Klaus Meyer (writer)

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Klaus Meyer (born February 19, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German writer and journalist . He is the author of Low German stories and columns.

Life

Klaus Meyer, son of the Low German writer Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg , was born in Berlin in 1937 and attended elementary school in Oslo , Schwerin and Bössow from 1944 and secondary school in Grevesmühlen from 1951 . From 1956 to 1962 he studied German , English and philosophy in Berlin and Rostock . With the qualification to teach higher education, he then worked as a teacher in Rostock. In 1957 he founded the Rostock Student Theater. From 1967 he worked as an editor in Berlin.

Since 1971 he has worked as a freelance writer, first in Berlin, then in Rostock. After the end of the GDR he worked for the North German Broadcasting Corporation ( Talk op Platt broadcast ) until 1996 .

He wrote some of his works with his wife Piri Meyer .

Klaus Meyer worked in the GDR under the code name "Parchow" as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security ; After this activity became known, the NDR ended its collaboration with the author in 1996.

Works (selection)

  • Pussti, mien Pussti
  • White Cloud Carolin , 1980 (children's book), made into a film in 1986
  • Zuckerkauken un Koem , Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock 1982
  • Jonas, Milly and the great love , Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2010

literature

  • Support group for literature Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V. (Ed.): Writers in Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania , Federchen Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1994, ISBN 3-910170-19-6
  • Falko Weerts Dat Talk op Platt Book , Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 2001, ISBN 3-89882-005-X , pages 13-14

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.klangkontext.de
  2. ↑ Joachim Walther : Security area literature, Berlin: 1996, pp. 611–613, 754.
  3. ↑ Focus, No. 45, November 2, 1998, page 114
  4. ↑ Klaus Meyer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parchow (alias)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin