John Stave
John Stave (born February 7, 1929 in Berlin ; † August 6, 1993 there ) was a German satirist and writer who became known for his satirical short stories in the GDR magazine Eulenspiegel .
Life
He grew up as the son of the motor mechanic Wilhelm Stave (listed as Stawe or Staave in the Berlin address books) in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain on Zorndorfer Strasse (today Mühsamstrasse).
After the Second World War , John Stave was politically committed to the reconstruction of the GDR, initially working in the Central Administration for National Education, headed by Paul Wandel , and then in the Information Office, headed by Gerhart Eisler . From the end of 1951 Stave worked as an editor for the satirical weekly newspaper Frischer Wind and the successor magazine Eulenspiegel . At the turn of the year 1961/62, the Eulenspiegel editor Stave became the freelance writer Stave, who, however, continued to write glosses and short stories for Eulenspiegel. In the period that followed, Stave published a large number of collections of stories, most of which were quickly sold out in the GDR. 1983 pressed on vinyl reading appeared different stories under the title The most dangerous thing about a Great Dane at LITERA ; in addition, he read stories on the LITERA-LPs Owls plate and and then the owl to find.
In the almost 300-page text Stube und Küche, published nine times by 2006 . Experienced and exquisite (Eulenspiegel-Verlag 1987), Stave recreates the everyday history of the eastern part of his home district of Friedrichshain in Berlin from 1928 to 1985 in a partly sociological and partly columnist manner on an autobiographical background .
A large part of Stave's works are satirical or feuilletonistic short stories, but he also went public with humorous children's stories. After Stave's death, his wife Gabriele Stave published the book Das Chamäleon bin ich , in which, in addition to her own texts and contributions by John Stave, she also presents the life story of her husband.
John Stave was buried in the Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II on Landsberger Allee .
Web links
- Literature by and about John Stave in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about John Stave in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Zorndorfer Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stave, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German satirist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1993 |
| Place of death | Berlin |