Jost Glase

Jost Glase (born January 1, 1936 in Spremberg ; † August 17, 1990 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) was a German writer and university professor in the GDR .

Live and act

Jost Glase was born in Spremberg in Lower Lusatia in 1936 . Even as a schoolboy he liked to write and as a seventh grader he submitted samples to the Lausitzer Rundschau , whereupon he was invited to contribute something to the local side as a school correspondent . Together with a friend, he made contact with the local writer Erwin Strittmatter . After graduating from high school, Glase was an editorial volunteer at the Lausitzer Rundschau from 1954 to 1955 . In this newspaper he published his first stories.

In 1955 he signed up for honorary service with the Barracked People's Police (KVP), which was converted into the National People's Army (NVA) in 1956 . In the Lausitzer Rundschau , he explained his motivation for this step: “As the child of a worker, the government gave me the opportunity to attend secondary school. As an editorial assistant at the Lausitzer Rundschau I was able to learn the wonderful profession of a journalist . [...] During my service with the Barracked People's Police, I will acquire military knowledge so that, when it comes down to it, we can defend our achievements gun in hand. ”Because he was, he continued, against militarism and the Parisians Attack plans inherent in contracts .

In 1957 his service in the NVA ended. He graduated from the Neuzelle teacher training institute with a focus on psychology . From 1960 to 1965 he was a teacher and school director in the small Oderbruch village of Beauregard . His writing work was supported by Strittmatter. In 1965 he studied further at the Potsdam University of Education . After graduation, he moved to Mühlhausen in 1968. From 1969 to 1988 he taught as a teacher trainer in the field of psychology at the Erfurt / Mühlhausen University of Education .

In addition to working on a dissertation on youth and social psychology , he published series on local history in the regional press . Building on childhood memories, scientific accuracy, youth understanding and a sense of responsibility as a teacher, he developed the novel Thousand Suns in a Lake about self-discovery and personal development of young people in the GDR. The novel, published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag in 1971 , saw a radio play adaptation broadcast by GDR radio in 1974 . In the 1970s Glase wrote other radio plays that were actually produced, for example the children's radio play Little Daughter about a girl who is thrown off course by the loss of a close person. The GDR radio broadcast it on November 15, 1975. In addition, the Weimar broadcaster broadcast its features on historic buildings such as the Marienkirche in Mühlhausen and Tiefurt Castle near Weimar . In 1975 he also worked on an extensive report on five people from homes that were difficult to educate under the title Children's Post . The improved living conditions in the homes also include research into the causes of “why they had to come to such a home in the first place,” he explained. The book should be published again in the Mitteldeutscher Verlag. There is no evidence of any such publication.

In 1982 he wrote the scenario for a documentary about the Mittelbau-Dora memorial . In 1984 the script for a “Mühlhausen film” followed, which, in addition to impressions of the city, also shed light on the political life of Lotte and Arno Bust and followed up on the emergence and expansion of the KPD . In 1986 he devoted himself again to a novel: Memory on Rasterkorn . It is about three men from different milieus and consequently with different expectations and character traits. They reported to the barracked people's police in the 1950s, where they now need and complement one another. The aspect of personality development is again in the foreground.

On August 17, 1990, Jost Glase died of cancer . A few weeks before his death, he was able to receive his printed children's book Nessi and other stories (1990). Like the two previous books, the stories about a sensitive nine-year-old boy after the end of the Second World War have autobiographical traits. He was able to finish the 50-page story Michelangelo behind the fence ; However, it remained unpublished, and the novel The Tour , from which he had given readings , remained unfinished .

Glase exercised the function of a party secretary in the writers' association in the Erfurt district .

reception

In the regional literary stories by Dieter Fechner (2005 and 2014) it is said that a thousand suns in one lake is a fresh, lively, poetic tale. This new release shows, advertised the Neue Zeit in 1971 under the heading “Book Telegram”, “deep understanding for young people” and was “full of poetry [and] a forward-looking mood”. Also in 1971, Anne Wiesigel in the SED district newspaper Das Volk certified the book “a psychologically penetrating language that our literature needs and that dismisses the reader as a better one”. However, more descriptions of the activities of his protagonists would have been more useful than the intervening explanations on the part of the author . In 1972, in the Thuringian Latest News , Franz Hammer also paid tribute to the “poetic wealth” and to a “pure disposition”. The hopeful debut deals responsibly with the problems and conflicts described. In addition, he advised that Glase should avoid the modern way of interrupting the levels of action all too often in the future, instead he should move on to “a more closed, linguistically balanced prose ”.

