Klaus Seehafer

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Klaus Seehafer (born April 17, 1947 in Alsfeld , Hesse ; † May 23, 2016 in Bitterfeld , Saxony-Anhalt ) was a German author and editor of numerous works of fiction .

Life

Klaus Seehafer grew up in the Eifel and Bavaria . After training as a bookseller, he completed a degree in librarianship in Stuttgart . From 1976 to 2005 he was head of the city ​​library and the municipal cinema in Diepholz (Lower Saxony). Since 2005 he has lived and worked as a freelance writer in Bitterfeld (Saxony-Anhalt). He was married to the former child actress Carmen Sarge .

Seehafer wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Die Zeit and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and began in 1976 with the publication of books for children and young people and with the participation in children's radio. Numerous literary anthologies by him have appeared since the 1980s . His greatest success was with his biography Johann Wolfgang Goethe - My Life One Single Adventure (1998). Other books about Goethe followed. Sea oat has also excelled as a lyricist ( Fictional Secrets , 2005) and novelist ( Casanova's late love , 2009). In 2007 he received a scholarship for the Künstlerhof Schreyahn . He was a member of the Association of German Writers and the Goethe Society .

Works (selection)

  • The Dümmer lake in color. A travel guide for nature lovers. Stuttgart 1980
  • Stories out of fear. Poems, stories. Stuttgart 1982
  • Seven animals to heaven. Fairy tale. With pictures by Christiane Lesch. Düsseldorf 1986; ISBN 3-491-79258-4
  • For more than a hundred years. History and prehistory of the AOK Diepholz. (Ed .: AOK Diepholz), Diepholz 1987
  • Who was that? That's the same ... Rate portraits of great personalities. Munich 1991
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe - my life was one adventure. Biography. Berlin 2000
  • Goethe for those in a hurry. Berlin 2002
  • Made up secrets. Poems 1975 - 2005. With pictures by Carola Ludewig. Vechta-Langförden 2005, 115 p .; ISBN 3-937844-85-6
  • Under the castle tower and around. Diepholz stories and reports, speeches and advocates. Diepholz 2005, 215 p .; ISBN 3-89728-061-2
  • Then see you in Bitterfeld. Diary of a year. Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle / S. 2009, ISBN 3-89812-664-1 .
  • Casanova's late love. Bookspot Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937357-36-2
  • Magister Tinius. Life picture of a criminal out of greed for books. VAT Verlag André Thiele 2013. ISBN 978-3-940884-81-7
  • Schuberg, Angelika; Seehafer, Klaus The baby is coming home today. Ellermann game picture book Ellermann, Munich, 1983, ISBN 3-7707-2017-2
  • as editor : numerous Works (anthologies)
  • Lectures on Goethe, Tucholsky, Lower Saxony classics, cheerful and contemplative things from the Ore Mountains ...
  • 13 contributions for radio (1980–1995; Radio Bremen II, WDR, NDR 1, BR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imagination and passion - the writer Klaus Seehafer died at the age of 69 . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, local edition Bitterfeld-Wolfen, May 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Klaus Seehafer. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 980, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  3. ↑ Fat Tilla - Carmen Sarge . In: Elstermann, Knut : I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Sea oats, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2016
Place of death Bitterfeld , Saxony-Anhalt