Knud Wollenberger

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Knud Wollenberger (born February 23, 1952 in Copenhagen , Denmark ; † January 25, 2012 in Gortavrulla, Feakle Parish , County Clare , Ireland ) was a German-speaking poet of Danish nationality and an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .

Life

Knud Wollenberger was the son of the German scientist Albert Wollenberger and his Danish wife. The parents returned to the GDR from American exile via Denmark in 1955 , and due to his Danish citizenship, son Knud later enjoyed almost unlimited freedom of travel. He got to know Vera Lengsfeld at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , where he worked after his mathematics diploma . In 1980 they married and had two sons.

Wollenberger had been an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security since 1972 under the cover name "IM Donald" and from 1982 also spied on his own wife, for example in her later function as the founder of the Church from Below . She discovered this even after the end of the regime through inspection of the files, whereupon she divorced him in 1992 and took her maiden name again. He justified his work for the Stasi by saying that, due to his Jewish origins, he saw the GDR as the answer to Auschwitz and wanted to do everything to prevent a new Auschwitz. He considered this state to be “reformable and worthy of reform”.

In a letter, Wollenberger apologized to Vera Lengsfeld and asked for her forgiveness. He wanted to protect his wife by working together because he was afraid for her. Vera Lengsfeld indicated that a private clarification would have been possible if the case had not come to the public.

Wollenberger also reported to the State Security about the Pankow Peace District , to which he confessed in 1992 and later referred to in writing.

Wollenberger has been working as a beekeeper since 1985 , looking after 120 bee colonies in Berlin-Buch during the summer .

Knud Wollenberger worked in Dortmund in 1999 for the music channel Onyx.tv and later until 2004 as a TV editor in Berlin . He also made a name for himself in the scene as a poetry slammer with various appearances throughout Germany. In a corresponding CD - Sampler he is represented by one piece.

From 2004 he lived in seclusion in Berlin-Buch. In 2009 he moved to Scarriff, Clare , Ireland with his second wife Christiane . The couple married there on June 7, 2010. On January 25, 2012, he died of multiple system atrophy , which he had been suffering from since 1998.

In the obituary notice was a sentence which, according to Erik Steffen in an obituary for Wollenberger, looked like a cryptic life balance: "And a black sun licks the last rays!"

In his assessment, civil rights activist Roland Jahn comes to the conclusion that Wollenberger showed real remorse. His case shows that forgiveness is possible even in extreme cases.

Works

literature

  • Mikael Busch: Knud and Vera. Et Stasi drama. People'sPress, Copenhagen 2012, ISBN 978-87-7055-712-2 .
  • Jana Simon : The traitor . In: Everyday Abysses. The strange in our vicinity . Reports and portraits. Ch.links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-319-7 , p. 119-126 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vera Lengsfeld: Wund fürs Leben , Zeit Online, April 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Jürgen Leinemann: She couldn't notice anything. In: Der Spiegel , January 13, 1992.
  3. ↑ Knud Wollenberger: For Knud, the GDR was the answer to Auschwitz . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Vera Lengsfeld: A woman who likes to offend . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Jürgen Leinemann: She couldn't notice anything . In: Der Spiegel . tape 3 , January 13, 1992 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 3, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Vera Lengsfeld: She didn't want to be a victim of suffering . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Adelheid Müller-Lissner: Being able to forgive - yourself and others . Ch. Links Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86284-118-9 ( google.com [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  8. ↑ Vera Lengsfeld: . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Knud Wollenberger: It can't really be harmful to talk to them. In: Marianne Subklew (Ed.): I became more courageous. The Pankower Peace Circle - political self-assertion and public contradiction. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 2003, p. 129.
  10. ↑ a b Erik Steffen: Knud want Berger (Born 1952) - Obituaries - Berlin - Tagesspiegel. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : IM "Donald" - The spy who came out of the kitchen. In: Welt Online , February 2, 2012.
  12. ^ Stasi cases: "Repentance is a prerequisite for forgiveness" . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Wollenberger, Knud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2012
Place of death Gortavrulla, Ireland