Klaus Michael

Klaus Michael (* 1959 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a German philologist and literary scholar .

Life

Klaus Michael studied German at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1982 to 1987 . From 1987 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin in a research group on the literature of the Weimar Republic under Werner Mittenzwei and received a science award from the BMFT in 1991. In 1994 he received his doctorate on Siegfried Kracauer's early film criticism at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1994 to 1996 he conducted research at the Technical University of Berlin on the second literature and art of the GDR in the scientist integration program and on the writers' association of the GDR with a focus on comparing dictatorships of the Volkswagen Foundation .

Since 1986 Michael u. a. in unofficial journals in Berlin (Ps. Michael Thulin, August Thalheimer). Together with Heinz Havemeister , Volker Handloik and Susanne Schleyer , he published the literary and art magazine Liane in Berlin from 1988 to 1990 . 1990 Co-founder of the Berlin literary publishing house Druckhaus Galrev , he was its managing director with Rainer Schedlinski from 1990 to 1992 . With Lutz Seiler , Peter Walther and Birgit Dahlke (from 1996) he published the literary magazine moosbrand from 1993 to 1998 , which was published by Janus-Press Gerhard Wolf Berlin in 1996 .

Michael has been the presidential secretary of the Saxon Academy of the Arts since 1997 . From 2000 to 2001 Michael was also the founding coordinator of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences / German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . He was a board member of the Peter Huchel -Haus eV Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam , was active in the Standing Committee on Art of the German Evangelical Church Congress from 2000 to 2010 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony .

Publications and editions

• Hugo Ball: Flametti or the dandysm of the poor. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-351-01401-5 (Ed. With Alfred Dreifuß).
• Lance villages. impossible to live it. texts photos pictures. Verlag Janus Press Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-928-94200-X (Ed. With Peter Böthig ).
• Be a bird or a cage. Art and literature from independent magazines in the GDR 1979-1989 . Druckhaus Galrev Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-910-16110-3 (Ed. With Thomas Wohlfahrt).
• Power games. Focus on literature and state security Prenzlauer Berg (= Reclams Universal Library , 1460). Reclam Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-379-01460-5 (Ed. With Peter Böthig ).
• Film criticism as cultural criticism. Siegfried Kracauer's early film review 1921-1941. PhD thesis. Humboldt University Berlin 1994 (manuscript printing).
• Revolution in a closed space. The other culture in Leipzig 1979-1989. Verlag Faber and Faber Leipzig 2002 (with Uta Grundmann). ISBN 3-932-54577-X . (The first edition was published in 1996 by Thom-Verlag Leipzig under the title The practice of the outside track. The other culture in Leipzig 1979-1989 )
• Autonomous art in the GDR . Online dossier for the Federal Agency for Civic Education (with Uta Grundmann) http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/deutsche-geschichte/autonome-kunst-in-der-ddr/

Articles and contributions (selection)