Regarding memory of Rasterkorn , Fechner criticized in the New German Literature in 1986 : “ Despite all the plasticity and psychological exploration, the mentality of the characters is more designed from today.” In the same year, Hans Joachim Nauschütz found in the New Day : “The book is not easy to close read. Glase illuminates the actions of his characters by psychologically dissecting their thinking. Some things get frayed; the reader is distracted, sometimes he loses track of the course of action. "

Regarding Nessi and other stories , Fechner said in his book about authors' encounters that Glase had succeeded in bringing a lot of the typical time into the boy's everyday life in an atmospherically dense and poetic-plastic way. The author unobtrusively illuminated the color of the time with the causal relationships through numerous faded in, believable associations and his reflection on his environment and its time phenomena. "

Works

Books

• A thousand suns in one lake. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1971.
• Reminder on raster grain. Novel. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1986.
• Nessi and other stories. Postreiter-Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1990.

Scripts

• 1982: Dora-Mittelbau memorial site
• 1984: Stations in her life - Lotte and Arno Bust

Radio plays

• 1974: A thousand suns in one lake
• 1974: Take care, my love!
• 1975: little daughter
• 1976: Sky-blue days in April
• 1977: A wedding carriage for Sabine and Ingo
• 1978: Run, darling, run (series What's going on at Findigs today? )
• 1978: Dear Janni, dear Frank (series What's going on at Findigs today? )
• 1978: Peggy cooks pudding (series What's going on at Findigs today? )
• 1978: A rose for the coffee table (series What's going on at Findigs today? )
• 1979: Bettgeflüster (series What's going on at Findigs today? )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Jost Glase (1936–1990). University professor, writer, S. 62-65 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Dieter Fechner: Literary Mühlhausen in Thuringia - a small regional literary history . 1st edition. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2005, ISBN 3-937135-91-X , impressions of his hometown. Jost Glase, S. 96-98 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Of one who set out to describe the world. In: lr-online.de. August 16, 2003, accessed July 4, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hans Weber : "A thousand suns in one lake" . In: grandstand . August 6, 1971 (takeover of the advertising material "A new name. Jost Glase" from Mitteldeutscher Verlag on September 10, 1970).
5. ↑ New names . In: Harald Korall (Ed.): Literature 71. Almanach . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1971, Glase, p. 234 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dieter Fechner: Educational province of its own. Jost Glase: "Memories on Rasterkorn", Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin . In: New German Literature . Monthly for literature and criticism. 14th vol. 9, September 1986, p. 160 ff .
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Jost Glase: Why I go to the CIP ... In: Lausitzer Rundschau . No. 95/1955 . Cottbus April 25, 1955.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Glase, Jost. Biography. In: thueringer-literaturrat.de. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Jost Glase. A thousand suns in one lake. In: hoerspiele.dra.de. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Jost Glase. Daughter. In: hoerspiele.dra.de. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Heinz Stade: Prescribed to the "most difficult of all fights" . In: The people . Erfurt January 14th 1976, The writer's word before the IX. [Party Congress of the SED]. Jost Glase.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Stations in their lives - Lotte and Arno Bust. In: archive.thulb.uni-jena.de. State Archives of Thuringia and Thuringian University and State Library Jena, accessed on July 4, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Jost Glase: Brother Martinus and our Karl Marx . In: The people . Erfurt April 20, 1983, cultural policy. Reviewed and informed. Before the IX. Writers' Congress of the GDR.
14. ↑ Central German publisher: Jost Glase . In: New Time . No. 194/1971 , August 19, 1971, literary review. The NZ book telegram, p. 6 .
15. ↑ Anne meadow hedgehog: "Be yourself" - to literary debut of Mühlhäuser teacher Jost glass "A thousand suns in a lake." Central German publisher . In: The people . October 22, 1971, New Books. Literature reviews, p. 2 .
16. ^ Franz Hammer: Talent test of a young author . In: Thuringian Latest News . Erfurt July 22, 1972.
17. ↑ Hans Joachim Nauschütz: probation. Jost Glase: Memories on Rasterkorn, published by the military publishing house . In: New day . July 18, 1986, Our Time. Reviewed, p. 3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jost Glase in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jost Glase in the ARD audio play database
• Literature by and about Jost Glase in the bibliographic database WorldCat