Klaus Poche

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Klaus Poche ( pseudonyms : Nikolaus Lennert , Georg Nikolaus , born November 18, 1927 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 9, 2007 in Cologne ) was a German writer , screenwriter and illustrator .

Life

Klaus Poche was the son of an employee . He attended elementary school and high school in Halle (Saale) . Poche took as a soldier of the Wehrmacht at the World War II in part and got 1945 in American captivity . After his discharge, he worked in various jobs, he was a nurse , decorator , driver and drawing teacher . From 1950 to 1954 he was an editor for the Berlin newspapers Nachtexpress and BZ am Abend . From 1954 he lived as a freelance writerin East Berlin .

Klaus Poche wrote short stories , reports and novels ; he also worked as a graphic designer and book illustrator . Since the 1960s, the work on scripts for film and television productions took an increasingly broad space in his work, whereby he concentrated on the description of everyday life and its conflicts. In dealing with such topics, however, the author increasingly came into conflict with official GDR cultural policy , especially after he had signed the protest resolution against Wolf Biermann's expatriation in 1976 . In 1978 the television game “Closed Society”, for which Poche had delivered the scenario , met with sharp criticism. This describes the problems of a marriage. Poche couldn't find a GDR publisher for his autobiographical novel “Atemnot”. Here the author had addressed censorship in the GDR . So the book could only appear in the West. In 1979 Poche was one of the signatories of an open letter to Erich Honecker . In this letter, the authors, including Stefan Heym , expressed their concern about the restrictive course of the GDR's cultural policy. In June 1979 Poche was expelled from the GDR Writers ' Association. At the end of 1979 he was allowed to leave the Federal Republic of Germany . In the following years, Poche worked exclusively as a screenwriter. He last lived in Pulheim near Cologne .

Klaus Poche was a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts and the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany . At the beginning of 2000 he resigned from the group of authors in the Federal Republic of Germany, which was close to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , in protest against the CDU donation affair .

He was married to the film and television dramaturge Helga Poche.

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Works

  • The OKW does not announce anything more . Berlin 1961 (together with Hans Oliva )
  • When a marquis makes plans . Berlin 1965 (under the name Nikolaus Lennert)
  • The train does not stop in the waiting room . Berlin 1965
  • Shortness of breath . Olten 1978

Scripts

  • Born 45 (GDR, 1966, together with Jürgen Böttcher )
  • Responsibility (GDR, 1967)
  • The calling (GDR, 1967)
  • Always around March (GDR, 1967; under the pseudonym Georg Nikolaus, together with Jurek Becker )
  • At 70 you still have dreams (GDR, 1967; under the pseudonym Georg Nikolaus, together with Jurek Becker)
  • Vacation (GDR, 1968; under the pseudonym Georg Nikolaus, together with Jurek Becker)
  • The guarantor (GDR, 1968)
  • Rottenknechte (GDR, 1969/70, together with Frank Beyer and Gerhard Stueber)
  • My dear Robinson (GDR, 1970, together with Roland Gräf )
  • The Man and the Girl (GDR, 1972)
  • My dear husband and I (GDR, 1974)
  • Survey - Anna O (GDR, 1977, together with Gerhard Stuchlik )
  • Closed Society (TV film) (GDR, 1978)
  • The second skin (FRG, 1981)
  • Collin (FRG, 1981)
  • Hanna from eight to eight (FRG, 1983)
  • Mom's birthday (Germany, 1984)
  • The last role (FRG, 1984/85)
  • The Boss from the West (FRG, 1988)
  • She and He (Germany, 1991)
  • The Great Festival (Germany, 1992)
  • I indict (Germany, 1994)
  • Lost Life (Germany, 1995/96)

Illustrator of the following books

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Poche Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Poche, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lennert, Nikolaus; Nikolaus, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2007
Place of death Cologne