Jutta Bartus

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Jutta Bartus (born January 11, 1926 in Breslau ) is a German radio play and television author, poet and narrator.

Life

Bartus was the daughter of an insurance employee and grew up in Breslau. After graduating from high school in 1944, she was obliged to serve in the war in the Groß Wartenberg district . At the beginning of 1945 she was evacuated to Wroclaw and worked as an auxiliary nurse in a hospital in Riesa , where she received news of her father's death. After the end of the war, she first worked as a seamstress and during that time trained as a new teacher . From February 1946 she taught war returnees, after which she was director of a village school in Koselitz . She was sent to the Brandenburg Youth Parliament, where she was elected to the first central council of the FDJ , whose chairman was Erich Honecker . In connection with this new function, she became a youth editor at the state broadcaster Schwerin , from where she was delegated to the German Theater Institute in Weimar for training in the early summer of 1947 , but which she had to leave after 3½ semesters because she had told a lecturer about his Nazi past. In March 1949, she and her mother left the GDR and moved to Velbert in the Bergisches Land .

In Germany she first worked as a cast cleaner, then as a sales representative for office supplies. She wrote her first poems and contributed to left-wing magazines such as Today and Tomorrow , Deutsche Volkszeitung and the horen . From 1955 to 1959 she was married to the writer Adolf Endler . When her husband was investigated for endangering the state , the couple left the Federal Republic and moved to East Berlin in 1955 .

Bartu's first great success was the five-part television film Born under Black Heavens (1962), which was characterized by a socialist optimism and a spirit of optimism , for which she had spent three years researching the working conditions in the Leunawerke . In 1962 a novel was published , Bartus received several awards and was accepted into the GDR Writers' Association. In 1964 she joined the SED , but in her work there were conflicts with the state censorship , for example her script for the television play Single-handedly was only approved for filming after considerable interventions.

In 1974, her eldest son was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for "attempting to cross the border illegally ". This and her commitment to the songwriter Wolf Biermann meant that her literary work was henceforth rejected. In the autumn of 1977 she applied for an exit visa and on December 14, 1977 moved to Düsseldorf with her two youngest sons . In July 1978 her eldest son was released from prison and also moved to West Germany.

In the years that followed, the Ruth novellas appeared here , in which she reflects on the stories of three women in three German states - the German Reich at the beginning of National Socialism, the Federal Republic of the Adenauer era and the GDR in the 1970s. In addition, the volume of poems Sharp Edges and the novel Funeral March for four pianos were published .

Appreciations

Works

  • The bad world. TV movie. 1960.
  • Born under black skies. Five-part television film with Rudolf Böhm. 1962.
  • Born under black skies. Novel. Berlin 1962, 3rd edition Halle 1976.
  • Three women. Television game. 1963.
  • The foundation. TV play and stage play. 1964.
  • Foreign blood. Radio play. 1966.
  • The poll of the woman at school. Radio play. 1967.
  • Ruth Jensen's worries. Radio play. 1968. Play for the stage. 1970.
  • Exam in Breida. Television game. 1970.
  • Guarantees. TV movie. 1972.
  • Go it alone. Television game. 1973.
  • One of you. Television game. 1974.
  • Ruth novellas. Stories. Oberbaum, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-87628-157-1 .
  • Night drive. Narrative. In: Gerald Zschorsch (Ed.): Answers. Berline 1979, pp. 34-40.
  • Sharp edges. Poems from two dozen and three years. Klaus Guhl, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88220-330-7 .
  • Bird free. Narrative. In: Andreas W. Mythze (Ed.): Dissidents? Europäische Ideen Heft 54/55 (1982), pp. 2-12.
  • Thin skin. Autobiographical narrative. In: Gerhard Finn, Liselotte Julius (Hrsg.): From Germany to Germany. To experience internal relocation. Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-923423-00-4 , pp. 11-35.
  • Are you all right, Marie? Radio play. 1983.
  • Funeral march for four pianos. Novel. Berlin 1986 and Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-378-00483-5 .

literature

  • Günter Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher (Ed.): Writer of the German Democratic Republic. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1975, sv Bartus, Jutta .
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , sv Bartus, Jutta .
  • Andrea Jäger: Bartus, Jutta. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 1, p. 344.
  • Andrea Jäger: writer from the GDR. Part 2: Author's Lexicon. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48646-4 , sv Jutta Bartus .
  • Klaus Kreimeier: "This ice age has been in me ever since ..." Jutta Bartus on her years in the GDR. In: My hour 0. Two features. Deutschlandfunk June 30th and July 15th 1981.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1988. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1988.

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personal data
SURNAME Bartus, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play and television author, poet and narrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw