Karl Hermann Roehricht

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Karl Hermann Roehricht (born October 12, 1928 in Leipzig , † December 27, 2015 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German writer and painter .

Life

Karl Hermann Roehricht, the son of a pastry chef and a metalworker, was captured by the Americans at the end of the Second World War, when he was not even seventeen. After his release from the Marburg an der Lahn prison camp in June 1945, he continued the training he had begun before the war with an insurance company in Leipzig. After passing the business assistant examination in March 1946, he became unemployed and then worked as a construction worker. Roehricht became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) in 1946 and secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Leipzig in March 1947, where he met the later GDR functionaries Manfred Gerlach , Konrad Naumann and Horst Schumann . From January 1948 he was employed on a puppet stage of the FDJ. In 1950 Roehricht worked as a commercial advertiser in the decoration workshops of the consumer cooperative in Leipzig.

From 1951 to 1955 Roehricht studied painting in West Berlin as a master student under Ernst Schumacher-Salig at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Art Academy and then for a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo . Study trips to Italy, France and Spain followed. He married his wife Leonie, whom he met while studying, in 1957.

In 1955 there was a bitter debate at the art academy between Karl Hofer and Will Grohmann about the evaluation of figurative and abstract art. It was emphatically announced that representational painting was outlived. Roehricht's figurative realism received little attention at this time. An exhibition of West Berlin realists planned by the painter Horst Strempel , in which Roehricht was supposed to participate, did not take place. Roehricht saw no future for himself in West Berlin and returned to Leipzig with his family in October 1960.

From 1962 to 1977 Roehricht lived as a freelance painter and writer in Freienbrink near Berlin, then with Groß Poserin and Berlin-Karow.

He repeatedly refused to work as an unofficial employee for the Ministry of State Security . Because of his uncompromising attitude, he came under increasing pressure and was subsequently spied on and harassed. The television version of his comedy Familie Birnchen was banned in 1976 because of alleged fascist tendencies and only broadcast on GDR television in 1982 .

1974 to 1976 he was involved in the artistic design of the Palace of the Republic with several landscape paintings . In 1979 he received the GDR Art Prize . However, when "things were moving in the house, letters and telegrams did not reach the addressees, brake lines were cut, coffins were sent to the house and painting jobs were thwarted, theater viewers disappeared and friends withdrew," he applied for his family to be released from GDR citizenship in 1984 .

Roehricht then lived in Burgkirchen an der Alz , and since 1998 in Berlin-Spandau .

Roehricht published 12 books as well as texts for theater, radio and television in the GDR. As a painter, he organized 19 solo exhibitions. Works by Karl Hermann Roehricht are owned by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , the Galerie Neue Meister Dresden, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar , the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the Angermuseum Erfurt .

Works (selection)

radio play

Plays

  • The Birnchen family. Everyday Berlin comedy in 3 acts. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1973.
  • My private gallery. Monologues. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Frieda's Last Morning or The Death of a Petty Bourgeois. Sächsische Tragigroteske Henschelverlag, Berlin 1975.

Poetry and prose

  • Puddle soot . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1975.
  • Fair . Book publisher der Morgen, Berlin 1976.
  • A crown made of vine leaves. Ballads, cantatas and songs. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Field flowers in a Biedermeier vase. Stories. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1977.
  • The dissatisfied words and other fairy tales. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1980.
  • Vine and climbing rose. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • City lunch. Novel. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1980.
  • Forest summer years. Novel. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1981.
  • The lost parents. Leipzig 1936 - Pictures of a childhood from the time of fascism. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1982.
  • Raising a thief. Stories. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1983.
  • Suburban childhood. Novel. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-25756-5 .
  • Life courses - interior views from the GDR. Morgenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-371-00343-4 .

painting

Solo exhibitions

  • State Museum Schwerin 1971
  • Angermuseum Erfurt 1973
  • Kunsthalle Weimar 1973
  • Work show. Beeskow Castle 2004
  • I am a person, so tender, so rough - pictures and texts . Gallery Hotel Leipziger Hof 2004
  • Schwedt City Museum 2009
  • Municipal Museum, Eisenhüttenstadt 2009

Participation in exhibitions

  • Artists' cooperative Neubrandenburg 1977
  • Tip Gallery Berlin 1979
  • Our friends, the painters. Rheinsberg Castle 1995
  • The ideal exhibition. ACC Gallery Weimar 2009
  • LückenStücke. Palace art in the model village. Mestlin 2009
  • Art from the Palace of the Republic. Federal Ministry of Finance Berlin 2012

Theatrical performances

  • Monologues by a painter , Deutsches Theater Berlin 1972
  • The Birnchen family , Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 1973
  • Role monologue , Hans Otto Theater Potsdam 1974
  • Frieda's last morning or the death of a petty bourgeois , Staatstheater Schwerin 1975
  • I am so tender and rough , Volksbühne Berlin 1976
  • Role monologue / with exhibition , Stadttheater Gera 1977
  • Frieda's last morning ... , Dramatiktage der DDR Leipzig 1979
  • Role monologue , Opernfoyer Leipzig 1979
  • The Birnchen family , Nordhausen City Theater 1979
  • Role monologue , Stadttheater Quedlinburg 1980
  • Role monologue , Kammertheater Rudolstadt 1982
  • Role monologue , Schauspielhaus Leipzig 1990

Marionette dolls / stage design

  • The Martian rocket , Grassimuseum Leipzig 1948
  • Kasane , old Japanese fairy tale, Grassi Museum 1949

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karl Hermann Roehricht: Life courses - interior views from the GDR. Morgenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-371-00343-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Roehricht, Karl Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2015
Place of death Berlin-Spandau