Knut Wagner
Knut Wagner (born February 19, 1945 in Hausdorf / Silesia ) is a German writer .
Life
In 1946, Wagner's parents were driven from their Silesian homeland and had to move from Hausdorf, district of Breslau , to Waldenburg in Saxony .
From 1951 Knut Wagner attended the local elementary school , which he finished in Erfurt in 1959 . After graduating from high school, which he took in 1963 at the Extended Heinrich Mann High School in Erfurt, he completed an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle fitter and then worked as an engine fitter in the Schwedt oil processing plant . In 1965 he began studying German and history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , which he completed in August 1969 with the state examination and diploma.
After seven years of teaching, Wagner quit and became a freelance writer, wrote the novel “Prince Homburg and the Swallows”, for which he received the 1981 award from the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig and the literary institute “ Johannes R. Becher ”.
In 1982 he successfully completed his direct studies at the Literature Institute in Leipzig , which he began in September 1979.
From 1987 to 1989 he was an acting dramaturge at the Meininger Theater and founded - when political conditions allowed - in February 1990 the weekly magazine “Openness”, of which he was editor-in-chief .
From May 1990 he worked as a local editor for various daily newspapers (Tagespost, Thüringische Landeszeitung , Free Word ). In 2001 he became head of the features section at Freie Wort in Suhl , but had to give up his editorial work a year later for health reasons.
In the period that followed, Wagner worked on the events in Schmalkalden in the fall of 1989 in literary and cinematic terms, and his film “Aufruhr im Advent”, which premiered in 2009, also met with great national interest. After the publication of his anthology "Traumbeladen" with early poetry and essays in 2011, Wagner devoted himself primarily to writing novels.
Knut Wagner has lived in Asbach near Schmalkalden since 1971 .
Works
- Prince Homburg and the Swallows, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1981
- Traumladaden, publisher: tredition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8424-2205-6
- Riot in Advent, DVD, 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028780-0
Web links
Own website: www.knut-wagner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Böttcher / Erdmute Hufenreuter (ed.): Inventory 3, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig 1987. Retrieved on July 7, 2020 .
- ^ Völkerling, Hedwig .: Thuringian authors of the present: a lexicon . 1st edition. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2003, ISBN 3-931505-47-2 .
- ↑ Klaus Steinhaußen: New German Literature. Monthly magazine for literature and criticism. 28. Volume 10 . October 1980.
- ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2020/2021, Volume 2, 2020 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Knut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hausdorf / Silesia |