Karl Mickel

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Karl Mickel's grave in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

Karl Mickel (born August 12, 1935 in Dresden , † June 20, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German writer.

life and work

Mickel was born on August 12, 1935 in Dresden as the son of a working-class family. There he attended elementary school from 1941 to 1949 and, together with his mother, witnessed the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. The pictures of the following days never left him. From 1949 to 1953 he also attended secondary school in Dresden. He graduated from high school. Mickel was admitted to study in Berlin.

Mickel studied national economic planning and economic history with Hans Mottek and Jürgen Kuczynski at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst from 1953 to 1958 . In 1958 he worked for the magazine “Die Wirtschaft” and from 1959 to 1963 was editor of the magazine “Junge Kunst” . After that, he was a research assistant to the University of Economics in Berlin and member of the leadership of the Berliner Ensemble , where he met Ruth Berghaus worked, most recently a professor at the School of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" . Mickel is assigned to the Saxon Poet School . Mickel had two children with his wife, and his relationship with the poet Sarah Kirsch also had a son.

Works

Poetry and prose

  • Verses of praise and abuse . Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1963
  • Vita nova mea . Poems and two essays. Rowohlt 1966
  • Iron age . Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1975
  • Iron age . Poems. Rotbuch Verlag 1981. ISBN 3-880221-56-1
  • Odysseus in Ithaca . Poems
  • Palimpsest . Poems and Commentaries 1975–1989. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1990. ISBN 3-354005-96-3
  • Lachmund's friends . novel
    • First book. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-354006-00-5
    • First (revised version by the author) and second book (unfinished). Wallstein 2006

Plays and libretti

Release

Audio book

Awards

literature

  • Leon Hempel: Standstill and movement. High style in the poetry of East and West Germany. GegenSatz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814493-0-3
  • Short biography for:  Mickel, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Rainer Zekert: The poetological conception of the poet Karl Mickel: Genesis, basic concepts, intended effect u. literary history Environment. Ed .: Leipzig, Univ., Diss. 1986, OCLC 165688400 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mickel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, playwright and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2000
Place of death Berlin