Karl-Heinz Jakobs

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Karl-Heinz Jakobs (born April 20, 1929 in Kiauken, Niederung district in East Prussia ; † November 4, 2015 in Velbert ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Heinz Jakobs grew up in East Prussia . In 1945 he took part in World War II as a soldier . After the end of the war he tried his hand at various professions, attended a business school and did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer . From 1956 he studied at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig . From 1958 he worked as a journalist , then as a freelance writer . He had several opportunities to travel abroad, including to the Soviet Union and in 1967/68 as a member of a brigade of the FDJ to Mali .

After Jakobs protested against Wolf Biermann's expatriation in 1977 , he was expelled from the SED and his publication opportunities in the GDR were curtailed. In 1979, the publication of his novel Wilhelmsburg by a West German publisher led to his exclusion from the GDR writers' association .

In 1981 Jakobs moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled in Velbert . Since 1982 he has been a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 1986 and 1987 he gave guest lectures at several universities in the USA and Canada . In December 1989, his exclusion from the writers' association was reversed on the course of the Wende in the GDR . Jakobs, who mainly worked for newspapers, radio and television in the West, was the editor of the “Sunday Stories” for the newspaper Neues Deutschland .

The narrator Karl-Heinz Jakobs began as a representative of the “ Bitterfeld Way ” , who was relatively true to the line, with descriptions of the socialist world of work; his novel Description of a Summer , which was also made into a film, is one of the longsellers in GDR literature. In 1972 the author received the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR and in 1974 a medal of merit from the GDR . Since the early 1970s, however, Jakobs was increasingly skeptical of developments in his country. This development culminated in participation in the Biermann protest and finally in leaving the GDR.

Jakobs died on November 4, 2015 after a short, serious illness.

Works

  • Good morning, traitors to the fatherland , poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1959, DNB 452172594 .
  • The world outside my window and other stories , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1960 DNB 452172624 (= meeting point today ).
  • Description of a summer , Roman, Berlin 1961; NA, with an afterword by Thorsten Ahrend. Faber and Faber, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-928660-44-6 / ISBN 3-928660-51-9 .
  • The green land and other new stories , Mitteldeutsche Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, DNB 452172608 .
  • To be once Chinggis Khan, Another attempt to conquer Kyrgyzstan . Travel experience report, illustrated by Angel Panajoto, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1964, DNB 452172586 .
  • Strange landscapes , Halle (Saale) 1964
  • The adventure , Berlin 1966
  • Homecoming of the Prodigal Son , premiere at Städtische Bühnen Magdeburg - Kammerspiele 1969
  • A pyramid for me , Berlin 1971
  • The Interviewer , Berlin 1973
  • Homeland colportages , Berlin 1975
  • Tanja, Taschka and so on , travel novel, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1975; Damnitz, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-88112-002-5 (= pumpkin seed , volume 19).
  • Desert returns, first novel: El Had , Berlin 1976
  • Fata Morgana , Berlin 1977
  • Wilhelmsburg , Düsseldorf 1979
  • Die Frau im Strom , detective novel, authors' edition , Munich / Königstein 1982, ISBN 3-7610-0583-0 ; NA: Das neue Berlin, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-360-00372-1 .
  • The endless year, encounters with girls , Classen, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-546-45017-5 .
  • with Klaus Liedtke (ed.): Landscapes of the GDR: natural beauties, cities and people . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-570-06451-4 .
  • Life and death of Rubina , Roman, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-360-00887-1 .

Translations

  • Dora Teitelboim: Ballad by Little Rock , Berlin 1961

Editing

  • The great reading book from peace , Robinson, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-88592-020-4 .
  • with Joachim Fieguth: The Sunday story or everything is just beginning, a documentation, history, letters & conversations, Wirtschaftsverlag, Bremerhaven 1994, OCLC 550733268 (= Die Horen, Volume 39, 1994, No. 2, Issue 174, ISSN  0018-4942 ) .
  • with J. Monika Walther: Festessen mit Sartre and other Sunday stories, tende, Dülmen-Hiddingsel 1996, ISBN 3-88633-171-7 .

literature

Film adaptations

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ 1938–1945: "Wartenfeld", Salomowo since 1947 , the place was left before 1976
  2. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jakobs died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 6, 2015, p. 14.
  3. ↑ writer Karl-Heinz Jacob is dead . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online, November 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Jakobs, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiauken, Niederung district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2015
Place of death Velbert