• New publishers and magazines in East Germany. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . 41/42, 1991, pp. 33-45.
• Paper boats. [Self-published literary magazines]. In: Gabriele Muschter, Rüdiger Thomas (ed.): Beyond the state culture. Traditions of Autonomous Art in the GDR. Hanser, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-446-17059-6 , pp. 62-82.
• Enemy literature. The Biermann affair, state security and the emergence of an alternative literary culture in the GDR. In: From Politics and Contemporary History. Vol. 22/23, 1993, pp. 23-31.
• Samizdat literature in the GDR and the influence of the state security. In: Gundula Fienbork, Bernd Rheinberg (Red.): Stasi, KGB and literature. Contributions and experiences from Russia and Germany. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-927760-17-X , pp. 158–177.
• Prenzlauer Berg. Forays through a cultural landscape. In: Bernd Wilczek (Ed.): Berlin. Capital of the DDR. 1949-1989. Elster et al., Baden-Baden et al. 1995, ISBN 3-89151-302-X , pp. 192-215.
• Alternative culture and state security 1976–1989. Expertise for the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag. In: German Bundestag (Ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity”. Volume 3: Bernhard Marquardt (Red.): Economic, social and environmental policy. Teilbd. 3. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 1636–1675, (short version in: Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Roger Engelmann (Ed.): File situation. The importance of the records of the State Security Service for contemporary history research (= analyzes and documents. 1) . Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-098-8 ).
• Second culture or counterculture? The subcultures and artistic scenes in the GDR and their relationship to the political opposition. In: Detlef Pollack , Dieter Rink (eds.): Between denial and opposition. Political protest in the GDR 1970–1989. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35729-1 , pp. 106-128.
• Beyond the public. On the conception of the literary public in the self-published literary magazines in the GDR in the eighties. In: Journal of the SED State Research Association. 3, 1997, ISSN  0948-9878 , pp. 80-94.
• with Margret Pötsch, Peter Walther : “History, structure and working method of the writers' association of the GDR.” First results of a research project. In: Journal of the SED State Research Association. 3, 1997, ISSN  0948-9878 , pp. 58-69.
• "Make cucumber salad out of this state". Punk and the Exercises of Power. In: Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister (eds.): We always want to be good ... Punk, New Wave, Hiphop, Independent scene in the GDR 1980–1990. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-306-3 , pp. 72-93.
• Counter-public and dialogical action. Gert Neumann's aesthetic-journalistic concepts. In: Simone Barck , Martina Langermann, Siegfried Lokatis (eds.): Between “Mosaic” and “Unity”. Magazines in the GDR. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-191-7 , pp. 669-679.
• The end of the underground: German-German cultural contacts in the subculture. In: Bernd Lindner , Rainer Eckert (Hrsg.): Knock sign. Art and culture of the 80s in Germany. (Book accompanying the double exhibition Jumps in the Wall and Mad Room). Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-47-8 , pp. 161-182.
• Ex Oriente Lux. The Soviet Union in the mirror of the GDR opposition and critical art. In: Pawel Choroschilow, Jürgen Harten , Joachim Sartorius, Peter-Klaus Schuster (eds.): Berlin - Москва, Moscow - Берлин. Timeline. 1950-2000. Nicolai, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89479-072-5 , pp. 76-84.
• Photography as a seismograph. Art in a closed society. In: Hans-Werner Schmidt (Ed.): Evelyn Richter. Review, concepts, fragments. Kerber, Bielefeld et al. 2005, ISBN 3-938025-45-X , pp. 88-208.
• "Draft of an ideal organ". Micha Brendel: Language and symbolic order. In: Constanze von Marlin (Ed.): Order through disturbance. Auto-perforation artistry. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-938821-47-7 , pp. 59–70.
• Samizdat - literature - modernity. Eastern European samizdat and the self-published literature of Eastern Germany. In: Siegfried Lokatis, Ingrid Sonntag (ed.): Secret readers in the GDR. Control and dissemination of illicit literature. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-494-5 , 340-356.
• "Processes are accelerated". Lothar Fiedler and the Dresden artist magazine “und” (1982–1984). In: Frank Eckhardt, Paul Kaiser (Ed.): Without Us! Art & alternative culture in Dresden before and after '89. Efau, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-9807388-1-1 , pp. 172-185.
• Touch is just a marginal phenomenon. The German-German history of an anthology. In: Siegfried Lokatis, Ingrid Sonntag (ed.): 100 years of Kiepenheuer publishers. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-635-2 , pp. 264-274.
• Samizdat literature in the GDR. In: Franz-Josef Schlichting, Hans-Joachim Veen (Hrsg.): SED dictatorship in the mirror of literature (= scientific day seminar of the Ettersberg Foundation and the State Center for Political Education Thuringia. 4). Ettersberg Foundation, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-943098-05-1 , pp. 47–72.

Works on the literature of the twenties, on non-official culture and literature up to 1989 in the GDR and on contemporary literature.

Until 1989 contributions a. a. in the poetry album , in unofficial magazines Ariadnefabrik , Bizarre Cities , Context , Liane , Schaden and after 1990 in magazines and daily newspapers il verri , Focus , Berliner Zeitung , Tagesspiegel , Ostragehege , Sax .

Furthermore lexicon entries in the lexicon of socialist literature. Their history in Germany until 1945. Edited by Simone Barck, Silvia Schlenstedt u. a. . JB Metzler Stuttgart and Weimar 1994 and who was who in the GDR. A lexicon of East German biographies. Edited by Helmut Müller-Engberts, Jan Wielgohs u. a. Ch. Links Berlin 1992 ff.

Web links

Saxon Academy of Arts http://www.sadk.de/