Klaus Meyer (writer)
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
- Literature by and about Klaus Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Klaus Meyer in the state bibliography MV
- Klaus Meyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Klaus Meyer in the kulturportal-mv.de
- Klaus Meyer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.klangkontext.de
- ↑ Joachim Walther : Security area literature, Berlin: 1996, pp. 611–613, 754.
- ↑ Focus, No. 45, November 2, 1998, page 114
- ↑ Klaus Meyer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
personal data | |
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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 |