Martin Pohl (Author)

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Martin Pohl (born March 28, 1930 in Festenberg , Silesia ; † September 23, 2007 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German poet and actor .

Life

The son of a merchant was a pupil of the Moravian Brethren , which saved him from being too much influenced by National Socialism. In 1945 he came to Berlin. He broke off a commercial apprenticeship and became an editorial volunteer and assistant at the Neues Leben publishing house and the Aufbau-Verlag . In 1951 he met Bertolt Brecht , who had opened a master class for dramaturges and directors at the GDR Academy of the Arts . Pohl became one of Brecht's students and worked for a year and a half at the Berliner Ensemble until he fell victim to defamation in 1953. Accused of political crimes against the GDR, he was sentenced to four years in prison. On Brecht's intervention, he was released after two years and went to West Berlin in 1955. There he took acting lessons and moved to Switzerland. There he staged his own plays as a member of a touring stage, acted theater and directed the performances of plays by August Strindberg and Jean-Paul Sartre .

In 1972 Pohl returned to West Berlin. Poems were published there for the first time. Martin Pohl made a name for himself as the author of ballads , sonnets and ghosts . In Berlin he took up his theater work again. He edited the prose of the Polish author Bruno Schulz ("Die Zimtläden") for the stage of the painter and director Andrej Woron's " theatr Kreatur " and took part in the performance as an actor. In 1999 he moved to Neubrandenburg where he was close to his daughter Wera Koseleck .

Pohl was buried in the cemetery in the Mecklenburg village of Groß Nemerow .

Publications

  • Close to you and me Poems. Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1981. ISBN 3-922510-05-1 .
  • Memorial. Poems. Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-922510-34-5 .
  • The death of the harlequin. Narrative. Fehse, Berlin 1982.
  • Ghaselen from Twardogora. In: Annual ring. DVA, Stuttgart and in the sense and form. Berlin 1987.
  • Poems 1950–1995. UVA, Berlin 1995.
  • Just a dreamy memory. Federchen, Neubrandenburg 2002.
  • In Apollo's leather jacket, 29 poems for friends. Private print, 2002.

Movie

  • I am alone with my fear - the poet Martin Pohl. Film portrait of Stephan Suschke and Dieter Chill, 1992.

Radio play (feature)

  • I am alone with my fear. Martin Pohl, a student of Brecht during the Cold War, feature by Stephan Suschke. Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch, Production: Deutschlandfunk, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Festenberg , Silesia ,
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2007
Place of death Neubrandenburg