Manfred Streubel

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Manfred Streubel (born November 5, 1932 in Leipzig , † July 10, 1992 in Dresden ) was a German poet and children's book writer .

Life and works

Conflict with state power

After graduating from high school, Manfred Streubel began an internship with the newspaper Junge Welt and studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1957 . In 1956 he published the volume of poems Laut und leise in the respected series “Answer us” , which immediately found recognition and made him known. In the same year he came into conflict with state power. Together with Manfred Bieler , Heinz Kahlau and Jens Gerlach, he campaigned for greater scope in the cultural field of the GDR at the second congress of young artists in Karl-Marx-Stadt . The Politburo classified this as a counterrevolutionary action and he was under surveillance , which documents confirmed after the fall of the Wall . Streubel withdrew in resignation and avoided harmless activities.

Streubel was at times editor of the children's magazine Frösi . This design, which was created as part of a Frösi competition, is on a children's playground in Berlin.

Life in resignation

He was at times editor of the children's magazine Fröhlich sein und singen ( Frösi ) and wrote poems and plays for children. Later he published elaborate, but light-looking sonnets from which bitterness, inner resistance and complaints seem to be hidden; His sonnet Allez Job gives a particularly clear idea of ​​what he was like inside. Although his poems were published in the GDR, Streubel remained an outsider. Two marriages failed.

Streubel collected pictures of Dresden painters; his understanding of art was great. For the art book Mein Lausitzer Guckkasten he selected old folk rhymes and contemporary documents for Max Langer's cycle about the life of weaver families and provided them with his own verses. In 1972 he attended the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig.

In the best humanistic tradition, his poetry served existential concerns: reflecting on the depths of man. The strict forms, especially in the sonnet, were necessary for him against this background as an external framework for internal afflictions.

Participation in the film

Streubel also took part in GDR films a few times. Together with Heinz Hafke, he wrote the script for the workers' film Erich Kubak (1959, director: Johannes Arpe ), designed the scenario for Das Raubtier (1977), wrote the well-known text of the song by the young naturalists for the DEFA documentary film Blue Pennants in the Summer Wind ( 1952) as well as further song texts for Trini (1976) and Claudia (1958/59).

Poetry settings

Two texts by Streubel are among the songs on the LP Fröhlich sein und Sing. Songs of the Thälmann pioneers .

Well-known composers set his poetry to music in chamber and choral music :

Other and end of life

The children's magazine Frösi published poems that were illustrated by the well-known Hungarian comic artist Attila Dargay ( Little man - go ahead . Frösi 10/1960) or Der Lebensweg der Münze Monni (as a comic by Gerhard Bläser in Frösi 1–3 / 1962).

Streubel worked with various theaters in Dresden and Rostock. The pieces he performed include Testfahrt nach Thule (1985), the radio play Da came a young king's son (1969) and the television play The Youngest Court by Rasselbach (1965); Ratcliff accounts was staged in the West (1975, Moerser Schloss ).

After the reunification , Streubel was plagued by persistent depression. In 1990 the poetry book Tag- und Nachtgesichte was published by a self-publisher . Without hope of being able to gain a foothold in the newly formed literary scene, he put an end to his life himself.

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

Book publications

  • Loud and quiet. Poems . People and world . Berlin 1956
  • Ten little hunters . Illustrations by Hans-Joachim Behrendt. Wood. Berlin 1967 (ditto: Oetinger. Hamburg 1970. ISBN 3-7891-5997-2 )
  • Time announcement. Poems from 10 years. 1957-1967 . Central German publisher . Hall 1968
  • Icke and the witch Yu. A Singspiel . Music: Tilo Medek. Henschel Verlag. Berlin 1971
  • Our dragon Kasimir. Moritat with music . Henschel Verlag. Berlin 1975
  • Get honey. Finder's Guide . Central German publisher. Halle (Saale) 1976. 3rd edition 1988. ISBN 3-354-00368-5
  • Inventory. Lyric diary . Central German publisher. Halle / Leipzig. 1978
  • My Lusatian peep box . With Max Langer. Greifenverlag. Rudolstadt 1979
  • Growing rings. Sonnets . Graphics by Hans Georg Anniès. Central German publisher. Halle and Leipzig 1980
  • Conclusion. Poems . Central German publisher. Halle and Leipzig 1983
  • Poetry album No. 228 . New life publishing house. Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-355-00063-9 (reprint 2016: Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst, ISBN 978-3-931 329-52-5 )
  • The curriculum vitae of the M. Verlag Junge Welt mint . Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-7302-0099-2
  • The messed up meal. Kitchen songs and other macabre chants . With illustrations by Günter Hofmann. Central German publisher. Halle and Leipzig 1987. ISBN 3-354-00087-2
  • Minute's silence for Manfred Streubel . (1932-1992). Edited by Wulf Kirsten , Michael Wüstefeld , Rudolf Scholz . Book laboratory. Dresden 1993. ISBN 3-929693-00-3 .

Audio book

Quote

“Allocated Housing”
“Is this my house? Is that my threshold now? / I didn't choose these walls / in which I am rushing to put some furniture. / I didn't even count the steps. // My room. My focus. Do I find peace here? / There in the corner are my shoes. / And draws me into the circle ... "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shellfish. Annual journal for literature and graphics . No. 46/2006. P. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Streubel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1992
Place of death Dresden