Kurt Morawietz
Kurt Morawietz (pseudonym Peter Burger) (born May 11, 1930 in Hanover ; † July 16, 1994 there ) was a writer and promoter of the Hanoverian literary scene.
Life
Kurt Morawietz comes from a Catholic family. The parents were deaf. His father was a bookbinder . After attending elementary school , he was taught at a national political educational institute and was a candidate for the NS-Ordensburg . After his apprenticeship at the city administration of Hanover, which he started in 1944, and attending the municipal administration school, he worked in administration until he left. In 1955 he founded the literary magazine die horen . From 1962 to 1992 he worked in the cultural office of the city of Hanover and promoted Hanoverian literature. Among other things, he initiated the Lyriktelefon (1978-1993), the literanover and in memory of him from July 3, 2005 to August 17, 2005, contributions were broadcast again. In 1969 he was a founding member of the Karl May Society. Since 1982 he has been a member of the international PEN Club . In 1995, the city of Hanover and the Sparkasse Hanover founded the Kurt Morawietz Literature Prize , honoring him on the occasion of his 75th birthday (2005) with numerous themed events.
Kurt Morawietz died in the hospital and was buried in the Stöcken city cemetery.
Publications
- 1949 - Up in the mountains
- 1962 - Essays from ten years of the Horen
- 1972 - eastward - westward . German-language documentary literature
- 1975 - year 30 . Poetry book (extended edition 1987)
- 1979 - I'll be nice to death . Biography about Gerrit Engelke 1890–1918
- 1988 - Bitter Erde - Terra Amara (bilingual collection of poems, Italian-German; 1988) together with Giuseppe Scigliano
- 1990 - Judas Dupont . Novella
- 1994 - Visit to the Colosseum, The Sunday Machine (2 stories, published posthumously)
- 2000 - 70 years of Kurt Morawietz in solitaire . 11 (poems) essays on Leibniz and Herrenhausen
- 2005 - Put your parting on the other side. Poetry and prose (Wallstein Verlag)
Editions
- 1948 - Co-editor of the magazine “ Sprachrohr der Junge”
- 1953/1954 - publisher of the Karl-May-Rundschrift Am Lagerfeuer
- 1955 - Editor and founder of the magazine die horen
- 1958 - You still breathe , volume of poetry
- 1963 - 300 years of Herrenhausen , Steinbock Verlag Hannover
- 1966 - German division of poetry reading book . Limes Verlag Wiesbaden
- 1972 - Monologue and Manifesto , volume of poetry
- 1977 - Festive Herrenhausen
- 1990 - Between clouds and the big city. Why read Engelke? with Karl Riha, Florian Vaßen
- 1978 - Lower Saxony literary together with Dieter P. Meier-Lenz ; 1981 and 1983 two more volumes
- 1981 - Splendid Herrenhausen . Steinbock Verlag, Hanover
- 1988 - Lower Saxony literary . Handbook for organizers
- 1994 - One white day I'll know why . For Detlev Block's 60th birthday
Awards
- Young Poetry Prize in Lower Saxony 1971
- Literanover literature market prize 1986
- Alfred Kerr Prize for the horen in 1980 and 1988
- Lower Saxony Prize for Journalism 1991
literature
- Literary dictionary . Vol. 8., Marq-Or. 2., completely revised Edition. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022046-9 , p. 316.
- Dieter P. Meier-Lenz: Morawietz, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ).
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 7, p. 206
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Morawietz, Kurt. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 58ff., 248
- Hugo Thielen : MORAWIETZ, Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 259f .; partly online via Google books
- Hugo Thielen: Morawietz, Kurt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 449f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Morawietz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Morawietz on literatur-niedersachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Morawietz 1930–1994 (2), photos ( Memento from May 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Curriculum vitae in Killy Literature Lexicon, reading sample / e-book, de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022047-6
- ↑ 10 years Lyrik-Telefon Hannover ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB)
- ↑ Lyric on call.
- ↑ heimatbund-niedersachsen.de ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) p. 298
- ↑ Stadtfriedhof Stöcken, p. 260
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morawietz, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burger, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1994 |
| Place of death | Hanover |