Jochen Ziem

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Jochen Ziem (born April 5, 1932 in Magdeburg , † April 19, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Jochen Ziem was the son of a businessman. He attended high school in Magdeburg and studied German at the universities in Halle and Leipzig , where he was friends with Uwe Johnson . He also worked for the General German News Service in Halle and was an intern at the Stadttheater in Greiz and the Berliner Ensemble . In 1956 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany .

After doing various auxiliary jobs for several years, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine "DM" from 1961 and from 1966 a freelance writer who wrote time-critical dramas , television plays , radio plays and prose from an ideologically independent position . While he was a major television writer in the 1970s, with the rest of his literary works he remained an outsider throughout his life.

Jochen Ziem had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1972 and received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize in 1967 , the Thomas Dehler Prize in 1968 , a scholarship from the Prussian Sea Handling Foundation in 1988 and the Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation in 1992 .

Works

  • The invitation. Play in three acts , Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • News from the province of Frankfurt am Main in 1967
  • Paydays , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Women learn to live. Reports from group psychotherapy together with Andrea Westphal. Darmstadt 1977
  • Reconciliation , Frankfurt am Main 1970
  • The class woman , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1974
  • The boy , Munich 1980
  • His own master. Narrative. In: Half of the city of Königstein im Taunus 1982
  • Uprising In East Germany and other Stories New York 1985
  • Boris, Kreuzberg, 12 years , Munich [a. a.] 1988
  • Warsteiner , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • "Leaving Leipsic next week" , Berlin 2002 (letters to Ziem from Uwe Johnson )

Editing

  • Women learn to live , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1978 (together with Andrea Westphal)

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personal data
SURNAME Ziem, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1994
Place of death Berlin