Manfred Boden

Manfred Boden (born March 6, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German trained book printer who worked as a writer for adults and children and as a teacher in the GDR .

Life

Manfred Boden was born in Berlin in 1938 as the son of a commercial clerk and a production worker. In 1944 the family was evacuated from Berlin , which had been hit by heavy air raids, to Upper Lusatia and stayed there after the end of the war . In Grossroehrsdorf Manfred floor then went to primary school in Kamenz the high school . He kept a diary, so "writing" was a purely personal matter for him and not aimed at the audience. He completed an apprenticeship as a printer in Bischofswerda and Dresden and practiced the profession in the West German cities of Karlsruhe and Rothenburg ob der Tauber before returning to the GDR after two years to pursue his trade in Radeberg .

Boden traveled and was involved in the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). In his function as chairman of the FDGB district board in Dresden, he represented the FDGB in the GDR's regional chamber as an assessor in the second electoral period from 1954 to 1958 . He became a teacher studying to Erfurt to the Pedagogical Institute delegated, where he obtained in 1965 the ability, as a high school teacher mathematics and basic subjects of socialist production to teach. From 1965 to 1970 he was employed in Großenstein ( district of Gera ). At the same time he was active as a journalist , where he was able to place reports, reports , sketches, interviews, portraits and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A manuscript for a novel, which he described as unsuccessful, was sufficient for acceptance of a place at the Institute for Literature “Johannes R. Becher” in Leipzig . The course lasted from 1967 to 1970 and included internships in the working world among working people in Nachterstedt and Böhlen . In 1970, Boden won 2nd prize in a prose competition organized by the Neues Leben publishing house . The winning texts flowed into the volume How the driver Karli Birnbaum recognized his boss . In the same year he became a teacher in Berlin with a major in German . He wrote other short stories in newspapers and anthology articles and published a longer story in book form for the book publisher Der Morgen in 1971 and 1974 .

style

The lexicon writers of the GDR from 1974 writes: “Soil draws its materials and themes from the immediate socialist present. Mostly the behavior of young people who still have to work out their revolutionary point of view and shape their personality are at the center; Moral-ethical issues are pursued right down to the individual and intimate areas. ”His two stories, published separately as a book, deal with related aspects of life, once with a probationary situation and once with the possibility of a new beginning.

Works

• The morale of the beautiful saleswoman. In: Three times heaven. Love stories from the youth magazine “ New Life ”. Selected by Roland Wunderlich and Rudi Benzien . Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin, 1970, pp. 50–55.
• Instructions from Dr. Klepel. In: Literary Portraits. Edited by Max Walter Schulz . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1970, pp. 69–83.
• The day never forgets an hour. Narrative. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1971.
• Murath or I saw the stranger first. In: How the driver Karli Birnbaum recognized his boss. New prose - new names , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1971, pp. 46–63.
• The good news. In: Ehrlich is the fastest ... and what else happens. Thirteen stories. Edited by Ursula Steinhaußen. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1973, pp. 113–126.
• Wilder than others. Narrative. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1974.
• The nocturnal journey. In: The robbers go swimming. Bedtime stories from A to Z. Illustrated by 52 graphic artists. Edited by Beate Hanspach and Fred Rodrian . Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 23-25.

Awards

• 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Günter Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai, Paul Günter Krohn: Writers of the GDR. Fiction and non-fiction authors, translators, editors, literary scholars, critics (=  Meyers Taschenlexikon ). 1st edition. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, Leipzig 1974, Boden, p. 59 f .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} blurb on The day never forgets an hour .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Manfred Boden, p. 16 f .
4. ↑ ^{a b c} The authors . In: How the driver Karli Birnbaum recognized his boss. New prose - new names . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1971, Manfred Boden, p. 304 .
5. ↑ Burkhardt, Secretary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) […]. In: omnia.ie. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Peter Joachim Lapp: The People's Chamber of the GDR (=  studies for social science . Volume 33 ). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975, ISBN 3-531-11299-6 , chapter 4. The "second chamber" of the GDR, p. 40 .
7. ↑ Klaus Schüler: Entrance ticket: A fresh manuscript. Young writers' club founded at Neues Leben . In: New Germany . No. 264/1970 , September 24, 1970, pp. 4 .
8. ↑ To the authors . In: Ursula Steinhaußen (Ed.): Honest is the fastest ... and what else happens. Thirteen stories . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1973, Manfred Boden, p. 156 .
9. ↑ High state awards given. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze . In: New Germany . No. 104/1976 , March 1, 1976, Politics, p. 5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Boden in the catalog of the German National Library