Karl Heinz Berger

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Karl Heinz Berger ( pseudonyms : K. Heinz , Charles P. Henry ; born July 28, 1928 in Cologne , † November 26, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Heinz Berger was the son of an employee and a seamstress . After High School in Cologne, he began in 1947 a study of German language and literature , history and English studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, u. a. with Alfred Kantorowicz . From 1952 to 1957 he was an editor at the Neues Leben publishing house . In 1957/58 he completed a course at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . He stood up for Wolfgang Harich and Erich Loest , who were arrested in 1956 and 1957, respectively. As a lecturer he used himself for the novel Herz und Asche by Boris Djacenko , the second volume of which addressed a taboo: that soldiers of the Red Army had raped women in 1945. As a result, the manuscript was classified as "anti-Soviet" and the publication of the book in 1958 was prevented. Thereupon the State Security made Karl Heinz Berger the target of an operational process . He was removed from the Neues Leben publishing house and the Literature Institute. From then on he had to assert himself as a freelance writer .

Karl Heinz Berger's work includes novels , books for children and young people ; he also edited anthologies and translated from English . His narrative work consists mainly of biographical and contemporary novels in which Berger uses a narrative style reminiscent of the realistic authors of the 19th century. He has published a number of detective novels since the late 1960s .

Works

  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Berlin 1953
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Berlin 1956
  • A happy journey , Berlin 1959
  • The hay battle in the Heidedorf , Berlin 1959
  • The Brotherhood , Berlin 1961
  • Emil Stöhr , Berlin 1961
  • Uprising of the giants , Berlin 1963
  • The carriage horse and the plow horse , Berlin 1964
  • Nettesheim or The Difficulty Becoming a Hero , Berlin 1966
  • Heinrich Böll , Berlin 1967
  • Robin Hood, the Avenger from Sherwood , Berlin 1968
  • Trace of the Falcon , Berlin 1968 (under the name Charles P. Henry)
  • The murderers are getting old , Berlin 1969
  • White Wolves , Berlin 1970 (under the name Charles P. Henry)
  • The most beautiful stories from 1001 nights , Berlin 1971
  • Deadly Error , Berlin 1972 (under the name Charles P. Henry)
  • Wine for honorable men , Berlin 1972
  • Rinaldo Rinaldini, the King of Campania , Berlin 1976
  • The apartment or ways out of the labyrinth , Berlin 1976
  • Whitewashed graves , Berlin 1977
  • Premiere in N. , Berlin 1980
  • Business risk , Berlin 1982
  • In the labyrinth or walks in two landscapes , Berlin 1984
  • Siren song , Berlin 1984
  • The traces are terrifying , Berlin 1987
  • Uncle Nicodemus , Berlin 1988
  • Statute of limitations, but not forgotten , Berlin 1989
  • What I know makes me hot , Berlin 1992

Editing

  • James Fenimore Cooper : The Spy , Berlin 1953
  • Classic German storytellers , Berlin (together with Hans-Dietrich Dahnke and Gerhard Schneider)
    • 1 (1953)
    • 2 (1953)
  • James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans , Berlin 1954
  • James Fenimore Cooper : Wildtöter , Berlin 1954
  • German master stories of the 19th century , Berlin (together with Eberhard Panitz)
    • 1. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Joseph von Eichendorff, Jeremias Gotthelf, Franz Grillparzer, Gottfried Keller , 1954
    • 2. Otto Ludwig, Eduard Mörike, Theodor Storm , 1954
  • Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer's Adventure , Berlin 1954
  • James Fenimore Cooper : Boy Scouts or The Inner Sea , Berlin 1955
  • Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Berlin 1955
  • German ballads from Bürger to Brecht , Berlin 1956 (together with Walter Püschel )
  • German stories from Switzerland , Berlin 1956 (together with Gerhard Schneider)
  • German storytellers of the 20th century , Berlin (together with Kurt Böttcher and Paul Günter Krohn )
    • 1 (1957)
    • 2 (1957)
  • Charles Sealsfield : Tokeah or The White Rose , Berlin 1957
  • Bodo Uhse, Eduard Claudius , Berlin 1960
  • Kong am Strande , Berlin 1961 (under the name K. Heinz)
  • English narrator of the 19th century , Berlin 1962 (with Gerhard Schneider)
  • Acting leader , Berlin
    • 1. Ancient, Italian, Spanish, English and French Drama , 1963
    • 2. German Drama , 1963
    • 3. Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, Russian and Soviet, Polish, Czechoslovak, Bulgarian, Yugoslav, Romanian, Hungarian, Finnish and Scandinavian, American, Latin American, Turkish, Indian, Chinese and Japanese dramas , 1964
  • Die Schaubude , Berlin 1964 (together with Walter Püschel)
  • Affenschande , Berlin 1968
  • The bad legend of the broken gallows rope and other German-language master stories of the 20th century , Berlin 1973 - 1977 filmed
  • Trubert's pranks and other picaresque stories , Berlin 1973 (together with Alfred Antkowiak)
  • Philip Larkin : Poems, Berlin 1974 (co-authors: Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes)
  • William Sansom : The Forbidden Lighthouse , Berlin 1975
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton : The Unsolvable Problem , Berlin 1977
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot : In my beginning is my end , Berlin 1977
  • William Somerset Maugham : Regen , Berlin 1977
  • Franz Carl Weiskopf : The ghost in the opera house and other strange stories , Berlin 1978
  • William Butler Yeats : I had the wisdom that love gives us , Berlin 1981
  • The rooster stands in the sun , Berlin 1983 (together with Alice Berger)
  • Franz von Gaudy : The seven stages of a groom's suffering on the way to the altar , Berlin 1986 (published together with Alice Berger)
  • Hermann Harry Schmitz : How I decided to walk on hands , Berlin 1987 (edited together with Alice Berger)
  • Philip Larkin : The only thing that calls me is my rough sound , Berlin 1988

Translations

  • Arthur Conan Doyle : Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories , Leipzig [u. a.] (translated together with Alice Berger)
    • 1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , 1983
    • 2. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes , 1983
    • 3. The return of Sherlock Holmes , 1984
    • 4. The last prank by Sherlock Holmes , 1984
    • 5. Sherlock Holmes ' Notebook , 1985
  • Robert Frost : In love I was at war with the world , Berlin 1973 (translated with Helmut Heinrich)
  • Émile Gaboriau : The Lerouge Case , Berlin 1973
  • Jean de La Fontaine : Fables , Berlin 1963
  • Richmond: Scenes from the Life of a Bow Street Runner , Berlin 1989 (translated with Alice Berger)
  • Alan Winnington : Kopfjäger, Berlin 1965 (translated under the name K. Heinz)
  • Yanks meet Rote , Berlin 1990 (translated together with Heinz Kübart)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A scan of the death certificate is the support team at Ticket: 2011060610010991 ago
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Walther : Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Ch. Links, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-121-6 , p. 452.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Academy of Arts of May 27, 2010: Academy of Arts presents a forbidden novel by Boris Djacenko. , accessed June 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinz, K. (pseudonym); Henry, Charles P. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1994
Place of death Berlin