Karl Heinz Schleinitz
Karl Heinz Schleinitz (born July 11, 1921 in Brieskow ; † August 9, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German writer .
Live and act
The son of a miner and excavator operator and a newspaper delivery woman wanted to become a sculptor after attending primary school. Since his parents could not finance his studies, he took up an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman as a makeshift. For seven years he carried out the Frankfurter Oderzeitung for two hours in the afternoons as his mother's assistant.
As a child he built models of gliders, and in 1936 he did his first gliding aircraft. After three years, he acquired the pilot's license that entitles him to cross-country flights. In the Second World War he was a flight instructor and in the last months of the war a fighter pilot, he was shot down three times. He was an active athlete, especially short distance runner. A newspaper article with the headline "The fastest man in Pomerania" reported on his sporting achievements. He took part in the last Reich Championships in the Berlin Olympic Stadium .
After 1945 he was first a farm worker and miner, then editor-in-chief of a company newspaper. He built up the Welzow folk art ensemble. The highlight in 1951 was the artistic framing of the state ceremony on Miner's Day in Berlin's Metropol Theater . Karl Heinz Schleinitz took part in folk art competitions in the GDR and was twice a winner in the field of plastic. In 1952 he became editor of the newspaper " T Tages Rundschau " and worked with Wolfgang Leonhard , Wolfgang Harich , Stefan Heym and Ingeborg Meyer-Rey . After they were hired, he became editor of " Neues Deutschland " under Hermann Axen in 1956 , where he organized the first press festivals. In 1962 he left and became a freelance writer. He published around 800 sometimes multi-part reports in major GDR magazines and also worked for television and radio. Karl Heinz Schleinitz was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and the FDGB Literature Prize.
He was married twice, his first wife died after 23 years of marriage. He lived in Berlin and had four children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Works
- 1956: Travel pictures from China. Kongress-Verlag , Berlin.
- 1957: Experienced and listened to. Verlag Junge Welt Berlin.
- 1959: The trial of strength. Verlag Sport und Technik Neuenhagen b. Berlin.
- 1961: looking into the heart. Publishing house Tribüne Berlin.
- 1963: How the grandfather became Budjonny again. Kinderbuchverlag Berlin ( Robinson's cheap books , volume 104).
- 1963: Tomorrow at Lickweg. Dietz publishing house Berlin .
- 1964: A woman's joys and sorrows. Democratic Women's Association of Germany Federal Executive Berlin.
- 1969: The lady of the shifting dunes. Eulenspiegel-Verlag Berlin.
- 1970: One rifle and fifty rounds. Kinderbuchverlag Berlin (Robinson's cheap books, volume 160).
- 1996: Still waters run deep. To Helenesee and others . Frankfurt Oder Edition Frankfurt (Oder). ISBN 3-930842-22-X
- 2001: The current flows calmly. Story of a great love . NORA Berlin. ISBN 3-935445-13-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Heinz Schleinitz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice, Neues Deutschland from August 17/18, 2019, p. 27
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1987, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schleinitz, Karl Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brieskow |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |