin 1983
  • Daniel's way into the Stone Age , Berlin 1985
  • Tippet , Berlin 1985
  • In the coral reefs , Berlin 1987
  • In the mangrove swamps , Berlin 1988
  • Glider flight under the Southern Cross , Berlin 1990
  • The Schlottbeck case , Dessau 1992
  • The Lady in the Bush , Bayreuth 1994
  • Australian Cowboy , Emsdetten 1997
  • Criss-cross from my life , Halle 1997
  • Capricorn , Emsdetten 1998
  • Me, Johann Bernhard Basedow ... , Dessau 1999
  • Koala is the heraldic animal , Emsdetten 2000
  • The long way of the projectionist , Emsdetten 2001
  • "G 'day" - return to Australia , Emsdetten 2002
  • Praise from the great Morgenstern , Emsdetten 2003
  • Bang trauma , Emsdetten 2004
  • Lure of the Continents , Emsdetten 2005
  • The copper head , two adventure stories from Australia, Jena 2011

Editing

  • Saxony-Anhalt house book , Berlin [a. a.] 1995 (together with Diethard H. Klein)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Specht. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 1008, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Jendryschik: Obituary: Mourning for Joachim Specht. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . February 17, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Woodpecker, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinböhla
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2016
Place of death Dessau-Rosslau